We are curious and seek to explore our interests and the world. Painting, Pottery, Sculpture, Felt, Mixed-Media, other Visual and Performing Arts,Creative Writing and Documentary Video.
One of my favorite artist is clay sculptor Blythe Eastman Blythe Eastman . She showed with me at my studio in 2009. We, Meadowlake Studios, filmed her for an Arts Alive show. For one reason or another the show got stuck then forgotten in the editing bay.
In 2019 when we were doing Arts Alive shows of some of Art Harvest Studio Tour
artists I ran across Blythe's show files. Her work is fantastic. She
is able to capture complex yet subtle animal gesture with an elegant
minimalist approach. Her show need to be finished. We posted on Arts
Alive in 2019.
This summer I worked with artist Dwight Evalt on a video to show one of his painting techniques which uses fire. The beginning of the painting Nike of Samothrace. It came together and a young local musician Treven Hughes' music fits the action. The music was recorded last year at McMinnville Community Media studio.
Dwight and I are almost neighbors. Dwight lives in Carlton Oregon. His website is dwightevaltart.weebly.com
Liz and I and Dwight were on this year's Art Harvest Studio Tour A program of the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County which has been sponsoring the Tour for 20 years. The 2012 Tour was Friday Oct 5, 6, 7 and the second weekend Oct 12, 13 and 14. With a Student Education Tour during the week between.
It was a pretty good Tour. I don't think Dwight demonstrated painting with fire. You can see here.
Paper Gardens Literary Contest for sponsored by Arts Alliance of Yamhill County publishes a Chapbook of the winning entries in the Adult, Youth and Children groups. Free Verse Poetry one of the long standing poetry categories. This year's winners who read their work at the April 13th Awards event at the McMinnville Community Media were “Undone” by Julie Stubblefield, “My Surgeon” by Jen Jo, “Lullaby” by Susan Easterly, “Sideways” by Bethan Bonebrake and “Quiet” by Hannah Siepmann.
We filmed the full Paper Gardens Event and the 45 minute TV show "Meadowlake Studios Encounter: Paper Gardens 2012" will begin to air on Comcast Channel 11 and Frontier 29 beginning Saturday 5/12. Check McMinnville Community Media for the schedule. The show should run multiple times during the week.
We put the segment on the Free Verse Poetry readings on YouTube.
For a copy of the Paper Gardens 2012 Chapbook go to Arts Alliance of Yamhill County website. I do not think you can buy them directly from the site. They do have Chapbooks available. Contact them and they will be happy to get you a Chapbook.
Paper Gardens 2012 Literary Contest for Adult, Youth and Children writers is sponsored by Arts Alliance of Yamhill County. The 19th Paper Gardens celebration was held on April 13th at the McMinnville Community Center. Contest Chair-person was Kelli Grinich and Judge was Charles Goodrich.
We filmed the event and finally edited it into a 45 minute for TV show. We delivered Meadowlake Studios Encounter: Paper Gardens 2012 to McMinnville Community Media yesterday. MCM starts a new weekly schedule on Saturdays. Our Meadowlake Encounter with Paper Gardens will likely begin on Comcast Channel 11 and Frontier 29 on Saturday the 12th. It is all there. Kelli Grinich's introduction, Charles Goodrich's encouragement, his reading of some of his poems and the Adult, Youth and Children categories in Free Verse, Traditional Poetry, Haiku, Poetry of Place and Prose who chose to read their work.
As the evening was wrapping up Charles handed me a copy of his newest book of poems Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden. The poems follow the seasons from Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring and to Summer again. His voice has an elegant calm, his eye able to see the finest detail of ordinary and not so ordinary things and his humor and humanity are reflected without trying.
Once the TV show is edited it is not much more to edit segments to fit YouTube's limit of 15 minutes or less.
I liked the "Bubble Bee" poem. The day before yesterday I watch a bubble bee struggling to work on a tiny blue rosemary flower. Charles poem is perfect.
In Arts Alive Part Two Emily Chadwick, one of the founders of Terroir Creative Writing Festival and guest Debra Voorhees and Craig Bodmer talk with Arts Alive host Lynda Phillippi. The Festival will be all day Saturday April 14th at the McMinnville Community Center.
The Terroir Creative Writing Festival brings Oregon writers together
for a day of celebrating this special place, as well as the joys of
writing and books. Some of the benefits of attending the are meet nationally acclaimed Oregon writers, share your passion for words and books, attend workshops, talks, readings and book signings, and earn more about your craft.
Some of the Festival workshop leaders and speakers include: Chelsea Cain, Willy Vlautin, Matt
Love, Charles Goodrich, Leanne Grabel, Molly Johnson, Bill Siverly,
Michael McDowell, Lex Runciman, Mary Slocum, Linda Kuhlmann, Marilyn
Worrix, Barbara Drake, Phoebe Newman
Paper Gardens Literary Contest DEADLINE is postmark February 15th. Applications are now being accepted for the 2012 Paper Gardens Literary contest. Click here for the application form.
Paper Gardens features two main categories for
submission, poetry and prose, and encompasses three age groups: children
(ages six to 12), youths (ages 13 to 18) and adults (19 and above). The
prose category includes subcategories of short story and memoir, and is
limited to one submission per person. Poetry has four subcategories:
traditional, free verse and haiku, and returning for a second year,
poetry-of-place.
The poetry-of-place subcategory is
specifically intended for poems written about or inspired by places in
Yamhill County. As Paper Gardens is a literary contest for residents of
Yamhill County, work inspired by our local surroundings is a natural fit
for the competition.
Writers may submit up to three poems total. More
than one submission per subcategory is allowed. The entry fee for adults
is five dollars. Children and youth submissions are free of charge.
The judge will select three winners in each
category, and the winning poems will be published in the 2012 Paper
Gardens chapbook. The winning authors will receive a free chapbook and
certificate of recognition, and will be invited to read their work at an
awards ceremony Friday April 13th at the McMinnville Community Center.
Kelli Grinich, Paper Gardens Part One
Recently Kelli Grinich, the Chair of the Paper Gardens Literary Contest talked with Lynda Phillippi on the Arts Alive program. Arts Alive: Paper Gardens Part One and Arts Alive: Paper Gardens: Part Two the 30 minute show is in Part One and Two because of Youtube limit of 15 minutes. The full show will air on McMinnville Community Media begin Saturday, February 11th and run four or five times during the week.
