June 2012 Art Walk
Businesses stay open late showcasing art!
First Friday Art Walk
Friday, June 1, 2012 5-9pm
Stroll downtown and enjoy art, wine, music, food, and fun as we celebrate our community and the arts.
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Alleda Real Estate
25 NW Minnesota Avenue Suite 1
Art from the High Desert Art League
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Astro Lounge
939 Bond Street
open late
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Barrio
163 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Bella Moda
1001 Wall Street
open late
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Bellatazza
869 NW Wall Street
open late
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Bend Brewing Company
1019 Brooks Street
Artist Coleen Egerton
Half Price Appetizers 4-6 pm
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Bend d’Vine
916 Wall Street
open late
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Bend Premiere Real Estate
550 Franklin Suite 108
open late
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Benjamin Edwards Photography
856 Bond Street, Suite 201 (across the hall from The Poethouse)
open late
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Birkenstock of Bend
836Wall Street
open late
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Blue Star Salon
1001 Wall Street Suite #103
open late
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The Blvd.
1024 Bond Street
open late
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Cascade Cottons
909 Wall Street
open late
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Ceylon Blue
The Franklin Crossing Building
550 Franklin Avenue
Back by popular demand will be Flash Photo Booth who will be offering complementary pictures inside the Franklin Crossing Building. We also will have as always, food, fun and music.
Come see our showroom and if you have an event coming up that you need assistance in planning and putting all the details together, we are you one stop resource for all your event needs.
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The Closet
118 Minnesota Avenue
We will be offering 30% off all full priced merchandise and 50% off all jewelry! We also have new inventory of Summer dresses, skirts, shorts, and denim!
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Clutch Handbag Boutique
933 Wall
open late
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Common Table
150 Oregon Avenue
Music from Josh Hart Presents “Handpicked” series. James Nicol will be performing and will be showing his art!
http://www.farmtofire.com/art.
www.commontable.net
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Cowboy Carriage
Throughout Downtown
Now that the weather is turning to summer we can bring our horse and carriage downtown! We give 20 minute tours of downtown or romantic rides along the park in our classic carriage. During the Art Walk we offer discounted rides to Ceylon Blu, a wedding and event design studio, in the Franklin Crossing Building. Unless we are booked for a wedding or brewery tour we plan to be downtown on the weekends all summer!
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Cowgirl Cash
924 Brooks Street
open late
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Dalia & Emilia
855 Wall Street
open late
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Douglas Fine Jewelry
920 Bond Street (on Minnesota)
Returning Artist Kim Kimerling. Original, mixed media artwork by the amazingly versatile.
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Dudley’s Bookstore Cafe
135 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Face To Face Day Spa
809 Wall Street
open late
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Faveur Boutique
714 Franklin Avenue
Complementary Champagne and Chocolate, as well as a fabulous and fun shopping experience!
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The Feather’s Edge Finery
133 Minnesota Avenue
Bendite Becky Lewis will be showing her beautiful & ethereal images of nature.
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Foot Zone
845 Wall Street
The Marshall High School Art Class will be there holding “Art Rent Event” – a special benefit fundraiser where they rent out wonderful pieces of art they have created. The art is framed and available for only $10 per month. There will also be live music, coffee and cheesecake.
This event will raise funds for art supplies, equipment and field trips. As an alternative high school, Marshall does not have many of the extra-curricular activities of a traditional high school so art is an important outlet for many of the students.
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The Franklin Crossing Building
550 Franklin Avenue
Yuji Hiratsuka, Professor, Fine Arts, Oregon State University-Corvallis, internationally recognized printmaker, travels throughout the US to lead specialized printmaking classes for numerous universities. OSU-Cascades B.F.A. program hosted his summer workshops for successive years. Beginning his career at OSU in 1987, the artist is a native of Osaka, Japan and came to the US to pursue graduate degrees in printmaking at New Mexico State University (M.A.) and Indiana University (M.F.A.)
The artist combines techniques of intaglio and chine colle to create figurative, whimsically narrative, limited edition prints. The Franklin Crossing exhibition features prints predominantly of smiling females, using both Asian and American imagery to depict the irony of, perhaps satirize, daily life with its paradoxical interface. The works metaphorically suggest realities of modern global existence.
A prolific printmaker, his graphic work appeared in frequent exhibitions n the Americas, Europe and Asia. He received numerous awards including the Equal Prize at Majdanek 2000, VI International Art Triennial, Lubin, Poland. His many collections include The Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, The British Museum, London, UK, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan, New York Public Library and Portland Art Museum.
Ceylon Blue, event planner at Franklin Crossing, will serve appetizers and wine and the popular Tommy Leroy Trio performs jazz with Andy Armor, piano, George Bouhey, drums, and Tom Freedman, bass. Turner provides additional information at 541.382.9398.
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Giddy Up!
933 Wall Street
open late
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Glenroe Antiques & The Jewell Box
841 Bond Street
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Scott SChauer the “Trail Smith” acid wash photography
Paul Schmitz Box CAr Productions;
Unique Industrial Chic furniture using wood from disassembled buildings. Rustic raw and unique!
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We are also very pleased to announce an exhibition by local artist Hannah Crazyhawk. View her work at www.elinaynature.com.
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Honey Threads
114 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Hot Box Betty
903 Wall
open late
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Ice Fine Jewelry
871 Wall
Always open late for Art Walk with catered food, drink, music, fun, and deals!
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John Paul Designs
1006 Bond Street
John Paul Designs. Custom Jewelry + Signature Series. Specializing in unique, one of a kind wedding and engagement rings in a variety of metals. www.johnpauldesigns.com
1006 NW Bond St.
318.5645
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Karen Bandy Design Jeweler
25 Minnesota (behind Thump)
Karen Bandy’s 25th Anniversary celebration continues with her fundraiser for Healing Reins. She has designed a horse pendant to raffle off and 100% of funds raised go to Healing Reins’ therapeutic riding facility. The final drawing will be held at Bandy’s studio July 6th but you need not be present to win.
On display this month are the horse pendant and new horse-themed abstract acrylic paintings by Bandy.
First Friday 5-9pm June 1-July 6th
Raffle tickets $10 each or 6 for $50
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Kariella Clothes Shop
750 NW Lava Suite 120 (just up from the Oxford Hotel)
We will be serving pear and pomegranate champagne cocktails + 10% off your purchase!
Marina Koslow is a wedding and portrait photographer specializing in romantic wedding portraiture and creative photography for families and high school seniors. Originally from Ukraine she has settled in Bend together with her husband about 6 years ago. Her inspiration for photography comes from beautiful landscapes that surround us here on the West Coast, although sometimes she misses miss the comfort of history and architecture back home. Marina’s photography style combines a classic european taste with her personality as a dreamer and a drive to create outstanding and lovely imagery.
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Let it Ride Electric Bikes
25 NW Minnesota
open late
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Local Joe
929 Wall Street
open late
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Lone Pine Coffee Roasters
845 Tin Pan Alley
open late
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Lulu’s Boutique
150 Minnesota Avenue
Please come say Hi and view our latest arrivals by Edith A. Miller! Stripes are here to stay! Also, Michelle Curry Jewelry will be on Special! Purchase one of her beautiful necklaces and receive a pair of her earrings for FREE!
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Mt. Bachelor Acupuncture
841 Bond Street
open late
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Mockingbird Gallery
869 Wall Street #100
On First Friday, June 1st from 5-9 pm, Mockingbird Gallery presents “Seeing Light Through Color.” This exhibit is a two-person show featuring new paintings by Kent R. Wallis and Xiaogang Zhu. Please join us to meet the artists, for a glass of wine and to hear the sounds of Rich Hurdle and Friends. The show will continue through the end of June.
Utah artist Kent R. Wallis’s paintings blend the schools of romantic realism and impressionism, and his palette is bold and vivid. There is a private calm, a pure and quiet delight in his work that speaks of a simple love of color and form. He paints intimate studies of the surrounding countryside near his rural Utah home focused on vignettes of dappled light and quiet pools of color. Self-taught, his development as an artist was instinctive. His use of color and composition lend themselves to an incredible beauty which reflects intensity as well as a gentle calm and strength. “Through the years, what really excites me is color, particularly color mixed with sunlight.”
Central Oregon artist Xiaogang Zhu is known for his mastery with the medium of gouache. He creates light-filled landscapes and beautifully illuminated waterscapes of places with which he is familiar – cities in China and the Yangtze River, Arizona, Washington and Central Oregon. Xiaogang is also an accomplished oil painter who enjoys being able to paint larger studio works in the medium of oil, which are often inspired by his plein air gouache studies.
“The most important things for me are to catch the moment of beauty of light and color. The subject matter is always secondary, although my feelings seem to link more with my hometown landscape from China. Since I’m more interested in color, I treat almost any object as color blocks, shapes or dots.”
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Navidi’s Oils & Vinegars
120 Minnesota
open late
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Natural Edge Furniture
838 Bond Street
Stop by our bright new showroom at 838 Bond Street and take a peek at what we have been making, right here in Bend. This month we have some new occasional tables, a gorgeous new Douglas Fir dining table, new and funky lighting solutions and, an amazing and unique console table that is half price for art walk.
Each month on First Friday we are offering one piece at 50% off. This month our special is a maple console table. (pictured) The maple was salvaged from a log chipping operation and the steel base was saved from the smelter. This piece really demonstrates that high style can be eco-friendly and jaw droppingly cool. Super cool at half price, don’t be late, or it might be gone.
Make sure to stop in and have a glass of wine and we can talk about trees and sawdust. We can tell you about the pieces we are working on in the shop this month and just have a good time. Serving an amazing selection (two colors)of Charles Schwab wines that will be certain to delight your taste buds. Come say hi!
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Nature of Words
224 Oregon Avenue
open late
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North Soles
800 Wall Street
North Soles is featuring Tricia Huggin’s paintings and someone will be here from Not Alone (a non profit that is hosting a walk/run to benefit the homeless kids in Bend). If you sign up at North Soles during Art Hop, you will save $5 off registration. We will be serving beer from Boneyard Brewery. Go to www.333bend.com to learn more about the non profit benefiting our town’s kids.
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Olivia Hunter
800 Wall Street
Olivia Hunter is featuring art by Walt Tomsic. He does oil on canvas…beautiful, bright colorful paintings…
Sandra Bachulis will also be here with her new jewelry line…
Live music will be out on our patio.
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The Oxford Hotel
10 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Red Chair Gallery
103 Oregon Avenue
“The Shape of Color” featuring Barbara Werdell’s large acrylic paintings, Linda Swindle’s watercolor paintings and silk textiles, and Julia Kennedy’s jewelry. Reception Friday 5 to 9 pm. Join us for the fun!
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RE/MAX
431 Franklin Avenue
open late
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Roberts on Wall Street
945 Wall Street
Join us for live Jazz featuring SMUDGE, Elise Franklin on vocals and Warren Zaiger on electric bases.
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Sage Custom Framing & Gallery
834 Brooks Street
Paintings by Diane Hodiak will be on display for June at Sage Custom Framing and Gallery. Acrylic and pastel landscapes in bright happy colors. Visit us for an openning reception during first Friday Gallery walk, June 1st.
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SportsVision Bend
1002 Bond Street
Sportsvisionbend grand opening from 5-9pm on Friday, June 1 and from 2-5pm Saturday, June 2. Free food samples from Thai on the Fly and no-host bar provided by Twist Cocktail Catering on the patio deck. Raffle every hour for VonZipper sunglasses and a grand prize raffle for a Oakley watch valued at $500. Saturday’s family event features a Hula Hoop trick contest with prizes awarded every hour and a grand prize provided by Smith Optics and valued at $200. VonZipper’s giant inflatable gorilla will be available all day on Saturday for photo opportunities for the kids. Sportsvisionbend celebrates 24 years of business in downtown Bend at its new location on the corner of Bond and Oregon Street.
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TBD Loft
856 Bond #2-upstairs
open late
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The Tower Theatre
835 Wall Street
The Tower Theatre Foundation holds the first-ever High School Sports Trivia Bowl this Friday, June 1. Teams of student-athletes from local high schools will compete in a sports trivia contest for fun, area bragging rights and a cash donation to the winning school’s booster club or athletic department. Admission is free.
Trivia questions will come from a broad range of professional, college and high school sports, including baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, tennis, golf, racing, track and field, volleyball and more. Categories include the Rulebook, Records, League and Franchises, Local Sports, Nicknames and Individual Sports.
Participating high schools include Mountain View and Summit. Each team is comprised of four student-athletes, and will play up to nine rounds of trivia. The team collecting the most points will be declared Bend’s “Sports Trivia Champ.”
The Sports Trivia Bowl will be hosted by local sportscaster, referee and radio personality Mike Ficher. Judges include KTVZ-TV’s sports anchor Keith Bleyer and the Bend Elks mascot “Homer.” The Center sponsors the event and will donate $500 to the winning high school.
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The Wine Shop & Beer Tasting Bar
55 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Thump Coffee
25 Minnesota Avenue
Bend artist Julia Junkin’s design work has been featured in magazines such as Bon Apetite, Better Homes and Gardens and Brides, and objects bearing her art are sold across the USA at retailers including Sur la Table, Neiman Marcus and Crate & Barrel. But throughout June, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend will spotlight the paintings Junkins makes for artistic and creative freedom.
“In my work I am inspired by beauty and the unseen depth in things, the spiritual that lives in us even as we wash the dishes and get our latte,” says Junkin. “In my creative process I try not to think too much. I try to let my creativity have its way without too much fussing, as it seems when I overwork a piece it loses some of its original life. I tend to return to images that inspire me . . . for instance the praying buddah. I have painted the praying buddah many times but for me each one carries a different quality and essence. I am also a big doodler and poetic muser. I use pencil, pen, paint and whatever else I can find to create little one of a kind drawings-again listening to whatever drops down in that particular moment.”
Junkin attended art school in Seattle and started out hand-painting vintage linens purchased from second hand stores. This led to creating an entire wholesale line of hand-painted linens sold throughout the U.S.
Known for her images of wine, still life settings, and “poetic women in various states of muse,” Junkin now licenses her work to various companies who print the designs on linens, ceramics, wine glasses, magnets, paper napkins, posters and many other products.
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Tin Pan Theater
Tin Pan Alley (south of Minnesota, east of Bond)
open late
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Townshend’s Tea House
835 Bond Street
open late
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Tres Chic Lingerie
124 Minnesota Avenue
open late
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Tres Jolie de Bend
933 Wall Street
open late
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True Adams Company
750 Lava #100
open late
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Velvet Lounge
805 Wall Street
open late
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Visit Bend
750 Lava, Ste 160
Visit Bend hosts local artists to create unique chalk drawings on two large, cement pillars in the lobby of the Bend Visitor Center. The chosen artist will also have his or her framed art displayed and sold in the visitor center during the three-month period, including First Friday Art Walks.
June’s artist is Sam Fisch.
Please join us!
Wabi Sabi
830 Wall Street
The art of music,
wabi sabi fills with song
Yes! Canaan Canaan!
Sake and snacks will tantalize your taste buds.
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842 Wall Street
open late