December Gallery Exhibition
Opening Reception December 7 | 3:00-5:00pm
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Free and open to the public
I’ve been thinking lately about how the feeling of a particular place might be made up of all the life that has ever happened there, because it’s all still there. Energy from the people, the plants, and animals is contained there, and continues in different forms; in the soil and moss; in the rocks and sand; in the water; and certainly in the trees.
I find the feeling of, and nearby, the particular place of these drawings—Short Sand Beach in Oswald West State Park—to be incredibly intriguing, because of the beauty and the biodiversity of it’s sheltered cove and old-growth temperate rainforest, and also because of the area’s history and legends. Tales of smugglers, a shipwreck, and pirate’s buried treasure live on in this well loved spot. So rich!
I started to see characters and stories everywhere I looked. Fantastic exposed tree roots and nurse logs seemed to be shaped by ancient animal spirits or by the lingering emotions of some of the human dramas that unfolded here. I started to develop my own sort of mythology about this place, and I spent the past year going back again and again, to discover and draw it’s subjects.
Here are the results of this very enjoyable endeavor. These eight drawings are all from Short Sands, and along some of the trails leading to it. One of the most beautiful places in the world, I think.
—Sara Moen, 2024
Sara works in charcoal on wood panels. She lives in Astoria, Oregon with her cat, Agnes, and also works as a garment cutter/pattern maker.
Artist-Kathleen Kanas
Coastal Ceramic Artists: We invite you to submit up to three vases for the December 2024 Hoffman Gallery ceramic show in Manzanita! We welcome vases of all types: bud vases, ikebana vases, raku vases, large vases…we encourage you to be creative and play with form and function!
Vases for this gallery show should be handmade ceramic pieces that are high-quality and functional (however they do not need to be water-tight).
Vases will be exhibited and sold in the Hoffman Gallery in the month of December. Artists receive a 70% commission with the remaining 30% supporting our not-for-profit center.
An opening reception will take place on December 7, 2024, from 3-5pm. Submissions should be dropped off at Hoffman on December 1, from 12-5 pm. Any unsold items should be picked up on December 29, from 12-5pm.
Artists-left Roberta Lampert | right Barry Calvarese
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December 7–Gallery Exhibition Opening Reception
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Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center Art Gallery is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.
