EDITORIAL NOTE

You may be asking yourself, why is the Mazama Bulletin dedicating an entire issue to the arts? It’s a legitimate question and one that we hope to answer for you. The Mazama Bulletin has a long history of publishing and embracing the arts, although not much recently. For many years, decades really, it was common for a poem to grace the front cover of the bulletin. Charles Sholes, a founding member and the first of our two five-term presidents, was a poet and his work graced dozens of bulletins in the publication’s early years.

We know, especially in this day and age, that many of our members are amateur, and in some cases professional, photographers, and we routinely feature their works. But what about the painters, sculptures, authors, and other creatives who call themselves Mazamas? This issue has been many years-in-the-thinking, but really came to fruition, in part, by Peter Boag’s excellent article on the early influence of, and collaboration between, turn of the century artists and the Mazamas. That prompted us to put out a call that you might have seen in these pages asking for members to submit their artistic creations. We are thankful many responded and shared their work. We knew we were on the right track when Kate Evans and Alexandra Howard submitted their article on Geoge Cummings and his pandemic ceramics.

As Mazamas, our love of the outdoors takes many forms, we hope you enjoy this view of the mountains through a different lens.

Mathew Brock

Library & Historical Collections Manager, Mazama Bulletin Editor

Mazama Publications Committee

Peter Boag, Elise Englert, Darrin Gunkel (chair), Ali Gray, Ryan Reed, and Claire Tenscher