The
world famous Sisters Oregon Outdoor Quilt Show , Quilters Affair
Week, and the Weeks
Events are long
traditions in Sisters and Central Oregon. Jean Wells Keenan,
Val Wells Kennedy and the folks at the Stitchin' Post have done a great job these past 34
years! People from all walks of life come to visit Sisters
Oregon, participate in quilting activities and of course – See over
1200 quilts hanging from every available building in downtown Sisters
on Quilt Show Day. We hope you can come for the fun as well as visit
High Desert Gallery during Quilter's Affair week. High Desert
Gallery of Central Oregon has three great exhibitions and artist in
attendance receptions during Quilters Affair week. This
is a wonderful opportunity to view and purchase works by Nationally
known Oregon Artist, Trisha Hassler, Regionally Acclaimed artists
Kathy Deggendorfer and Tonye Belinda Phillips and Internationally
known quilt artist and instructor Lura Schwarz Smith. Artist
reception information, dates and times are in date order and as
follows:
Artist
Reception with Trisha Hassler
Sunday, July 5, 2009 -- 2:00 –
6:00 PM
High
Desert Gallery is pleased and honored to host an artist reception for
nationally known mixed media fiber artist, Trisha Hassler. Please
join us during the 6th annual "Around the Block" Fiber Arts Stroll Sunday,
July 5th in Sisters Oregon and meet Trisha! For our Trisha
collectors and gallery clients this is the best time to see a major
exhibition of Trisha's work. Meet
and chat with Trisha while enjoying great art, lively conversation,
live music and refreshments!
Where:
High Desert Gallery, Sisters, Oregon. Featuring Live Music and
More.
Special Hours for Quilt Show week, 10am to 7pm or later with
some nights to 9PM!
For
details: 541-388-8964
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing
281 W Cascade
Avenue at Oak
Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 /
866-549-6250
Open Daily: 10am to 5pm (Summer
Hours)
www.highdesertgallery.com
Artist
Reception with Kathy Deggendorfer and Tonye Belinda Phillips
Sunday,
July 5, 2009 – 2:00 to 6:00 PM.
AND
Wednesday, July 8, 200- 3:00 - 6:30PM
Join
us for the premier showing of “ Going to the Dogs,” five new
collaborative works by regionally acclaimed Oregon watercolorist,
Kathy Deggendorfer and regionally acclaimed quilter and author, Tonye
Belinda Phillips. Meet and chat with Kathy and Tonye while enjoying
great art, lively conversation, live music and refreshments!
Where:
High Desert Gallery, Sisters, Oregon. Featuring Live Music and
More.
Special Hours for Quilt Show week, 10am to 7pm or later with
some nights to 9PM!
For
details: 541-388-8964
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing
281 W Cascade
Avenue at Oak
Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 /
866-549-6250
Open Daily: 10am to 5pm (Summer
Hours)
www.highdesertgallery.com
Special
Artist Reception with Lura Schwarz Smith
Thursday,
July 9, from3:30 to 6:30PM
High
Desert Gallery is honored to be hosting an artist
reception Thursday, July 9, from 3:30 to 6:30 pm for Internationally
known quilt artist Lura Schwarz Smith. Highly acclaimed, Smith has
shown her art quilts in regional, national and international quilt
shows. Among her many honors was to have one of her quilts included
in the “100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century.”
Lura
Schwarz Smith states, “As an artist, I am interested in merging my
art background with quilting techniques and to explore those
potentials, in the effort to express the inner life through fabric
art.”
Where:
High Desert Gallery, Sisters, Oregon. Featuring Live Music and
More.
Special Hours for Quilt Show week, 10am to 7pm or later with
some nights to 9PM!
For
details: 541-388-8964
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing
281 W Cascade
Avenue at Oak
Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 /
866-549-6250
Open Daily: 10am to 5pm (Summer
Hours)
www.highdesertgallery.com
About
Lura Schwarz Smith: Lura Schwarz Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Art from San Francisco State University and has been
producing textile art for over 30 years. Before that, she was making
very bad traditional bed quilts with her first quilting partner, her
mother, starting in the 1960s. "We didn't know enough to
realize how bad these were," the artist says, " we had a
wonderful time trying everything."
As
Lura Schwarz Smith's skills developed, she began showing in
galleries, learning from other quilters, and experimenting with her
own techniques. For the past several decades she has been showing
quilts and receiving awards at regional, national, and international
quilt shows, culminating with prestigious announcement that one of
her quilts had been included by the International Quilt Association
in the "100 Best American Quilts of the 20th Century."
Lura's
other achievements include having her wall hanging, “Shadowplay,”
accepted into Quilt Visions 2008 at the Oceanside Museum of Art,
California, and participating in the "30 Distinguished Quilt
Artists of the World" exhibit at the first Tokyo Dome quilt show
in 2002. The artist states that she enjoys merging her art background
with quilting techniques. Her inspirations evolve from "inner,
or dream images," which she explores in an "effort to
express the inner life through fabric art."
Wish
Upon A Card Silent Auction and Fundraiser for Wendy's Wish. The 2009
Wish Upon A Card fundraiser will be a juried silent auction. High
Desert Gallery will donate custom framing for approximately fifty
postcards. The silent auction will begin July 5, during the Around
the Block Fiber Arts Stroll and will continue through Quilt Show Day.
The cards will be on display at Sisters Art Works July 1 through July
11. A group of cards from our Quilters Affair Instructors will be
framed and silent auctioned at the high school during the week of
classes, July 6 – 10. For more information please visit: Wish Upon A Card. Bid high and bid often!
About
the world famous Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ Quilters Affair Week,
and the Weeks Events : Jean Wells Keenan, Val Wells Kennedy and the
folks at the Stitchin' Post have done a great job these past 34
years. For 2009, the sixth annual Fiber Arts Stroll through the town
of Sisters moves to Sunday, July 5th from 2 - 6 PM. Over 100 quilts
are on display in Quilt Show sponsor businesses, July 4-12, during
regular business hours. Pick up a map at The Stitchin' Post, Sisters
Oregon Area Chamber of Commerce, Central Oregon Visitors Association,
High Desert Gallery and many downtown Sisters Oregon Businesses for
this self-guided tour, July 4 – July 12, 2009. during regular
business hours.
Please
join us for the 6th annual Fiber Arts Stroll -- "Around the
Block" on Sunday, July 5th, Quilters Affair week, the Artist
Reception for Lura Schwarz Smith on Thursday, July 9th, from 3:30 to
6:30 pm, Wish Upon A Card Fabric Post Card Program, and of course --
The Big Day -- The World Famous Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ on
Saturday, July 11, 2009, 9:30AM to 5:00 PM. The gallery will have
extended hours starting July 1 and running through July 12th. For
additional information about the artist, the work and the gallery
please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 or toll
free 866-549-6250.
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show and used with permission. The Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show and Quilters the Musical have been selected as official Oregon 150 sesquicentennial partners.
About
High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The
Art & Soul of Central Oregon is an award winning fine art and
custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail
locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters
Oregon and High Desert Frameworks! located at 431 NW Franklin Avenue
at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central
Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High
Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a
"Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted
"Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 &
2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International
Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and
Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA)
2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in
the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International
Print Framing Competition.
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