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NEWS FROM THE TRAIL September
2006 - Exciting
Preview Show & Gala Reception! PREVIEW EXHIBIT Start
your Sierra Art Trails at the Preview
Exhibit, Sept. 16th – Oct. 16th, 2006. The Opening reception
is Saturday, September 23rd, 4 P.M. to 9 P.M., featuring representative
works from the 117 participating artists. Both events are open and free to
the public, so come and experience a sampling of the Sierra Art Trails while you
mingle with the artists and enjoy refreshments and music. The Preview Exhibit and Reception will be held at: Stellar
Gallery, Gallery Row 40982
Hwy 41, Ste 1, Oakhurst, CA 93644 (559)
658-8844 Gallery Hours are Thursday through Monday 11A.M. to 5 P.M. However, on October 14 & 15th the hours will be extended from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M.
CATALOG
COVER CONTEST This years honored cover contest winner is Photographer Heidi Vetter, with “Sonorous Nightfall” from her Sierra Sojourn edition. Heidi will be showing at her photo-processing lab, in Oakhurst, located just below the Sweetwater Steakhouse Restaurant on Highway 41. Heidi's work is traditional, both in her large format camera and classic darkroom methods of hand print processing.
STUDENT SPONSORSHIPS Due to generous sponsorship the Sierra Art Trails is hosting three students this year: Brittania Bergan, Taylor Brown and Thelonious Elliott. These young artists get their first experience to exhibit in a professional art show, each at their own site.
Brittania will be showing in North Fork, and states, "My art is heavily influenced by two pop cultural forces: fashion and music. I incorporate a sleek silhouette or rebellious beat into my work, along with giving an impression of whatever happens to be resonating through my headphones."
Thelonious will be showing in Yosemite Lakes Park, and comments, "I have a philosophic mind, which plays a central role in my artistic process. My art is supposed to reflect observations I make about people and myself. My art is based on a "stream of consciousness" approach."
MORE ART TRAILS ARTISTS The newest sites this year are in Catheys Valley where American Indian inspired artist Anne Jones-Sheldon and Ceramist Rick Uebner are showing. Then you can travel to multiple sites in historic Mariposa and south along Golden Trail Hwy 49. In Ahwahnee, see hand-papermaking sculpture by Steven Houts, the husband & wife duo Kerby & Lura Smith showing his photography and her original quilt art. Talk with Anne McClure renowned pastel artist, or feel fabric art like you've never seen before by Jacqueline Kurtt or Julie Mitchell. Visit Manzanita Sculpture Bob Boomer and his Brother, western and landscape watercolor painter, Doug Boomer. In Oakhurst, Co-Chairperson Jonathan Bock will be showing for the first time at his home studio along with ceramics masters, A.J. Castelo, Tiwi Wood and Amy Morgan. Fresno's "Man of Steel" welding sculptor Chris Sorenson will be showing at Co-Chairperson Ellen Hurst's along with Mixed Media artist Patrick Scott Edwards, Sculptor Jeffery Alan Jewett, Photographer Peter Remmers, and "The worker of neon" Doug Campbell.
Visit Oakhurst's library and see visual imager John Peto, or Buca Dental Office to visit painter Irina Buca, or stop at Gallery Row before you head onto sites on northern Hwy 41 until you get to Cedar Valley where renowned painter Donald "Putt" Putman is creating in his studio.
Stop in Bass Lake for lunch then head into North Fork where boat builder Jim Crocket will be doing a ship carving demonstration. Also in North Fork is Painter Sheila Boyd, nature Photographer Keith Sauer, and Burning Bush Studio owner Joan constable. See beadwork by Anne Bredon, award-winning artist Ronna Adler and Mosaic on everything artist Colleen Lopez, whose creations are practical, functional, or just plain crazy!!!
Head down in Yosemite Lakes Park and view watercolorists Leislie Dearing, Diane Astier, Joan Brumley, Janet Morita, Ginny Burdick and Carolyn G. Hartling! How about sculpture by Toby Raetze, or wood by Ken Maggard or viewing stained glass by Kathy Christiansen.
All this and more awaits you on the 4th annual Sierra Art Trails, this October 14th & 15th. Whatever your interest may be in fine art and crafts, you're bound to find it during the tour weekend. So come and follow the Sierra Art Trails path!
CATALOGS
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Taylor
will be showing at the Yosemite High School Gallery. Taylor says of his
process, "I use a style of cursive in my paintings to illustrate
leaves, grass or bark; to guide the viewer, hide a random message, or poem. They
are evidence that abstract art isn't random as people think, but an original
product of our subconscious." 
Hwy
49 south takes you into Coarsegold's Inanna's Gallery where Jane Senn will
be showing her Diachronic glass jewelry. While there, also see ceramics by
David Caris, "Motion with emotion" exotic wood sculptor Terry Reed,
wire art and glass jeweler Judi Gooch, drawings by Chelsea Wilhite, and mixed media
Native
American artist Judy De Rosa. If you want a little leather and silver see cowboy
R.T. Thomas at historic Coarsegold Village. Not far from there is Susanne
Updike-Waite's exhibit of fine landscape and macro photography at
her home studio. 
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