Open Studios Art Tour 2009

The Open Studios Art Tour is a self-guided two-weekend event that gives the public a rare look into the studios of local artists to explore how artwork is made.
Open Studios Art Tour Events

Reception for Open Studios Art Tour Exhibition
October 2nd 6pm
1st Weekend of Open Studios Art Tour
October 17th & 18th 11am – 5pm
2nd Weekend of Open Studios Art Tour
October 24th & 25th 11am – 5pm
 
2009 Participating Artists

Judy Alison
Sisy Anderson
Mark Andrew
Sarkis Antikajian
Ryan Beard
Brooke Borcherding
Willy Clark
Tricia Clark-McDowell
Steven Daniels
Rogena Degge
Susan Detroy
Ellen Gabehart
Barbara Gleason
Patsy Hand
Anna Horrigan
Scott Huette
Kathryn Hutchinson
James Laub
Suzie Liles
Renee Manford
Terry McIlrath
 
Joan Milligan
Julie Mills-Testi
Marilyn Robert
Jerry Ross
Sheila Roth
Lesley Strother
Katie Swenson
LaVonne Tarbox-Crone
Kathy Tiger
Ed Tryk
Stephen White
Tickets for the event will be available beginning in September. Each ticket is Your Passport to Art Adventure and costs $15, and includes a detailed map to all participating studios.
 
Tickets can be purchased at DIVA or on PayPal (pick up at DIVA or mailed). Add $1.00 for shipping and handling.
 
Studio Tour
 

Participating Artists were selected based on the quality of their work by three local jurors to be featured on the Tour and in the Open Studios Art Tour Exhibition at DIVA.
 
Jessica Hickey graduated with her Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics and Fibers from the University of Oregon.She currently teaches ceramics at the Amazon Community Center, weaving at the UO Craft Center and is a Studio Assistant to artist and professor Josh Faught. She has also exhibited her own work locally.
Tara Kemp studied Fine Art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has designed and marketed art jewelry in mixed metals for over 15 years, traveling often to attend wholesale and retail craft events and wholesaling her work to galleries across the country. She has been working as graphic designer and illustrator for the past ten years and is currently working on a series of colorful botanical illustrations.
Nancy Pobanz was born and raised in Ontario, Oregon, her upbringing was in a home full of art and art making.Since then (minus a few years) her studio work has been her focus, principally in Seattle, the Philippines, and since 1993, in Eugene.Most of the materials she uses are made from natural sources - pigments from Oregon desert soils, tissue-thin or thick handmade paper from tree barks, grasses, and yucca leaves, ink from oak galls and walnuts, thread from yucca fiber and paper.Her artworks, whether one-of-a-kind books, small collages, sculptures, or large textural wall pieces, include private emotive journal writing, partially obscured by paper, cloth, pigment or thread, or hidden in inaccessible cavities.Her concepts are based on secrecy and disclosure, catharsis and release.
BA Education, Universidad de las Americas (Mexico), 1974
BFA Fibers, University of Oregon, 1981
MFA Fibers, University of Oregon, 1996
 

Top Credit: Artwork
- Anna Horrigan
- Lesley Strother
- James Laub

 Bottom Credit: Artwork
- Lavonne Tarbox-Crone
- Ryan Beard
- Willy Clark
- Stephen White