Events

Several Curry Arts members stepped forward to donate over $600 after the cancellation of the 2018 Brew & Art Festival. The cancellation, due to the Event Center being occupied by fire-fighting teams working to quell the Agness blaze, resulted in Curry Arts being unable to make its annual contribution to the Gold Beach school arts programs.

In normal years, Curry Arts donates their entire portion of the proceeds to support educational art activities in the Gold Beach schools, usually about $5,000 annually. Curry Arts has donated more than $25,000 to the school arts programs over the past five years.

Because of the large member donations and a match by Curry Arts, a donation of $1,200 has been made to the Gold Beach schools’ arts programs this year.

This donation, while not as large as in normal years, is being used to purchase art supplies and to help prepare student artwork for upcoming shows.

The 2019 Brew & Art Festival will be held on June 22, 2019 from noon to 9 pm at the Curry County Fairgrounds Event Center in Gold Beach. Tickets are on sale at: Interiors, Dan’s Ace Hardware, Gold Beach Books, Wright’s Custom Framing & Art Supplies, and Sassy Seagull.

See the 2019 Brew & Art Festival website goldbeachbrewfest.org for details.

Gold Beach will hosts its annual Brew & Art Festival on Saturday, June 22, 2019 from noon to 9 pm.

This is THE place to sample microbrews, check out different arts and crafts, satisfy your appetite and enjoy live music.

Local artists are encouraged to display their work for sale at the event and in the Curry Arts booth.  See below for artist call information links:

• Call to artists
• Entry form
• Entry labels

This year’s festival is being held in conjunction with the International Wind Surfing Tour’s Wave Bash at Pistol River.  More information on this exciting event can be found at https://internationalwindsurfingtour.com/pistol-river-wave-bash-2019/

All proceeds from the Brew & Art Festival go to the co-sponsors, Soroptimists of Gold Beach and Curry Arts, to provide scholarships for furthering education and careers and other charity services.

Mark your calendar and join us during some of the best coastal weather of the year and spend a weekend of fun in Gold Beach tasting your favorites or try new craft beers. The Annual Gold Beach Brew and Art Festival promises to be bigger and better each year with more brew selections, new local art, enticing artisans, great bands and a classic car show.

Advance tickets are on sale NOW at the brewfest website  and are available at in Gold Beach at Dan’s Ace Hardware, Gold Beach Books and Interior Coverups.  Tickets are also available for purchase at Wright’s Art and Custom Framing in Brookings and at the Sassy Seagull in Bandon.

Participating breweries include Arch Rock, Ecliptic, 2 Towns Ciderhouse, Pelican Brewing Company, Georgetown Brewing Company, Oakshire Brewing, Worthy Brewing, Chetco Brewing Company, Nectar Creek, Sierra Nevada, and Misty Mountain.

Bands this year will include Castletown, Ferguson Brothers, Hectic Week, Julie Divens, CRBQ, and the Port Orford Heads.

More information is available at the brewfest website: http://www.goldbeachbrewfest.org/.

All of Curry Arts’ Brew & Art Festival proceeds go directly into the art and music classrooms. These donations are made to a “290 Fund” that is managed by the classroom teacher and used to purchase art supplies and musical instruments. The donations cannot be used to replace school funding that is diverted for other purposes.

 

 

The 32st Annual Whale of a Wine & Art Festival will be held at the Docia Sweet Hall Event Center, at the Fairgrounds in Gold Beach in May 2019.

Local artists will be invited to display ready-to-hang art (wall art only).  Unframed art needs to be displayed in your own display rack.

Stay tuned for future updates for this event.

 

Rene Eisenbart, NWS, WFWS

Watercolor Workshop

March 5, 6, 7, 2018

 (Workshop is now full – wait list is available)

Curry Arts, Inc. will host a fun and informative, three-day workshop in Gold Beach, with nationally recognized artist, Rene Eisenbart (http://rene-art.com) March 5th through 7th,  9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.  The cost for the 3 day workshop is only $265 per student.

Rene will emphasize marbling techniques and will also work in watercolors, spending a day using marbling to “resurrect” failed paintings (wow, finally a use for all those “bin” paintings!)  Rene says:  “Sometimes finding our way out of something that isn’t working takes us in completely unexpected places! It’s an exciting and creative process.”  Please see Rene’s website for a detailed description of her marbling technique.

All marbling materials are included in the $265 fee.  However, students are responsible for all other painting materials.

This workshop is full, however, there is a wait list in case of any cancellations.  To reserve a place on the wait list contact Curry Arts at curryarts@charter.net as soon as possible.

René Eisenbart’s art-making which started in childhood has developed into a multi-faceted career, including 25 years as artist for The Oregonian where she created weekly botanical illustrations. Hundreds of her paintings have been published in the Homes & Gardens section and the book, “Plant This” by NPR correspondent Ketzel Levine.

 Rene’s art — often infused with the human form or quintessential plants and creatures of the Northwest — is rich with symbolic meaning. It is a dance between her intention and the flow of paint. She incorporates texture and patterning and uses unusual color to move the eye through her paintings. In combining acrylic marbling and watercolor — two practices with long traditions — Rene has developed a signature technique. She reinterprets images by weaving layers of marbled patterns with glazes of colorful paint. These interlaced works invite the viewer to construct their own narrative. They are drawing attention and winning awards. 

René teaches in her NW Portland home, throughout the region and also leads travel workshops in Croatia, France, Italy and Hawaii. She encourages each person’s unique artistic expression, creating a safe, supportive environment for growth and experimentation. Read more about her process on her blog.