City of Lakewood First Friday Art Walk Nov 4 2017

x:00 AM - ix:00 PM Friday & Sat June 23 & 24, 2017
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday, June 25, 2017

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Thank you for your interest in our annual Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts. The 54^th almanac event is scheduled for June 23, 24 & 25, 2017. At that place are events scheduled at Lakewood Center for the Arts and George Rogers Park.

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The Festival is a non-profit event created by Lakewood Centre for the Arts. Click here to make a contribution. THANK YOU for your back up!

Event Profile: The Festival, an outcome created past Lakewood Center for the Arts, is a major regional arts event located in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Lake Oswego is located 9 miles south of Portland, Oregon. The Festival presents the creative endeavors of recognized and emerging artists and enjoys an outstanding reputation for bringing special exhibits of quality and diversity to a weekend that is accessible to anybody. Attracting some 25,000 visitors during the three days of the outcome, the Festival includes several fine art exhibits, nutrient booths, music, and fine fine art and craft.

The Festival is held in the Lakewood Center for the Arts in Lake Oswego and George Rogers Park. It features multiple art exhibits, music, trip the light fantastic and demonstrations. The special exhibit is housed at Lakewood Center. Other art exhibits (Open up Show, Lake Oswego Chronicle, Artist's Vision and High School Art Showroom) are as well located at Lakewood Center. Craft in the Park, with more than 110 artists, is located at George Rogers Park across the street from Lakewood Center.

There will be hands-on arts activities, demonstrations, educational displays and the popular Happy Hour on the deck at Lakewood on Friday and Saturday afternoons provides an opportunity to run into and talk with friends.

Well-nigh the 2017 Special Exhibit

Beyond the Bespeak: The fine art of colored pencil and graphite

Scope of the Special Exhibit
Each year the Special Exhibit strives to explore a unmarried fine art medium through the brandish of quality and diverse work from many artists. As part of a large customs celebration of art, the Special Exhibit seeks to offer insight and sensation of the featured fine art form to inspire and inform visitors. This year's exhibit is sponsored by The James F. & Marion 50. Miller Foundation and Oregon'due south Mt. Hood Terrotory - Clackamas County Tourism and Cultural Affairs.

Theme for 2017
This yr'southward called medium is the pencil—both colored and graphite—dry and water-soluble. While pencils are familiar to the public, the Special Exhibit committee intends to present artwork that may astound and surprise the company. The work selected for brandish in the Beyond the Signal gallery will exemplify fine fine art of varied subjects, styles, techniques, and materials. The exhibit volition increase appreciation of this art grade and its power to convey the creative bulletin of the artist.

Applications for this special exhibit will exist bachelor online at the end of September, 2016. We encourage artists to enter quality examples of their diverse and innovative application of colored pencil and/or graphite practical on a diverseness of surfaces including, but not limited to, paper, wood, rock, and board. Work may be second or 3D.

Guest Artist: Tracy Frein
Tracy Frein is a Chicago based laurels winning Colored Pencil artist with over 15 years experience. After discovering Colored Pencil and winning his commencement testify he has never wavered from the medium. He models his portraiture in tones of black and white on drafting film. Each value is stripped away from the surface with an eraser to expose the subconscious layers as he retains a textured surface. His procedure could chosen "Drawing by Subtraction".

 Working with a express pallet allows him to concentrate on the forms, values and shadows instead of making certain the facial colors are accurate. He works both sides of the film to create the depth that gives the illusion of distance in the subjects face and their mood.
His near contempo work has thrown him on a journey to conceptualize his subjects suffering from degrees of mental illness. With his piece Parkinson', his depiction of a lifeless swimmer existence dragged down past a huge Octopus leaves the viewer compositionally intrigued and fascinated on many levels.

 He has been a fellow member of The Colored Pencil Society of America since 2002 and has served as President for the Chicago area chapter.

Guest Creative person: Mary McCarty
Mary McCarty, creates graphite botanical drawings with colour accents.  Her piece of work is distinctive and easily recognized.  Similar nearly artists, Mary has loved art all her life.  Marys' career didn't really start until she was 40, when she was hired past two ceramic companies.  This gave her the opportunity to write articles for magazines, publish a book and demonstrate techniques in front of large groups.  She caused boosted skills, including meeting multiple deadlines, some every bit far every bit a year alee and public speaking skills through pedagogy and meeting thousands of people at company Merchandise Shows.

During this fourth dimension Mary realized her main interest involved cartoon and painting.  Every bit a sculptor she also taught clay flower making and her interest in detailed botanical construction continued with drawing.  Mary became intrigued with the smaller details of plant life in all its' stages.  Her work is realistic but Mary interprets what she feels is unique in the subject, striving to capture the details and qualities that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Mary is a member of Oregon Society of Artists, Oregon Woman's Caucus of America, and North Clackamas Art Guild serving equally volunteer and holding several offices.  She has been juried into many Art Shows, several galleries and volition be published in "Strokes of Genius" 2014.  She also enjoys the pleasance of filling committee requests. Her piece of work is in private collections in the United kingdom, Canada and the United States.

Invitee Creative person: Pat Averill
Pat has always loved drawing, and plant her niche in the versatility of colored pencil. She is both a lease fellow member and signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America, and has plant this organization to be an amazing opportunity. She has been juried into 16 International CPSA Exhibitions, co-authored books by Walter Foster, and has been published in other books, magazines, and pace-by-step kits. She has taught workshops throughout the Us, and currently enjoys mentoring a group of enthusiastic artists who keep her on her toes. Her goal is to see and express heartfelt emotion shared through her art.

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Be certain to see these other exhibits at the 2017 Festival:

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Click the below prototype to see a short video prune with scenes from our event in 2014:

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Most the Festival of the Arts: The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts is an arts teaching event of the Lakewood Heart for the Arts, a 501(c)(three) nonprofit arts organisation. It is held the weekend subsequently Father's Day each yr and attracts 22-25,000 people. Contributions to the Festival are taxation deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. Our revenue enhancement ID number is 93-0700108.

Mission Statement: The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts' principal goal is to educate past promoting, supporting, analogous, and exhibiting the arts of the region.

Location/Back up: The Festival takes identify at the Lakewood Center for the Arts and George Rogers Park, both on State Street in downtown Lake Oswego, Oregon USA. Lake Osweo is located 9 miles due south of Portland, Orwegon. The Festival is sustained by valuable partnerships with the City of Lake Oswego, Clackamas County Tourism and Development Council, the Sleeping accommodation of Commerce, the Lake Oswego Rotary Club, the Lake Oswego Schoolhouse District, small and big businesses, the "Friends of the Festival," plus more than 500 volunteers who work throughout the twelvemonth and the weekend to make the Festival the success it is.

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Source: https://www.lakewood-center.org/pages/lakewood-Festival-Date-2017

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