Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Home Tour 2014

August 9
10am-5pm

Mark your calendars now for the 13th Annual Methow Valley Home Tour scheduled for Saturday August 9, 10am-5pm. The tour, brought to you by Confluence, will include 10 unique homes in the Mazama area. The theme this year is “Rooflines” and the homes will reflect several architectural styles from shed roofs to dormers. The homes selected are located along a bicycle friendly route so participants are encouraged to bring their bikes or rent from local bike shops.

Tickets: $25 per person or $20 per person for groups of four.

Tickets can be purchased the week prior to the tour at Confluence Gallery. On the day of the tour, tickets can be purchased at Confluence and at a booth at the Mazama Store.

Children’s Summer Art Camps

Confluence is pleased to offer a third series of summer art programs for children ages 6-10. Camps take place every Tuesday through Thursday, July 8-31, 10am-2pm. They are located in the bright Confluence classroom with access to a large, open lawn behind the building. Children will spend time making art and taking adventures to the Methow River just 2 blocks away.

Three-day camps cost $110 per child.
Registration forms are now available! Call Confluence to register.

Following is a description of each remaining camp:

Children’s Art Camps with Laura Gunnip
Sunshine Print-O-Rama - t-shirts, flags, paper & fabric printing using the sunshine
Ages 6-10
July 8-10
10am-2pm at Confluence
$110

Children’s Art Camps with Laura Gunnip
Art Bandit Mystery Tour - create fun art installations around town/in the park/by the river to the surprise & delight of friends and neighbors
Ages 6-10
July 15-17
10am-2pm at Confluence
$110

Children’s Art Camps with Margaret Kingston
Puppet Making
Ages 6-10
July 22-24
10am-2pm at Confluence
$110

Children’s Art Camps with Keri Miles
Backyard Art - Create art for your garden or backyard! Using natural and recycled materials we’ll make mosaic rocks, backyard lanterns, secret garden fairies, year-round flowers, and more. Bring your creativity and any small interesting materials you’d like to recycle.
July 29-31
Ages 6-10
10am-2pm at Confluence
$110

Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Loovre #2

Next up in the LoovreVblast!

The Confluence bathroom functions as a second gallery space. Each installation coincides with the gallery's main exhibit. In conjunction with the upcoming exhibit Our River, Confluence will hold an opening for The Loovre, featuring the work of local artist Vblast.

Vblast is a contemporary artist working in the fields of painting, sculpture and multimedia art. His work revolves around the themes of History, Conflict, and Entropy. Multi disciplinary by nature, the artist often combines painting and three dimensional elements to create a melange of color and texture.

Surrounded by visual and audio chaos in his subterranean studio dubbed “ Manland Art Labs,” Vblast often works on multiple pieces simultaneously. Deadlines, curing schedules for materials, mood and musical mayhem all contribute to the creative flow. Audio stimulation is an important part of the process at the Art Labs. A byproduct of 25 years in the music industry, Vblast was the front man for the Seattle based industrial performance art band The Pleasure Elite which left a trail of spilt beer, blood, broken glass and rabid fans across the United States and Europe. Hard core heavy metal, spoken word, jazz, and random movie dialogue is the staple for any day’s given tasks. The artist’s motto is “ Keep it loud bro, real loud.” Combined with piles of textbooks, tear sheets, magazines, and natural objects of dubious origin, eye candy as inspiration is always within arm’s reach. A pot of hot coffee stands ever vigilant to bolster the flesh when it sags beneath the demands of the will.

Devotion to his craft goes beyond the description of job or career, and into the realm of an ever biting need to create that borders on masochism and pathology. Vblast states “the term ‘artist’ defines me and my life in its entirety. Since the day I could grasp a pencil, I have been making art in a variety of forms and mediums. It is the process as much as the end result that consumes me as well as a dedication to quality. Whether or not the work is accepted or even liked is of no concern to me. It is the moment of interaction between myself and the canvas or object that drives my obsession. I will paint ‘til death, and with some luck, I will die in my studio in front of a really kick ass piece. Hopefully finished. That would be the shizzle.”

The opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, June 7, 4-8pm. The show will run through July 26th.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

2014 Twisp Art Walk: Art Spawn

Twisp, WA

Saturday, June 7
Where? The entire length of Glover Street in Twisp
4-8pm
Free

The 5th Annual Twisp Art Walk, titled "Art Spawn," celebrates the cultural and biological importance of the Valley rivers and recurring themes in local art. The entirety of Glover Street will be closed off and overflowing with activity, gallery openings, a readers' theater, a barista art throw-down, interactive fish displays, live music, food and drink, and street painting with visiting Austrian artist Karin Wimmeder at TwispWorks.

Participants include:

  • Cinnamon Twisp: show of Ginger Reddington, possibly live music
  • Peligro: Salyna Gracie will show her work
  • The Studio: Showing of Terry Hunt's "Reclamation"
  • The River Bank (Bureau of Reclamation Rolling River, Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation and WRS will be grilling food, and Gyotaku for fish prints)
  • Jeff Lyman/Leaf Seaborg doing fly tieing
  • Little Library at the Twisp Post Office
  • Methow Artscapes Jessica Dietz open studio
  • Mick & Miki's (TBD)
  • Trout Unlimited (TBD)
  • Confluence Gallery: Opening of "Our River"
  • The Merc: Readers' theater
  • Methow Valley Interpretive Center
  • Spartan Art Project: Karel Renard's "Pataphysics" show opening
  • TwispWorks: open studios, food, drinks, activity with Geomancer Karin Wimmeder
  • Blue Star Coffee Roasters barista art throw-down
  • Methow Valley Inn Garden exhibit

And there's a BONUS! At 6:00pm all Twisp Art Walk participants will have an opportunity to create a "human river" - everyone will lie down in the middle of Glover Street for an aerial photograph!

A timeline of all events will be available soon. Stay tuned for details!


Thursday, May 15, 2014

Our River

June 7-July 26
Opening reception and Art Walk June 7, 4-8pm

Rod Weagant, One Fish, Two Fish
For this exhibit artists were asked to consider the following questions.

What does the river mean to you? How does the river connect us to the sky, sea, and to each other? What is the significance of salmon and the cycle of life, death and connection? How have people depended on the river in the past? How do we celebrate the water and life of our river and ensure the future vitality of the Methow as it flows through our valley?

Mysterious, ever changing, alive, granting life, a gateway to exploration; rivers have a character, a meaning and a personality. In the Methow Valley we have “Our River”. Our river, which spans all the way to the ocean, has played all of these roles and more throughout its history and prehistory.

Curators Jennifer Molesworth and Rich Davis invite the public to view the display of the emotions, character and mystery evoked by each participating artist’s interpretation of “Our River”.

The cultural significance of rivers fades into the past, but “Those who came before” left their artwork in private places. Their stories and legends remind us that we must share the gift of water with all other life forms. We have an enormous obligation to preserve and protect this gift for those who follow. We hope this artistic exploration of “Our River” will be a means to remind of that responsibility.

The show will open on June 7 as the first spring Chinook of the year return from the sea. The opening will be one of many art happenings in Twisp for the annual Twisp Art Walk, an expansive street party featuring open-house galleries, studios, and businesses with opportunities to engage with a multitude of art forms. Hosted collaboratively by about a dozen locations within downtown Twisp, the evening will be anchored by the opening reception for the "Our River" show at Confluence Gallery on the north end and an interactive street painting party at TwispWorks on the south end. The art walk is a free event that runs from 4 to 8 pm. Other participants include the Methow Valley Interpretive Center, the Merc Playhouse, the Methow Valley Inn, Blue Star Coffee Roasters, multiple artist studios at TwispWorks and more!

The Our River show runs from June 7 through July 26.

On June 13th, in partnership with Upper Columbia Salmon Recover Board, the Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation, and the Methow Interpretive Center, Confluence will hold a panel discussion about the cultural and natural history of the River. 6-8pm, doors open at 5:30pm. This event will be free to the public.

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Children's Summer Art Camps!

Confluence is pleased to offer a third series of summer art programs for children ages 6-10. Camps take place every Tuesday through Thursday, July 8-31, 10am-2pm. They are located in the bright Confluence classroom with access to a large, open lawn behind the building. Children will spend time making art and taking adventures to the Methow River just 2 blocks away.

Three-day camps cost $110 per child.
Registration forms are now available! Call Confluence to register.

Following is a description of each remaining camp:

Children’s Art Camps with Laura Gunnip
Sunshine Print-O-Rama - t-shirts, flags, paper & fabric printing using the sunshine
July 8-10

Children’s Art Camps with Laura Gunnip
Art Bandit Mystery Tour - create fun art installations around town/in the park/by the river to the surprise & delight of friends and neighbors
July 15-17

Children’s Art Camps with Margaret Kingston
Puppet Making
July 22-24

Children’s Art Camps with Keri Miles
Theme TBD early next week
July 29-31

Give us a call if you would like to sign up: 509-997-2787