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2009-2010 Quarter Two Newsletter
Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council |
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Inside this issue: Summary of A Ferry Tale of Wilsonville, Oregon’s Transportation Town.
In Loving Memory of
Latest Mural Installation at 'Wind Bouquet' Sculpture at CREST
2010 Wilsonville Festival of Arts
Elysium Artists Showroom
Wilsonville Arts Organizations To: Wilsonville area businesses |
Summary of
A Ferry
Tale of
Wilsonville, By Theonie Gilmore We didn’t realize that bright ideas and intention to act, sometimes takes longer to manifest than planned. The Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council (WA&CC) had wanted to facilitate the making of a play about Wilsonville, and explored the idea with different theater companies in 2007. In 2008 WA&CC commissioned former drama teacher and history buff June Reynolds to be the playwright. Director Jean Tsokos was selected early in 2009 and auditions were held by the Wilsonville Theater Company in the summer. After a busy September of rehearsals, this original play was performed the first two weeks in October. The play was to honor Wilsonville’s part in the State of Oregon Sesquicentennial. A Ferry Tale, is a historical play that opens by the Willamette River with a time warp of three 21st century characters who meet Jesse Boone of the Boones Ferry in the 19th century. Actors portrayed events from Wilsonville’s history that unfolded over 100 years and ended when the Boone Bridge was built and the last Boones Ferry ride occurred in the 1950’s. Actors and audience thoroughly enjoyed the scenery and music performed in the second oldest Grange in Oregon—the Frogpond Grange. 250 people saw the show on a long stage laid out for the cast of 25 actors from 7 to 65 years old. The performances of A Ferry Tale were October 2 – 10, and were dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased president of the Wilsonville Theater Company, Dick White. Videotape footage of the play is currently in post-production editing and will be shown at the Wilsonville Community Center, February 9, 2010. It will be available for public presentations. Contact Theonie@WilsonvilleArts.org for booking information. |
October, 2009 Photography by
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Richard White
7/28/1936 - 9/29/2009 |
In Loving Memory of Dick White Wilsonville
Spokesman Richard White
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2009-2010 Calendar of Events
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Book Notes-
2009- 2010 Dec. 12 - Wilsonville High School String Ensemble Jan. 9 - Lee Highway (Western) Feb. 13 - Mt. Hood Jazz Quintet (Dixieland, jazz and classical) Mar. 13 - WHS Soul’d Out a Cappella choir April 10 - Boeckman School Children’s Chorus May 8 - Northwest Harmony Chorus of Sweet Adelines Booked and coordinated by WA&CC board member Richard.a.White |
Gideon Freudman performed his unusual sounds on his electric cello at the Wilsonville Library, November 14th. Mr. Freudman was very entertaining and his music was enjoyed by a full audience. Be sure to check out his website at www.cellobop.com. |
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NW Author Series—2009-2010
Jan. 24- Children’s author, Amber J. Keyser, Ph.D. – “How to Use a Critique Group” Feb. 21- Nonfiction author, Cindy Hudson – “The Nonfiction Book” Mar. 14- Fiction author, Naseem Rakha – “Write What People Remember” April 18- Romance author, Deborah Schneider – “Romance 101” May 16- Children’s author, David Michael Slater – “Plotting Your Success” Time is always: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Cost is $5.00 at the door. Refreshments and door prizes will be provided. To sign up for our e-newsletter, please visit http://northwestauthorseries.wordpress.com/ For more information, please contact Christina Katz at christinakatz@earthlink.net or 503-582-0259 |
Melissa Hart
talked about the structure of short memoir and the various forms it
can take at the NW Author Series on November 15th. at the
Wilsonville Library.
View the YouTube book
trailer for Gringa
here and be
sure to visit melissahart.com. |
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Latest Mural Installation at Wilsonville Visitors Center
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| The third installation of Hector Hernandez' murals took place at the Wilsonville Visitor Center on November 6th at the Small Business Showcase event. Hector Hernandez has been working with Wilsonville Festival of Arts to prepare the murals for the Visitor Center. Each year at the Festival, Mr. Hernandez has the canvass laid out in the Visitor Center and people attending the Festival work on the Mural painting. One more installation will be available for painting at the 2010 Wilsonville Festival of Arts. The artwork depicts Wilsonville as a transportation town, past and present. Be sure to stop by the Visitor Center located at 29600 SW Park Place in Wilsonville. Learn more about Hector Hernandez at www.hectorhh.com. | |||||
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Wind Bouquet is a large-scale, kinetic sculpture that stands eighteen feet tall. It stands near the entry to the gardens at the Center for Research in Environmental Sciences and Technologies (CREST) in Wilsonville, Oregon. CREST is one of the official sites for the Jane Goodall Institute’s international Roots & Shoots program and was dedicated by Dr. Goodall in January 2002. As identified on its website, CREST is an environmental education center that engages students in hands-on, minds-on science, field research and community stewardship. CREST offers outreach and on-site programs for West Linn-Wilsonville School District students K-12 and provides resources to teachers and the community. As the centerpiece of science education, CREST leads students in active research and rigorous inquiry. Wind Bouquet features many narrative elements, each closely connected to CREST’s mission. In sum, Wind Bouquet references a vase of flowers, but instead of flowers, the viewer encounters kinetic sculptures that respond to wind and rain. The vase, with a three-foot diameter, doubles as a planter for climbing vines. Four “flower stalks” rise out of the vase: a vertical center stalk and three, evenly spaced stalks leaning out 65 degrees. The center stalk features a kinetic weathervane, a butterfly, that indicates wind direction, but instead of the letters N, E, S, W, the large disk beneath the butterfly announces “CREST.” The disk collects water and drains into spiraling kitchen pots and pans that cascade down the center vertical “stalk,” to water the climbing vines. The three angled “stalks” rise twelve feet and are capped off by a heavy bearing that supports a six-foot, horizontal steel pole. At each end of each of these three poles is a kinetic sculpture! These three horizontal poles (each with two kinetic sculptures) spin 360 degrees and are propelled by large steel fins, each intricately painted, depicting objects, creatures, or scenes that relate to CREST (e.g., pollinators, environmental signage symbols, sun, wind, rain). Wind Bouquet utilizes nearly 100% recycled materials, including steel from the scrap yard, bicycle wheels and parts, stainless steel eating utensils, lids from cookie tins, used strings from musical instruments, plastic place mats, and aluminum pop cans. Only one of the kinetic sculptures utilizes new material: the specially fabricated plastic used by WHS student Samantha Miller and her father Stephen to create the water wheel.Wind Bouquet was designed by Wilsonville artist Christopher Shotola-Hardt, who is represented by Blackfish Gallery in Portland, Oregon. He teaches fine art at Wilsonville High School and was the 2009 Oregon Art Educator of the Year. Shotola-Hardt worked closely with sculptor Jesse Swickard, in whose studio all of the heavy construction and |
welding took place. Swickard is a veteran public art sculptor and co-founder of the Wilsonville Citizens for Public Art. Swickard's metal sculptures are widely displayed in many Portland metro-area municipalities and college campuses. Many of the ideas for the kinetic sculptures came about in brainstorm sessions Shotola-Hardt had with sculpture students at Wilsonville High School. The students created many drawings and models, some of which were included in the final version of Wind Bouquet. The sculpture was installed on August 3 and 4, and dedicated on October 3, 2009. Welded to the vase of Wind Bouquet is a steel plaque acknowledging all of the Wilsonville High School and community artists that played some part in creating this piece of public sculpture. Funding for the construction of Wind Bouquet was made possible by grants from the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation, Music and Arts Partners of West Linn-Wilsonville School District, and contributions from Shotola-Hardt and Swickard. |
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Wilsonville
Festival of Arts This year brings a new decade for Wilsonville Festival of Arts. The Festival Theme is 'Recycle 2 Arts' and will start of with Wilsonville's second annual Parade "Junk to Funk". The Festival will be June 5th. & 6th. A call for Artists will be made at the beginning of the year. Artists applying to the Festival need not follow the Festival theme. Applications will be available on line in February or sooner. Hector Hernandez will be once more, in the Visitor Center, working on the fourth and final mural to be installed in the Visitor Center. The public is invited to come work on the mural with Hector. We expect to have fun activities playing with recycled items, creating art. And, of course, there will be ongoing entertainment on stage throughout the Festival. If you would like to get involved as a volunteer for the festival, please contact Kate Atkins at kateatkins@wilsonvillearts.org. We need lots of people to help with the organization and ongoing operation of the Festival. Wilsonville Festival of Arts is a free community event presented by Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council and hosted by Wilsonville Visitors Center. |
Elysium Artists Showroom Grand Opening The 'Elysium Artists' hosted their grand opening on November 12th. 5-8pm at Portland Millworks in Wilsonville. The short story: Portland Millwork's owners attended the Elysium Artist/Vaya Creative art show in July and saw the opportunity for us to have a similar show in the Portland Millwork door and window showroom. Within days their show offer morphed into an offer of free wall space in the Portland Millwork showroom. The space is enormous and beautiful, with large and small spaces, the perfect spot for our artwork. About Elysium Artists:
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Patty Brescia Thanks to some fancy footwork by Lonna Altgelt, we had the good fortune to host a slideshow on “Raphael and the Renaissance” on Tuesday, November 10th at 11:00 AM and the Community Center. The lecture was free, and RSVPs were not necessary. We also hosted a TRIP to the Portland Art Museum on November 19th for those who would like to view the exhibit in person.
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Wilsonville Arts Organizations Work to Develop Integrated Coalition Representatives of Wilsonville Arts
& Culture Council, Citizens for Public Art in Wilsonville, Boones
Ferry Historical Society and Wilsonville Theater Company have joined
together to develop an integrated Arts and Culture coalition in
Wilsonville. Monthly meetings began in July of this year.
The meetings are being facilitated by Cheryl Snow and Elizabeth
Klein of the Clackamas County Arts Alliance. The organization is preparing to gather community members and potential leadership in an ‘open house’ forum and wish to identify roles and an action plan. If you have a passion for promoting Arts & Culture in the Wilsonville Community and would like to get involved, please contact Peggy Watters at watters@ci.wilsonville.or.us
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Wilsonville Arts & Culture
Council
Fund Arts & Culture in
Wilsonville Arts
Bringing the Wilsonville Music, art, theater and literature.
Promoting and supporting Arts and Culture
The WA&CC Membership Savings card is only $35 and is good for one year from your date of issue. Go to www.wilsonvillecard.org to see a sample of the savings or visit our website at www.WilsonvilleArts.org.
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To: Wilsonville area businesses: We would like to introduce you to an advertising opportunity for your business, and at the same time support arts & culture in Wilsonville. The Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council (WA&CC) is working with FunDAZ in a fundraising venture. FunDaz’s goal is to help fund schools and other programs by giving consumers discounts on products they use every day. Merchants win with customers being drawn to their doors. At this time we are able to offer merchants FREE advertising. Merchants will be listed on the FunDAZ website for WA&CC. They will also be listed on the FunDaz national site. WA&CC is making an impact on the Wilsonville Community and beyond. The Council’s mission is to promote and support arts and culture by providing a structure where Wilsonville area arts and culture organizations can work together. WA&CC’s signature event, Wilsonville Festival of Arts, has just celebrated its 10th. anniversary. We are a partner for many other events in the community such as The NW Author’s Series and Book Notes Concert Series—both at the library, and the Wilsonville Theater Company operating at the Frogpond Grange. What we would like to have happen is for the business community of Wilsonville to become involved in supporting arts and culture. With this no-cost-for-participation opportunity, as a FunDaz merchant, all that is asked is to provide the best discount you have for card holders, ie: regular “dinner 2 for 1” could be “dinner 2 for 1 plus a free drink”. We understand this may take some creative thinking for some business discounts. Feel free to look at the website www.wilsonvillecard.org to get an idea, then, let your creative juices flow. In the current economic climate, traditional grant funding organizations are cutting back and WA&CC is feeling the effect. It is more important than ever that we build our membership base. We need your help. There are many ways to become a Sponsor. One way is to become a supporting sponsor with the FunDaz savings card. Business can support WA&CC with a bulk purchase and utilize the cards for employee incentives, birthdays, Christmas gifts, or for special customer appreciation. We can create a custom package to meet your needs.
The savings card is good for one year from the date of issue. To
become a FunDaz merchant and support the Wilsonville Arts & Culture
Council, contact Kate Atkins, Membership Coordinator, at
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Theonie Gilmore,
President/Executive Director/Treasurer
Christopher Shotola-Hardt, Vice President
Joan Carlson
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John Smith,
Wilsonville Historical
Kit Whittaker, Publicity/Advertising
Kate Atkins, Membership
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Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council | P.O. Box 861 | Wilsonville | OR | 97070
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To the Snow Ball.
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