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Oregon City Festival of the Arts

Oregon City Festival of the Arts
Join us for Oregon City’s Premier Arts Event. There will be art for all tastes and ages. 55 art booths featuring jewelry, painting, photography, custom soaps, books, yard art, wood, felting and more.
Young artists can try their hands creating art with Soulflags and the Clackamas Arts Alliance. Both will be having hands on free art activities both days. Free art for the kiddos is always a big plus. Thank you to Soulflags and Clackamas Arts Alliance for providing fun art opportunities for the little ones.
This year the musical performances have been expanded. Festival goers enjoyed the small stage in the garden so more music will be happening for shoppers in the garden. The big act people are excited about is the Credence Clearwater Revival cover band.
Shopping and dancing are going to create a big appetite! There will be options for great food and drinks. Cool off with fresh squeezed lemonade or a Kona Ice. Chicken sundaes are back! Chop Chop Chicken has changed their name to Chop PDX but the food is still a big favorite. Bayou Brothers are back along with Mini Donuts. Two Guys and A Grill and Kona Ice are new to the festival.
Be sure to check out our Silent Auction and help support the arts. This year we have over 70 items donated from local businesses, Festival artists, and from our Three Rivers Artist Guild members. All proceeds go towards ensuring that more of these free local art events can happen in the future. The Auction will open for bidding August 1st. The auction closes on Sunday, August 11 at 2 pm with item pick-up between 2-5 on Sunday at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Scan the QR code to see all the auction items and bid. All bidding happens online, but the items can be viewed in person at the auction booth near the Oregon City Festival of the Arts entrance.
OCFOTA Artists

Jewelry (#48)

Ceramics (#27)

Wood (#37)

Glass (#10)

Photography (#29)

Drawing (#28)

Wood (#31)

Photography (#25)

Jewelry, purses (#6)

Mixed Media (#32)

Metal (#20)

Jewelry (#13)

Rock painting (#53)

Painting (#51)

Wire Sculpture (#21)

Painting (#12)

Felting (#44)

Fiber (#26)

Painting (#36)

Rock sculpture (#14)

Glass (#22)

Painting (#38)

Glass (#30)

Pottery (#4)

Painting, fiber (#24)

Painting (#55)

Books (#47)

Fiction Author (#45)

Jewelry (#23)

Soap (#50)

Photography (#9)

Glass (#46)

Wood (#17)

Pottery (#19)

Mixed media (#7)

Painting, mixed media (#15)

Painted stickers (#42)

Wood (#18)

Acrylic (#33)

Painting (#40)

Ceramics (#43)

Ceramics (#32)

Photography (#16)

Jewelry (#52)

Polymer clay designs (#49)

Garden Art (#8)

Ceramics (#11)

Jewelry (#41)

Pottery (#35)

Jewelry (#39)

Yard art (#57)

Photography (#34)

Turned wood (#5)
Three Rivers Open Studios 2023

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Oregon City Festival of the Arts 2023

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6th Annual Oregon City Festival of the Arts Oregon City’s Premier Art Event
By Lynda Orzen, OCFOTA Coordinator
Wow, just wow! What an amazing event this year! We had well over 3,000 visitors during the weekend. The parking lot was always full all weekend! Saturday morning we saw a constant stream of people entering the festival! Our artists gave the festival an average of 8.8 appreciation rating. Many said this festival had the best sales they’ve seen in years!
I’ll let them speak for themselves:
Well done everyone!! A great show, well organized and lots of visitors. This show continues to be a delight. We have enjoyed this event every year. Our thanks to you all for all your hard work and friendly faces
This was an amazing event and the anticipation for next year is already an exciting seed in my mind. Kudos to all of you wonderful folks and all your hard work.
Wow! I so appreciate the work of the OC Festival of the Arts Committee! You are super organized, your volunteers are the greatest, and your publicity is amazing!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks so much for the awesome show!!!! I had the best sales I’ve ever had at the event. So nice to see you and everybody again. I had a lot of my clients come and a lot of annual regulars who stopped in to buy bling.
You, the committee and all the volunteers were so very terrific! This is why I love this event. I hope you all get to take a well-deserved break.
Much Appreciation ~
Just a small example of the feedback from our artists. Truly heartwarming!
As the event coordinator, I would like to give kudos to our committee members who put in hours of planning to make this happen! Several members like Melody Bush were behind the scenes posting on Social Media daily. Yelena Shabrova kept all the applications and communications current. Ingrid Aubry used her magic creating our postcards, posters, banners, programs, and billboards for the event. Nancy Graham kept the financial information current along with those boring insurance details! Susan Woodworth signed up the music and food vendors, while being a vendor in the event and a television personality for our KATU commercial. Cathy Rowe manned the Silent Auction again this year and did her magic with the online bidding and gathering the auction items. Thank you to Tima Carlson and Soul Flags for hosting the Children’s Art activities. Lynne Collum created the artist booth signs and badges this year. Tamara Scott was the keeper of the key for the Storage Unit and always ready to help move supplies. Last but one of the most important committee chairs was Kerry Edwards who set up the volunteers for the festival. Kerry was invaluable and worked with me coordinating this event. She went above and beyond setting the volunteer schedules, she was my right hand in organizing the event! She always had a smile on her face even when trying to go in 2 directions at the same time!
Special thanks to our sponsors this year, World Heart, Citizens Bank and Double J Construction. If you have a chance to visit our sponsors, please thank them for their support.
Can’t forget to thank our Oregon City Tourism Department and Daniel Gehring for his support and getting us on KATU television for our interviews. The interview went out to the wider Portland community, and I believe increased our visitor count during the weekend.
Now the process begins for planning our 2023 Premier Art Event!
Lynda Orzen
OCFOTA Coordinator
Updated September 1st, 2022: Oregon City Festival of the Arts got Silver in the Best Festival in Oregon City from Readers Choice Awards through the Pamplin press!






2022 Oregon City Festival of the Arts
TRAG Member, Cathy Rowe, Wins the Soulflags Art Mural Contest!
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
OCFOTA Featured in Oregon City News!
Thank you, Raymond Rendleman for the coverage and Aaron Breniman for sharing snapshots of the article with us!
Oregon City Festival of the Arts Cancelled
Due to the health issues surrounding the COVID 19 virus, and in order to protect both our members and the public, the Oregon City Festival of the Arts is canceled for 2020. Stay in touch through our website to see how we will be connecting through virtual applications and smaller venues and events. Please take care of yourselves and stay well.
Trieste Andrews
President, Three Rivers Artist Guild