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May at Backstreet Gallery Features Winners of the Little Dickens Contest ~ Trudonna Husong and Mary Hillsbery

Trudonna, whose unique work of both 2 and 3 dimensional pieces, in a wide range of media and size, invite your imagination with their organic shapes she tends to develop in series, that may evolve over many years. Her Significant Stones Series are “buntings created with an ancient wrapping technique using stones, beeswax, hemp and cotton.” She is “driven by process and materials as much as inspiration. The roots of my materials and process must be authentic to the work. Symbolically I am nurturing the earth from the divisiveness and abuse of the human endeavor – stone by stone.”

Mary Hillsbery (lower right) is a 17 year-old junior at Siuslaw High School where she is already engaged in seeking a career in art through the art program there and will follow that path in her college years. Though home schooled by her Backstreet artist mother, Carol Hillsbery, who influenced her, Mary says, “I think I was born with the passion to be an artist.”

Gallery One at Florence Events Center, May 2013
WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF OREGON TRAVELING EXHIBIT

The Watercolor Society of Oregon's (WSO) Traveling Show will be on display in Gallery One at the Florence Events Center during May. There will be an artists’ reception on Saturday, May 11, from 3 to 5 p.m. to which the public is invited.

This collection of 20 award-winning works was selected from the 80 works juried into WSO's 48th Annual Spring Exhibition, featuring many of the finest watercolor artists in Oregon.

Gallery Five - Developing Photographers Premiere Work

The Siuslaw Viewfinders Camera Club is proud to sponsor the “Developing Photographers” show opening in Gallery Five on May 2. This display will showcase several up-and-coming local photographers, including Larry Bacon, Joyce Cheeseman, Ken McDougal, Ty Perry, Jane Pittenger, John Pohlman, Jacob Wenzel, and Kathleen Wenzel.

View Finders Camera Club - MAY WINNING IMAGES - TEXTURES

When I see gorgeous photos like these it makes me want to sing Oh, What A Wonderful World it is...But, alas, I can't sing. And I probably don't even have the correct title...but seeing textures like these reminds me that we do, indeed, live in a wondrous world. If we look far and wide, or up close and personal, it is there for us to enjoy, as evidenced by the winners of the Siuslaw View Finders winning images for the May contest, "Textures." The winners are Gary Welton with his image of an Elephant Leaf, displaying its structure in all its glory, winning first place. Ed Wilent took second with his brilliant and colorful textured image of fruit: apples, an orange, strawberries, a lemon and a lime. So simple, but Wow, what surfaces we see. The third place image depicting wind ripples on a sunset dune was done by Marion Hall. We've all seen dune ripples like this, but not quite like how Marion captured them.