I had a great time exhibiting at the Memorial Day Art show – I should say that even more so than having some photos displayed, I am glad for the artists whose work I’d admired but had never really met and for the insights they shared on the work they create; for a  chance to see what people found appealing – or not – about some of the work I’ve done; for time with neighbors to talk about community.  Thanks to Kay and Charlie Wooldridge for all the work they put into organizing the event and the team of volunteers who came early/lingered late to set up and clean up the remains of the day.

Some final pics from Sunday (full gallery at Flicker).

The Oceanside community Memorial Day Art Show & Sale opens for its second and last show for this event on Sunday May 23rd at 10 a.m. until 5 p.m..  Here are some snapshots from the Saturday event, busy! and fun.  More photos are available on Flicker.

It’s back!

Memorial Day Weekend Art Show

May 23 & 24

Oceanside Community Club

10 am to 5 pm Sat. & Sun.

Featured Media: Jewelry, Watercolors, Acrylics, Photography, Pottery, Turned Wood

Featured Artists: Gary Beck, Deb Macartney, Jim Young, Charles Wooldridge, Bruce Merrit, Gloria Languedoc, Kathy Boczar, Mary Real, Linda Giddens, Suzanne Bailey, Laura Collins, Kay Wooldridge, Laurie Linn-Miller, TJ Defeyter, Juilet Moran, Andrea Tronslin, Margaret Tweelinxz

See you there!

Coming Up April 3 & 4 – your help needed now!

I thought this mini-film festival sounded fantastic and wanted to share this excerpt from their current newsletter.  I’m going to find that 8mm camera I’ve had stored for years and see if I can contribute to someone’s masterpiece.  From the BCAC:

The Anti-Digital Revolution!

We are mobilizing resources in our community to bring a mini-film festival to Tillamook County April 3 & 4. The festival will focus on avant-garde artists who use celluloid as a creative medium without modern digital techniques. We need your support/donations:

• Cameras (8, super 8 or 16 mm, loaned or donated). Check your closets, check with your family. These are the cameras we used to make family films “back when I was a kid.” (Previous emails requested projectors, but 2 people came through for us and donated an 8 mm, a super 8 mm, and one 16 mm!)
• Donated footage in any format (old, recycled, discarded, undeveloped…), pieces of super 8, 16 or 35 mm film strips, celluloid odds and ends, etc.
• If you have other materials, like screens or equipment that can help us with projections for these formats, please contact Victor for possible donations/loans
• Artists and members of our community who would like to participate or volunteer for this event. We need at least 5 volunteers to help prepare for the event (organizing, emails, event promotion, etc.) and 10 volunteers for the event.

Why is this event important?

It can put Tillamook on the map . Victor Waterhouse (Wouters) helped Chris May start the International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE) from scratch in 1998; TIE has since become a well-established non-profit organization with regularly scheduled events in cities across the country and beyond (for example, in the last 6 months: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Uruguay)

It can establish a dialogue between older artists and the younger generations that are “rediscovering” non-digital formats. Friendships and projects have sprung across the globe, defying generational and physical distances (for example the widows of filmmakers getting involved in preservation efforts, and grandfathers rummaging through their basements to rescue a forgotten Super 8 projector and teaching their grandkids how to use it.)

It can provide inspiration and artistic collaboration . Younger artist are usually puzzled when they learn that there is no sound for 8mm footage, and this has opened the dialogue with local DJs and bands, for example, to do a collaborative presentation with live music in order to create a certain atmosphere or to convey a message

BCAC can offer you a receipt for your donated or loaned items. Please contact Victor (720-290-8741) if you have questions. And let’s make this happen!

For anyone not on the Oceanside Neighborhood email list…

Oceansiders, Below my signature is a message from Lisa Phipps, who has taken a new job and will be leaving Tillamook County. We will miss her but I’m sure that we will help her in her estuaries partnership role as much as we can. Regards, Jud (Randal)

Subject: Big news (from my perspective!)Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:11:01 -0800 From: “Lisa Phipps” To: “Judson Randall” , “Guy Sievert” , “Gary and Carla Albright” , “Sportsman’s Pub-N-Grub” , “Jim Carlson (Netarts CPAC Chair)” , “Dotson” , , “Howard Goodman” , “Amy Gallant” , “Waylon” ,

Hi, All, Well, the news I was hoping to tell you has come to fruition. I was offered the Executive Director position with the Tillamook Estuaries Partnership. My last day here will be March 6th. It is only fitting that my final meeting of my career here is with the Chairs of the CPACs that day. I am so proud of all of the work that all of you are doing. The CPACs are such a great resource for your communities, for my office and for the Planning Commission and Board of Commissioners. They are great ways for the people to stay connected to each other and to what is happening in the county. I am so proud of the commitment your members have made and especially your executive boards. It has been my pleasure to be a part of the process. And in this new role, I plan on using the CPACs for outreach and education on different issues affecting the watersheds in their communities – if you have me, that is. Even though I have weened myself from the CPACs over the last 5 months, I still wake up on Saturdays thinking there is somewhere I am supposed to be. I sure would appreciate it you would pass this along to your membership. There is no way I will be able to get to everybody on my own. Again, I am proud of all of you! Thank you for being one of the biggest highlights of my career! Lisa