Free Newport Song Festival comes to the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center
Exhibits
Opening Friday, August 5, 2022: The Sustainable Feast, OSU’s Art about Agriculture exhibit at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center
Art About Agriculture’s annual exhibition of agriculture and natural resource-themed artwork by Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences will run at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center from August 5 to September 30, 2022.
The theme of the 39th annual juried competition and touring exhibition is “Sustainable Feast,” and it presents art from Northwest artists whose work explores food production and consumption, sustainability, diversity and innovation in our food system.
This year’s open call for artwork received 290 responses from artists in Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. The tour will include artwork by artists from 12 Oregon counties, five Washington counties and one county in Hawai’i.
“I am continually inspired by the many varied interpretations of our calls to artists to submit creative work for the Art About Ag program,” said Owen Premore, directing curator of the program. “The ability for art to uniquely capture the tension between demanding economies and delicate ecosystems as we ponder the meaning of a ‘sustainable feast’ is truly powerful.”
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Autumn Social at the Maritime Museum
Autumn Social at the Maritime Museum Friday, November 1
The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center and staff will host an Autumn Social on Friday, November 1st in the Maritime Museum’s Doerfler Family Theater. This relaxed annual social event is a fun way to spend an autumn evening and learn a bit about local seafaring history from storyteller extraordinaire, retired Coast Guardsman Tom McAdams. A local, McAdams is known nationally for his storied and highly decorated life-saving Coast Guard career. Aside from McAdams’ presentation there will be time to enjoy Maritime Museum exhibits, chat with staff, and mingle with friends, old and new.
Admission is free – donations gratefully accepted.
Schedule
6:00 PM: A brief Annual Meeting. All society members are encouraged to attend and vote on a slate of board officers.
6:30 PM: Tom Talk. Tom McAdams, legendary retired Coast Guardsman, will share stories of his adventures at sea.
A cookie buffet, cider, and coffee will be served.
The Pacific Maritime Heritage Center is located at 333 SE Bay Blvd on Newport’s Historic Bayfront. Parking is available at the top of the hill adjacent to the museum. (541) 265-7509
Autumn Social at the Burrows Museum
Open House & Autumn Social at the Burrows Museum Friday, October 19
The Burrows Museum and staff will host an Open House and annual Autumn Social Friday, October 19th. This casual event marks the 40th Anniversary of the Burrows House as a museum.
Burrows Museum
In 1895 John and Susan Burrows built their Victorian home on a popular footpath that connected Newport’s Bayfront with Nye Beach. The Burrows House was briefly their home, later a rooming house, then spent decades as a funeral parlor. It was moved to its current location, on 9th Street, in 1976 and has been a museum since 1978, longer than any other use of the structure.
Schedule
5:30 PM: A brief Annual Meeting in the Carriage House. All society members are encouraged to attend and vote on a slate of board officers. A presentation on the history of the Burrows House by LCHS Director Steve Wyatt will follow.
6:15 PM: 40th Anniversary Burrows House Museum Open House. A cookie buffet, cider, coffee, and a special one-day-only book sale with over 100 titles from the gift shop. 60% discount for members; 50% for non-members.
7:00 PM: Log Cabin Tour. Get a rare behind the scenes look at the Historical Society’s vast archives and research library led by LCHS Curator Krissy Sonniksen.
This relaxed event is a fun way to spend an autumn evening and learn about local history. Enjoy Burrows Museum exhibits, chat with staff, and mingle with friends, old and new.
Admission is free – donations gratefully accepted.
The Burrows Museum is located at 545 SW 9th Street in Newport, behind the Newport Armory.
Coastal Confluence
COASTAL CONFLUENCE
Virginia Leonnig & Carol Pulvermacher
A New Exhibit at the Maritime Museum
We each live in our own world, seeing the same things differently, yet more often than not manage to find common ground with others. Proof of this truism comes to light (and color) in the work of collaborating artists, Virginia Leonnig and Carol Pulvermacher.
An opening reception for this new exhibit at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center (Museum) will be held Friday, June 8th, 6:00-8:00 PM. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
This collaborative exhibit is a canvas expression of the two artists’ appreciation of Pacific Northwest wildlife. Their styles are vastly different yet somehow, by choosing identical subject matter and working independently, they evoke a surprising confluence of color and self-expression.
Carol Pulvermacher is best known as a self-taught pyrographer (wood burning) wildlife artist. She has since developed a newly found passion for abstract expressionist painting influenced by Northwestern Native imagery. She uses bold lines, colors and drip painting to express calm meeting chaos. Working mainly from a studio space in her West Linn home, Pulvermacher works outside when the weather allows — a practice she describes as “like coming home.”
She enjoyed her first group show at The Lincoln City Cultural Center’s Chessman Gallery in 2013, and a solo show in Estacada in August 2013. In the summer of 2015 she discovered the abstract world of drip painting. On a whim, she added her wood burned wildlife, with a NW native style, to the paintings.
In 2017 this combination lead to a solo show at the Spiral Gallery and acceptance into two juried shows, “Color” in Fort Collins, CO, and “All Things Salmon” show at the Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR. Also in 2017, Carol and Virginia Leonnig shared a show “Colorful Confluence” at the Chessman Gallery in Lincoln City. Carol was recently in a three person show at the Spiral Gallery.
Virginia Leonnig has had a life-long interest in painting and the natural world around her. She was born into an artistic family who recognized and encouraged her talent and interests at an early age.
At the age of 12 her grandmother provided her with her first work space. By the time she reached age 13 she was enrolled in Schuler School of Fine Art in Baltimore, Maryland.
Marrying shortly after graduating from high school she soon had 3 children. While raising her small children she took several courses of study at The Maryland Institute of Art and from professional artists.
Virginia relocated to Oregon in 1984 where she met her second husband. In 1994, they embarked on a two-year sailing adventure with paints well packed. In the tropics Virginia’s work was influenced by the vibrant colors, changing weather, movement of water and the constant motion of the boat. These influences continue to dominate in her work.
On return to Oregon Virginia made the decision to not go back to her job as a pediatric medical assistant and to instead pursue her art full time. She currently resides in Waldport, Oregon with her husband.
Admission to this special event is free for Historical Society members, and $5 for non-members. For more information, call (541) 265-7509.