Monthly Archives: June 2010

‘Fearless Drawing’ Class Starts July 13

Artist Audene Jay will lead a “Fearless Drawing” course July 13-29

Award winning artist Audene Jay will lead a three-week “Fearless Drawing” course at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita in July. Class sessions will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2 to 4 p.m., beginning July 13 and running through July 29. Classes will be held in the Hoffman House Studios at 595 Laneda Avenue, in Classroom 7.

Jay described Fearless Drawing as “a course for complete beginners or anyone wishing to improve their drawing skills,” and will teach artists to draw what they see with confidence. “You’ll learn the skills to see as an artist sees, which is the key to drawing with ease,” she added.

The course is limited to eight students and costs $199. The curriculum has a beginning and an end, so a commitment to six sessions, at two sessions per week, is needed to give students the full benefit. Preregistration is required. A $40 materials fee is due at the first class.

Click here to download and complete the Fearless Drawing registration form.  More information about the classes can be obtained from Jay at 503-368-6901 or audene.artist@gmail.com.

Audene Jay is a full-time coastal resident. Before settling on here she traveled full-time across the United States for four years. During her travels she concentrated on photography and put her artwork in storage. “I am so deeply inspired by the North Coast and am looking forward to meeting new people in the arts and getting back to my first love — drawing and painting,” she said.

Jay was a scholarship recipient at the Museum of Fine Arts School in Houston and also attended The Advertising Arts College in San Diego, where she received a scholarship based on her work and graduated with a Communications degree. She was a gallery artist in Houston for a decade. She is also a poet and performance artist with a one-person show entitled “Little Secrets We Call Ourselves” performed at several Houston venues.

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This is where you’ll find the latest announcements for our workshops, art camps for kids, the authors presenting at the Manzanita Writers’ Series, as well as other performances in music, magic, and theater.

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“The People Speak” to be Screened in Manzanita on June 26th

peoplespeak-1The Manzanita Film Series is proud to present “The People Speak” on June 26th at 7p.m. at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita. Admission will be $6.

Using dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries and speeches of everyday Americans, “The People Speak” gives voice to those who spoke up for social change throughout U.S. history, forging a nation from the bottom up with their insistence on equality and justice. Narrated by Howard Zinn and based on his best-selling book, A People’s History of the United States, “The People Speak” illustrates the relevance of these passionate historical moments to our society today and reminds us never to take our liberty for granted.

Ekahni Books will be on hand selling books about film history, and books related to people quoted in the film (including A People’s History of the United States) at a 20% discount.

The Manzanita Film Series is a program of the Hoffman Center in Manzanita, Oregon. Films will be screened on the 4th weekend of the month throughout the year. Admission is $6 and theater concessions, as well as beer and wine, will be available for purchase.

Please contact Franz Hasslacher, franzhass@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities

“Art Camp” for Grown-ups July 5th – July 9th

Cathi Howell, arts educator and studio artist in her Manzanita studio.

Cathi Howell, arts educator and artist in her Manzanita studio.

Cathi Howell, artist and arts educator, will lead a series of workshops Monday, July 5th through Friday, July 9th. The workshops will be held at the Hoffman Center at 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita.

Part-time 15 year Manzanita resident Cathi Howell will put on an arts curriculum that emphasizes short, one-day creative art projects. The classes will last from 9 to 11 each morning that week. Each class will feature a different technique, including simple printmaking processes, collage, simple sculpture from recycled materials, and self-portraits. No art experience is necessary. This is not technical art training, however experienced artists are welcomed. Students can attend just one or two of the classes—they cost just $20 each, or sign up for the entire week and get a discounted rate of $85. Students get a special discounted rate of $10 per class.

Cathi Howell is a retired arts educator, arts entrepreneur, and studio artist. Currently she teaches an arts program for Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland Oregon several hours each week. She was one of the founding board members of the Hoffman Center.

To register download the art camp registration form, to print off and send in with your check. You can also get more detailed information about each class directly from Cathi Howell at 503.720.9686.

Art ‘Camp’ Class Schedule by Day

Monday July 5– Basic Relief Printing: Students design, carve and create simple printmaking tools to print and embellish a variety of surfaces and decorative paper.

Tuesday July 6 — Mixed Media Collage/Personal Histories: Students select from photos, clips, quotes, stories of their own and combine them with an array of papers and materials to create personally themed collages.

Wednesday July 7– “Recycled” Scrap Sculpture Constructions: Each participant will create a small scale 3-D “sculpture” using recycled and/or re-usable materials with simple glue gun technology

Thursday July 8– Self-Portrait Collage: Students begin with a basic introduction to a contour drawing technique. Through the use of torn and cut papers, participants will create a combined self-portrait collage.

Friday July 9– Extended Drawing: Awaken your visualization skills! Students select a photo, art poster or other printed art and use these as focus for extending what that art might look like beyond its edges. Pencil, charcoal, and colored drawing media will be used.

“En Plein Air” Workshop on June 12: Sign up NOW!

Author Robert Pyle

Author Robert Pyle

The “En Plein Air” workshop at the Alder Creek Farm Conservation Site led by award-winning author Robert Michael Pyle still has room.  Sign up this week and take the opportunity to study with a master, to spend a day that will combine lecture with observation, writing and “workshopping” your words.

Click here http://hoffmanblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/en-plein-air-registration.pdf to print off and complete your registration form and order your lunch. 

 “Imagination and the interior life are all very fine,” says Pyle, “but we should not neglect the fact that we live in a sensual and sensory wonderland whose close observation can only enrich every story, poem or essay.”

Pyle has published hundreds of essays, stories and poems along with fourteen books, including Wintergreen, Where Bigfoot Walks, Walking the High Ridge, and Sky Time in Gray’s River. His latest book, Mariposa Road, is due out later this year. Pyle has his Ph.D. in conservation biology from Yale. He’s won numerous awards to include the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harry B. Nehls Award in Nature Writing, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature.

 Alder Creek Farm is a 52-acre conservation site preserved as open space by the Lower Nehalem Community Trust. You’ll have a chance to wander the property for your observations, with views of the bay, an estuary, permaculture gardens, lots of wildlife, and often a herd of elk.

 The workshop will run from 9am to 3pm. The fee is $95, $85 for LNCT members, and includes a box lunch. There is space for 20 participants.  For additional information, or to give us a ‘heads up’ that you’ll be coming, email vwildauer@gmail.com.

 This workshop is a collaboration between the Hoffman Center’s Manzanita Writers’ Series and the Lower Nehalem Community Trust.  To become a member of the Lower Nehalem Community Trust, go to www.nehalemtrust.org.

Jim Lynch to read at Manzanita Writers Series June 19

Author Jim Lynch

Author Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch will read from his latest novel Border Songs at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at 7 pm on Saturday, June 19, at the Hoffman Center in Manzanita.

Border Songs was picked as one of six finalists for American Booksellers Award for best fiction of 2009. It was also picked as among the Best Books of 2009 by The Washington Post, The Toronto Star, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, and The Oregonian.

One of his many glowing reviews reads:

“Although I think Border Songs is in a class by itself, I’d also like to offer just a couple of comparisons that give the feel of what a great read this really is. It’s The Big Chill of life on the border, and a cross between The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and T. C. Boyle’s Budding Prospects. Finding a novel that is at once pure fun but literary, and humorous with outstanding character development, can be hard to come by. But Jim Lynch has wrapped it up tightly in this incredible story of life in a border town near British Columbia. All in all, a wonderland of growers, dealers, smokers, and birders! Fantastic!” —Linda Grana, Lafayette Books, Lafayette, California

His first novel, The Highest Tide, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, appeared on several best-seller lists, was adapted for the stage and has been published in eleven foreign markets.

Jim Lynch lives with his wife and their daughter in Olympia, Washington. As a journalist, he has received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors.

Following the author reading and Q&A, the popular Open Mic session will provide opportunities for the audience to hear nine local writers read from their original work. Interested writers sign up at the door to read; first come, first to read.

Writers interested in reading should check out the Open Mic guidelines at hoffmanblog.org <http://hoffmanblog.org <http://hoffmanblog.org> > and come prepared to read your original piece of work in five minutes or less.

The series is a program of the Hoffman Center and will be held at the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) The building will be set up in a café style with coffee/tea and snacks available. Admission fee is $5. For further contact Kathie Hightower, 503-739-1505; kathie@jumpintolife.net).