Edgy, stormy or barely there OUR COAST IS WHERE THE ART IS
Four distinct art cultures thrive in the Columbia-Pacific region. C 60 OUR COAST
Find them in Cannon Beach, Seaside, Astoria and on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula. BY GARY ADAMS
Cannon Beach was something of an artists’ colony in the 1960s. The arts were a central component of Maurie Clark’s development strategy for the then-sleepy town. Clark kept rents low for artists. That beckoned painters such as Steve McLeod and Frank Lack- aff. In 1971, Evelyn Georges opened the town’s first serious gallery, the White Bird. What you’ll find today in Cannon Beach ranges from landscape photography at George Vetter FotoArt to heavy bronze works at Bronze Coast Gallery, delicate handblown glass vessels at Icefire Glassworks to contemporary wall art at Modern Villa Gallery and Native American works at Northwest by Northwest Gallery. If your timing is right, you’ll catch the Stormy Weather Arts Festival in early November, featuring food and music along with art. Or the Spring Unveiling in April, where galleries spotlight new works.
A few miles north in Seaside, if it happens to be the first Saturday of the month, enjoy a First Saturday Art Walk downtown; but any day is good for a stroll down Broadway from U.S Highway 101 to the magnificent Seaside beach. The Art Walk’s attractions include Gilbert District Gallery, Isabell Ross and Yummy Wine Bar & Bistro. Gearhart’s art community centers on a historic schoolhouse whose gray shingled exterior is out of a Norman Rockwell painting. The Trail’s End Art Association has transformed the building into a center for top-drawer classes, work shops and exhibits. The as- sociation holds a monthly reception to coincide with the Seaside Art Walk.
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