Sitka 2020 Workshop Catalog

2020 sitkacenter.org

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS ON THE OREGON COAST

CONNECT WITH NATURE AND EXPLORE YOUR CREATIVITY

Workshops and Events EST. 1970

COVER ART: Anji Grainger, Blackberry Reflection, Watercolor on watercolor paper, 2009, 22” x 30”

Welcome to the 50th year of workshops at Sitka In 1970, Jane and Frank Boyden started the Sitka Center to explore and celebrate the intersection of art and ecology, free from academic constraints.

From that founding vision, Sitka has grown to host year-round programs that encourage the exploration of art, nature and the fertile space in-between. At Sitka, inspired moments and creative epiphanies happen every day.

This catalog marks Sitka’s 50th anniversary year on the central Oregon Coast. Inside you’ll find over 100 spring and summer workshops and events to spark your curiosity and unleash your creativity.

What if you could paint as freely as a bird sings or as patiently as a riverbed rests?

Beloved Sitka instructor Jef Gunn will lead a retreat-like, five-day master class for experienced painters (p. 9). How can investigative journalism approaches deepen your fiction writing? 2019 guest author Rebecca Clarren returns to Sitka this summer to lead a one-day workshop for all skill levels (p. 25). Imagine if you

could replace industrially produced materials common in art and design practices with homemade bio-alternatives.

Peruvian artist and first-time Sitka instructor Lucia Monge will share art-meets-science techniques and recipes (p. 13).

From poets and plein air painters to botanical illustrators and foresters, our instructors are experts in their fields and engaging teachers. Our team works together to create an unintimidating community of sharing and exploration where everyone is welcome.

Whether you are a returning workshop participant or discovering Sitka for the first time, I invite you to come and be a part of this joyous and celebratory year of natureinspired reflection, inquiry and creation.

Looking forward to seeing you soon,

Alison Dennis Executive Director

Invitational events, to the more than 25 artists and scientists who come for residencies each year and inspire us all.

Become a Sitka Center member today

MEMBERSHIP / WORKSHOPS BY SUBJECT

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When you become a member of Sitka, you become a part of a community of artists and ecologists inspired by nature. You support all of the happenings at Sitka — from the workshops you find in this catalog, to our Mingle & Muse and Art

Workshops

by Subject BOOK ARTS 11 Photo Transfers, Emulsion Lifts, and Bookmaking 27 Preserving Memories: Books and Boxes for Collectors

But your membership also helps you! Membership at any level qualifies you for early workshop registration, and memberships of $100 or more receive discounts on workshops. You will also stay connected to Sitka through our e-newsletter and receive our annual catalog by mail.

Join today in support of Sitka and your own creative practice. Call us at 541-994-5485 or go online to sitkacenter.org/memberdonor.

Gift Certificates Give someone the gift of creativity! Gift certificates can be purchased in any amount and may be used for a workshop, membership or merchandise. To purchase, call us at 541-994-5485.

Other ways to be involved We welcome you to join the Sitka community in a way that fits your life: volunteer, attend events or sign-up for our e-newsletter.

Individual Member $50 • Early

registration for workshops e-newsletters • Receive the workshop catalog and event invitations in the mail • Free entry into the annual Sitka Art Invitational • Monthly

Supporter $100 • All

Individual Member benefits discount on workshops

• 10%

Household $150 • All

Supporter benefits extend to a household

• Benefits

Sustainer $250 • All

Household benefits discount on workshops

• 20%

Benefactor $500 • All

Sustainer benefits discount on workshops

• 30%

For more information, visit sitkacenter.org.

CALLIGRAPHY

DRAWING

22 Handwriting Success with Italic 31 Monoline Lettering Techniques

8 Figure and Ground: The Figurative Composition 20 How is a Conifer Cone like an Artichoke?

20 Native Berries and Pollinators 21 Sitka Art Circle: Ethnobotanical Sketchbook, Salal

COLLAGE 29 The Expressive Art of Collage

CREATIVE THOUGHT 8 Visual Poetry of Place 9 Art + Ecology: The Power of Art to Change the World 21 The Sketchbook Habit 22 Creativity Unleashed

and Western Hemlock

DRAWING AND PAINTING 8 Community Open Studio 9 India Ink with Watercolor: How to Avoid Those Mid-Tone Blahs 11 Lines, Layers, and Luminosity 18 A Deep Dive into Bird Illustration

MUSIC

PRINTMAKING

7 Winds & Waves: Recorder Workshop 17 Music of the Landscape

13 Sitka Art Circle: Collagraph Printing 14 Screen Printing with Hand Painted Stencils 26 Make Your Mark! Trace Monotype 26 Image and Word: The Art of the Artist Book 29 Watercolor Monotype with Chine Collé 30 Block Printing Patterns

NATURE 13 Biomaterials: Alternative Materials for Art & Design 15 Moss Walls, Kokedama Style Balls & Living Sculpture 24 Sitka Art Circle: Beeswax Food Wraps 28 The Trees of Cascade Head 24 Introduction to Oil Pastels 27 Watercolor Journaling: The Beauty Around Us 31 Suminagashi Paper Marbling: From Pattern to Finished Painting 33 The Art of Insect Illustration

FIBER ART 9 Text into Textile: Interpreting Poetry Through Cloth 13 Exploring Indigo and Shibori 14 Hand-Piecing a Naturally Dyed Quilt 20 The Naturalist Dyer: Using Native Plants as Dyes and Pigments

27 Let’s Take a Hike!

29 The Poetry of Thrift: Creative Mending 30 The Magic of Spontaneous Silk Painting 32 Renegade Screen Printing with Natural Dyes

METAL WORK MIXED MEDIA 8 Sitka Art Circle: What Does Your Self-Portrait Say? 12 Layers of the Forest: Mixed Media Painting 15 Cut It Out! The Art of Paper Cutting 16 Image Transfer and Mixed Media 23 Sand, Sun and Saltwater: Exploring Mixed Media Landscape

30 Painting with Paper 31 Becoming the Wild

The Heart of Painting: A Week-long Master Class The Fluid Beauty of Alcohol Ink on Ceramic Tile Reimagining Watermedia Through Nature’s Lens Painting for Pleasure... Seriously Tide Lines: Cold Wax and Oil Collage Watercolor: Plein Air and Expressive Approach Landscape: From Realism to Abstract Mysteries of the Palette Knife in Realism and Abstraction 18 Bridging Abstraction and Realism 18 Introducing Oil and Cold Wax Medium 20 Color Theory for Watercolor 21 Painting with Passion 22 Abstract Investigations: Color and Composition 24 Beginning Landscapes and Seascapes in Oil 26 Abstracted Landscapes in Oil and Cold Wax 28 Creatively Driven by Color 29 The Dao of Seeing 30 Contemporary Egg Tempera Painting 33 Wild Watercolors

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PHOTOGRAPHY 10 Here Comes the Sun 10 Intermediate Photopolymer Gravure 12 Active Landscape Photography 16 Sitka Art Circle: Clay Animation Basics 23 Detail, Pattern and Metaphore: A Closer Look at the Forests of Cascade Head

11 Stretching for Texture, Slipping for Contrast 14 Creating Light and Shadow in Mosaic 19 Hand Building: Abstracted Nature 22 Mosaic Tidepool 25 Radiant Window Mosaic

WOOD WORK 21 Pyrography and Painting 25 Introduction to the Art of Whittling 26 Developing your Wood Muse 32 Sitka Art Circle: Turn a Branch into a Beautiful Scoop

WRITING 10 Muse to Manuscript 12 Generative Writing 15 Memory-Based Writing 16 Creating Complex Characters 19 Sitka Art Circle: The Moving Pen 19 The Power of Place 23 Lay it Bare: The Naked Heart of Personal Narrative

24 Speak Beauty to Power 25 Writing and Walking 25 The Art of Deeply Reported Fiction 27 The Poetics of Food 28 Kindling the Story: Experiments with Researched Nonfiction

28 The Art of Flash: Short-Form Writing Approaches 31 Pen to Paper: The Power of the Notebook 32 The Natural World in Story

WORKSHOPS BY SUBJECT

17 Metalsmithing Alchemy: Boxes and Lockets 18 Cloisonné Enameling on Silver

PAINTING

SCULPTURE

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Workshop Supplies •

Material lists are posted on Sitka’s website and are included in your registration packet, which is emailed or mailed depending on your preference, after registration.

Pets/Smoking

Pets are not permitted at the Sitka Center, including in vehicles in the parking lot.

• Sitka has a strict no smoking, no vaping policy on all Sitka property.

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In Preparation for Your Workshop

Fragrance-Free •

Lodging

There is no student housing, RV parking or camping available at Sitka. You will need to find accommodations in Lincoln City, Neskowin, Otis or Pacific City.

• For lodging options, visit sitkacenter.org/about/ lodging-and-food or see the Lodging section at the back of this catalog. Some accommodations provide discounts to Sitka students.

• Additional options are available online at the Lincoln City Visitor and Convention Bureau’s website at oregoncoast.org, and at pacificcity.org for Pacific City.

PREPARING FOR YOUR WORKSHOP

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Lunch

Bring your lunch. A refrigerator, microwave and dishes are available for your use.

• Locally-roasted coffee and assorted teas are complimentary.

• Cold drinks, ice cream and snacks are available for purchase.

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Thank you for not wearing any of the following during your visit: cologne, after shave, scented lotion, perfume, fragranced hair products, and/ or similar products. Our chemically-sensitive coworkers and workshop participants thank you.

Speed Limit The happiness and well-being of our local community members are very important to us.

Please drive SLOWLY through our neighborhood and on Three Rocks Road as many local residents and animals also share this space. Always go at or below the speed limit when arriving and departing.

Parking

Please park only in the two lots with Sitka signs.

Do not park in nearby residential areas.

• There are two parking spaces for people with disabilities. To make arrangements, please call ahead to 541-994-5485 or email info@sitkacenter.org.

• We cannot accommodate RVs or campers in our parking lot.

• Parking at Sitka is limited. Please carpool to Sitka whenever possible.

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Resident Show & Tell

Winds & Waves Concert

Saturday, April 25

Thursday, April 30, 7pm

12:30pm: Doors open 1pm: Presentations begin Cost: Free and open to the public

Total Cost: $15 / $5 youth Location: St. Peter the Fisherman Lutheran Church, 1226 SW 13th St., Lincoln City

sitkacenter.org/events/resident-show-tell.

Have you ever wondered what Sitka’s Winds & Waves recorder workshop sounds like? Come help kick off Sitka’s 50th anniversary celebration year and experience recorder music like you’ve never heard it before at this lighthearted public concert. Enjoy everything from early music to contemporary compositions performed on all sizes of recorder by Sitka’s internationally renowned Winds & Waves faculty members Frances Blaker and Letitia Berlin, joined by guest faculty members Rainer Beckman and Vicki Boeckman.

For more information about the performers, visit tibiaduo.com, vickiboeckman.com and amherstearlymusic.org/node/738. sitkacenter.org/events.

Winds & Waves: Recorder Workshop Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Vicki Boeckman and Rainer Beckmann Intermediate | Age 16+

Celebrate Sitka’s 50th Anniversary at the Winds & Waves Recorder Workshop taught by Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Vicki Boeckman and Rainer Beckmann. This year’s theme is “Music by the Sea”. Winds & Waves offers graded technique and repertoire classes, plus general “grand consort” sessions all in a spruce-hemlock forest perched above the Salmon River estuary. Take a break for four days and open yourself up to inspiration from the setting, the teaching and the music.

May 1-4 Friday–Monday: Friday-Sunday, 9am–5:15pm; Monday 9am–3pm Total Cost: $350 The 2020 faculty includes Frances Blaker and Letitia Berlin both of whom perform, record and teach workshops in the United States and abroad. Frances, who composes for recorder and other instruments, and Letitia are based in the San Francisco Bay area and form the duo Tibia (tibiaduo.com). Recorder resident Vicki Boeckman is thrilled to return to teach and collaborate at the Winds & Waves workshop. Her career as a professional recorder player has been a highly rewarding journey, and she delights in opportunities to play in a wide variety of musical styles.

Guest instructor Rainer Beckmann performs with a large variety of early music ensembles in the Philadelphia Tri-State area. He is the director of the Philadelphia Recorder Society and a faculty member at the Community College of Philadelphia.

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Come meet Sitka’s Spring residents and learn about their work. Eli Neuman-Hammond is a composer from Massachusetts who explores themes of representation and place through minimally processed field recordings. Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer and a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. In his work, he explores indigenous identity, assimilation and tradition. Brie Schettle identifies as a hybrid artist working with many modes of expression including painting, installation, sculpture, digital printmaking and photography.

Vicki Boeckman is an internationally acclaimed performing and recording artist who adores playing music of all styles.

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Community Open Studio Sitka Studio Team All Levels | Age 16+

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Gather in beautiful Boyden Studio for an opportunity to explore and create among a community of fellow artists.

Bring the medium and supplies of your choice, and we will provide an intimate studio with tables and easels, and coffee and tea. Views of the lush landscape and our peaceful setting will inspire your creativity, give you the freedom to explore and offer a chance to bond with your studio mates. Bring your lunch each day or plan a potluck with your studio group.

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May 15-18 Friday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $100

Figure and Ground: The Figurative Composition

Sitka Art Circle: What Does Your Self-Portrait Say?

Visual Poetry of Place

Natalie Craig

Natalie Craig

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 18+

Expressive artwork is enhanced by variables in composition. We will look at the scale of the figure, foreground/ background relationships and color.

Each day there will be a presentation showing examples of artwork to demonstrate how important these relationships are to the creative statement.

This Sitka Art Circle workshop is an exploration into the visual/verbal portrait. How do we describe ourselves visually and verbally? Each participant will create a portrait with a written expression. There will be a brief presentation about selfportraits at the beginning of the fourhour session.

In this workshop, you will combine writing, image-making and guided immersion in nature to create unique, expressive visual-verbal creations.

You will learn new ways to observe nature and your internal world. We will use fun, intuitive approaches. No experience of any kind is required.

May 26-27

May 28

Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $278

Thursday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35

Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $125

Natalie aims to encourage students to delve into their expressive potential. Natalie is a studio artist with a BA from San Diego State University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She exhibits in the U.S. and has attended residencies in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. nataliecraigartist.com

Natalie aims to encourage students to delve into their expressive potential. Natalie is a studio artist with a BA from San Diego State University, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She exhibits in the U.S. and has attended residencies in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. nataliecraigartist.com

Daniela Molnar All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

May 29 Daniela has been teaching students of all ages since 2007. She founded and leads the Art + Ecology program and is an Associate Professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also coordinates and leads educational trips with Signal Fire. danielamolnar.com

Text into Textile: Interpreting Poetry Through Cloth Carolyn Drake

Art + Ecology: The Power of Art to Change the World Daniela Molnar

In this workshop, you will create a visual representation of identity and place as a textile composition that features appliqué, weaving, stitching and found objects. Using a poem to build a visual vocabulary, you will identify resonant words, colors and symbols. These individual elements will then be developed through play and media exploration.

Welcome to the inspiring, thriving world of ecological art! You will learn about artists making work that addresses environmental issues. You will develop an understanding of the brilliant tactics these artists use and consider how you can apply creative, ecological thinking to your own life’s work. We will then sketch in response to these ideas.

May 29-31

May 30-31

Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $275

Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $225

Carolyn Hazel Drake is a mostly self-taught artist from a long line of craftswomen. She is a third generation Oregonian, and her aesthetic is grounded in the colors and textures of the Pacific Northwest. Her approach to teaching is guided by experimentation, self-reflection and play. carolynhazeldrake.com

Daniela has been teaching students of all ages since 2007. She founded and leads the Art + Ecology program and is an Associate Professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also coordinates and leads educational trips with Signal Fire. danielamolnar.com

Anji Grainger All Levels | Age 16+

The marriage of watercolor with India ink can be magical. In this three-day workshop we will explore how to build successful value contrasts in paintings. We will begin by applying India ink in varying values and then add watercolor washes and details over our paintings.

June 1-3 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $308 Anji is an award-winning watercolorist and instructor and a juried member of several art societies. She began teaching acrylics in 1984 and studied in oil from 2002 to 2003.

In 2006 she changed directions and studied watercolor techniques in Florence, Italy.

Anji’s watercolor, Blackberry Reflection, is featured on the cover of this year’s Sitka catalog. bluepansycottage.com

The Heart of Painting: A Week-long Master Class Jef Gunn Advanced | Age 20+

Over time, painters develop skills in drawing, composition, color and brushwork. Are these enough? How can we show our depth? Could you paint as freely as a bird sings, or as patiently as a riverbed rests? This five-day workshop is for experienced painters. Any subject. Any style. Any medium. Any process. You are skilled already. Now what?

June 1-5 Monday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $566 A Northwest native, Jef Gunn studied painting in California in the 1970s and held residencies in Barcelona and Paris in the 1980s. His work relates to the large forms of nature drawn from experience in wilderness. He’s been teaching for 23 years. jefgunn.com

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

India Ink with Watercolor: How to Avoid Those Mid-Tone Blahs

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The Fluid Beauty of Alcohol Ink on Ceramic Tile Anji Grainger Beginner | Age 16+

Explore the wonderful fluid properties of alcohol ink pigments on ceramic tiles. In this fun one-day workshop you will discover the amazing movements of color on tiles using this medium. The workshop will include techniques, tips, and tricks for working with ink.

June 4

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $110

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Anji is an award-winning watercolorist and instructor and a juried member of several art societies. She began teaching acrylics in 1984 and studied in oil from 2002 to 2003.

In 2006 she changed directions and studied watercolor techniques in Florence, Italy.

Anji’s watercolor, Blackberry Reflection, is featured on the cover of this year’s Sitka catalog. bluepansycottage.com

Here Comes the Sun

Muse to Manuscript

Karen Hymer

Charlotte Dixon

All Levels | Age 10+ (under 14 with registered adult)

All Levels | Age 18+

Cyanotype photograms are one-of-akind photographs made using the sun as a light source. This 19th century process produces beautiful prints with cyan-blue tones. We will collect leaves, grasses and other items to place on coated watercolor paper then exposed to sunlight. Each print will be unique.

June 5 Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $120 Karen Hymer is a visual artist and educator from Silver City, NM. She has taught fine art photography for over 25 years. Her work explores nature and the body through the blending of photosensitive materials, digital media and printmaking, specializing in photopolymer gravures. karenhymer.com

We will study the muse to manuscript process. Learn to turn your journal musings and diary entries into actual projects such as short stories, novels, memoirs or essays. Writers who’ve already begun projects but gotten stalled will find useful methods for vaulting over blocks.

June 6-8 Saturday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $180 Charlotte Rains Dixon is a novelist who has taught writing in Portland, Nashville and France since earning her MFA in 2003. She believes mastering the writing craft is imperative, but learning to keep one’s creative juices flowing is the most important skill of all. wordstrumpet.com

Intermediate Photopolymer Gravure Karen Hymer Intermediate | Age 18+

Transform your photographs into stunning gravure etchings while discovering the beauty of ink on paper. In this three-day intermediate workshop participants will take their gravure work to the next level. Using light-sensitive steel-backed Solarplates, participants will work with larger plates and more advanced techniques. Participants will leave with 8–10 prints.

June 6-8 Saturday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $348 Karen Hymer is a visual artist and educator from Silver City, NM. She has taught fine art photography for over 25 years. Her work explores nature and the body through the blending of photosensitive materials, digital media and printmaking, specializing in photopolymer gravures. karenhymer.com

Stretching for Texture, Slipping for Contrast

Lines, Layers, and Luminosity

Photo Transfers, Emulsion Lifts and Bookmaking

Jeff Gunn

Rebecca Wild

Nancy Abens

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Beginner | Age 16+

The first steps of this workshop will be creating textures, applying slips and adding inlays to clay slabs.

Second, we will construct vessels using templates and molds. Adding lids with sculptured knobs will be included as an option. Pieces will be bisque fired after the workshop with arrangements made for later pick up.

June 9-10 Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $241

June 9-11 Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $386 Rebecca Wild is an artist and calligrapher from Port Townsend, Washington.

Originally from West Virginia, she was a calligraphy and art instructor in Portland, Oregon for 25 years and now teaches workshops at Sitka and throughout the West Coast. rwildart.com

June 11-12 Thursday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $193 Nancy Abens is a visual artist and educator living in Portland, Oregon. Her work is deeply inspired by the natural world. She loves teaching and has an experimental, process-oriented approach. She holds a BA in Fine Art Photography and an MEd in teaching. nancyabens.com

June 12-July 6 Opening reception:

Friday, June 12, 5–7pm Location: Chessman Gallery Lincoln City Cultural Center 540 NE Highway 101, Lincoln City, OR 97367 In honor of the Sitka Center’s 50th anniversary, artists Frank and Ian Boyden present an exhibition of works related to the environment of the Salmon River. Hosted at the Chessman Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon, works will include paintings, prints and sculptures from each decade of Sitka co-founder Frank Boyden’s artistic journey. The opening reception will include a discussion between father and son about their work. sitkacenter.org/events

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Jeff has been a studio potter for 22 years.

He has taught ceramics classes and workshops at Oregon State University and in his own studio. His teaching emphasis is on both function and aesthetics, typically with lidded vessels. His main goal is to encourage and support students to take risks with forms and textured surfaces. gunnpottery.com

The master of line, Paul Klee, will be our guide as we create a sampler of small, richly layered pieces inspired by his work. An abstract alphabet derived from your personal signature will be the basis for your series.

Learn new techniques that combine drawing materials and paint with luminous results.

In this process-oriented workshop, we will explore several photo transfer techniques for transforming your digital and phone photographs into unique pieces. Learn ways to transfer images to a variety of substrates, several bookbinding techniques and experiment with emulsion lifts. Each participant will produce several transfers and a hand-bound book of their images.

From the Banks of the Nechesne: work by Frank and Ian Boyden

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Layers of the Forest: Mixed Media Painting Annamieka Davidson All Levels | Age 16+

In this three-day workshop, we will create multiple paintings. We will learn to layer color and imagery with paint, pens and pencils. Responding to Sitka’s spectacular setting, imagery of local flora and fauna will make its way in-between abstract layers.

Artists of any level will be reinvigorated by this playful workshop experience.

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

June 12-14

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Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $375 Annamieka Davidson is a Portland-based artist. She brings energy and a love of artmaking to her workshops where students feel encouraged and at ease. She earned her BFA degree from the University of Oregon and has been involved with the Sitka Center since 2007. annamieka.com

Generative Writing Anitra Ingham All Levels | Age 18+

The focus of this workshop will be to generate new writing and use prompts to help you find flow in your writing. A weekend in the serene setting at Sitka will help deepen your attention to your creative writing project. This workshop is suitable for writers who are starting a new project and writers in the midst of a project.

June 13-14 Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $195 Anitra Ingham has taught creative writing at Colorado State University, where she received an MFA in creative writing. As a professional editor, Anitra assists writers in refining their drafts for publication.

Active Landscape Photography

Reimagining Watermedia Through Nature’s Lens

Anne Godfrey

Marlana Stoddard-Hayes

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 18+

How we photograph the landscape is a direct expression of beliefs and desires. This workshop helps students get unstuck from unexamined ways of representing landscapes by tapping into their own unique vision. The workshop combines straightforward and accessible methodologies with critical explorations concerning photography’s influence over how we value landscapes.

Foraging from the abundance of the Sitka landscape as a starting point, participants will gradually build a family of paintings that are organically related, with groups suggestive of new creative threads to follow. Advanced painters will sense their practice deepening and beginners will see with a new eye.

June 15-17 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $410 Anne Godfrey teaches drawing and photography practices in pursuit of critically engaging the landscape. She is an award-winning educator and researcher.

Her book Active Landscape Photography, (Routledge Press), is the first in a threebook series examining the relationship between photography and environmental design. annecgodfrey.com

June 15-17 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $356 Marlana Stoddard Hayes has 40 years of teaching experience and is a past Sitka resident. Exhibited internationally in France, China, Vietnam and Africa, she is represented by Butters Gallery in Portland and A.I.R. Gallery, NYC. Widely published, her work explores the tenets of eco-theology. marlanastoddardhayes.com

Exploring Indigo and Shibori

Biomaterials: Alternative Materials for Art & Design

Sitka Art Circle: Collagraph Printing

Mingle & Muse Talk

Aaron Head

Lucia Monge

Krista Eddy

Photographer

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

Participants will learn the basics of dyeing with an indigo vat and how to create their own iron vat. Using indigo pigment extracted from Aaron’s plants, participants will explore approaches to shibori dyeing, primarily Itajime, Kumo and Arashi techniques. Participants will leave with dyed fabric, dyed goods from home and a pamphlet detailing the process.

Biomaterials are biodegradable materials that utilize naturally occuring ingredients. In this workshop we will create bioplastics, bioleathers and composites that can serve as alternatives to industrially produced materials common in art and design practices. In addition to gaining practical experience, participants will leave with a set of recipes to facilitate their future explorations.

All Levels | Age 8+ (under 14 with registered adult)

June 18 Aaron Sanders Head is a textile artist based in Greensboro, Alabama who investigates, restores and reinterprets historical textile practices with a focus on natural dyes, handiwork, hand-mending and handstitching. aaronsandershead.com

June 18-20 Thursday–Saturday: 10am–3pm Total Cost: $290 Lucia Monge is a Peruvian artist with a BFA in painting and an MFA in sculpture.

She has taught art at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design, science to k-6 students and eco-art workshops in a variety of settings. luciamonge.com

June 19 Friday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35 Krista Eddy is a local artist and the director of the Chessman Gallery in the Lincoln City Cultural Center with a BFA in Illustration from Long Beach State University. Krista has decades of experience teaching art classes for kids, and her teaching style is enthusiastic, encouraging and all about fun.

Friday, June 19, 4:30pm Cost: Free and open to the public

What would it be like to have the water, the trees and the earth be the central mirrors in which we look to see ourselves? Photographic artist and Sitka 2020 Blue Sky photography resident Ebenezer Galluzzo will share work from his ongoing As I Am portrait series, which questions and deconstructs societal narratives that assume being transgender or gender non-conforming is unnatural. In this talk, Galluzzo will reflect on his Sitka residency and explore the themes of body, gender, self-acceptance and humanness as a part of nature that are central to his artmaking. sitkacenter.org/events/mingle-and-muse

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $135

We will create one printing plate solely using raised hot glue gun glue and a second plate by collaging together common items like cardboard, twine, lace and other unexpected materials. Printing experimentation on paper will be conducted in black and white and in color. This workshop will surprise you with its outcomes.

Ebenezer Galluzzo

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Hand-Piecing a Naturally Dyed Quilt

Creating Light and Shadow in Mosaic

Painting for Pleasure...

Seriously

Screen Printing with Hand Painted Stencils

Aaron Head

Jennifer Kuhns

William Park

Michael Guerriero

All Levels | Age 18+

Intermediate | Age 14+

All Levels | Age 18+

Beginner | Age 16+

Workshop participants will explore indigo, hand-stitching and quiltmaking. On day one, participants will dye fabric in an indigo vat using shibori techniques. On day two, participants will learn hand-piecing, hand-quilting, tying and binding techniques. We will then combine your fabric with other naturally dyed fabrics for a hand-dyed, hand-pieced quilt.

In this workshop, participants will create the illusion of curved planes, hills and valleys out of cut pieces of stained glass. We will explore light and shadow, transferring an image to the substrate, identifying and mapping the values, then applying nipped pieces of stained glass to recreate the image as a mosaic.

You are invited to an open enthusiastic approach to painting.

You will be encouraged to follow threads of personal interest that can lead to the joy of discovery using a variety of approaches. Take advantage of the versatility of acrylic paints while working on a number of self-selected projects on several small panels and a larger one.

This workshop introduces screen printing techniques using painted filler and resist to make stencils.

Strategies for design, uses of opaque and transparent inks, and registration will be applied to produce prints.

Serigraphs will be shown to discuss the possibilities of the process.

Instruction includes how to set up a home studio.

June 22-25

June 23-24

Monday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $428

Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $178

William Park has a passion for paint and painting. He has been painting full time for 30 years. His passion drives him to finding new ways to grow and discover his essential self through the creative process. He thrives on helping others discover their true selves. williampark.net

Having produced a portfolio of 170 editions, printing serigraphs has been Michael Guerriero’s primary means of graphic expression. He prepares stencils by directly painting the screen with blockout or resist.

His goal in teaching is to find a balance between technical elements and creative expression. mikegart.com

WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

June 20-21

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Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $251 Aaron Sanders Head is a textile artist based in Greensboro, Alabama who investigates, restores and reinterprets historical textile practices with a focus on natural dyes, handiwork, hand-mending and handstitching. aaronsandershead.com

June 21-22 Sunday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $358 Jennifer has been creating mosaic for 18 years at her studio in rural western Washington. Her work ranges from strikingly realistic to stylized glass and tile installations. She has installed permanent artwork for corporate, private and public spaces and has been featured in exhibits and galleries throughout the country. jkmosaic.com

Cut It Out! The Art of Paper Cutting

Tide Lines: Cold Wax and Oil Collage

Jennifer Roholt

Ruth Armitage

Beginner | Age 16+

Jay Ponteri

Moss Walls, Kokedama Style Balls and Living Sculpture

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Linda Fielder

This workshop will explore the beauty of two-dimensional design and expression through the medium of cut paper. We will explore how this medium crosses many cultures and styles and then create images based on those techniques as well as personal inspiration. Each participant will leave with their own framed finished piece.

Tides rise and fall, leaving behind evidence of where water has been.

Join Ruth to explore combining cold wax painting with assemblage and collage to create paintings that express the change and impermanence of the tides. You will work on several small panels using found objects with oil paint and cold wax.

This workshop engages memorybased writing in direct relation to Sitka’s two core ecological communities—forest and ocean. This workshop initiates and enacts a deep conversation about the ways in which memory shapes language. We shall write together from prompts, read aloud from our works and set goals for beyond the workshop.

June 25-26

June 26-29

June 27-28

Thursday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $161

Friday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $551

Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $208

Ruth has earned signature status in the National and Northwest Watercolor Societies. Her work was featured on Oregon Art Beat in 2004. She is represented by Gallery at Salishan, Earthworks and Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery.

Students enjoy her organized and creative approach to teaching. rutharmitage.com

Jay Ponteri directs the Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing program at PNCA. For 20 years, he directed the creative writing program at Marylhurst college. LOBE is forthcoming in 2020. His book Wedlocked received the 2013 Oregon Book Award.

All Levels | Age 16+

The natural beauty of the forests and beaches surrounding the Sitka Center provide the inspiration and the materials for creating miniature landscapes and kokedama bonsai.

Participants will forage for mosses, lichens and driftwood and then create floral designs that evoke the beauty of the windswept coastline and fascinating ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest.

June 29-30 Monday–Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $203 Linda supports learning and creativity by encouraging curiosity and exploration of nature and the environment. A florist and event designer, Linda creates living sculptural floral designs from the abundant moss, lichen and driftwood of the coastal forests and shoreline.

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Jennifer Roholt brings over 20 years of graphic design and illustration experience, plus over 10 years of teaching on the college level and a lifetime of individual pursuit.

She holds an MA in Illustration and a BFA in Graphic Design. jproholt.carbonmade.com

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Image Transfer and Mixed Media

Sitka Art Circle: Clay Animation Basics

Watercolor: Plein Air and Expressive Approach

Creating Complex Characters

Cheryl Rogers-Tadevich

Krista Eddy

Jennifer Springsteen

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 8+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Satoko Motouji & Sarah Greene All Levels | Age 18+

We will look at the character arcs of our main characters. Does your character change for the better? Does he remain true to himself and his values? Does she fall victim to her own false illusions? Through selected readings and using prompts and exercises, we will learn who our characters are and how they shape the world (and influence the plot) around them.

Explore the many possibilities of image transfer on a variety of substrates including canvas, paper and wood. Combine image transfer and mixed media to add layers of content to your artwork and collage.

Participants will leave with a collection of samples and the ability to continue working with these processes at home.

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Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $108 Cheryl Rogers-Tadevich is a Certified GOLDEN Paint Artist Educator. Cheryl’s work showcases the unique world of mixed media, block print and batik. She teaches the applications of acrylic paints with image transfers on a variety of substrates.

The stunning effects give participants a unique experience. crtadevichstudios.com

Sitka Circle Workshop — Learn basic stop gap animation techniques with simple clay creatures and flowers that you create yourself. Working both as a team and also individually we will explore the fascinating possibilities of art in motion. This one is sure to make you smile!

July 1 Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $35 Krista Eddy is a local artist and the director of the Chessman Gallery in the Lincoln City Cultural Center with a BFA in Illustration from Long Beach State University. Krista has decades of experience teaching art classes for kids, and her teaching style is enthusiastic, encouraging and all about fun.

We will explore the joy of plein air painting of the landscape around Sitka and develop expressive studio paintings, inspired by the beautiful area by using the wet-in-wet technique. Dr. Sarah Greene will lead a tour of the estuary to help participants more fully appreciate the local environment.

July 1-3 Wednesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $405 Satoko taught at Lane Community College for 30 years and participated in several oversea programs offered by the University of Oregon for 18 years. Her teaching focuses on the understanding of watercolor materials, cultivating one’s intuitive knowledge and self-reflection. Sarah Greene is a retired research forest ecologist, a past Sitka board member and a current Sitka volunteer. satokomotouji.com

Intermediate | Age 15+

July 2-3 Thursday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $141 Jennifer Springsteen is the co-founder of PDX Writers where she teaches manuscript development and coaches writers individually. She is the recipient of the 2008 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship for fiction and a 2015 Fishtrap Summer Fellow. pdxwriters.com

Music of the Landscape Ben Cosgrove All Levels | Age 10+ (under 14 with registered adult)

How can we use music to explore and make sense of how we experience a place or a landscape? We’ll answer that question together by exploring different strategies that various songwriters and composers have used to reflect landscape or place in their music, and then applying those techniques in developing new music of our own.

July 5 Ben Cosgrove is a writer and traveling composer/performer whose work focuses on landscape, place and environment. He’s held fellowships and artist residencies with Harvard University, Middlebury College, the National Park Service, the National Forest Service, the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the Sitka Center and other institutions. bencosgrove.com

Metalsmithing Alchemy: Boxes and Lockets

Lynne Wintermute

Debra Carus

All Levels | Age 14+

All Levels | Age 18+

Learn the tools needed for all landscape painting and how to use these tools for realistic as well as abstract works. Study light, value, balance, color, focal point and much more. Several paintings will be completed using these new principles in your paintings.

Design a personalized metal locket or small treasure box to wear or display.

Learn the art and techniques of metal fabrication in three dimensions, including: sawing, surface design, soldering, hinge making and stone setting. Working in silver, copper and brass, construct a locket or a small, lidded box to hold treasures.

July 5 Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $115 Lynne Wintermute is a Neskowin artist and educator with a BFA from Linfield College.

She has pursued graduate studies at Pacific Northwest College of Arts and at universities abroad. Her work can be seen on her website, and she is represented by Dragonfire Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon. lynnewintermute.com

July 6-8 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $367 Debra Carus is a metalsmith and jeweler in Clackamas, Oregon. Her passion is for creating storied art jewelry that reflects her love of nature and her Norwegian roots.

Debra is a full-time studio artist and metals instructor, and she is also a senior instructor for Art Clay World. elentari-handverk.com

Mysteries of the Palette Knife in Realism and Abstraction Benjamin Anderson Beginner | Age 16+

In this workshop, participants will explore how palette knifes are used in the painting world from representational realism to abstraction. Knowledge of basic observational techniques are part of this workshop and will improve palette techniques for a lifetime of painting.

July 6-8 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $298 Benjamin Anderson, BFA Ohio Wesleyan University, MFA Bowling Green State University, is a painter/printmaker from Monterey, California. He has been sponsored for artist residencies and juried into national shows and solo exhibitions on the West Coast. Ben’s open-minded philosophy is learning for life. benjaminscottanderson.com

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Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $115

Landscape: From Realism to Abstract

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Cloisonné Enameling on Silver

Bridging Abstraction and Realism

A Deep Dive into Bird Illustration

Introducing Oil and Cold Wax Medium

Debra Carus

Scott Conary

Nora Sherwood

Lynne Wintermute

All Levels | Age 18+

Intermediate | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 16+

Explore the colorful world of enamel and create unique silver jewelry with transparent glass enamels. Learn to design with cloisonné wires, layer colored glass and fire the pieces in a kiln. Approaches to design, basic color theory, shading, gold and silver foils will be covered, as well as polishing and finishing techniques.

What is abstraction? Realism? Using a variety of source materials, we will explore this divide with the goal to understand better how one contributes to the other. We will consider perception, intuition, technique and design with the aim of making stronger and more personal representational work. We will draw, paint and experiment.

Among the most beautiful creatures in the world, birds offer an infinite variety of sizes, shapes and colors.

This workshop will focus on understanding the details of bird anatomy and use that knowledge to render accurate and loving bird portraits. Taxidermy specimens, photographs and video will be shared with opportunities for live observation.

Explore the magical world of painting in oil and cold wax medium. Layering, adding texture, drawing and blending to create beautiful luminous paintings. You will gain many new skills that can be used with any medium and have a great time in the process!

July 9-11 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Thursday–Saturday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $367

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Debra Carus is a metalsmith and jeweler in Clackamas, Oregon. Her passion is for creating storied art jewelry that reflects her love of nature and her Norwegian roots.

Debra is a full-time studio artist and metals instructor, and she is also a senior instructor for Art Clay World. elentari-handverk.com

July 9-12 Thursday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $508 With everyday objects and places as subjects, Scott Conary (RISD, BFA) paints stories of the arbitrary nature of beauty, melancholy, triumph and the camouflage of time. Scott teaches across the country with the goal of helping students find the tools to express their ideas. scottconary.com

July 12-14 Sunday–Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $253 Nora Sherwood has a professional certificate in Natural Science Illustration from the University of Washington. In addition to commissions for scientific journals, Nora shows work in galleries around the Northwest and teaches workshops. She is inspired by the need to raise awareness of planetary challenges. norasherwood.com

July 13-15 Monday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $353 Lynne Wintermute is a Neskowin artist and educator with a BFA from Linfield College.

She has pursued graduate studies at Pacific Northwest College of Arts and at universities abroad. Her work can be seen on her website, and she is represented by Dragonfire Gallery in Cannon Beach Oregon. lynnewintermute.com

Hand Building: Abstracted Nature

Sitka Art Circle: The Moving Pen

Mingle & Muse Talk

The Power of Place

Ruri

Nancy Linnon

Christina Burke

Nancy Linnon

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 8+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Curator of Native American & NonWestern Art, Philbrook Museum of Art

Based on the observation of nature around you, start by making small clay sketches that will be transformed into larger clay forms using pinching, coiling and slab construction. All three techniques will be demonstrated on the first day. All the work will be bisque fired with the option of wood fire for an extra fee.

July 15-18 Wednesday–Saturday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $470

July 17 Friday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35 Nancy Linnon has been teaching writing for 25 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review, Yoga International and Mothering, as well as in literary anthologies. Her passion is exploring ways of accessing the creative self through the powerful act of writing. themovingpen.net

Friday, July 17, 4:30pm Cost: Free and open to the public

Christina Burke will share examples of historical ecological occurrences as recorded by Lakota people and explore how contemporary Indigenous artists are expressing concern for our environment today.

Christina Burke is a museum curator who focuses on Native American artistic traditions and their contemporary expressions. She has worked at institutions from the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, to Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on collaborative projects and exhibitions. Burke researches Lakota tribal histories, known as “winter counts,” that recorded significant events for Native communities, including unusual environmental phenomena like prairie fires, extreme winters and meteor showers. sitkacenter.org/events

Place holds both memory and meaning. In this workshop, we will use place as an entry point for writing the stories of our lives. A morning exploring Cascade Head with a naturalist will help us see the landscape more vividly and explore how attention to place can provoke and enrich our deepest stories.

July 18-19 Saturday-Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $235 Nancy Linnon has been teaching writing for 25 years. Her work has appeared in publications such as Creative Nonfiction, Los Angeles Review, Yoga International and Mothering, as well as in literary anthologies. Her passion is exploring ways of accessing the creative self through the powerful act of writing. themovingpen.net

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Ruri apprenticed under Tatsuzo Shimaoka, a Living National Treasure of Mashiko, Japan, before establishing her studio in Sheridan, Oregon. She has been working with clay for over 38 years. Ruri’s work has been shown in the United States and Japan, and is part of the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, other museums and in private collections.

RuriClayWork.us

Sometimes the hardest part of writing is getting started. In this workshop, we’ll get the pen moving and develop strategies to keep it going. We will approach writing as a practice rather than a performance.

Exercises and prompts will stir memory and imagination and help us discover the writer within.

All Levels | Age 18+

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How is a Conifer Cone like an Artichoke?

Color Theory for Watercolor

Native Berries and Pollinators

Janet Parker

Patricia Schmidt

Dorota Haber-Lehigh

Beginner | Age 16+

Beginner | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 16+

Learn how to draw a Douglas fir cone.

Working from life, step-by-step, we will first capture our subject’s outline, next find and record its interior patterns, then add value and possibly color to create a sense of threedimensionality. Along the way we’ll learn about the Fibonacci sequence in nature.

With just enough color theory to explain the “whys” of color mixing, you will paint color wheels, color charts and mix watercolor wet-in-wet onto leaf shapes for glowing color.

Test your watercolors for their transparent, opaque or staining qualities for future reference. Tips on brush care, controlling water, and more will be presented.

July 20-21

Create beautiful portraits of native berries of the coastal habitat and native pollinators. Explore realistic style using colored pencils on various backgrounds. Starting with loose sketching from observation, we will then explore colored pencil techniques (embossing, layering and burnishing), and experiment with textures. Students will mount one artwork on woodblock to be gallery ready.

Monday–Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $250

July 21-23

July 19-20 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Sunday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $273

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Janet teaches Botanical Drawing classes at Oregon Society of Artists. Her work was recently featured on the cover of the ASBA quarterly journal, The Botanical Artist. She holds a certificate in Botanical Art from the NY Botanical Garden and is a founder of Oregon Botanical Artists. janetparker-art-design.com

Patricia Schmidt is known for her superrealistic paintings alive with color. She’s been painting with watercolor for over 30 years and teaches art classes at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington and other Oregon locations. Her paintings are published in the Splash Retrospective, Splash 14 and Splash 12. patriciaschmidtart.com

Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $255 Dorota Haber-Lehigh has authored two ethnobotanical coloring books: ABC of Coastal Native Plants and Native Berries of the PNW. Dorota earned a Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the Society of Botanical Artists in London in 2019. She holds degrees in Art and Indigenous Studies. dorotahaberlehigh.com

The Naturalist Dyer: Using Native Plants as Dyes and Pigments Iris Sullivan Daire All Levels | Age 16+

This workshop is an invitation to explore the plants native to Cascade Head and to document the dye-and ink-making potential hidden within them. Participants will create their own naturalist journals with botanical prints, dye sample swatches, and prepare homemade inks. The skills learned can be applied to any landscape.

July 22-23 Wednesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $175 Iris Sullivan Daire is an artist and naturalist dyer. She holds a BFA in Fiber Arts from University of Oregon and has been teaching for over 20 years. Iris uses metaphor and story to bring materials to life, adding new layers to the narrative of her work. dreambirdstudio.com

Sitka Art Circle: Ethnobotanical Sketchbook, Salal and Western Hemlock Dorota Haber-Lehigh All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Create a sketchbook page while learning about the ethnobotanical history of the Western Hemlock tree and Salal. This workshop will include drawing from observation and short presentations on both species.

Students will complete entries in their sketchbook incorporating botanical drawing, notes, reflections and other creative elements.

Friday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35 Dorota Haber-Lehigh has authored two ethnobotanical coloring books: ABC of Coastal Native Plants and Native Berries of the PNW. Dorota earned a Diploma in Botanical Illustration from the Society of Botanical Artists in London in 2019.

She holds degrees in Art and Indigenous Studies. dorotahaberlehigh.com

The Sketchbook Habit

Pyrography and Painting

Yvonne Manipon

Susan Moss

Melissa Romeo

Intermediate | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

During this three-day workshop, Hawaii artist Yvonne Manipon, will focus on the basics of value and composition design, while exploring rich color and lively brushwork. Learn the alla prima oil painting technique and pack your paintings with confident and harmonious color.

Yvonne will demonstrate her process and work with each participant individually.

An active sketchbook practice facilitates artistic growth. You will use a sketchbook for non-evaluative exploration, responding to markmaking and writing prompts with varied materials — gouache, brush pens and water-soluble pencils.

Responses help identify the unique patterns of your art making and promote a productive, ongoing sketchbook habit.

Participants will create a beautiful burned image on a piece of wood of their choosing. We will use scrap wood to experiment with different pyrography tips and play with heat, pressure and composition.

Participants will then sketch designs onto their wood (carbon transfer paper will be provided!) before burning.

July 24-26

July 25-27

Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $275

Saturday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $414

After attending the University of Oregon and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Yvonne has worked at various arts organizations and schools as a teaching artist for over 20 years. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout Oregon, California and Hawaii. yvonnemanipon.weebly.com

Susan Moss has been marking on surfaces since a child: paper table cloths, fabric, kraft and archival papers. Her work has been exhibited in over eighty venues. At Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO), she teaches drawing, textile art and seminars focused on developing visual ideas.

Susanmmoss.com

July 27 Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $120 Melissa Romeo has led workshops at both the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy. Her passion is pyrography. Applying heat and pressure, Melissa brings new life to abandoned or forgotten pieces of unfinished wood. melissaromeo.squarespace.com

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July 24

Painting with Passion

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Creativity Unleashed Lauren Ohlgren All Levels | Age 18+

Expand your artistic repertoire with exercises designed to challenge, invigorate and breathe fresh air into your creativity. Through guided experimentation using watercolors, collage and drawing, participants will generate samples to manipulate and recombine into new imagery.

Exploring texture, design, line and text, discover the unexpected! Choose portfolio or an accordion journal for the final project.

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July 28-30

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Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $310 Lauren Ohlgren has taught book arts and travel journaling through Linn Benton Community College for 13 years. She has a strong penchant for creating art communities and getting others to play.

Lauren authored the 2005 award winning book, The She Project, how ‘she’ inspired a community. laurenohlgren.com

Abstract Investigations: Color and Composition Zoë Cohen Intermediate | Age 16+

This four-day workshop is designed specifically for abstract painters to help clarify visual language and bring intentionality to your painting practice. We will make a deep inquiry into what inspires our art. Guided exercises emphasize alternative techniques for paint application, layering line & form in composition, color mixing, value and design.

July 28-31 Tuesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $343 Zoë Cohen is a full-time artist working out of her home studio in the wooded hills of Oregon. Modern non-representational painting, inspired by the mid-century masters, is the focus of her studio practice.

Connecting with others through teaching has become a much-loved part of her art. zcohenstudio.com

Mosaic Tidepool Joanne Daschel All Levels | Age 16+

Handwriting Success with Italic Inga Dubay

Create your own mosaic “tidepool” inspired by the sea creatures that inhabit local rocky shores. Transfer template imagery onto a solid substrate (10”x 10”) to create your own composition, safely cut stained glass and learn an indirect technique.

Grout your finished piece at home after an in-studio demo.

Beginner | Age 10+ (under 14 with registered adult)

July 31

August 1

Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $145

Saturday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $105

Joanne Daschel creates mosaics in her studio at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, combining traditional mosaic tools and materials with contemporary design and techniques. She teaches from her studio and through Oregon Coast Community College, and she shows her work at Volta Gallery in Lincoln City. joannedaschel.com

Inga Dubay taught at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She is co-author of a new book, Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy: for School & Home as well as Write Now: The Getty-Dubay Program For Handwriting Success, Italic Letters, and the GettyDubay Italic Handwriting Series. Along with Barbara Getty, Inga has presented over 170 handwriting seminars for medical professionals and numerous workshops for the public. handwritingsuccess.com

You, too, can have legible, elegant handwriting! It’s easy to achieve using Write Now: The Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success. See the exciting things we can do with the alphabet using a pencil, pen and edged pen.

Lay it Bare: The Naked Heart of Personal Narrative Margaret Malone All Levels | Age 16+

Good memoir is often a combination of fearless honesty, a naked heart and self-imagination. We’ll spend the first two days together learning to cultivate each of these as we read, write, share work and mine for material from our lives, then revise the workshop pieces on day three.

August 1-3 Saturday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $218

Detail, Pattern & Metaphor: A Closer Look at the Forests of Cascade Head

50th Anniversary Keynote with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Judy Vogland

Kelly James

Saturday, August 8

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 18+

Join this extraordinary workshop exploring the immense coastal landscape through mixed media collage. Students achieve 3+ large canvases reflecting the rugged Oregon oceanside with surfaces of sand, paper, paint and found materials. Develop unconventional compositions, new perspectives and invented surfaces. New to mixed media? Join returning sand painters to learn new tricky techniques.

Photograph the lush forests of Cascade Head creating images that convey meaning beyond their beauty.

With afternoon editing, printing and critiques, this is an excellent opportunity to increase your understanding of digital photography.

Participants will do light hiking around Sitka and leave with archival prints of their favorite images.

2pm doors open 2:45pm program starts 4pm book signing Cost: Free and open to the public

August 3-6 Monday–Thursday: 9am–4pm Total Cost: $428 Oregon painter Judy Vogland has taught for 43 years. In addition to teaching at Portland State University, Hillsboro High School and Sitka, Vogland creates public space and corporate artwork and works in collage/assemblage for gallery exhibitions. judyvogland.com

August 4-6 Tuesday–Thursday: 9am–4pm Total Cost: $353 Kelly James is a photographic artist based in Salem, Oregon who has operated a commercial photography studio for more than 25 years. With extensive experience in both analog and digital photography he loves working with others who are passionate about making photographs. Kelly is a photography instructor at Chemeketa Community College kellyjamesphoto.com

Salishan Resort, Lincoln City

Sitka will host award-winning author and former Sitka writer in residence Robin Wall Kimmerer for a special keynote in honor of Sitka’s 50th anniversary. This free, public event is cosponsored by and will take place at the Salishan Resort.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain and numerous scientific journals. Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

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Margaret is the author of the story collection, People Like You. Her nonfiction has been published in the Missouri Review, Oregon Humanities, latimes.com and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Literary Arts and Independent Publishing Resource Center, and co-hosts the artist and literary gathering, SHARE. margaretmalone.com

Sand, Sun and Saltwater: Exploring Mixed Media Landscape

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Speak Beauty to Power

Introduction to Oil Pastels

Kim Stafford

Sondra Holtzman

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

Earth needs our testimony, but not our stridency. We will seek ways to compose persuasive testimony to protect the places we love and the health of the planet with language in keeping with the beauty of the natural world. As a river testifies, so shall we.

August 9-10

Vibrant, luscious and portable, oil pastels are ideal for creating stunning finished works. Oil pastels produce an astonishing array of color, value and texture that can be layered, scraped, blended and scumbled to achieve a variety of intriguing effects.

Participants will happily emerge with new skills and at least three finished paintings.

Sunday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $275

August 9-10

Kim Stafford is the founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute and author of a dozen books of poetry and prose. In addition to Sitka, he has taught writing workshops at the annual Fishtrap Writers Gathering and at colleges and literary centers in Oregon and abroad. In May 2018 Gov. Kate Brown named him Oregon’s 9th Poet Laureate. kim-stafford.com

Sunday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $296 A record keeper of an evolving life, professional artist Sondra Holtzman’s artwork reflects musings of travel, afar and close to home. She leads painting explorations locally and all over the world, including Europe, South America and the South Pacific. Sondra works in oil, pastel and watercolor. sondraholtzman.com

Sitka Art Circle: Beeswax Food Wraps

Beginning Landscapes and Seascapes in Oil

Sondra Holtzman

Katia Kyte

All Levels | Age 16+

Beginner | Age 18+

A useful and eco-friendly alternative to plastic wrap, beeswax wraps are fun to make and with care, can last up to a year. Participants will learn how to make their own food wraps from natural materials and will leave the workshop with a heightened sense of environmental awareness, complete instructions and two sizes of food wrap.

Participants will be encouraged to paint a number of different landscapes/seascapes creatively using photographs from various locations around Oregon. Learn to use fundamentals of design by cropping images and simplifying objects. Participants will learn the essentials of oil painting and become comfortable with solvents, oil mediums, brushes and oil paints.

August 11 Tuesday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35 A record keeper of an evolving life, professional artist Sondra Holtzman’s artwork reflects musings of travel, afar and close to home. She leads painting explorations locally and all over the world, including Europe, South America and the South Pacific. Sondra works in oil, pastel and watercolor. sondraholtzman.com

August 11-13 Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $273 Katia is a Russian-born, award-winning oil painter. She has lived on the Oregon Coast since 2008. She paints mostly from life, plein air or in her studio in Lincoln City. katiakyte.com

Radiant Window Mosaic

Writing and Walking

Mark Brody

Perrin Kerns

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 16+

The beauty of glass in a window mosaic is mesmerizing. Warms and cools are enhanced by the everchanging light of the day. “Finding a place for every piece” is the mosaic mantra. Learn how to cut and attach glass to a clear surface ready for hanging.

August 12-14

We will experience how a short walk prompts richly-detailed writing, and how writing kindles attention for walking. Reading Rebecca Solnit, Virginia Woolf, Baudelaire and other writers inspired by walking will help us weave our written fragments into lyric essays that chronicle our Sitka strolls, and saunters from our storied pasts.

Wednesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $320

August 14-15 Friday–Saturday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $195 Perrin Kerns served as the Director of Writing at Marylhurst University. She currently teaches at PSU and Prescott College. Her personal documentaries, which grew out of her own lyric essays, have appeared in festivals around the U.S.

The Art of Deeply Reported Fiction

Stan Peterson

Rebecca Clarren

Beginner | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

This beginning workshop will jump start your skills and imagination for carving basswood. Safety, basic knife skills, chisel skills, and sharpening will be covered with a generous sense of humor. Your whittled animal can be changed at anytime using quick-set glues. This process allows mistakes to become opportunities for discovery.

Learn how to pair the art of invention with the tools of journalism. In this one-day workshop, award-winning reporter and novelist Rebecca Clarren will share how to ignore fear, research both facts and feelings, and polish prose like a seasoned editor.

August 15-16 Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $295 Stan Peterson is a professional wood sculptor living in Portland. His art is represented by Waterstone Gallery in the Pearl District. His sculptures have also been exhibited in the San Francisco Bay area as well as New York. His studio/ gallery is in northeast Portland. stan-peterson.com

August 16 Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $128 Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the American West for more than 20 years. Her novel KICKDOWN was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize. Her journalism, which appears in The Nation and High Country News, has won numerous awards.

She lives in Portland with her family. rebecca-clarren.com

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Mark Brody is a graduate of Lewis and Clark College with degrees in art and education. His passion for tiles began when he built adobe homes in New Mexico. Mark has taught mosaic for 18 years and has published one book, Mosaic Garden Projects. markbrodyart.com

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Image and Word: The Art of the Artist Book

Developing your Wood Muse

Make Your Mark!

Trace Monotype

Abstracted Landscapes in Oil and Cold Wax

Jennifer Anderson

Monica Setziol-Phillips

Jennifer Anderson

Dayna Collins

Beginner | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

All Levels | Age 16+

Employing some basic printmaking techniques, we will create artist books that have content expressed in both imagery and words. Participants will learn various basic printmaking techniques and structures that will explore sequences in visual and verbal narratives to create this unique art form.

Participants will learn or increase carving skills, gouge and chisel techniques. They will become familiar with at least two different woods.

Emphasis is on learning about woods and experimenting with tools to achieve desired results. Participants will give thought to design elements and how they relate to the wood and the tool.

Trace monotype is an exciting method of mark-making that combines the qualities of printmaking with the expressive, direct joy of drawing and rubbing. Trace monotype allows beginners to jump immediately into printmaking and the technique gives skilled printmakers another tool for producing rich, layered work.

Using the imagery of the surrounding landscape, we will playfully explore abstraction with oil paint, cold wax and pigment sticks, which all create a rich luminosity. Working intuitively and abstractly on multiple pieces, we will explore texture, layers, composition, design and the use of color. You will complete several works.

August 17-20 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Monday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $431

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Jennifer L. Anderson is a book artist and printmaker working in many of the printmaking disciplines, primarily intaglio, relief printing and stone lithography.

Anderson has a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Connecticut and completed graduate course work in printmaking and education from Central Connecticut State University and the University of Connecticut. ravenpressart.com

August 17-20 Monday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $460 Monica Setziol-Phillips was fortunate to grow up around the sculptures of her father, Roy Setziol. The medium drew her in, and she has now been carving for over 35 years.

The character and feel of the wood continue to excite her. Her own work is mostly abstract, as she finds it most meaningful. atticgallery.com

August 21 Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $116 Jennifer L. Anderson is a book artist and printmaker working in many of the printmaking disciplines, primarily intaglio, relief printing and stone lithography.

Anderson has a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Connecticut and completed graduate course work in printmaking and education from Central Connecticut State University and the University of Connecticut. ravenpressart.com

August 21-24 Friday–Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $485 Dayna Collins is an energetic and enthusiastic abstract painter. She loves experimenting with texture, layers and color, likening her paintings to going on an archeological dig. Her work can be found in two Northwest galleries, and she is featured in several books. alleyartstudio.com

The Poetics of Food

Let’s Take a Hike!

Jessica Gigot

Judy Zugish

All Levels | Age 21+

All Levels | Age 16+

A new food language, a poetics of food, is needed for understanding the values and daily practices required for developing an enduring local food movement. In this workshop, we will generate new poems and read several food poems from a diverse array of poets.

August 22-23

Students will weave a personal walking stick using prepared cedar barks, willow, sweet grass and brush.

Suitable for all levels, this project introduces many techniques of basket making and guides your choices to an original! They become favorite companions and great conversation starters. Let’s explore the woods and vistas of Sitka!

Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $205

August 24-25 Monday–Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $233 Judy Zugish is a basketry artist and teacher whose work is experimental and sculpted from nature. She has explored plants in her fiber arts garden for over 30 years with keen curiosity. Her teaching style is innovative and dedicated to the pleasures of sustainable nature. twigtwisters.com

Mary-Ellen Campbell All Levels | Age 18+

Watercolor Journaling: The Beauty Around Us Jude Siegel All Levels | Age 18+

Make that perfect journal with pockets and sections for papers, drawings and mementos. Learn binding styles for adding pages of different papers with inserts, pockets and windows sealed with acetate to hold flat items. Create a box for collectibles and a scroll that can hold objects, pictures or text.

Construct a simple journal, then fill it with drawing, watercolor, writing and more. Practice relaxation, awareness and enjoyment. Learn new ways to see, and express on the page using helpful exercises, approaches and tips. Work in the studio and outside as we explore and experiment.

Beginners and beyond welcome. No experience needed!

August 25-26

August 26-28

Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $188

Wednesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $282

Mary-Ellen Campbell (MA Michigan State, MFA Pratt Institute, NY) has been a Professor of Art for 34 years and taught book arts nationally and internationally (San Francisco Center for the Book, Mendocino Art Center, Sitka). Her work has been showcased in 17 solo and 80+ group shows and through 12 residencies. absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/soupy/

Combining a passion for nature and art for many years, Jude Siegel has given classes both locally and in Montana, Wyoming and Italy. She teaches at her Portland studio, Multnomah Art Center and Audubon Society of Portland. Her book, A Pacific Northwest Nature Sketchbook (Timber Press, 2006), teaches about nature journaling. judesiegel.com

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Jessica Gigot is a poet, farmer, teacher and musician. She owns a small farm called Harmony Fields. Her first book of poems, Flood Patterns, was published in 2015 and her writing appears in several publications such as Orion, The Hopper and Poetry Northwest. jessicagigot.com

Preserving Memories: Books and Boxes for Collectors

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The Trees of Cascade Head Pete Owston All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

Learn the basics of tree identification and growth. The Sitka Center lies within one of the world’s most productive forest regions. Studiobased instruction on tree classification and identification will be followed by visits to nearby field sites to observe and discuss these amazing trees and forests.

August 27 WORKSHOPS & EVENTS

Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $25

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Peyton Owston has a doctorate in forest science from the University of Michigan and has lived and worked in Oregon for many years. He retired from a career in the U.S. Forest Service that took him to forests in many other parts of the country and the world.

Kindling the Story: Experiments with Researched Nonfiction Erica Berry

Creatively Driven by Color David Kinker All Levels | Age 16+

How can research help us generate new ideas or complement the telling of our own personal stories? In this workshop we will explore readings and prompts that use research in lyrical and innovative ways.

Participants will leave the workshop with a toolbox of techniques and a draft of an essay.

This two-day workshop will guide you through the heart of visual artistic interpretation, approaching the four color harmonies individually. Develop strategies that promote specific harmony considerations that can be easily expanded upon in creative ways. Demystify mixing color, tune color relationships, and discover your genius as you develop your masterpiece.

August 28-30

August 29-30

Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $278

Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $195

Erica has taught writing at the University of Minnesota and the New York Times Student Journeys. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named Notable in Best American Essays, appearing in publications such as the New York Times Magazine and the Atlantic. ericaberry.com

With 17 years of teaching experience at weekly art classes, art centers and workshops at Central Oregon Community College, David exhibits an intuitive grasp of color, and the ability to clearly facilitate the discovery of color and the beauty of painting to his students. kinker.com

All Levels | Age 16+

The Art of Flash: ShortForm Writing Approaches Erica Berry All Levels | Age 14+

In this workshop we will look to prose poems, flash fiction and micro-essays to explore the potential of short-form prose. Whether you are a beginning writer or a veteran looking to experiment with form, this workshop will offer a buffet of readings and writing prompts to stimulate your creative practice.

August 31 Monday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $108 Erica has taught writing at the University of Minnesota and the New York Times Student Journeys. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and named Notable in Best American Essays, appearing in publications such as the New York Times Magazine and the Atlantic. ericaberry.com

The Dao of Seeing

The Expressive Art of Collage

Watercolor Monotype with Chine Collé

The Poetry of Thrift: Creative Mending

Margot Voorhies Thompson

Marcy Baker

Judilee Fitzhugh

This workshop on the repeated practice of looking and painting will take place between the studio and the open air. We will learn specific meditations, color mixing, painting wet in wet, composition strategies, using ebb and flow, playful experiment and grounding in meditation. Only expectations limit the possibilities.

All Levels | Age 18+

All Levels | Age 16+

Spend three days honing your artistic vision and composition for a series of related collage pieces. Learn to edit and simplify your compositions.

Experience a range of adhesive techniques during instructor demos.

This workshop emphasizes tuning your skills to best support your vision before adhesives are ever applied.

August 31-Sept 3

Sept 1-3

Monday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $460

Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $378

Explore the Sitka grounds for inspiration, taking in the beauty and serenity of Grass Mountain. Create chine collé elements from your nature drawings, register and print them together with plexi plates prepared with watercolor paint. The intriguing combination of shape, line and color produces painterly translucent monotypes. No experience in watercolor or printmaking is necessary.

All Levels | Age 10+ (under 14 with registered adult)

A Northwest native, Jef Gunn studied painting in California in the 1970s and held residencies in Barcelona and Paris in the 1980s. His work relates to the large forms of nature drawn from experience in wilderness. He’s been teaching for 23 years. jefgunn.com

Margot Voorhies Thompson is a painter, printmaker and calligrapher, and designer of Sitka’s logo. Represented by Russo Lee Gallery in Portland, her public art commissions include installations at Portland State University, Woodstock Public Library, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, Oregon State Library, Tualatin Kaiser Permanente and OHSU. margotvoorhiesthompson.com

Jef Gunn Intermediate | Age 16+

Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $411 Marcy Baker has taught monotype printmaking at Sitka Center, Multnomah Arts Center and Whiteaker Printmakers.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally.

Marcy’s classes provide a supportive environment for students of all skill levels. marcybaker.com

Sept 4-6 Friday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $223 A textile artisan specializing in natural dyes and couture sewing, Judilee has taught college and community classes in Fiber Arts since 2002. Her finely crafted work combines natural objects with vintage fabric remnants, hand weaving and surface design to portray a single moment in history. judileefitzhugh.com

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Sept 4-6

Learn the history of mending traditions with practical and aesthetic techniques for common repairs on your heavily loved items. Practice mending woven and knit fabrics, patches, needleweaving and hand darning, as well as embellishments including sashiko and cross-stitch.

Return home with a variety of samples and mended personal items.

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The Magic of Spontaneous Silk Painting

Contemporary Egg Tempera Painting

Linda Swindle

Erik Sandgren

All Levels | Age 12+ (under 14 with registered adult)

All Levels | Age 16+

Silk is a durable, luxurious and versatile fabric. Its appeal is the manner in which the dyes travel and spread across the surface, blending and mixing colors and creating textures. We will learn the Serti method of painting, which includes creating enclosed shapes with the use of a resist (gutta) as well as other methods.

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Sept 8-9

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Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $403 Linda Swindle is a watercolor artist and silk painter who enjoys the spontaneity and freedom of expression each medium lends.

For Linda, inspiration for subject matter comes from her walk through everyday life.

Linda believes that creativity is a gift that needs to be explored and celebrated.

LSWatercolor.com

Painting with Paper

Block Printing Patterns

Sandy Oppenheimer

Jenna Lechner

All Levels | Age 18+

Beginner | Age 18+

Make your own durable and luscious paint for fresh and spontaneous works from nature or sketchbook.

Pure egg tempera leads to an understanding of all paint formations and color layering. Flexible techniques become available when knowing how to temper pigments with the egg binder.

In this lively and supportive workshop, create a painting through the playful and forgiving medium of paper collage. Learn about the basic principles of art: composition, shape, line, rhythm, color and value. Then begin cutting and pasting until you have a finished piece. Each day will begin with a warm-up exercise and end with a helpful critique.

Learn the basics of block printing by carving rubber blocks and repeating pattern structures. This knowledge can be applied to creating patterned fabric for garments, card making, wallpaper, gift-wrap and more. At the end of the workshop, you will have a hand-printed set of napkins and many samples, including several carved blocks for printing at home.

Sept 8-10

Sept 10-12

Sept 11

Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $285

Thursday–Saturday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $334

Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $145

A native of Oregon, Erik has lived on both coasts and in Europe. With a BA from Yale College and an MFA in painting and printmaking from Cornell University, he now lives and exhibits in Portland with his artistically gifted wife, Kathryn Cotnoir. eriksandgren.com

Sandy Oppenheimer is a self-taught artist who “paints with paper” in an intuitive and playful manner. She takes her inspiration from the great artists of the past, beautiful handmade papers from around the world and from the fortunate life she lives in northern California. sandyoppenheimercollage.com

Jenna Lechner is an illustrator, writer and teacher based in Portland, Oregon.

Originally from Montana, she holds a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Oregon. Some of her illustration and writing clients include Facebook, Adobe, Pentel Arts, Wide Eyes Paper Co and HTC Mobile. jennalechner.com

Pen to Paper: The Power of the Notebook Laura Moulton All Levels | Age 16+

Writers and artists have long relied on notebooks to chronicle their days, capture ideas in rough form and shape these thoughts into meaning.

In this workshop, we explore the writing practice and its benefits, from catharsis to invention. Participants will come away with prompts and tools to maintain the practice of keeping a notebook.

Sept 12-13 Laura Moulton is a writer, artist and founder of Street Books, a bicycle-powered mobile library for people living outside. Her works include collage, text and people. lauramoulton.org

Liz Walker

Monoline Lettering Techniques Cora Pearl All Levels | Age 16+

Becoming the Wild Linda Hall All Levels | Age 18+

Learn to created beautiful, marbled papers using sumi inks dropped from small paintbrushes into a tray of water and printed on rice paper.

Discover how to develop one or more marbled papers into a finished painting using simple collage and painting methods.

Monoline lettering is a great way to explore the art of hand lettering without the added challenge of working with complicated tools. We will use several styles of monoline lettering and learn different ways of working with letters that can be applied to other calligraphic styles and tools.

In this workshop we will learn a variety of papier-mâché mask-making techniques while connecting with the local landscape. We will create masks, headdresses and/or costumes made from materials such as paper, found and/or recycled and personal items.

Come and get in touch with what is wild in the landscape and what is wild within ourselves through art.

Sept 13-14

Sept 14-15

Sept 15-18

Sunday–Monday: 10am-4pm $260

Monday–Tuesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $242

Tuesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $375

Liz Walker, who creates award-winning marbled paintings in her studio in Portland Oregon, has been teaching marbling (both acrylic and suminagashi) for nearly a decade. She received her BA in Art from Trinity University and is a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society (NWS). lizwalkerart.com

Cora Pearl started studying calligraphy at age 11 and has been doing calligraphy ever since. She has a BA in Art and Art History from Oberlin College. Cora is a full-time calligrapher and teacher of lettering arts.

She teaches calligraphy and hand lettering at Portland Community College. corapearlcalligraphy.com

Linda Hall is an award-winning artist and social interrupter whose work is inspired by the natural world and the human condition.

She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has orchestrated various public site-specific art events. lindahallart.com

All Levels | Age 16+

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Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $302

Suminagashi Paper Marbling: From Pattern to Finished Painting

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Renegade Screen Printing with Natural Dyes

Mingle & Muse Talk

Tasha Griffith

Author and Journalist

All Levels | Age 16+

Learn to screen print your own designs and dye fabrics, all using natural dyes! Forget depending on textile companies or synthetic dyes— find rebellious color in your local environment, your kitchen and from natural sources around the world. We will bust myths, explore science and fuse ancient traditions with new ideas.

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Sept 16-18

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Wednesday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $378 Tasha Miller Griffith teaches at folk schools and fiber arts events nationally, and writes for magazines including Taproot and PLY. In her classes, she works to build deep understanding through hands-on experimentation in a warm and inspiring environment. tashamillergriffith.com

Lee van der Voo

Friday, Sept 18 4:15pm: Parade, 4:30pm: Mingling, 5pm: Book Reading Cost: Free and open to the public

Lee van der Voo is a journalist based in Portland, Oregon. She will read from her upcoming book, As the World Burns, which looks at youth and climate change through the lens of a landmark lawsuit brought by 21 young plaintiffs against the U.S. government.

Van der Voo is the author of The Fish Market, and her work has appeared in Reuters, the New York Times, High Country News, The Atlantic, Slate, The Guardian and other publications.

Before the reading, there will be a 4:15pm procession around the Sitka campus featuring creations from the “Becoming the Wild” workshop. Join in by donning masks, headdresses, costumes or just attitudes celebrating the wild. sitkacenter.org/events/

Sitka Art Circle: Turn a Branch into a Beautiful Scoop Kiko Denzer Beginner | Age 15+

Turn a small branch into a useful, beautiful scoop. Learn basic knife handling, and try out a “crooked knife,” a wondrous cross between a gouge and a pen knife... (Warning: this class may lead you into all kinds of other woodcraft, from spooncarving, to basketry, to housebuilding...)

Sept 19 Saturday: 10am–2pm Total Cost: $35 Kiko has been carving greenwood since 2007, and sculpting since 1969. He’s also worked in construction, community development, publishing, education and the arts. Public works include sculpted ovens, murals, buildings and more. He and his family also build soil, garden and homestead on an acre near Corvallis, Oregon. handprintpress.com

The Natural World in Story Laura Lampton Scott All Levels | Age 18+

Place-based writers are steeped in their landscapes, paying close attention to the natural world of the place they write: Andrea Barrett’s Oceans, Jesmyn Ward’s Mississippi, Willa Cather’s Nebraska. We will consider the natural world as integral to story, focusing on narratives that would be nothing without place.

Sept 19-20 Saturday–Sunday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $248 Laura Lampton Scott’s work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Tin House online and Notre Dame Review, among other publications. She’s contributed to two oral histories for the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness imprint. She currently teaches at Portland State University and Literary Arts. lauralamptonscott.com

Portland workshops

Resident Show & Tell

Friday, Oct 2 5:30pm: Doors open 6:00pm: Presentations begin Cost: Free and open to the public

sitkacenter.org/events/ resident-show-tell

Taking a workshop at the Art Invitational in Portland, Oregon, is a great way to experience the Sitka Center’s inspiring offerings and expert instructors.

Participants will get to see the Invitational during setup or visit the completed exhibit for creative inspiration.

Join us for the Sitka Center’s week in the city! See page 34 to learn more about the Art Invitational.

The Art of Insect Illustration Zebith Thalden All Levels | Age 16+

Celebrate the colors, patterns and textures of insects! In this workshop, the emphasis will be on aesthetic compositions and anatomical structure. Exercises will allow participants to practice drawing techniques as they work toward a finished piece. Demonstrations will cover traditional drawing and watercolor painting techniques as well as foundation design principals.

Nov 3-4 Tuesday–Wednesday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $174 Zebith Thalden is a nature illustrator in Portland, Oregon. She has taught woodworking, drawing, painting, coppersmithing and environmental education. She received an MFA from Goddard College and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. zebiththalden.com

Wild Watercolors Andie Thrams All Levels | Age 14+

Connect to this big wild world through deeply observing, drawing and painting autumnal forms and colors. We will collect objects and ideas on gentle forays in Hoyt Arboretum, returning to the studio for guided studies using watercolor, gouache, ink and a bit of gold leaf. At least one larger painting will be completed.

Nov 5-6 Thursday–Friday: 10am–4pm Total Cost: $232 Andie Thrams makes paintings and artist’s books in wildland forests. Her art and teaching explore mystery, reverence and vanishing habitats. Her work is widely exhibited and held in numerous collections. She was a Sitka Center artist in residence in 2004. andiethrams.com

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This is a great opportunity to visit Sitka, meet the residents and to find out more about our Residency Program, which runs from October to mid-April. At a Resident Show & Tell you will get a glimpse of a resident’s creative process, hear about research taking place in the area or see how a writer selects source material. These presentations are an opportunity for residents to share their work with the community. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.

These Portland-based workshops are offered during the Sitka Art Invitational at the World Forestry Center in November.

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With Deep Appreciation…

We thank those individuals and businesses who have given an early commitment to sponsoring this year’s special events.

Signature Sponsors The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation Jordan Schnitzer

Sitka Art Invitational Miller Hall at the World Forestry Center, Portland, Oregon Experience nature-inspired artwork in a variety of mediums and interpretations. Our 27th annual Art Invitational will showcase 350+ works of art, including sculpture, ceramics, paintings, metalwork, glass, fiber arts, book arts and prints by over 100 Northwest artists. The event kicks off with a party with the artists on Friday evening.

Sales of artwork are shared 50/50, which helps support the Northwest art community as well as Sitka’s programs.

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Party with the Artists

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Friday, November 6, 6-9pm Party Tickets: Sitka Members $50 Non-Members $70

Exhibit and Sale

Saturday & Sunday November 7 & 8, 10am-4pm $7 Admission; Free for Sitka Members and youth under 18.

Visit sitkacenter.org or call 541-994-5485 to learn more about the Sitka Art Invitational.

Sponsors Tom & Ellen Abrego Gordon Akeson Greg and Roseanne Berton Bryan Potter Design Framing Resource Greenegaard Farms Lakewood Center for the Arts McClain’s Printmaking Supplies

McMenamins Mills Ace Hardware Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Siltstone Wines Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. United Pacific Forest Products Judy Vogland and Bob Dayton

Interested in engaging a new Portland audience?

This event attracts thousands of art lovers and buyers over a single weekend. To join this list of sponsors, contact Elizabeth Smith for details: info@sitkacenter.org.

Register online or by phone For online registration visit sitkacenter.org and go to the Workshops page.

• For phone registration call 541-994-5485.

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Members-Only Registration begins February 25.

Non-Member Registration begins March 10.

Wait Lists and Fees If the workshop is full, you may choose to be added to a wait list. If an enrolled student cancels, we will notify the first person on the wait list.

Satisfaction Guarantee

If a workshop is cancelled due to low enrollment, you will be notified at least 14 days prior to the start of the workshop and you will receive a full refund. If you need to cancel your workshop, please call 541-994-5485 or email info@sitkacenter.org.

If you are not satisfied with your workshop experience, you may request a full refund.

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Cancelling 21+ days prior to workshop = 100% refund less a $35 administrative fee.

Sitka does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.

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Cancelling 14-20 days prior to workshop = 50% tuition refund.

Sitka Center reserves the right to change workshops, dates, descriptions and fees noted in this schedule.

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There is no refund for cancellations made fewer than 14 days before the first day of the workshop.

Scholarships Through generous private donations, Sitka is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships to individuals who request financial assistance.

Scholarships are need-based and cover a workshop’s tuition. Scholarships do not cover travel, lodging or meals. To apply, download an application from our website’s Workshops page.

For additional questions, please call 541-994-5485 or email info@sitkacenter.org.

ISABELLE HAYEUR

Workshop Registration

Cancellations

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Check out our new 50th anniversary Sitka apparel

Our new apparel features tree frogs and glow-in-the-dark slugs designed by Sitka co-founder Frank Boyden.

Apron (Long) $25 Snap Back Hat $15 Frog Zip-Up Hoodie (Olive Green) $48 Frog V-Neck (Black) $25 Slug Long Sleeve T-Shirt (Emerald Green) $25

SITKA APPAREL

Slug Crew Neck T-Shirt (Brick Red) $25

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To pre-order you may purchase online at sitkacenter.org or give us a call at 541-994-5485.

You have the option of having us hold items for you for the summer workshop season or shipping items for a small fee of $8. Be sure to choose the shipping option in the drop down menu on the website.

If you decide to have us hold your items, please make a note of that when you make your payment.

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RETREAT TO THE COAST Escape to our special spot on the North Coast and discover a place where new adventures and blissful solitude beckon. Head out with an Adventure Coach for a morning clamming excursion or moonlight paddle. Stay in and watch the waves from the privacy of your oceanfront balcony, join a yoga class, or wander as far as our spa and outdoor hot tub. Reconnect, recharge and rediscover what you may have thought was lost.

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Cascade Head Ranch Pole House www.sitkapolehouse.com Across the street from Sitka Center

Relax after class in a hot tub under the stars! Cool cabin secluded at end of a short path; 1-min walk to Sitka. Ocean, forest, and meadow views. Queen bed (new mattress). Fast WiFi. See sitkapolehouse.com for photos, options, rates and availability.

Cascade Head Ranch Pole House #1 3335 Ridge Road, across from Sitka Center 425-583-9919 or 425-308-8131 David Soelling: soellingmi@msn.com

Ocean view, sleeps 6. 3 BR: one queen, 4 single beds (bring sheets, blankets, towels). Full kitchen.

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AirBnB Listing

Salmon River Estuary Retreat Otis, OR Private queen bedroom and full bath on first floor of 2-story home. Kitchen/deck/living area shared with host. Overlooks Salmon River Estuary. Walk to Sitka. Inquire through AirBnB. Inquire about extra bedroom.

Neskowin Resort

www.neskowinresort.com Announcing the Neskowin Resort Event Room — cozy space comes w/full kitchen, patio, grills, set-up & clean-up. Accommodating 35 people, the space is loved for family reunions, meetings & special occasions. For reservations/details: Amy Gore, Manager at 503-392-4500.

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Tranquility and peace on lake. Ten minutes from Sitka, discount for students staying 3 or more days. Smokefree rooms with private baths, fireplace, hot tub, sleeps 2 or 4, hearty breakfast. $95–$150/night.

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Inn at Wecoma

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Fresh Local Produce vegetables, fruit, berries, herbs

Bright, cheerful, relaxed atmosphere. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Vegetarian specialties, fresh seafood, bakery breads and pastries, homemade soups, wine, beer and espresso.

Restaurant available for rent. Opens at 8am.

Drive-thru espresso open 6:30am. Catering available.

Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Locally Caught Fish

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1026 SE Jetty Avenue, Lincoln City, OR 97367 541-994-5665 | www.TrilliumNaturalFoods.net Trillium has an excellent selection of organically grown foods including fresh produce, chicken, cheese, beans, grains, nuts, dried fruit and spices.

Also top quality supplements at good prices. Open Mon-Sat 9:30am-7pm and Sunday 11am-6pm.

Locally Pastured Meat poultry, lamb, pork Artisan Bread, Pastries & Pies Eggs * Homemade Prepared Foods Handmade Crafts * Flowers * Preserves Saturday 9am-1pm May 16 through September 26

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Neskowin Farmers Market (located at Neskowin Beach Wayside) image Š Judith and Ted Schlicting, rowboatgallery.com

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I don’t tell people what things mean, but rather emphasize light and translucency to stir a viewer’s curiosity and encourage the audience to find a personal narrative of their own.

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Centaur - Kilnform glass torso with steel horse

body and cast glass wheels.

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Clay—the ultimate “centering” experience. Everything for the clay artist in you! Kilns, wheels, equipment, clay, glazes, even classes. Friendly, knowledgeable staff will guide you to successful clay creations.

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McClain’s Printmaking Supplies 15685 SW 116th Ave, PMB 202 King City, OR 97224-2695 503-641-3555 or 800-832-4264 www.imcclains.com • mail@imcclains.com

A mail-order business dedicated to the art and artists of relief printmaking. Supplies are gathered from around the world for woodblock, linocut and engraving. Japanese-made supplies are our specialty.

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LEARN MUSHROOM CAMP NOVEMBER 6-8, 2020

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THANK YOU

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The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation and Jordan Schnitzer

cleaning. Many hands make light work. Free lunch is provided.

Wednesday, April 22 & Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 9am – 3pm (any amount of volunteer time is appreciated)

Resident Show & Tell

Events Mingle & Muse Speaker Series

This summer, the Sitka Center will offer a series of free talks featuring speakers exploring the contemporary edges and intersections of art and ecology from different perspectives within today’s context of environmental justice and climate concern.

Mingle & Muse events are a chance for visitors to explore the Sitka Center campus, and engage with creative people over light snacks. These events are free, open to the public and a great opportunity to visit the Sitka Center for the first time. Mingling begins at 4:30 pm and presentations start at 5pm.

Friday, June 19, 4:30 pm, Photographic Artist Ebenezer Galluzo. See p. 13 for more details.

Friday, July 17, 4:30 pm, Museum Curator Christina Burke. See p. 19 for more details.

Friday, September 18, 4:15 pm, Environmental Journalist Lee van der Voo. See p. 32 for more details.

Rain or shine, come volunteer and help make the Sitka Center beautiful. We have seasonal chores to tackle together from outdoor weeding and groundskeeping to indoor studio and library

Saturday, April 25, 2020—doors open at 12:30pm, presentations at 1pm. See p.7 for more details.

Friday, Oct 2, 2020—doors open at 5:30pm, presentations at 6:00pm. See p. 33 for more details Saturday, January 2, 2021—doors open at 12:30pm, presentations at 1pm Wednesday, January 20, 2021—doors open at 5:30pm, presentations at 6:00pm

Sitka Art Invitational

November 7-8 10am-4pm Experience nature-inspired artwork in a variety of mediums and interpretations. Our 27th annual Art Invitational will showcase 350+ works of art, including sculpture, ceramics, paintings, metalwork, glass, fiber arts, book arts and prints by over 100 Northwest artists. See p. 34 for more details.

Art Exhibit: From the Banks of the Nechesne

Opening reception: Friday, June 12, 5–7pm (off campus at the Chessman Gallery in Lincoln City) In honor of the Sitka Center’s 50th anniversary, father and son artists Frank and Ian Boyden present an exhibition of place-based works related to the environment of the Salmon River. See p.11 for more details.

50th Anniversary Keynote Speaker: Robin Wall Kimmerer Saturday, August 8, 2020, 2 pm (off campus at Salishan Resort in Lincoln City)

EVENTS

Sitka Spruce-Up Volunteer Day

Learn first-hand from Sitka’s artists and ecologists in residence about their creative processes and scientific research. These presentations are opportunities for residents to share their work with the community. Light snacks and beverages are provided. Show & Tell events are free and open to the public.

Sitka will host award-winning author and past Sitka writer in residence Robin Wall Kimmerer for a special keynote in honor of Sitka’s 50th anniversary. This free, public event is co-sponsored by and will take place at the Salishan Resort in Lincoln City. See p. 23 for more details.

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Annual Art Invitational

The Sitka Center is located in Otis, Oregon (near Lincoln City) on Cascade Head, one of the most beautiful places on the Oregon coast, surrounded by spruce forest, open meadow — and boundless inspiration. Our office is located within a 0.66-acre facility that also includes residences, studio spaces and a library. Roosevelt elk, black tail deer and Northern Flicker sightings are daily occurrences.

In June 2017, the Sitka Center acquired an 80-acre property known as Grass Mountain, located within the UNESCO Cascade Head Biosphere Reserve and surrounded by 9,670 acres of protected Cascade Head Scenic Research Area forest.

Each November, the Sitka Art Invitational takes place in Portland, Oregon, and showcases natureinspired art by over 100 Pacific Northwest regional artists. Talks and receptions provide collectors and the public with interactive opportunities to meet Sitka’s artists.

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