"Exploring Layers" Exhibitors Announced

Congratulations to the following Oregon SAQA artists for being accepted to “Exploring Layers:”

 Mary Arnold – Strata

Karen Bates – Layers of Influence
Suzy Bates – Riches to Rags
Catherine Beard – Aspen Lea
Diane Born – Santa Fe Fences: Sculpted by Time, Sand, Sun
Christina Brown – One Who Looks Back
Christina Brown – View from Rowena Crest
Nancy Bryant – Cascade
Gerrie Congdon – Walking with Scooter and Mr. C
Betty Daggett – Food Value
Anne Daughtry – Canyon de Chelley, 1973

Diane English – After the Fire II

Sheila Finzer – You are Unique!

Georgia French – Pathways

Betty Gientke – Polychromatic Pool

Mary Goodson – From Water to Ice

Carol Heist – Fractured Green

Jill Hoddick – South Rim, Grand Canyon

Laura Jaszkowski – Rift Valley

Paulette Landers – Ancient Memories

Paulette Landers – I Once Saw a Tree

Sheryl LeBlanc – The Tools of My Trade

Amanda Miller – Sahalie Falls

Amanda Miller – Sumer Harvest

Sara Miller – Swept Away

Sidnee Snell – Rivets 2

Sidnee Snell – Sliced not Diced

Mary Stiewig – Awakenings

Naomi Weidner – Bowl of Oranges

Jean Wells – Rejuvenation

 “Exploring Layers” drew a record number of artists and a record number of entries.  Just under half were accepted by our juror Renee Couture, who said it was a “DIFFICULT” job.  She approached it half from a juror’s perspective, and half from a curator’s perspective, and she used the criteria we noted in the Prospectus.

 We want to congratulate everyone who entered, because this makes SAQA Oregon strong.  All the work is worthy and we know that pieces not accepted for this exhibit will be seen somewhere else at some other time. 

We’ll post the venue schedule here in due time.  Note that the exhibit will debut in February at the Chehalem Cultural Center, and will be a centerpiece of the SAQA Oregon conference “New Horizons” on March 6, 2014.

Betty Daggett, Georgia French, Jean Wells, Co-Curators, “Exploring Layers”