Category: Events Organized by TRAG

Call for Volunteers: OCFOTA 2022

Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Events Organized by TRAG
Oregon City Festival of the Arts logo

Volunteers needed!

By Kerry Edwards, Volunteer Coordinator for OCFOTA

The Oregon City Festival of the Arts is coming up on August 13 and 14 and we are looking for volunteers to help out. Whatever time you can contribute would be greatly appreciated – whether it is a couple of hours, a morning, afternoon – or even the whole weekend!

If you have a child or grandchild over 15 who would like to help out – make it a family event! It’s going to be a fun weekend with a large variety of artists’ booths, all day live musical performances, food vendors and entertainment and a silent auction. A great way to contribute while you enjoy the Festival of the Arts.

If you have any questions, contact Kerry Edwards at kerryducks56@gmail.com.

Please use the form below to apply.

The form is now closed.

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Spring Fling 2022 Review

Spring Fling Art Festival, Events Organized by TRAG

By Lynda Orzen, Spring Fling Coordinator

The weather wasn’t the best for our 2-day art event but still had quite a few visitors. Having smaller crowds meant visitors had more time to talk with artists. We had to bring in our artists that were going to set up outside, making for cozier conditions inside. Soul Flags kept the little ones busy making Mother’s Day cards.

A huge Thank You to Rose Holden for inviting us to use her facility for our art event!

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OCFOTA T-shirt Contest

Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Events Organized by TRAG

Contest Rules

  1. The contest is open only to active TRAG Members.
  2. There is no theme for Artist entries.
  3. Each Artist may submit only one (1) entry.
  4. Entries should be 300 dpi, 2400 pixels on a longer side PNG or JPG files.
  5. All entries must be received by 11:59 pm June 10, 2022.
  6. The winning Artist will be announced by June 30, 2022.
  7. The winning Artist will:
    • have their artwork printed on the OCFOTA 2022 Volunteer T-Shirt
    • receive a $100 reward
    • receive a T-Shirt with their artwork

The contest is over, and the form is now closed. Thank you for your interest.

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Call for Artists: Oregon City Festival of the Arts 2022

Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Events Organized by TRAG
Oregon City Festival of the Arts logo

Updated May 10th, 2022: We are extending the deadline for artists to jury into the Oregon City Festival of the Arts till May 31.

For the sixth year, the Three Rivers Artist Guild is presenting an arts, culture and heritage event known as the Oregon City Festival of the Arts (OCFOTA) on August 13 and 14, 2022.

The Festival will be held at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive & Visitor Information Center located at 1726 Washington Street, Oregon City, OR 97045. Hours of Operation are 10-5 both days.

OCFOTA draws an attendance of approximately 2000 throughout the weekend. This event is free to the public.

Your point of contact is Lynda Orzen, orzep@comcast.net.

This is a juried art show open to residents of Oregon and Washington State. If interested, an application and a nonrefundable $25 jury fee is due no later than May 31, 2022.

There is space for approximately 55 artists. If accepted, the booth fee is $135. This includes your booth space (10’ x 10’) and marketing for the event.

Please note: This is an outdoor event on the grass. Although we make every effort to find the most level and suitable booth spaces, not all locations are perfectly flat. There is no power available for the booths. Please note, we periodically experience inclement weather. The ground may be wet. Please be prepared for potential showers and wind.

No more than two artists may share a booth and art must be compatible. Both artists must be juried in and send in separate applications and jury fees. You will share the booth fee of $135.

Important Dates to remember

  • May 15, 2022: Jury fee and application due date.
  • June 15, 2022: Jury results sent to artists.
  • June 30, 2022: $135 booth payments due.
  • August 12, 2022: Friday Festival set-up
  • August 13 and 14, 2022: Oregon City Festival of the Arts

Application to jury and payment

If interested, please fill out the application form below. Please note that if accepted, your bio will be used for social media advertising. What you include in your statement is exactly what will be posted on Instagram and Facebook for marketing. Please make it approximately 100 words. The digital images are what we will be using for the jury process – so submit your best work!

Thanks for your interest and participation.

The form is now closed. Please apply next year!

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Call for Artists – Spring Fling Festival 2022

Spring Fling Art Festival, Events Organized by TRAG, Artist Opportunities

This year the Spring Fling will be held at the Oregon City Golf Club at 20124 S Beavercreek Road in Oregon City. The event will be held Mothers Day Weekend, May 6 and 7. Friday from noon till 5 and Saturday from 10 am till 5 pm. Set up will be Friday morning from 8 till 11:30 am. There are two options for booth selections. The facility has an elegantly decorated reception room for weddings and other events. There is an outside covered patio area and covered Pergola for pop ups.

For more information contact the Spring Fling Coordinator, Lynda Orzen, orzep@comcast.net

Inside area

There are eighteen spaces total inside the reception area that measure 6 ft x 8 ft in. Six of the spaces are 6 ft deep by 8 ft wide, twelve of the spaces are 8 ft deep by 6 ft wide.

Outside area

There is a covered patio just outside the reception room with a covered Pergola.

Eight spaces to accommodate 10 by 10 booths,
Two spaces outside entry doors 8 wide by 6 deep
One odd-shaped space in Pergola about 7 ft by 5 ft.

Application fee is for Friday and Saturday

All 8 by 6 spaces including odd shape are $50

10 x 10 spaces are $60

Table rental for 6 foot table is $10 for weekend

To apply for Spring Fling, fill out the form below

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February 2022 President’s Message

Spring Fling Art Festival, TRAG Announcements, Events Organized by TRAG
Dear TRAG Members,

Happy February! Hope everyone has enjoyed our unusually sunny weather over the past couple of weeks! I am a lucky lady and will be spending 2/3-2/11 (maybe longer?) in Hawaii! I’m looking forward to the warmth and the sun and swimming with sea turtles.

We had our first Board meeting on January 20th and I want to give you an update on what’s to come for TRAG this year.

First, I’d like to thank all of you who responded to the questionnaire about the meeting in January and your thoughts on proof of vaccination for meetings. It is so helpful to get input from the membership when trying to make decisions about how to move forward. As you all know, we did cancel the meeting in January due to the very high Covid numbers in Oregon. As a board, we have decided to cancel the February meeting as well and are VERY hopeful that we will, indeed, meet IN PERSON on March 14th! The results of the survey regarding proof of vaccination were: Yes-17; No-12; Maybe-5. The Board discussed this and since it was not an overwhelming YES, we will not require proof of vaccination for meetings, but will require that everyone at the meeting wear a mask and that it is properly worn over the mouth AND nose. We just want everyone to be safe, and we want to meet in person again.

As you all know, Trieste Andrews (our immediate past president) has stepped down from coordinating the Oregon City Festival of the Arts (OCFOTA). (It is a well-deserved break!) I’m happy to announce that OCFOTA is on for this year! We have a wonderful trio of women (Jen Henry, Lynda Orzen, & Tima Carlson) who will be coordinating the event this year along with the many dedicated volunteers from years past. OCFOTA is a wonderful event for our organization as well as for the community and we are so happy that it will continue this year.

We are also happy to let you know that it looks like we will be able to have a Spring Fling event at the Oregon City Golf Course on Mother’s Day weekend. We are tentatively scheduled for Friday and Saturday, May 6 & 7—that way artists can be with their family on Mother’s Day if that is something you celebrate. It would be and early morning set up on Friday and we’d open for business from 12 pm – 5 pm. Saturday hours would be 10 am – 5 pm. It looks like we’ll have room for 25 artists. The Call for Artists will go out soon with a link to an application. Many thanks to Lynda Orzen for helping to coordinate this and other upcoming events where our artists will be able to sell their work.

That is a good segue into the topic of our TRAG Gallery. As you all are aware, we had to close the gallery around August of last year. This was a very tough decision for the TRAG Board and Gallery Managers to make, as we know how important it is for our artists to have an opportunity to display and sell their work in a gallery. However, it just wasn’t feasible to keep it open any longer given the significant decrease in sales and foot traffic. We, of course, are not alone—-many businesses have had to close due to the pandemic. Our landlords at Singer Hill were so gracious and let us continue to store our “stuff” in the gallery space with the hope that we would be able to reopen at some point, however, we received notice in later October that we would need to have all our things out of the gallery space by the end of November 2021 due to them remodeling the space. At our Board meeting in January, after much discussion, we decided that we need to wait for at least a year before we entertain the prospect of finding a new gallery space. Now is just not the right time. Things may look very different in a year, or we may still be in the midst of this pandemic—who knows! What we all agree on is that we want the best chance for the new gallery to be successful—opening and then having to close again would just be so disheartening for all involved. I know this is not the news most of you were hoping to hear and I’m sorry for that. Please feel free to contact me or any of the Board members if you have questions/concerns/thoughts about this.

I look forward to seeing everyone again at our March 14th meeting! Same time and place:
The Pioneer Center basement meeting room from 7-8:30pm. Come with lots of ideas about what you want from your TRAG membership this year. As always, we welcome and encourage involvement from all the members for any activity/event that we plan. Please let me know if you have an interest in helping with any of the things I’ve presented above.

Be well,

Tamara Scott
TRAG President

Sue Thomas
Membership Coordinator

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2021 Holiday Show

Events Organized by TRAG, Holiday Art Show & Sale

by Lynda Orzen, Holiday Show Coordinator

I am going to claim the 2021 Holiday Show a success. We didn’t have as many artists participating but shoppers still had a huge variety of artwork to choose from. I know I did a lot of shopping during the weekend! Shoppers were so happy to be able to able to shop in person-finally! Heard lots of comments about the wealth of artwork and the organization of the event.

Tried to take some photos of the event but I’m definitely not a photographer. Unfortunately our photographer, Ingrid Aubry was recuperating from a broken hip. Happy to say, she is recuperating quite well!

Want to thank volunteers and organizers for pitching in to make this a wonderful event!

Happy New Years Artists and a New Year of creating art!

Lynda Orzen

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Holiday Show Updates

Events Organized by TRAG, Holiday Art Show & Sale
poster for the Annual Holiday Show with sample photos of art that will be available there
Download full size image here

The Holiday Show, happening the weekend of December 4 and 5 at the Pioneer Community Center located at 615 5th Street is now full. Participating artists will receive further information by early November. This will include the booth location, set up information, postcards for distributing online and the Hold Harmless. All who have applied are in the Holiday Show.

There will be Facebook postings daily with those artists that sent photos. We have physical postcards available for pickup at the Friends of the Library Bookstore, 814 7th street, open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 till 4.

Times for the event will be Saturday from 9 am till 4 pm and Sunday from 10 am till 4 pm. Set up is on Friday, December 3 from 3 pm till 7 pm. Please do not show up any earlier unless you are assisting with set up. We were unable to fill the show so more space will be allowed between most booths. We are taking all precautions to keep this event safe for all attending. Masks will be required.

Most of the returning artist have been given their original spaces, however a few have been moved to a more favorable location. You must have your own display set-up. There are several tables available at the facility. 3 @ 30” by 96” and 9 @ 30” by 72”. Please send in your request to Lynda if you have not done so yet.

If you have any further questions or comments, contact Lynda Orzen orzep@comcast.net

Call for Volunteers

We are currently recruiting volunteers for the Holiday Show. This is a wonderful, very successful show and just a little bit of volunteering helps it run smoothly. Consider volunteering for just a couple of hours and then a few more hours for Holiday shopping.

Days and times needed for volunteers:
Friday, December 3 from 2:00 till 7:00pm (Moving tables, laying out the booth spaces and helping artists set up)
Saturday, December 4 from 9 am till 4 pm. Giving artists breaks and passing out snacks.
Sunday, December 5 from 10 am till 6 pm. Giving breaks until 4 pm. After 4 pm helping artists break down booths and set up tables and chairs in the Pioneer dining area.

Sound like fun? Contact Kerry Edwards at kerryducks56@gmail.com.

Lynda Orzen
Holiday Show Coordinator

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Call for Artists: 2021 Holiday Show

Events Organized by TRAG, Holiday Art Show & Sale

The Holiday Show will be taking place on the weekend of December 4 and 5.

Times for the events will be Saturday from 9 am till 4 pm and Sunday from 10 am till 4 pm.
Set up will be on Friday, December 3 from 3 pm till 7 pm. Please do not show up any earlier unless you are assisting with set up.

This show is for TRAG membership that have been juried into a TRAG event or the gallery. If you are sharing a booth, your partner must follow the same guidelines.

There are 38 spaces available. 35, 8 feet wide by 6 feet deep spaces at $60 and 3, 2 feet deep by 12 feet wide [these are spaces at the end of rows]at $40.

If you are a returning artist from the 2019 show and would like to request the same location, please let us know.

You must have your own display set-up. There are several tables available at the facility: 3 @ 30” by 96” and 9 @ 30” by 72”. Please send in your request to Lynda.

This show will be first come with applications for participation. If we are unable to fill the event during this first Call to Artists, we’ll send out a second call the beginning of November.

Please include at least 2 photos of your work for advertising purposes. We’ll have a postcard created to post on Facebook and email to clientele.

You will receive notification of acceptance by the end of October along with further instructions and information on set up.

If you have any further questions or comments, contact Lynda Orzen at orzep@comcast.net.

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TRAG Member, Cathy Rowe, Wins the Soulflags Art Mural Contest!

Oregon City Festival of the Arts, Events Organized by TRAG

Soulflags Art Center, a new addition to Main Street, is bringing an opportunity for the community to take part in beautifying the intersection of Hwy 99E and Main Street with several mosaic panels of well-known masterpieces altered to include an Oregon City landmark or icon. In addition, Soulflags created an art design contest for one of the panels to be created by a local artist.

The winner of this contest was Cathy Rowe, who recreated Henri Matisse’s “The Dance” with the figures depicted as pioneers with the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in the background. Soulflags will recreate an outlined/sketched version of Rowe’s painting onto a grid pattern of sixty 6-inch x 6-inch square tiles for the community to glaze/paint. These tiles combined will make a 3-foot by 5-foot mosaic masterpiece.

With several mosaics completed at TRAG’s Festival of the Arts, tiles will be available to glaze/paint at Oregon City’s Saturday Market on several occasions if necessary. Dates to be announced as Soulflags needs to contact the OC Saturday Market to coordinate. Soulflags will fire the ceramic tiles and grout the tile to concrete backer board. Mosaics will be displaced locally prior to placing on building located at 504 Main Street.

Visit www.soufllags.org for more information.

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Trieste Andrews

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