:::UMPQUA VALLEY ARTS ASSOCIATION

Umpqua Valley Arts Association

Current Red Gallery Exhibit

The Arts Center's smaller, more intimate gallery provides both new and established artists a visual showcase to display their work.

The UVAA Annual Membership Open

June 18th through August 20

The membership show is hanging throughout every gallery in the building. This is one of the annual favorites of many; the show being made up of one art piece per member/creator. Age, media and profession set aside, the galleries are full of an eclectic array of artwork including hand made dolls, carousel horse, jewelry, journals and everything else.

Current membership is and was the only requirement to hang. In fact, if it fit through the door we accepted it!

Be thinking of next year's project now, the UVAA Open show applications will be on the website soon for 2011!

Past Red Gallery Exhibits

All Photos by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

"Harmony" - Art by

Jan Barba Horn and Ginger Updegrave

Jan Barba Horn is a Douglas County resident whose work has become familiar to most who live here. She has been painting local scenes for year's, her oil stick work with soft edges is iconic. This exhibit contains a broad range of style and subject, even her most recent work in encaustic.

Ginger Updegrave is also an area artist whose accomplishments in bronze are obvious. This exhibit showcases past works along with fresh works, all of which exquisitely grace the gallery.

Douglas County and the Arts Center are fortunate enough to have these two talents showcasing their work.

A must see!

BIENNIAL DOUGLAS COUNTY

ALL STUDENT ART SHOW

"ArtRageous"

March 5th through April 22, 2010

FUNNY, INTUITIVE, FRESH, ONE-OF-A-KIND, ADORABLE, THOUGHT PROVOKING.......

You will just have to come into the Arts Center before this year's Student Art Show ends to enjoy the 400+ art pieces that hang on every wall in every gallery on the main floor of the building!

This show provides the Arts Center reason to celebrate since it is responsible for funding so much of the work you will see.

Thank you to so many artist volunteers who are sent out with the mission to bring and maintain art in our schools; unfortunately so many schools within the district do not provide these experiences to our area children.

Thank you to all of you who continue to support the Arts Center through membership and volunteerism to help fund and make these community projects possible!

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Kimberly Treloar - Glass Work

January 22 through February

Kimberly Treloar has filled the Red Gallery to its limit with bright, functional and some just for fun art glass pieces.

"Glass remains eternally fascinating to me because it is so complex and groundbreaking things are still being done with it. I always want to know more - test the limits of how I can use it to express my art.”

Stop in and enjoy a walk through Kim's enthusiastic take on glasswork.

All Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

BENJAMIN, BATES AND MCGEE

OILS AND PASTELS

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

AUGUST 28TH THROUGH OCTOBER 30TH

These three men have worked hard to put together some of their best works to date. Many of them are started and completed out in the field; what you see is what they saw while out with easel and canvas in hand.

Here is a sample of what to expect when you stop in!

Mt. Lassen Pastel Phil Bates

Autumn Treeline Oil John Benjamin

Wilcox Century Farm Oil on linen on board Kyall McGee

ANNUAL UVAA MEMBERSHIP SHOW "DELICIOUS"

The entire building is bursting with color, flavor and just a lot of testament to talent! The Membership Show is one of the benefits to being a member of UVAA! This is held once a year throughout the building and is a time for each member to submit without jury or charge one piece of choice that has been completed within the last two years.

If you are not a member this would be one good reason to join in!

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Baskets by Donna Crispin

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Botanical Illustrations by Judy Waller and Linda A. Vorobik

April 17 though June 5, 2009

A true feast for every eye, these three artists have prepared pieces that will tempt every collector!

"One Inside" by Donna Crispin

Receiving inspiration and weaving materials from the natural world, Donna Crispin has been creating baskets since 1986. She has lived in some of the most beautiful places in the western U.S. where she has seen and experienced the lessons of the earth. Although she is now living in an urban area, her pieces often reveal the spiritual and physical connection she has developed. Baskets are just one type of item that Donna makes; she also weaves figures, some mythical, some serious and some playful.

To find out more about Donna Crispin go to this link http://digitalconsciousness.com/artists/DonnaSakamotoCrispin/

Orchids in watercolor by Judy Waller

Judy Waller has been a full-time freelance illustrator for over 30 years, working with her husband and partner, John, doing technical and biological illustrations for college-level textbooks. Watercolor painting has become a way for her to express her own passionate love of the exquisite beauty of flowers. She has attended a few workshops, but is largely self-taught, and simply paints for the joy of capturing and sharing the loveliness of some of nature’s finest creations. After a 10-year hiatus, a trip to Hawaii last year for a Botanical Illustration workshop inspired her to resume painting, starting with a collection of beautiful Hawaiian orchids. Judy's hope is that her paintings will help you to feel and see the beauty this world has to offer; it is all around us!

To find out more about Judy Waller go to this link http://www.johnandjudywaller.com/watercolors/judywaller.html

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Linda Ann Vorobik, PhD, Botanist and Botanical Artist has played with artistry since she was a child, always encouraged by parents with gifts of sketchbooks, pens, and paints. In high school she had a very lovely teacher, Miss Ideta, who gave me the great gift of free access to her art room and all its glorious supplies. In college she fell in love with learning, and particularly learning about plants and their environment, but never guessed that her dream of becoming a professional botanical artist would come true.

Beginning with illustrations for a Systematic Botany lab manual at Western Washington University, then drawing Oregon rare plants, she continued with this career first as Botany Department Illustrator at the University of Texas, Austin, and then as Principal Illustrator for the flora of California, The Jepson Manual, out of UC Berkeley.

"I love the meditation of botanical illustration. Executing the detailed drawings provides me with “long dates” with plants that harbor seemingly infinite visual secrets, viney veins, glands and star shaped hairs, colors within colors. My work has evolved from pen and ink botanical illustrations that have matured from simple drawings to extremely complex plates, to color illustrations, and now I have a new dream: to springboard off my botanical knowledge and artistic skills to works with artistry more prominent than science. The next show...." To find out more about Linda go to this link http://www.vorobikbotanicalart.com/

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Expose Yourself - A Public Hanging of Oregon Artists!

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

January 30 through February 27, 2009

CHARLES WALDMAN - Plein air

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Plein air, a French word, literally translates as 'open air', and is defined as painting or drawing done outside, in the open air. The equivalent term in Italian would be alfresco. These works were taken directly from nature, and infused with a feeling of the open air. A relatively recent practice, painting outdoors became an important dimension of the landscape work of the Impressionists and painters of the Barbizon school. Although plein air painting should not be considered as synonymous with Impressionism or quick sketching, it became central to Impressionism.

REFLECTIONS OF LIFE.........

OIL PAINTINGS FROM MY TRAVELS AND HOME

Photo's by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

December 2009

Santa’s Unique Boutique November to January!

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

Santa’s Unique Boutique is now open in the Red Gallery from Friday, October 24th through Saturday, January 10th at the Arts Center!

Some of the handmade gift items Santa's Unique Boutique is currently exhibiting include; Glass ornaments, wreaths, ceramics, unique candles, fiber clothing, hand embellished scarves, unique jewelry, gourmet wine and vinegar bottles, teas, mini paintings, holiday cards and more holiday cards to mention a few!

This is a great holiday offering of handmade and unique holiday gift items for the entire family!

Photo by John Waller; Imaging by Fox

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