At long last here is my attempt at flying in a gallery space. With the kind permission of the Lincoln City Cultural Center, here are a few seconds of me flying in the PJ Chessman Gallery during The Casbah Show. An excerpt from the show description follows below.
I still need to work out audio to fill the background, but I found the interaction with a gallery visitor (who is actually one of the artists on display) to be too dorky to cut out.
“The Casbah: 30th Anniversary Show”
September 14 – October 8
The Chessman Gallery is proud to see the Casbah group return for their 30th Anniversary Show! This group was instrumental in the formation of the Lincoln City Cultural Center and were the first artists to exhibit back when the organization was known as the 4C’s.
This group has a long history of putting on “Happenings” which include inspiration from writers, poets and musicians as well as the visual artists.
This group of Oregon artists of multiple disciplines will be filling the Chessman Gallery with paintings, drawings, sculpture, glass, art prints, pottery, photography, poetry and theatre. The multifaceted creativity present in this group is a joy to experience and we hope you will join us in celebrating their 30 years together.
The Casbah was born in 1988 and have exhibited art and performed readings together in 32 venues throughout Oregon and Washington. This group aided Phyllis Chessman in the work to make the Cultural Center a reality, and exhibit with the organization first in 1990 when it was just beginning and called the 4 Cs. The first location of this infant version of the Lincoln City Cultural Center was on the bottom floor of the Library and City Hall building in Lincoln City. This group received the North Lincoln Art Award in 1992. Since then, The Casbah has flourished into a well known group of artists with a wealth of knowledge and experience behind them. Their shows are unique in the way that they engage the viewer with visual art as well as music, poetry and theater. Writers and poets are an integrated part of this group and the whole membership thrives with this added level of shared ideas, support and inspiration.
Artists include: Paintings by Martin Anderson. Ceramic and print making work by Marilyn Burkhardt, photography by Ralph Elliott, oil paintings by Sharon Maribona, ink drawings by Melody Martin, wood work by Rick Martin, mixed media work by Nan O’Keefe, paintings and mixed media work by James O’Keefe, glass work by Kate Saunders and paintings by Molly Wullstein Van Austen.
Writers/Readers include: Patti Siberz, Libby Durbin, Julie Reynolds-Otrugman, Ger Killeen.
At the Chessman Gallery, a nonprofit art space inside the Lincoln City Cultural Center, 540 NE Hwy. 101. For more information about this show or any of the many events going on at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, call 541-994-9994, head to lincolncity-culturalcenter.org, or become a friend on Facebook.
