December 8, 2006 - February 19, 2007
Art quilts by 6 Northwest fiber artists.
On display in the Maggie Karl Gallery.
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Individual Works: Ann Johnston, Jeannette Meyer, Cynthia Corbin, Quinn Corum, Nancy Erickson, and Trisha Hassler

Baseline by Ann Johnston

Contrapuntal by Jeannette Meyer

Easter Cougar by Nancy Erickson

Adds Up by
Cynthia Corbin

Earth Forms – The Pond
by Quinn Corum

Finally
by Trisha Hassler

December 8, 2006 - February 19, 2007
Fine Focus '06 - a traveling exhibit of 50 small format art quilts juried by nationally known fiber artists Judy Dales, Jane Dunnewold and Kim Ritter. On display upstairs in the Uno E. Richter Atrium.

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December 8, 2006 - February 19, 2007
Historical quilts from the collection of the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum. On display upstairs in Mabel Hansen Gallery.

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October 20 - November 25, 2006
Exhibition of works by Oregon Artists. People's Choice to be voted on during the run of the exhibition. Open (non juried) to all artists residing in Oregon. Works must have been created within the past 2 years. March 2004 through October of 2006. On display in throughout the entire Museum.

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The Photographic Eye | Figure Studies and the Human Form | Abstract Art | Three Dimensional Art | Realism and Representational Art

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CAM Biennial People's Choice Award winner

Pacific Golden Plover:
On Johnson's Mill Pond
mixed media,
by Kimberly Wurster
Image courtesy of the artist

July 21 - September 23, 2006
Juried exhibition by Maritime artists from around the country. On display in the Maggie Karl Gallery. Opening weekend activities includes a ‘plein-air wet paint’ event. After painting on locations from the Coos Bay waterfront to Cape Arago, the newly created works-of-art are brought in, wet paint and all, and auctioned off at a Seafood barbecue with proceeds going to CAM.

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Best of Show
Seaside Thicket, an oil
by James Magner of
South Glastonbury, CT

Coos Art Museum's
Director's Choice Award
The Dinghys, an acrylic
by Geri Keary of Martinez, CA

Oregon International Port of Coos Bay's Commissioners Award
Decker's Tug (Tanker II), an oil
by Christine Hanlon of San Rafael, CA

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People's Choice
Passing Storm, Dingle Penninsula, an oil
by Grant Saylor of Everett, WA

July 21 - September 23, 2006
Featured Artist for the 13th Annual Maritime Art Exhibit. Recent works by a Member of American Society of Marine Artists. On display in the Perkins Room Gallery.

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North Bend

On the Columbia

Novelty at Sunset

Scotch Mist

July 21 - September 23, 2006
A 3-dimensional fabric art exhibition of an underwater sea garden by Medford installation artist Audrey Sochor. On display upstairs in the Uno Richter Atrium.

Artist Audrey Sochor, inspired by watching moon jellyfish at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, went back to her studio and began to paint them on curtains of double layers of polyester 8xx screen printing fabric. When hung with lighting behind the images, she found that as the viewer moved and as the lighting changed behind the double curtains, the images began to vibrate in the moiré phenomenon as had been discovered by Venezuelan artist Jesus Raphael Soto. Sochor's images began to appear like jelly fish actually swimming in the sea.

A phenomenon enjoyed by scuba divers is that, in the Zen sense, time seems to stand still. That was the feeling that led Sochor to go on to develop environments of Sea Curtains - to give the gallery visitor the feeling of what it is like to dive through kelp beds and schools of fish for extended periods in the sea.

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Kelp Forest

untitled

Scuba Night

Tentacles

July 21 - September 23, 2006
Images from the historic maritime collection of photography. On display in the Mabel Hansen Gallery.

Coos County River Transportation on display at the Fairgrounds Museum

Experts from the Collection and the Preservation Project on display in the Mabel Hansen Gallery

Curator's Statement

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Fort Laramie

The Hannah

A Curator's View of Oregon's Maritime History. Two Exhibits from the Collection Curated by Ciara Van Velsor.

May 26 - July 13, 2006
Annual juried purchased-award competition for painters from the 13 western states. Co-sponsored by the Southwestern Oregon Community College Foundation. On display in the Maggie Karl Gallery & Permanent Collection Alcove.

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1st Place
Kora
Oil
Joellyn Loehr
Sisters, OR

2nd Place
Figure No. 9
Oil
Zin Lim
Daly City, CA

3rd Place
The Trouble of Time
Oil & Acrylic
Bobbie Jansen
Albany, OR

May 26 - July 13, 2006
Collection of works by juror for Expressions West 2006. On display in the Perkins Room Gallery.

Girl Holding Skirt
mixed media on panel

Works by Ed Musante

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Kestrel/Baxter
mixed media on cigar box panel

Pine Warbler/La Fendrich
mixed media on cigar box panel

May 26 - July 13, 2006
A retrospect of work by an internationally known local artist from a private collection. On display upstairs in the Uno Richter Atrium & the Mabel Hansen Gallery.

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Regimental
oil

Influenced by the works of Diebenkorn, Van Allen was also influenced by the many diverse environs and cultures of where she lived. As a working artist in California, Iran, England, the American Southwest and finally in 1993 with her move to the southern Oregon Coast, Katrina Van Allen continued to create and exhibit her works up to her untimely passing in 2003. CAM is proud to present this limited viewing of a collection of Van Allen's works.

untitled
oil

The Shopper
oil

April 7 - May 20, 2006
70 Prints from Coos Art Museum's & Crow's Shadows Press' Permanent Collection. Co-exhibition on display in the Maggie Karl Gallery & Permanent Collection Alcove.

Spegi 04/Kestrel
by Rick Bartow

A joint exhibition of 70 contemporary prints by nationally known artists from the Permanent Collections of Coos Art Museum and Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. Works by Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Liechtenstein, Red Grooms, Gordon Gilkey, George Johansen, Rick Bartow, James Lavadour, Truman Lowe, Marie Watt, Kay Walkingstick on display in the Maggie Karl Gallery.

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Co-curated by Frank Janzen, Tamarind Master Printer at Crow's Shadow Press and Del Smith, Curator of the Permanent Collection at Coos Art Museum, this exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Coquille Tribal
Community Fund.

Balloons
by Alexander Calder

An exhibition of tribal stories and folklore explaining the origin of species and natural history, told through the art of print making. The exhibition of 10 prints and 6 stories was created by San artists from the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa and Umatilla Tribal members from the Columbia Plateau near Pendleton, OR. On display in the Mabel Hansen gallery, this exhibition is on loan from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.

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Background on The Myth of Creation

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Trickster
by Jeremy Wolf

How Man Got Fire
by Xgaiga Qomaytcca

An exhibition of tribal stories and folklore about everyday life. Told through the art of print making, these 37 prints were created by Aboriginal artists from Australia, Native American artists from the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico and young artists from the Umatilla Tribe in Pendleton, Oregon. On display in the Uno E. Richter Atrium gallery, this exhibition is on loan from Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts.

Background on Stories of the Living Land

Bear Paw Battlefield I
by Kay WalkingStick

An exhibition of prints by 16 Seattle artists. Published by Platform Gallery in Seattle, WA, this is a first in a series of limited-edition original works printed by Sheila Coppola at Sidereal Press. On display in the Perkins Room gallery, 2006, this exhibition is on loan from the Microsoft Art Collection.

February 24 - April 1, 2006
Annual high school art competition for students from throughout Southern Oregon. Co-sponsored by Southwestern Foundation. On display upstairs in the Mabel Hanson Gallery and the Uno Richter Atrium.

Top 3 cash-purchase award winning entries.

Complete listing of all 19 award winners by Grade Division.

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1st Place
Isolate by Miriam Hladky
12th grade, Coquille HS

Best of Show
13 Eyes by John Castaldi
9th grade, Bandon HS

2nd Place
Bridled Beauty by Jenny Parmele
11th grade, Brookings-Harbor HS

February 24 - April 1, 2006
Works from school children (K - 12) from throughout Coos County. Supported in part by a 2005 grant from the Coos County Cultural Coalition. On display throughout the entire main floor of the Art Museum.

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December 2, 2005 - February 11, 2006

Hand carved life size wooden carousel (Merry-Go-Rounds) animals by Ken Means, Coquille, OR artist, on display in the Maggie Karl Gallery.

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Ken Means
Coquille, Oregon

Billy
Ken Means

Christmas Deer
Ken Means

Bucky
Ken Means

December 2, 2005 - February 11, 2006
Wood Turners of the South Coast

Exhibition of regional wood turning artists on display upstairs in Mabel Hansen Gallery.

December 2, 2005 -
February 11, 2006
Driftwood sculptures

In conjunction with Oregon State Parks, Coos County Parks, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology & the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. Create your own wood sculptures out at the beach using pieces of driftwood (found objects) and CAM will display them in the upstairs Uno E. Richter Atrium.