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Bringing Arts & Culture
to the Wilsonville
Community
Inside this issue:
Beauty & Bridge Artists in Action
Applications available for 2012 Festival of Arts
Portland Art Museum Cultural Passes
Shotola-Hardt nominated for 2012 NAEA award
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Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council
P.O. Box 861 - Wilsonville, Oregon 97070 -
www.WilsonvilleArts.org
2011-2012 Quarter Two Newsletter
December 2011
An Arts & Wellness Center in Wilsonville
October was Arts & Humanities month. As
a fitting tribute to celebrating, Theonie Gilmore, Executive Director of
Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council, and Keith Amundson with Dave DeHart,
co-chairs of the Arts & Culture Alliance of Wilsonville, made presentation
statements at the October 3rd. Wilsonville City Council meeting.
A new 2011- 2012 goal of the Wilsonville City Council is for a multi-purpose
community center of some kind. Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council is
advocating for a new facility that includes a performing arts center and a
swimming pool, and underground parking, and space for a concessionaire. If this
facility were to be built on the ideal spot near the City Hall, possible medical
offices would be included on the 2nd floor.
Keith Amundson pointed to the lack of adequate
space and no home for many artists in Wilsonville.
The I-5 Connection has outgrown their space in the Community Center, The
Wilsonville Theater Company is performing in a 100 year old building that is not
versatile enough to accommodate their productions, and the number of
organizations that have nowhere to call home.
Dave DeHart made a case for the positive economic impact that such a center
would have for Wilsonville citing ‘Art as an export industry’.
He explained the benefits of the arts to attract visitors, the arts to
attract residents and businesses, and the arts to attract investment in the
community.
You may view a 14 minute video of the City Council presentation at
http://youtu.be/ejOJ6Ud5bBw |
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Beauty and the Bridge Artists in Action
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Wilsonville High
School students began the project with a unique railing design to
separate the elevated sidewalk and roadway. Joined by Boones Ferry
Primary and Inza R. Wood Middle School students, all participating
artists researched, sketched, and glazed the first sets of wall
tiles of indigenous grasses, plants, insects, aquatic life, and
trees.
The final tile
murals will greet bicyclist, pedestrians, and motorists as they
pass under I-5. The tiles that make up the Beauty and the Bridge
aspect of the project are in the process of being created by
elementary, middle and high school students. For Boeckman Creek
Primary School, SMART invited all second to fifth grade students to
participate in SmartART, a SMART sponsored program that began in
1999. Boeckman students, along with Wilsonville Arts & Technology,
also became participating tile artists in the project.
The tiles will be
installed next summer as the final piece of the $11 million
project.
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WHS art student, Elise Schalk glazing her design of a great blue
heron.
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Applications now available for
Wilsonville Festival of Arts 2012
2012 Wilsonville Festival of Arts will be held at
Town Center Park June 2 & 3.
Applications for Artists, Authors & Performers are
now available online at www.WilsonvilleArts.org.
This is the 13th. annual Festival of Arts, and is in
it’s second year as a Rose Festival Sanctioned Event. There will be
over 70 visual artist booths, 30+ authors, 2 days of performing arts
on the stage, the Student Art Pavilion, KidsKrafts, interactive art
projects, the 3rd. Annual Student Scholarship Fund Silent Auction,
and new this year, Film Arts screenings. Information about Film
Arts will be available soon.
Application deadlines for artists is January 31,
2012; author participation deadline is March 31, 2012; performer
application deadline is March 15, 2012.
Volunteer opportunities are also available, both as a
committee head and festival days assistance. For information about
volunteerism, contact Cheryl Beyer,
beyercj@netzero.net.
Get involved in this great community event.
Visit www.WilsonvilleArts.org or contact
Executive Director Theonie Gilmore at
theonie@wilsonvillearts.org.
Click
HERE
to view excerpts from the 2011 Wilsonville Festival of Arts.
 
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Portland Art Museum pass now available
Cultural Passes
The Friends of the Wilsonville Library
recently purchased a family membership pass to the
Portland Art Museum
for use by library patrons as the most recent addition to the
Library's collection of "Cultural Passes." The Portland Art Museum
Cultural Pass allows two adults free admission to the Portland Art
Museum. Children under the age of 17 receive free admission, as a
general museum policy.
Cultural Passes provide library patrons free admission to local
attractions, ranging from the
Portland Children's Museum
to the
Portland Japanese Garden,
the
Pittock Mansion,
and more. The Friends have purchased all of the Cultural Passes for
the Library with the revenue from their
Twice Sold Tales Bookstore
inside the Library lobby.
"Much like the addition of e-books, downloadable audiobooks, and
other online services, providing the Cultural Passes reflects the
evolving services of the Wilsonville Public Library," said Library
Director Pat Duke. "These passes are another aspect of the Library's
traditional role and mission of encouraging access to information
and culture. We're fortunate to be able to provide Wilsonville
citizens with free access to cultural institutions like the Portland
Art Museum."
Cultural Passes can be reserved for a 24-hour period by citizens
with
 Clackamas
County library cards in good standing. Reservations may be made up
to a month in advance by calling the Library or visiting the
Circulation Desk.
For more information, contact the Library at
503-682-2744, or visit the Library website:
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Christopher Shotola-Hardt Nominated for
NAEA 2012 Marion Quin Dix Leadership Award
Shotola-Hardt received Oregon's award/nomination for
having initiated the Beyond the Demos art exhibition series, now in
its sixth year.
Oregon's nominee for the 2012 Marion Quin Dix
Leadership Award, an annual award, is presented by the National Art
Education Association.
Beyond the Demos is a series of group art exhibitions
featuring the works of art educators teaching in the State of
Oregon, and is sponsored by the Oregon Art Education Association (OAEA).
The series was initiated by Christopher, who teaches and shows his
own paintings at Blackfish Gallery in Portland's Pearl District. For
OAEA, Shotola-Hardt served several years as the Clackamas County
Representative before becoming OAEA’s President-Elect. He is
chairperson for the
Beyond the Demos (BTD)
series.
The intent of the series is to encourage art
educators to keep pursuing their own personal studio work by
providing exhibition opportunities for them. Shotola-Hardt and the
other art educators on the OAEA board believe that when we continue
to grow in our own studio work, this only strengthens what we can do
with our students. It is powerful for our students to see us
producing quality work and preparing for adjudication and
exhibition.
Wrote an artist-teacher whose work has been featured
in three of the annual juried exhibitions: “Particularly in my
early years of teaching, I struggled to balance my identity as both
a teacher and an artist. The Beyond the Demos exhibitions have been
an invaluable tool for me to affirm, for myself, that I am both.” -
Anne Goodrich, Sunset High School.
“Christopher's commitment, dedication, and promotion
of The Art and Art Education is beyond measure. He provides
opportunities and experiences that not
 only
develop the artist within to heights unimaginable, but he also,
through his gentle manner, strengthens students moral character and
sense of purpose. . . . the Community of Wilsonville is forever
indebted to the vision and energy Christopher gives to his artistic
communities. It gives me great pleasure to honor and celebrate
Christopher Shotola-Hardt and his generosity of spirit and
unwavering dedication to The Arts.”
- Janice Leonetti,
Assistant Principal,
Wilsonville HS, 2011
"Visitors to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
view some of the works in the juried exhibition
Beyond the Demos VI: Oregon Artists Who Teach."
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Ads? Are You Kidding?...
...Not at all. Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council is proud to say
that we have had a stable email circulation of our quarterly
newsletter of over 500 for more than a year. In fact, right now it
is 867. We not only want to expand our email circulation, but also
provide print copies to further engage all the residents of
Wilsonville in the value of arts and culture in our community.
Advertising will help us reach this goal.
I
want to share with you the statement so eloquently made by David
DeHart about the importance of arts in a community. This is his
statement to the Wilsonville City Council on October 3rd:
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Art as an Export Industry
The arts attract visitors:
Tourists visit a community primarily in order
to attend an arts event (alternatively, tourists may prolong
a trip in order to attend an arts event). They will spend
directly on the arts event and may also shop, eat at a local
restaurant and/or stay at a hotel in the community. To the
extent that these tourist dollars are spent by the arts
organization – as well as the stores, restaurants and hotels
– on local goods and services, the dollars brought in to the
community for an arts event will have indirect multiplier
effects on the local economy.
An indirect multiplier is based on the idea
that a portion of each dollar spent on some good or service
is then used by the recipient to pay for more goods and
services. To the extent that the money circulates within a
community (e.g., a city), it ‘multiplies’ within that
community. So for example, if you spend $20 on a ticket to a
play, the playhouse turns around and spends $15 of that for
set design supplies from local markets. The employees also
spend locally some portion of their income that is derived
from that $15 to pay for more goods and services; and the
stores from which they bought supplies in turn use some of
that money to pay their workers and buy more supplies, and
so on. This ‘multiplies’ the value of the initial $20.
The arts attract residents and businesses:
The density of arts organizations and
prevalence of arts events may play a role in attracting
residents and businesses to (re) locate to a community by
improving its image and making it more appealing. This is
especially true for attracting highly skilled, high-wage
residents, who will have a larger economic impact than
less-skilled people. Businesses, especially those that
employ highly trained mobile personnel, may consider the
presence of art venues when making (re)-location decisions.
The presence of the arts (i.e., improved image of an area)
may work to enhance the impact of tax incentives for
business location decisions.
High concentrations of artists and/or
high-skilled workers may produce agglomeration effects,
where businesses (especially those in the fast-growing
‘creative industries’ are drawn to an area because of the
availability of creative talent and/or high-skilled workers,
and vice versa.
The arts attract investments:
By improving a community’s image, people may
feel more confident about investing in that community. So
for example, people might be more likely to buy property in
an area that they feel is “up-and-coming” because of the
presence of the arts. Or, banks may be more likely to lend
to home buyers and businesses in areas perceived as being
more secure and stable.
In summary, Wilsonville is ideally situated
to attract tourists, potential business and homebuyers. It
is a clean, well-maintained, healthy community, loaded with
creative talent at all age levels. With its newly developed
access from I-5, where a considerable investment was made to
provide an artistic and esthetic gateway, Wilsonville could
be and should be a destination for those seeking to visit
and live in a community filled with creative opportunities.
Wilsonville is fortunate to have within its community,
artists of every genre; a growing public sculpture program;
a theatre group offering must-see performances; music and
dance groups desperately seeking a place to perform. We are
also a city rich in diverse ethnic population which has the
potential to organize cultural events not previously
offered.
The one missing element that could fulfill
those dreams is a central venue for arts and wellness
activities. Such a facility would serve not only the needs
of our citizens, and the residents throughout the south
metro area, but would increase the economic well-being of
our city.
David DeHart
Co-Chair, Arts and Culture Alliance of
Wilsonville
david@dehart.com |
So,
you can see why those of us who are so dedicated to advancing arts
and culture in Wilsonville want to get the word out to everyone.
Advertising dollars will enable us to provide print copies of our
quarterly newsletter to distribute throughout the community, in
restaurants, clubhouses, retail businesses, and more. More and more
people will become engaged in the community making it a better place
for everyone.
We
wish to thank all who have sponsored and worked so hard to provide
quality arts and culture in Wilsonville.
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Upcoming Events:
Wilsonville Library
Book Club:
Join a growing group of
readers from the Wilsonville area to discuss a wide variety of
books. These monthly discussions are informal in nature and are
facilitated by group members.
Meetings will be held in the library on the
second Thursday of each month from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
See the lineup at http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/Index.aspx?page=47
Book Notes concert series:
Come enjoy the sound of music in the library! The
Wilsonville Public Library is pleased to present musical
performances by local musicians. This concert series is presented by
the Wilsonville Friends of the Library.
Performances are in the Fiction area of the Library at 2:00 p.m.
second Saturdays.
See the lineup at http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/Index.aspx?page=187
"Dewey Talks" Public Lectures:
Periodically the Library holds lectures on a variety
of topics. These lectures are free and open to the public. Join us
for an entertaining and educational evening!
See the lineup at http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/Index.aspx?page=194
Northwest Author Series:
The
Northwest Author Series
is a literary speaker series sponsored by the
Wilsonville Public Library, the Wilsonville Friends of the Library,
and the Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council. The series is organized
and hosted by Wilsonville author Christina Katz.
Oak Room, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
$5.00 at the door; no advance registration necessary
Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author
afterwards.
See the lineup at http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/Index.aspx?page=186
First Friday Film Adult Program:
Watch the latest releases, from blockbusters to
independent films, for free on our big screen the first Friday of
the month. The films have been especially chosen to be new,
interesting, and difficult to get via Netflix. Snacks available for
purchase, or bring your own!
All film screenings are FREE and start at 6:00 p.m. in the Oak Room.
See the lineup at http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/Index.aspx?page=221
Art in the Library:
The
Wilsonville Public Library has a significant permanent art
collection. Two pieces, “The Library is a Garden of the Mind” and
the “Wilsonville, circa 1910” intarsia, highlight the collection and
the community. Additionally, the Library owns or has been loaned
over 70 other pieces of art, most of which are on display.
The Library hosts monthly art exhibits by local artists in its inner
foyer. Past exhibits have included life-sized marionettes,
sculptures, and numerous photography, watercolor, and oil exhibits.
And don’t forget to visit the rotating display case in the lobby!
Wilsonville Public Library | 8200 SW Wilsonville Road
Wilsonville, OR 97070 | (503) 682-2744
McMenamins Old Church & Pub
30340 SW Boones Ferry Rd ~ Wilsonville OR 97070
Phone: (503) 427-2500 ~
McMenamins
Old Pub Website
The Shook Twins—Free
Dec. 1, 7 pm, All Ages
Naomi LaViolette/Michael Van Kleef—Free
Dec. 7, 7 pm, All Ages
Adam Sweeney—Free
Dec. 8, 7 pm, All Ages
The Phoreheads—Free
Dec. 14. 7 pm, All Ages
Hanz Araki—Free
Dec. 15, 7 pm, All Ages
Brad Creel—Free
Dec. 22, 7 pm, All Ages
Richwood—Free
Dec. 28, 7 pm, All Ages
Joshua English—Free
Dec. 29, 7 pm, All Ages
New Year’s Eve at the Old Church: Guy Dilly & the Twin Powers
Free, 8 pm, 21+
Wilsonville High School
6800
SW Wilsonville Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070
WHS Orchestra Concert—December
7, 7:30 p.m.
Winter Band Concert—December
12, 7:00 p.m.
Fiddler on the Roof—February
16th-18th
@ 7:30pm, February 18th
@ 2pm, February 22, 23, 24, & 25 @ 7:30pm
Innovative Dance
Performance Company—All
PC Performance at Wilsonville High School, December 10
I-5 Connection Chorale
Charbonneau Christmas Program—December
6, 7 pm
Christmas Caroling on SMART Bus—Dec.
13, 12-3 pm
(time & retirement homes to be announced)
Christmas Caroling at Springridge Court—Dec.
15, 1:30 pm
Christmas Caroling at Springridge—Dec.
15, 2:30 pm
For more information, contact Jocelyn at 503-482-5103
Mark Hansen in Wilsonville
Mark performs Christmas music at Charbonneau Golf Club—
December 6, 7 pm
Acoustic Guitar Holiday Summit—Meridian
UCC, Dec. 10, 7:30 pm
Mark, Doug Smith & Terri Robb present their 17th. Annual holiday
concert. More info & tickets at
www.accentonmusic.com.
Winter Wonderland “A Spectacular Light Show”
Date:
12/14/2011 6:30 PM - 12/17/2011 8:30 PM
Cost:
Free, with toothbrush donation
Location:
departs from Community Center
Board a SMART bus for a trip to Portland
International
Raceway to see
Winter Wonderland,” a spectacular light show “
featuring thousands of colorful displays.
The bus will leave the Community Center at 6:30 and
return at approximately 8:30 PM.
Seating is limited, and reservations are required.
Please call 503-682-3727 to book your adventure! There is no
charge for the trip, but we ask that each rider bring one new
toothbrush to be donated to Wilsonville Community Sharing.
Wed. 12/14 # 3659, Thurs. 12/15 # 3660
Fri. 12/16 # 3661, Sat. 12/17 # 3662
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If you would like to list your event in the March 2012 issue
of the
Wilsonville Arts & Culture Council quarterly newsletter,
please email
kateatkins@wilsonvillearts.org |
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Links
Wilsonville Public Library:
http://www.wilsonville.lib.or.us/index.aspx?page=116
Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce:
http://business.wilsonvillechamber.com/events/index/2011-09-01
Wilsonville Kiwanis Club:
http://wilsonvillekiwanis.org/events.htm
Wilsonville Theater Company:
http://www.wilsonvilletheater.com
Wilsonville Friends of Library Book Notes Concerts:
http://wilsonvillearts.org/Book
Notes/2011-2012/Book_Notes_Concerts.htm
City of Wilsonville Events:
http://www.ci.wilsonville.or.us/Index.aspx?page=188
Oregonian's Kimberly Nelson Jacobsen Wilsonville Neighborhood Blog:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/wilsonville/calendar_of_events/index.html
McMenamins Old Church and Pub Events:
http://www.mcmenamins.com/events/search/Music_And_Event
Community Events - City of Wilsonville:
http://www.ci.wilsonville.or.us/Index.aspx?page=276
Elysium Artists:
http://www.elysiumartists.com/events.php
Wilsonville High School:
http://www.wvhs.wlwv.k12.or.us/
SMART Transit:
http://www.ridesmart.com/Index.aspx?page=180
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Quote Du Jour
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of
December
A magical thing
And sweet to
remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
Than we were in
September,'
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of
December.
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