By Kerry Edwards, Holiday Show Volunteer Coordinator
We are currently recruiting volunteers for the Holiday Art Show & Sale that will be held on December 2 and 3. This is a wonderful, very successful show and just a bit of volunteering helps it run smoothly. Consider volunteering for a couple of hours on one of the days below.
The job is easy, the atmosphere is fun and you can shop before or after your shift!!
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The Holiday Show will be taking place on the weekend of December 2 and 3, 2023 at the Pioneer Community Center (615 5th St, Oregon City, OR 97045).
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 1 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 past gallery. If you are sharing a booth, your partner must follow the same guidelines. If you have not been juried into a TRAG event or the past gallery, please contact us to request jurying before filling and submitting the form. Read more about jurying into TRAG events.
» Read moreBy Lynda Orzen, Spring Fling Coordinator
The deadline for applications has been extended to April 8th, 2023. The festival is now open to all local artists.
The Spring Fling is back for a third year on May 6 and May 7 at the Pioneer Community Center in Oregon City.
Times for the events will be:
Saturday, May 6, from 10 am till 4 pm and Sunday, May 7, from 10 am till 4 pm.
Set up will be on Friday, May 5 from 3 pm till 7 pm.
By Sue Woodworth, TRAG Co-President
When TRAG had its “Gallery and Gift shop” at Singer Hill Café, every new artist or artists with a new medium submitted their art to the “jury committee.”
As we move forward, we will have the jurying process in place for all art shows we present: Spring Fling, Oregon City Festival of the Arts and our Holiday show. All new artists applying to shows for the first time or any artist with new mediums they are wanting to sell will go through the jury process.
Our established jury committee is looking for artist vision, originality, creative intent, mastery of a skill and craftsmanship and is ready to present to the public. We critique with positive feedback and suggestions for additional learning needs.
» Read moreBy Lynda Orzen, Holiday Show Coordinator
The art show only had 28 artist this year with space for 10 more. Let’s hope we can fill it in 2023. This was our 15th annual event-yes 15! Our guild is going to be 16 in 2023! The Holiday Show is only open to members of the guild. The Oregon City News had a wonderful article with one of our artists on the front page! We shared advertising with several other events in the community along with a ½ page ad in the OC News. Over the years, the guild has donated over $7,000 to the Pioneer Community Center’s Meals on Wheels program!
Major kudos to Melody Bush for Facebook advertising, Ingrid Aubry for our postcards and posters – each year they just get better, Kerry Edwards, volunteer coordinator and my right-hand, Lynne Collum for name tags and booth signs and Yelena Shabrova who managed all the computer magic! Couldn’t have done this without good teamwork. Thank you for being so resourceful and fun to work with!
By Kerry Edwards, Holiday Show Volunteer Coordinator
We are currently recruiting volunteers for the Holiday Show that will be held on December 3rd and 4th. This is a wonderful, very successful show and just a bit of volunteering helps it run smoothly. Consider volunteering for a couple of hours on one of the days below.
The job is easy, the atmosphere is fun and you can shop before or after your shift!!
Below are the days and times needed – again – just two hours of your time would help!
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 – 3:00 – 7:00 (helping artists set up)
SATURDAY, Dec. 3 – 9:00 – 4:00 (assisting during the show – handing out snacks, booth relief)
SUNDAY, Dec. 4 – 10:00 – 4:00 (assisting during the show – snacks, booth relief)
SUNDAY, Dec. 4 – 4:00 – 6:00 (assisting artists with booth breakdown)
Fill the form below to sign up or directly contact Kerry Edwards at kerryducks56@gmail.com and help show your support of the HOLIDAY SHOW!!
If you are willing to help, PLEASE fill the form and choose your hours! You can change them later if you need. This really helps to coordinate volunteer efforts and make sure help is distributed evenly through the setup, duration of the show, and takedown. Thank you!
The Holiday Show will be taking place on the weekend of December 3 and 4, 2022.
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 2 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 previous TRAG gallery.
As of October 17th, 2022, there are only 6 spaces still available. All spaces are 8 feet wide by 6 feet deep at $60.
33 spaces have been already taken.
If you are a returning artist from the 2021 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 tables measuring 30” by 96” and 9 tables measuring 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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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!
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
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.
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.
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
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| 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
