Dear Friends,

The WSO Spring Convention
Hood River, April 4, 5&6, 2008.
Four Curry County watercolorists, Alexandra Eyer, Sharon Guinn and Shelly Wierzba of Gold Beach, and Horst Wolf of Brookings have been juried into the Watercolor Society of Oregon’s (WSO) 43rd Annual Aqueous Media Exhibit in Hood River, OR. Their paintings were among the 80 selected by juror Donna Zagota of Michigan, from a total of 387 works submitted. Eyer’s painting “Beach House” won an award of distinction and will be in the traveling show of 20 paintings that will tour the state starting on May 1st, 2008. The full exhibit will be open until April 30 at the Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) in Hood River, OR. CCA is located in downtown Hood River at 215 Cascade Street.

This was a fun show. It started Friday night with a meet & greet party at the prestigious Hood River Best Western, where the newest members of WSO were introduced and where some of their works were displayed. Saturday morning presented a variety of programs: from paint-outs to critique sessions with the juror. In the afternoon the exhibit opened at the Columbia Center of the Arts, a wonderful facility. I wish we had a similar venue in Brookings. Bill Sturman, the local chairman for the exhibit, had done a magnificent job hanging the show with his crew. As usual the work was outstanding. This spring there was an amazing number of nonrepresentational and abstracts work to be seen. The WSO shows seem to tend more and more in this direction, which is just fine with me.

The high point of the event was the awards banquet at the Gorge Room of the hotel. The food was excellent; the wine bar had a good selection; there was even a jazz pianist entertaining the artists and guests. A great experience. In 2010 we will have the WSO exhibit and convention in Brookings! Artists and their spouses from all over the state, most of them from the greater Portland area, will descent on our little town. We have our work cut out.!!

Horst

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