Meet Guest Artist Ernestine Whittemore, page 2 The Last Finally Friday ‘til 2017Workshops and Wine Walks, page 3Open Studio SOCIAL A day of play and a gallery refresh, page 4Guest Artist and Railroad DaysFall City Artist, MISKA, page 5

Art Gallery of SnoValley

8130 Railroad Ave. SE Snoqualmie,WA 98065425-213-9321Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sun. from 12pm-6pm

Gallery News Volume 1

Number 1 Fall 2016

Email: snovalleygallery@gmail.comWebsite: http://artgalleryofsnovalley.comWebsite for Mt. Si Artist Guild: http://www.mtsiartistguild.org

Trains Around Town Exhibit and Contest

Local Artists Create Art for Snoqualmie Railroad Days

During the weeks preceding Railroad Days, Snoqualmie Arts Commissioners Patricia Tamburini and Gayll Morrison organized and sponsored a contest featuring the template of a locomotive on wood for interested participants to decorate any way they chose. Fifteen decorated trains were entered into the competition, with judging taking place on August 30.

Ernestine Whittemore received the Snoqualmie Arts Commission Award for her colorfully patterned train engine with Mount Si in the background. The Mount Si Artist

Guild’s three-dimensional entry (created by Leslie Kreher, Marcia Tuttle, and Pam Whittington) received the People’s Choice Award.

Many thanks to Patricia Tamburini and Gayll Morrison for overseeing this friendly competi-tion portion of Art in the Park. The winning trains were on display at the Falls Compounding Pharmacy through September.

WHO WE ARE

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Welcome to the first edition of the Art Gallery of SnoValley Newsletter!

The Gallery, which opened on February 26, 2016, is an artist “collective” (self-managed by the group). We currently have 14 member artists and several guest artists. In addition to paintings and greet-ing cards, sometimes called “2D”

or “2 Dimensional” art, we also feature “3D” art. This includes our collection of pottery, sculpture, furniture, woodcarving, jewelry, and glass art.

The Art Gallery of SnoValley is a component of the Mt. Si Artist Guild, a non-profit organization whose mission is to foster and promote the visual fine arts. This gathering of artists in the

Snoqualmie Valley also facilitates opportunities for the community to engage with artists and enjoy the arts. Unless otherwise noted, General Meetings are held at the Gallery on the third Saturday of every month, at 10:30 am. Workshops featuring guest artists follow, beginning at noon. Guests are welcome to join us for these workshops by paying the fee

for the afternoon class, which is usually between $15-$40.

The next MSAG meeting will be held on Oct. 15.

Feel free to attend as a guest or join the Guild by paying the annual fee of $75.

Marcia Tuttle, Leslie Kreher and Pam Whittington proudly stand behind their train

Ernestine Whittemore, October’s guest artist (see page 2), contributed the winning entry

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Gallery NewsA quarterly

newsletter of the Art Gallery of SnoVallery

Editor: Marcia TuttleDesign: Laurie Kathleen ClarkPhotography: Laurie Clark, Laurel Check, Marcia Tuttle, Tim Well-borne, and Patti Bondi

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Guest artistSnoqualmie Artist Ernestine Whittemore is October’s featured MSAG Member Artist. Ernestine was drawn to the Snoqualmie area because of the beautiful scenery, great skies and the vibrant fall colors. While she is a native of the Netherlands, she has long been fascinated by the American Arts and Crafts architecture and Asian styles and influences.Ernestine challenges herself to maintain the restraint and clean lines of sumi-e and haiku, and often uses a limited color palette to attempt to convey the subtleties of nature. Painting and calligra-phy have become an important part of her meditative practice and she hopes to incorporate both in a collection of haiku in the near future.Ernestine’s art will be featured from October 1 through October 24. She can be contacted at: ernestine.whittemore@gmail.com

NEW! Art Gallery Gift Cards

Give the Gift of Art! You can now purchase gift

cards at the gallery!

You decide the amount you’d like to give and purchase the card at the gallery counter. The amount

you choose is applied to the card, which will then be activated and ready for you to give to whomever you wish! That person can then come into the gallery anytime and apply that amount to the purchase of anything in the gallery. It’s a great way to give just the right gift!

*10% off cards for the Art Gallery of SnoValley are available at the Snoqualmie Falls and the Snoqualmie Chamber of Commerce for gift giving.

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The Mt. Si Artist Guild holds a workshop each month from October through June featuring a variety of area artists. Recently, we were delighted to have a Colored Pencil Workshop presented by noted colored pencil artist Eileen Sorg.During this fun and inspiring workshop Eileen led the group through her artistic process; including tips and insights in working in this medium, as we each did our best to follow her instructions in creating our own colored pencil cat portraits.A very energizing workshop! MSAG members do their best to follow

Eileen’s instructions in creating their own colored pencil cat portraits.

Colored pencil artist Eileen Sorg makes it look so easy.

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MSAG Workshops Open to the Public

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📝 Saturday Oct 1 MSAG Member & Guest ArtistErnestine Whittemore’s paintings will be featured from October 1-24

📝 Saturday Oct 15River Arts TourA self-guided tour of artists’ studios.(see back page) 10 am –5 pm. Free maps available at the gallery.

📝 Saturday Oct 15MSAG Workshop“An Adventure with Anne Reeves”, finding creative inspirations around us.Gallery Noon to 2 pmMember $12, Non-member $15

📝 Sunday Oct 16River Arts TourA self-guided tour of artists’ studios.(see back page) 10 am –5 pm. Free maps available at the gallery.

📝 Tuesday Nov 15Make & Take MSAG Workshop, a fun card-making session. Gallery - Free.

Check for details and more upcoming events on the back page.

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O n Friday, September 30, from 6 to 9 pm, Snoqualmie held the sixth and final Art & Wine Walk for the year. Many friends and guests have joined us for these popular events in downtown Snoqulamie this season!

This six-month event for 2016 was made possible by the MSAG Collective Art Gallery of SnoValley in cooperation with the Snoqualmie Arts Commission, the City of Snoqualmie, and 4Culture.

Last Finally Friday Art & Wine Walk until 2017

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New!OPEN STUDIO SOCIAL

Check This Out : Gallery Refresh “You just have to see the most recent re-do!

at the Gallery: from 10-4 every Thursday, beginning October 6. Please bring your art supplies and join in the fun! Paint whatever you want in your favorite medium, or experiment

in a new one. All levels of experience are welcome. This is a time for asking for feedback and suggestions if you desire, for experimenting with new materials or just playing with paint! No pressure at all—just artists who love to create.

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BE SURE TO STOP IN SOON TO SEE OUR NEWLY “REFRESHED” LOOK!

Recently we removed all paintings from the walls and each artist brought in new art to add to the gallery collection. Instead of having the artwork placed according to color, subject matter or style, each artist’s paintings are now grouped together in the gallery. This enables the viewer to see all of a particular artist’s paintings in one location. We hope you like this new arrangement.

Cub Scouts Visit the Gallery

Recently, the Gallery was visited by a delightful Cub Scout Troop, Pack 452, Den 2, and their Den Leader, Robyn Kolke. The Scouts were working toward earning their Art Badges. They had already completed the required projects, including painting their self-portraits, and were now ready to visit an art gallery as a culminating activity.

Gallery Docent Marcia Tuttle took the Scouts on a tour of the gallery, pausing to discuss various aspects of the painted artwork. The Scouts learned to identify the various types of media used in the paintings, DOCENT AVAILABLE FOR

TOURS of the Gallery Guests are always welcome at the Art Gallery of SnoValley!

Our Docent, Marcia Tuttle, would love to take your group through the Gallery, explaining the various media and types of art on display and answering questions. Please call the Gallery at 425-213-9321for more infor-mation, or contact Marcia Tuttle directly at 425-295-1375.

and were introduced to art-related words such as landscape, portrait, and floral. Learning about the large fir table, with its “live edge” was a high point for the boys, and they also enjoyed studying the pottery, jewelry and sculpture. By the end of the tour each Scout shared a description of his favorite piece of art.

The Scouts were very interest-ed, well-behaved patrons of the Gallery – a positive experience in every way!

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MISKA

Nationally Collected Fall City Artist

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Snoqualmie’s RailRoad Days was a great success again this year!

The Entertainment Stages, Vendors, Grand Parade, Children’s

Field of Fun, Timber Sports Demonstrations, and food & drink venues gave festival participants and guests plenty of activities to choose from.

Guests strolled throughout Art in the Park across from the Depot, listening to various musical groups entertain in the Wine Garden on the Arts Stage. Members of the Snoqualmie Arts Commission, which include MSAG Collective Members Sally Rackets, as chair, Pam Whittington, Gayll Mor-rison, and Patricia Tamburini, have helped organize Art in the Park each year along with other commissioners.

The Art in the Park venue includes Artists in Action, Kid’s Paint Junction, Plein Air Paint Out, and the newly added Trains Around Town contest.

A number of artists and artisans, including Art Gallery of SnoValley oil painter Sally Rack-ets, acrylic painter Patricia Tamburini, and stone and woodcarver, Rickey Noel Mitchell were on hand to demonstrate their creative abilities and share their art with the crowd throughout the weekend.

Please stop in and enjoy paintings by the Gallery’s Guest Artist for Fall: MISKA, a well-known acrylic artist from Fall City. Her current paintings feature a variety of farm animals and scenes done in a lively, and sometimes whimsical style. Her show will be available for viewing until October 24.

Stop in and enjoy paintings by the Gallery’s Guest Artist this Fall: MISKA, a well-known acrylic artist from Fall City.MISKA comes from a close family of German, Russian & Yugoslavian heritage. She attended the University of Washington Art School, but is mostly a self-taught painter, studying the works of the great modern masters daily.

MISKA’s paintings are colorful and expressive, with an appealing light-heartedness in many of her animals and birds, which brings a smile to the viewer. She uses gold, bronze, copper and pearl tones giving her work an amazing reflective quality.

In August 2000, MISKA was chosen by US Art Magazine as one of 26 prominent artists to be featured and called her an “emerging success”. We are pleased to present this exciting display of her work!

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Volume 1 Number 1 Fall 2016

MSAG Workshop October 15th “An Adventure with Anne Reeves”

by the published author who will lead us through finding the creative inspirations around us, including publishing your own personal inspiration book with your own works of art. She is a bundle of energy and a delight! View her work at www.momentsofdelight.com.

Don’t miss this one! The workshop, which is open to the public, will be held at the

Art Gallery of SnoValley on Saturday, Oct 15 from noon to 2 pm. The fee for members is $12; the non-member fee is $15

PLEASE JOIN US DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER for the

HOLIDAY ARTS SHOW,featuring Art Gallery of SnoValley artists.There will be a variety of painting styles and media in this festive display. You are sure to find just the right piece of art for anyone on your list (or maybe something new you and your family would enjoy)!

ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS SHOW WILL BE DONATED TO THE GALLERY

Make and Take MSAG Workshop on Nov. 15This is a fun card-making workshop using collagetechniques with a varietyof paper odds and ends.Drop in when you havetime - this workshop is FREE!!! All supplies are provided. This was great fun last year so come joinus and let your creativitygo wild! Location: Art Galleryof SnoValleyFor time and further details, please call the gallery at :(425) 213-9321

THE SNOQUALMIE RIVER ARTS TOUR will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 15 – 16 from noon to 5 pm.

This self-guided tour is a unique opportunity to see the creative spaces that produce some of our most accomplished local art while you enjoy the scenic byways of the Snoqualmie River Valley, one of our region’s most picturesque rural landscapes. Meet artists in their open studios, and see others in the region’s newest gallery and art-friendly businesses.

You will encounter a variety of quality art on this trail of discovery as you see the work of more than 60 artists in nineteen different locations, displaying a variety of paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media; sculptures in stone, wood, metal, and mixed media; as well as glass art, jewelry, pottery, handmade furniture, and photographs. Maps are available at the Art Gallery of SnoValley, located at 8130 Railroad Ave. in Snoqualmie, WA 98065. This will provide plenty of time to plan your weekend around this exciting event in mid-October. Information is also available at: www.RiverArtsTour.com

Collective Members Leslie Kreher and Patricia Tamburini at workat the Gallery

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