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Festival of the Arts 2013
Sponsored by:
The Stafford: A Boutique Retirement Community
Art Education & Young Artists K-8 Sponsored by:
Wells Fargo
Bank
Hands-on art activities sponsored by:
Denton Plastics
Location:
Lakewood Center main level
What you'll find:
Students’ interpretation of the Special Exhibit theme, Spoon: Culinary Inspired Art.
Amust see:
The thoughtful depiction of society’s carelessness and waste of food.
Students focus on food at educational exhibit
T
his year both Lakeridge
and Lake Oswego high
schools will participate
in the Invitational High School
Art Exhibit. This year’s theme
will follow the Festival’s Spe-
cial Exhibit, Spoon: Culinary
Inspired Art. Students in both
2-D and 3-Dmedia will create art
that revolves around the theme
of food. Viewers will see acrylic,
oil and watercolor paintings of
food. Functional and nonfunc-
tional teapots, bowls, platters
and sculpted food will be on dis-
play as well.
Don’t miss special hands-on
times Saturday and Sunday
from noon to 4 p.m., perfect for
youngsters to not only see, but
create art pieces, courtesy of
Georgie’s and Gesso Studio. Be-
hind the pavilion tent, children
can participate in clay and paint-
ing activities.
Gesso Studio will lead paint-
ing activities for kids to create
art with watercolors and oil
pastels on paper. Kids will work
from a still-life of food and kitch-
en items to explore a variety of
color, shape and pattern.
The Lake Oswego High School
and Lakeridge Ceramics Depart-
ments will work with kids on the
potter’s wheels. Kids will get to
explore clay by hand building
and working on the wheel.
Artwork from Lakeridge Ju-
nior High, Lake Oswego Junior
High and Our Lady of the Lake
will be on display on the main
floor of the Lakewood Center.
There will be ceramic pieces,
graphite portraits and water-
color batik paintings exhibited.
Also on display are kindergar-
ten through fifth grade art liter-
acy projects from the elementa-
ry schools throughout the Lake
Oswego School District.
As a new twist this year, resi-
dents of The Stafford retirement
community will jury the show.
They will be giving first-, sec-
ond- and third-place ribbons for
both 2-D and 3-D entries.
Artist spotlight: Amy Chen,
Lake Oswego High School junior
This year, Amy Chen will dis-
play trashcan paintings with a
theme of waste and the careless-
ness of society when it comes to
consumerism. She will also have
one of her abstract trashcans
on display in the Artist’s Vision
Juried Show. The piece that will
be on display is one from her
series of works completed this
year revolving around the idea
of trashcans and waste and the
abstraction of the form of the
metal trashcan. Chen is also
the artist of Lake Oswego High
School’s national award-winning
cow, which was part of the Lu-
cerne Art of Dairy Art Contest.
She designed the composition
that she eventually painted on a
life-size cow that won $20,000 for
the Lake Oswego High School
Art Program.
Chen also received a National
Silver Key for her photography
at the Scholastic Art and Writ-
ing Awards.
You can see her art at both
the high school art show and the
Artist’s Vision at the Festival.
You can also meet Chen at the
kids’ hands-on area, sponsored
by Denton Plastics, where she
will be working with children
to show them how to create a
still-life in oil pastels and water-
colors.
Don’t miss a special hands-on times Saturday
and Sunday fromnoon to 4 p.m., perfect for
youngsters to not only see, but create art pieces,
courtesy of Georgie’s and Gesso Studio.
Amy Chen, Left: Acrylic paint on wood with copper wire (Artist’s Vision)
Right: Acrylic paint and thread on handmade paper
Ben Pingrey, “Ceramic Teapot”
Lake Oswego Jr. High 6th Grade,
“Batik Fish”
5 0 T H A N N I V E R S A R Y
High School Educational Exhibit