September 20, 2008 Raffle & DINNER
Experience an evening in our artful,
Sitka-style studio space transformed
into an extraordinary environment
for our first Sitka Equinox Raffle &
Harvest Dinner.
This fundraiser will support programs at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. The event will be held at Sitka Center on Saturday September 20th beginning with a reception at 6pm followed by dinner at 7pm and Sitka art raffle drawing at 8pm. Purchasing an event ticket provides a scrumptious Wild Salmon Harvest dinner served on your choice of a uniquely crafted pottery plate made especially for this event. Event tickets are $50 for Sitka members and $80 for non-members.
Raffle Tickets can be purchased for art from Sitka's permanent collection by Frank Boyden, Alex Chitty, Jenny Lind, Lauren Mantecón, Karl Pilato, Kim Stafford, Margot Voorhies-Thompson, Ned Westover plus a surprise artist. The art is available for viewing below. We offer three options for purchasing raffle tickets. Purchase one ticket for $20 for one opportunity on one art piece. Purchase one ticket for $50 for one opportunity on each art piece. Purchase four $50 raffle tickets and receive the fifth ticket free. There is no limit on the number of raffle tickets available for purchase and you need not be present to win.
Artist: Frank Boyden
Title: Feather at Sand Lake Wash
Edition: 6/10 2001
Paper Dimensions: 15" x 26.5"
Process: Limited Edition
Value: $750
Frank Boyden is a co-founder of the Sitka Center with his wife, Jane.
His love of nature can be witnessed in his artwork, which may be seen
at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon, and at the Laura Russo
Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Artist: Ned Westover
Title: Stifling a Laugh at Jokhang Monastery Lhasa Tibet
Photo Dimensions: 19.5" x 15.5"
Photo:1988 unframed
Value: $300
Ned Westover has been around the world 41 times photographing people and
places in 89 countries. He has been a member of the Photographic
Society of America since 1955, has exhibited widely, and has won many
awards for his camera work. He spent his last years at Cascade Head Ranch,
Oregon.
Artist: Frank Boyden and Kim
Stafford
Title: Go Ask the Owl
Edition: 35/50, 1999
Paper Dimensions: 15" x 26.5"
Process: Limited Edition Print: story text by Kim Stafford, owl image
by Frank Boyden
Value: $200
Frank Boyden (see above)
Kim Stafford is an upcoming Fall 08 Sitka Center Resident. Stafford has
received two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts, and his book Having Everything Right won a Western States
Book Award in 1986. He received an Oregon Governor's Arts Award in 1998.
He grew up in Oregon, Iowa, Indiana, California, and Alaska, following
his parents as they taught and traveled through the West. Kim has taught
at Lewis & Clark College since 1979, where he directs the Northwest Writing
Institute, and teaches writing. He has worked as an oral historian, letterpress
printer, editor, photographer, teacher, and visiting writer at a host
of small towns in the Pacific Northwest, and at colleges in New York,
California, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. He holds a Ph.D. in medieval
literature from the University of Oregon, and lives in Portland with his
wife and children.
Artist: Jenny Lind
Title (1): Raven; Edition: 7/10, 2004 Image Dimensions: 3" x 4" Process:
Soft Ground Copper Plate Etching, Value: $150
Title (2): Horse; Edition: 9/10,
2004 Image Dimensions: 2.5" x 3" Process: Hard Ground Copper Plate Etching
Value: $200
Jenny Lind is a ceramic artist living in New Mexico. She created these prints in 2004 during a printmaking residency at the Sitka Center. Master printmaker Julia D'Amario helped pull the prints that Jenny produced during this residency.
Artist: Lauren Mantecón
Title: Orbit Three
Dimensions: 29.5" x 30"
Process: Oil on wood, 2008
Value: $2,300
Lauren Mantecón is an experienced teacher and studio artist known for
facilitating ways of expanding the active imagination. She received a
M.F.A. at Portland State University and was a professor of painting for
eight years at the University of Portland in Oregon. Her studio art has
been shown nationally and internationally.
Artist: Karl Pilato
Title: Door to the River 1
Edition: 6/7, 2002
Image Dimensions: 10.75" x 8.75"
Process: Drypoint, spitbite aquatint Copper Plate Etching
Value: $350
Karl Pilato of New York created this print during his printmaking residency
at the Sitka Center in 2002. Master printmaker Julia D'Amario pulled the
prints that Karl produced during this residency.
Artist: Margot Voorhies Thompson
Title: Sanctuary
Image Dimensions: 11" x 13.5"
Process: Mixed Media on Paper, 1995
Framed: Yes
Value: $400
Margot Voorhies Thompson is a calligrapher, painter, printmaker, and the designer of the Sitka Center logo. Margot is represented by the Laura Russo Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Artist: Alex Chitty
Title: Porcupine
Image Dimensions: 32" x 23"
Process: Print with Quills, 2006
Framed: No
Value: $300
Alex Chitty was a printmaking resident at the Sitka Center in 2006. Alex
is currently attending the Graduate Printmedia Program at the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Or Call 541-994-5485 and ask for Molly.