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The CHS Marching Band was the lead group during Wednesday’s SOUNDSATIONAL Parade at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. The Papermakers are spending the week in Southern California and are having a great time.
Currently, 135 members of the band have just docked at Catalina Island, which is off the Southern California coast.
Photo courtesy of Alisa Wise.
Northwest Artists is the focus of the Ballard and Call Gallery in Camas, WA. Gallery owners, Sharon Ballard and Marquita Call are honored to be a part of this thriving and growing community.
Marilyn Farrell Webberley will be the April featured artist at the Gallery. The exhibit of her work will commence with the” First Friday” festivities April 5th and continue through the month. Marilyn resides in Seattle but ties to her hometown of Camas are still strong as is the impact of her Farrell family on the history of Camas.
Marilyn earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Washington where she studied both commercial and fine art. She later studied oil painting in the Russian Impressionist tradition with Wm F. Reese and three proteges of Sergei Bongart: Lois McFarland, Ron Lukas and Sunny Apinchapong-Yang.
A published author, illustrator, graphic designer and award winning fine art painter, her work has appeared in a variety of venues ranging from Metro bus banners, storefronts, and the theater stage, to museums and galleries, and has been juried into regional, national, and international exhibitions.
Her paintings are held in corporate collections in the United States and private collections in the US, Bahamas, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
In Marilyn’s words: “I paint moments I enjoy from personal experience. My subjects can be almost anything, since my interest is capturing patterns of light, shadow and color. It pleases me when the viewer experiences some of the delight that caught my attention – the reason for creating the piece.”
Ballard & Call is located at 408 NE 4th Avenue, Camas, WA 98607. Phone is 360-817-2415; email: [email protected] or visit www.ballardandcall.com
The Camas High School Drama Department has been working hard getting ready for tonight’s premiere of “Into the Woods.” Curtain call is at 7 pm at CHS Theatre, which is located inside Camas High School. The second performance is Saturday night at 7, with three more to follow on between March 8 and 9.
Click on the link to open the trailer:
“Into the Woods” by CHS Theater is the blending of several fairy tales into one story. The Baker and his Wife, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and others are all on their quests to see their greatest wishes granted.
Along the way, they cross paths with often hilarious results. In the end, all is mended, but the journey becomes quite a bit more complicated than anyone ever dreamed. With giants, witches, wolves, princes, and magic beans bouncing around all over the place, it’s no wonder that they all get much more than they bargained for.
The show begins Friday at 7 at CHS Theater.
The story of Rex is an adventure-filled historic biography of a purebred Samoyed canine who excelled in mountain rescues during a time before snowmobiles and cell phones. Rex lived from 1946-1957 and spent most of his life in the Sierras of California. He was lead sled dog on a U.S. mail run, set a world record in weight pulling, won many speed and freight races and was involved in over 30 documented rescues during his lifetime. He was a show dog also and was removed from the Golden Gate benched dog show in January 1952 to lead the team to deliver the doctor to the 226 passengers and crew aboard the snowbound “City of San Francisco” train stuck at Yuba Gap. He also pulled out downed planes at the Truckee, CA airfield in 1949 taking the injured passengers into town for medical care. This was a hero dog whose fascinating story has captured the attention of readers of all ages.
Jim has served as Samoyed Club of America (SCA) president and treasurer in addition to serving as treasurer for the SCA Foundation for many years and as president and treasurer for the Willamette Valley Samoyed Fanciers. In 2002, he retired as HR Director with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration in Washington, DC.
The Global EBook Awards honor and bring attention to the future of book publishing: EBooks. Now in its second year, the Awards are in 72 specific categories. They are open to all publishers large and small so that a winner is the best in its category, not just the best of small or regionally-published books. Most EBooks, are also available as printed books as well.
“The Story of Rex of White Way, The Blizzard King” is available at $18.95 for the hard cover and $14.95 for the soft cover and very competitively priced through Amazon Kindle. Rex can be found online at Amazon.com and at http://dketasamoyeds.com
Tulips did it!
Santa Cruz watercolor artist Nancy Riedell was the winner of Daniel Smith’s Artists’ Materials October Monthly Voting Gallery. Her winning entry is “Tulips in New York City”.
She is thrilled about the win and looks forward to entering her work in more competitions.
“I’m so pleased that Tulips did so well,” said Reidell. “I loved doing that painting.”
Nancy Riedell, an internationally recognized, award winning, and Open Studios artist originally from Santa Cruz County, California, now living in Portland, Oregon, graduated from San Francisco State University where she studied Fine Arts. Classes included figure drawing, color values, acrylics, oils, and art history.
Nancy’s love of art goes back to childhood as her family encouraged her to develop her art skills by giving her art materials and art books so that she could develop her technique.
Nancy’s current medium is watercolor. The bold use of colors and interesting landscapes has played a strong role in Nancy’s unique paintings. She feels that although she has been working with art since childhood, it is only within the last few years that she has felt the calling to go back into her art. Her work reflects her passion well by using strong, saturated color and theme.
Nancy likes to take advantage of every opportunity and is known to carry her digital camera with her to photograph subjects for future paintings. She has captured beautiful sunrises in Monterey County, unique beach scenes in Santa Cruz County, unusual rock formations in New Mexico, covered bridges in Pennsylvania, and incredible Oregon scenes. She’s also done recent work with painting popular Portland destinations.
Nancy is an active member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, and a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and the California Watercolor Society.
To see more of Nancy’s exquisite artwork, go to www.nancyriedellfinearts.com
One year, Josh gives in to his mother’s pressure and agrees to come home for Christmas. Once there, he finds himself mercilessly confronted with the holidays at every turn. Watching other happy families, he is even more broken-hearted with the absence of his daughter and the Christmas it was supposed to be. Finding solace in a little coffee shop, Josh is launched into a journey that reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas and the path to open his heart to love once again.
Finding Christmas is Sjostrom’s second novel released this year. He is a contributing author to several regional and national publications as well as for The Nature Conservancy. Recently, he has co-produced a children’s magazine, Kids Ink NW, intended to inspire children to find excitement in writing.
You can find Seth at a variety of events throughout the Pacific Northwest this holiday season.
For more information on Seth Sjostrom or Finding Christmas, visit www.wolfprintpublishing.com