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Winter Updates

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Rain Spark Gallery opening at the Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego.
Hi friends! 

It’s the holiday season and time to relax, enjoy friends and family, and share gifts with others.

Thanks for checking out my third newsletter of 2024. I’m grateful to be able to connect with you! I appreciate the support whether I’ve known you for years or we just met. Below I share how to connect with me and see my work in person. 

This weekend I’ll be at the Wild Arts Festival December 7th & 8th! I’m looking forward to giving a presentation during the “Lightning Talks” on Saturday the 7th at 3:30pm. Come for the music and art while supporting the Bird Alliance of Oregon. Psst, I’m offering two free tickets to this festival today in Lake Oswego at the Rain Spark Gallery.

The seasonal holiday Rain Spark Gallery is back! It runs November 26th – December 23rd. Read more below about our special events, the community treasure hunt, raffle and more. Come visit the work of these 30 local artists at the Dee Denton Gallery at the Lakewood Center for the Arts.

It’s an honor to display my work publicly. This year two sculptures were installed, one in Auburn Washington’s Downtown Sculpture Gallery and Lake Oswego’s Gallery Without Walls. Thank you so much to these communities! Vote for my sculpture to win People’s Choice 🙂

My best to you and yours!
Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Read the full newsletter here…

December 2024 Newsletter

Wreath Making Demo in Cannon Beach

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This weekend is the Earth and Ocean Festival in Cannon Beach. Check the link for activities at participating art galleries and the location of the labyrinth on the beach.

I’m looking forward to presenting a wreath making demo and giving an artist talk at Dragonfire Gallery on Sunday, September 22nd, 11-2pm. The gallery is celebrating the festival from the 20th-22nd with raffles benefiting environmental causes, a 3D sculpture show, artist talks and more.

Dragonfire Gallery, 123 S. Hemlock Street, Cannon Beach, Oregon, 503-436-1533.

Crescent Moon with Cherry Blossoms. Steel.
Oak Leaf and Holly Berry. Copper and steel.
Evergreen Clematis with Steel Flowers. Beads, copper and steel.
Willow with Wild Iris. Steel.
Willow with Aluminum Flowers. Steel and aluminum.

Gallery Without Walls

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Knowing Descendant and the artist Shelly Durica-Laiche of Indio Metal Arts.
The wonderful installation crew, sponsor and facilitator!

Please join me today Saturday 21st 12:30-3:30pm at Lake Oswego City Hall parking lot and Artspace. The city is celebrating the new sculptures in their rotating downtown sculpture collection, Gallery Without Walls. These are all on a two year loan while also for sale. I’m honored to have Knowing Descendant included. The free docent led tour begins at 2:45pm where me and others artists will on hand to speak about their work.

12:30-2pm – free art and activities, community booths, Lakeridge Jazz Combo

2-2:30pm – People’s Choice Awards ( for last year’s sculptures)

2:45-3:30pm – free docent led tour of this year’s sculptures

Summer 2024 Newsletter

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Check out the latest goings on at Indio Metal Arts in this newsletter. Sign up for my email if you’d like to have them delivered straight to you first!

An exerpt from the Newsletter below…

“Hi friends! 

Thanks for checking out my second newsletter of 2024. I’m grateful to be able to connect with you! I appreciate the support whether I’ve known you for years or we just met. Below I share how to connect with me and see the work in person. I also reveal my remaining shows of the year, information on a live demonstration and two new galleries that represent me.

I hope you’re having a great summer where you are. Perhaps the longer days are allowing you to get outside? My wish is that you’re spending the time doing what you love to do. I hope the warm days are allowing for more movement in all areas of your lives.

Things are humming along in my studio. I’m a maker, that’s how I process my life and find meaning. I explore lots of concepts, feelings and design through steel. In the summer, it’s definitely easier to work late if I look out the window and it’s still light outside. See below where I share many images of some of my newest sculptures.

This weekend I’ll be at the Chehalem Art Affair! Clink the link to watch a video of last year’s event. It’s a sweet little show in a forested setting with live music, wood fired pizza and wine. The weather looks like it will be perfect! This is the 20th anniversary of the event for Larry and Debi who host it on at their property. They are both potters and this is also the location of their studios!

Later in the fall and winter I’m excited to have been juried into two shows: The Salem Arts Festival September 13th-15th in Bush’s Pasture Park as well as the Wild Arts Festival December 6th-8th. I’m also looking forward to giving a live demonstration on metal shaping and an artist talk at the Dragonfire Gallery for the Earth & Ocean Festival.

The first of two new galleries for me is the wonderful artist run Gallery 408 that just opened in May in Camas, Washington! The second space I talk about is accompanied by a video. In it I describe my first delivery to Green Space Design which represents me now in Salem. 

Looking forward to seeing you soon!”

Full newsletter here.


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First newsletter of the year!

Greetings friends!

Spring is here! As the days are getting longer, are you feeling more active like I am? 

April brings two large events for which I have been creating a new body of work. 

If you are preparing to get in the garden, come out to Hortlandia April 5th-6th. This event, sponsored by the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, combines art and garden supply makers together with 39 specialty plant vendors. I will be bringing all new trellises, plant stands, free standing sculptures and other landscape elements. 

Join me at the Gathering of the Guilds, April 19th-21st. See the incredible work from the other members of the Creative Metal Arts Guild as well as the other five guilds.

Below I share my involvement with a university and an elementary school. I juried the student open call art show at Linfield University. I was also in the curriculum of the TTSD Art Literacy Program to inspire metal sculpture for K-5 at Byron Elementary.

Check out my latest commissions in the newsletter below. I’m always grateful for the opportunity to create custom metal work for clients. Please contact me if you would like help bringing your vision to life!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

See March 2024 Newsletter here!
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ART FESTIVALS & GALLERY EVENTS 2023

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THE GATHERING OF THE GUILDS which includes my guild, the CREATIVE METAL ARTS GUILD will be held at the Oregon Convention Center, April 28th-30th. Six guilds will show their work: Wood, Glass, Bead, Weavers, Metal and Ceramic.

FROGWOOD ARTIST COLLAB 60 artists collaborate for a week at Camp Colton resulting in sculptures for a live auction, May. See website for online auction.

INTO THE DEPTHS, PNWS member group exhibition on theme, at the Newport Visual Arts Center June 2nd – July 29th.

SALEM ART FAIR & FESTIVAL located in beautiful Bush’s Pasture Park just outside downtown Salem, July 21th -23rd.

CHEHELEM MOUNTAIN ART AFFAIR an intimate art show featuring juried artisans in the beautiful Chehalem community SW of Portland in Hillsboro, July 29th – 30th.   

ALBERTA STREET GALLERY Steel and Fiber, group show with fabric and metal sculpture artists, July 27th – August 28th.

HOFFMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS plant and sculpture sale in the Hoffman Wonder Garden, 594 Laneda Ave, Manzanita, OR 97130, September 30th, 10 – 1PM.

WILD ARTS FESTIVAL celebrate art, literature and nature inspired art with support going to the Portland Audubon, Portland State University Viking Pavilion, November 18th-19th.

RAIN SPARK GALLERY pop up holiday gallery with over 30 local artists, Location TBD in downtown Lake Oswego. This show usually runs November 1st – December 24th. Check the website for special events throughout the run.

ARTIST TALK FOR ANOTHER REALM

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Please join me, Sunday the 23rd of October, for an artists talk at Sidestreet Arts gallery, 3-4PM. I’m looking forward to sharing the stage with and learning more about these talented artists. If you missed the opening of Another Realm, this is the perfect time to experience the exhibition before it closes on the 30th.

Artists include: Erica Gibson, Kendall Clay, Melody Bush, Anna Magruder, Jeanne Steffan, Sharon Jonquil and me.

Sidestreet Arts 140 SE 28th Ave., Portland, OR
Open Wednesday – Sunday 12-5PM
Shop the show online.

Updates: show opening this Friday the 7th, location announced for the Rain Spark seasonal gallery!

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Hi all! Thank you to everyone who came out to my Open Studio event. What a special weekend I’ll never forget. I also appreciate all the folks who came out to the summer shows. I’m still catching up and am looking forward to sharing more about those incredible experiences in my spring newsletter.

For now, I have some special events to share with you as we head toward the holiday season.

Artistic Portland Gallery has returned to our regular celebration of First Thursdays! Join us this Thursday the 6th, 4-6pm. See some of my new work there. Featured member artists Ann Mackiernan (glass) and Mark Clifford (photography) will be speaking about their work on display in the main window. Guest artist and abstract painter Andrea Lopez is exhibiting this month in the Annex. There is so much to see by all 24 local artists in our collective. 4110 NE Fremont, Portland.

This Friday I’ll be at Sidestreet Arts to celebrate the opening of, Another Realm, which includes a new collection of my primarily sculptural works. Join me for the First Friday Art Walk, 5-7pm. I’ve been looking forward to this show all year as the theme was so inspiring. Each mixed metal assemblage is over 90% reclaimed materials, including brass, stainless, copper and steel. Many of these sculptures have never been exhibited before. If you were at my Open Studio event, you probably saw some of these works in progress. This group exhibition includes artist: Melody Bush, Erica Gibson, Sharon Jonquil, Anna Magruder, Jeanne Steffan and me. It runs October 5th-30th, Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm. 140 SE 28th Ave., Portland. 

Lake Oswego’s Rain Spark Gallery is back and has found a new pop-up location for the holiday season! We were fortunate to secure another storefront on State Street downtown. The address is, 180 “A” Street, next to Salt & Straw. It runs November 1st through December 24th with the hours of operation being Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-4pm. Check Rain Spark’s Facebook page and my Instagram for the list of scheduled events such as artist talks, demonstrations and the return of the Lake Oswego Community Treasure Hunt. This fun tradition places handmade porcelain ornaments in 45 locations throughout Lake Oswego. This year’s theme is a butterfly. Read the daily clues to find the location of each ornament. Rain Spark Gallery is always a cozy, warm and friendly place for holiday shopping. See you there!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to schedule a studio visit. Enjoy the holidays if I don’t see you.

Thank you all for supporting me in the 10th year of Indio Metal Arts!