Sherry Blatner Lots to celebrate and honor this month: May 11, Military Spouse’s Day; May 13, Mother’s Day and May 28, Memorial Day. And with no specific date in mind, many graduation days! Expressions Gallery is here to fulfill your unique home design and gift-giving needs. The creative spirits amongst us who specialize in sewing…
Dee Smart and Angie Hayes Shirley Smith is a PebbleCreek legend, a gracious lady and an amazing artist. In 1996 Shirley and Hobart (Bo) Smith moved to PebbleCreek from Portland, Oregon. Shirley brought with her an exceptional love of life that she shared with all us who knew her. Shirley worked in the Expression Gallery…
Sharon Adamy If I were to introduce you to a former United Airlines flight attendant, a retired HP corporate manager, and the co-founder of Cookie Dough to Go, you might well assume you were meeting three distinctly different individuals so diverse are these occupations. Not so! You would be meeting Kathie Janda, the Art Club’s…
Marion Ellison Save this date: December 1, 2018. Your friends and neighbors in PebbleCreek are busy putting their creative talents to work creating new and exciting items for this year’s PebbleCreek Artist Holiday Fest to be held December 1, 2018. Plan to come and support your local artists.
Jeff Wilson The recent Non-Objective Abstract Painting class was a huge success. Even though some participants had never painted anything more than a bedroom wall before, they caught on quickly to the notion that there is no wrong just degrees of success. Regardless of prior experience creativity was in abundance as students made paintings in…
Marianne Graff Marsha Lyons is a long time PebbleCreeker who is both an active Art Club member and a successful artist and teacher. Giving rein to her creative interests, Marsha took a drawing class from Bill Cupit soon after moving to her Arizona home. There she studied drawing, colored pencil, and scratchboard, and, though working…
Gretchen Olberding Every artist walks into an exhibition in which they were juried, hoping to see that elusive award given among so many outstanding artworks. When you finally see one on your own submission, you do a silent fist pump, and a quiet “Yes!” comes out. That exhilarating moment happened to me last night at…
Charlene Romanos Where can you go to spend a delightful evening viewing the latest creative works of art, magnificent hand carved wood sculptures, all in appealing gallery settings, and enjoy a free glass of wine, too? Well, right here in PebbleCreek at the upcoming annual Meet the Artist event on Friday, March 23 and Saturday,…
Desiree Mansell For those not familiar with the Artist of the Year award, a small historical perspective. In 2003 the art club presented its first award, then known as the Carole Christiansen Memorial Award for the Most Improved Artist. In 2015 the award’s title was amended to the PebbleCreek Art Club Artist of the Year.…
Charlene Romanos Meet the Artist is one of the PC Art Club’s annual events, which showcases the talents of both the PC Art Club and Woodcarvers groups. The PC Art Club currently boasts 190 members, exploring and growing their talent in virtually every medium available to present day artists. The PC Woodworkers Club has 70+…