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The 11th annual Gold Beach Brew & Art Festival, previously scheduled for Sept. 8, has been cancelled.

Due to the Klondike and Taylor Creek fires, the US Forest Service will be taking over the Curry County Fairgrounds as their incident command post through the date the Brew Fest was scheduled.

The cancellation of this event presents a sizeable financial loss for the event’s two sponsors, Curry Arts and Soroptimist International of Gold Beach.  A substantial amount of money has been already been expended preparing for the festival.  Festival organizers estimate the loss will be several thousand dollars.

The co-sponsors are appealing to festival vendors and artists to consider donating their vendor fee to help reduce the financial hit.  Another alternative is to apply this year’s vendor fee as a credit toward next year’s festival fee.

Vendors and artists can find updated information at http://goldbeachbrewfest.org/.

Thank you for your understanding, and thank you to our Firefighters!

See you next year!

Curry Arts member artists were busy at the 2018 Curry County Fair.  The “Artisan Hall” featured works by member artists Alexandra Eyer, Magda Druzdzel, Shelley MacIntosh, Carol Hinman, Sharon Guinn, and Lorraine Filippone.  Member Artist Alexandra Eyer created “quick draw” portraits of fair goers on Saturday and member artist Anna Gitchel won Best of Show for her painting entry in the fair exhibits. 

Coos Art Museum
Expressions West 2018
April 27th through June 30th

Congratulations to Curry Arts members Pat Renner, Anna Gitchel, and Pete Chasar, and also Gold Beach Artist Morgan Burton Johnson for having artwork juried into the 2018 Expressions West show at the Coos Art Museum in Coos Bay.

Anna Gitchel’s colorful octopus painting (shown above) won the People’s Choice Award at the show.  Anna currently has paintings on display at Wright’s Custom Framing & Art Supplies in Brookings.

The show runs from April 27th through June 30th.

For more information on the show see the Coos Art Museum website at https://www.coosart.org/expressions-west-2018/

Artwork by Gold Beach K-12 students was on display at the 3^rd Annual Student Art Show held at the Gold Beach Event Center on Saturday, April 14.

More than 300 pieces were entered in the show in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, ceramics, poetry and industrial arts, according to art instructor Todd Lensing.

Graduating senior Isabella Laurino was the featured artist.  She plans to major in fine arts at Southern Oregon University in the fall.

Curry Arts supports the arts programs in Gold Beach schools by donating its share of the proceeds from the Brew & Art Festival.  Over the past five years, Curry Arts has given more than $25,000 to our local elementary school’s art program and the Gold Beach High School’s art and music programs.

In this year’s show, Mr. Lensing used Curry Arts funds for matting and framing of the student artwork.