e-SitkaLetter, january 2007:
from Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
Contents
- OPEN House, January 20
- BOARD Officers and Staff changes announced
- DANIEL reads; offers workshop at Sitka in June
- SUMMER VIEW
Wishing you a creative new year!
OPEN House, January 20
An Open House, free and open the public, will feature projects by Sitka Center for Art and Ecology's Fall/Winter Resident artists.
The event, Saturday, January 20, 2007, 1- 4 p.m. at the Center, will include open studios, displays, readings, an eco-poetic performance, and refreshments.
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BOARD Officers and Staff changes announced
Robert Gamblin has been elected president of Sitka Center for Art and Ecology for 2007. Other officers include Sarah Greene, Vice-President, Lorinda Moholt, Secretary, and Craig Kiest, Treasurer. Continuing on the Board are Past President Jan Skopil, Inga Dubay, Missy Vaux Hall, Darle Maveety, Henrik P. (Pete) Porter, and Jennifer Viviano.
Laura Young, joining the staff of Sitka Center as full-time Program Manager, holds a Master's degree in Arts Administration and a certificate in nonprofit organization management from University of Oregon.
We wish the best for Dee Moore, of Neskowin, who departed in December 2005, retiring after six years work at Sitka Center as the Office Manager and Program Coordinator, and after a prior professional career as mental health practitioner. Learn More »
DANIEL reads; offers workshop at Sitka in June
Writer John Daniel will present his work on January 14, 3 p.m., at Lincoln City's Driftwood Public Library as part of its Oregon Legacy Literary Series.
Daniel will offer a workshop during Sitka Center's 2007 workshop season at Sitka Center, Seeking the Self in the Natural World, on June 11-14.
Other writer's scheduled for workshops at Sitka in 2007 include: Fred Barrett, Debra Gwartney, Joanne Mulcahey, Sarah Rabkin, Peggy Rozga, and Kim Stafford.
This outstanding group of writers will be featured in the 2007 workshop catalogue available online and in print in late February. Learn More »
SUMMER VIEW
View from Maveety Courtyard, Sitka Center, July 2006.
Pondering the new year, the gleaming pathway of possibility, as driving rain spirals through the trees, helping top 100 inches in 2006 at Cascade Head. Seasons, the vision of artists, the passion of researchers (and travelers), swallows the mossy, layered slopes around Sitka Center. This wet season, so soon after the summer, hugs heavy and close all that moves. How near and how far each summer, the shaggy Sitka tree swaying across the way, thick and damp.
Yet, in this dark season twirling in time, over 70 artists, seed the new summer, plan for the next workshop cycle. Here at the Sitka office, rooted in the details, readying the summer catalogue for release by March 1. The fine work of Dee Moore, just prior to her departure last month, shaped the structure. Laura Young, arriving this week, will complete the form, as we prepare to offer the best of art and ecology to you. Seasons within the season.
-- Douglas Beauchamp,
Executive Director,
douglas@sitkacenter.org