"Go" by Catie Bursch
2021 Special Events: Visual Arts & Exhibits
Rain, new watercolors by fisherpoet George Wilson
Imogen Gallery (240 11th St, Astoria) through Monday, March 8.
“I love the rain: The smirr, the smaa saft rain, the dreich, dark days, the deluge. And after the deluge, huge delight in a refreshed landscape and the sight of the receding storm. These studies of the rain calm my spirit and help me hold on to beauty as we live through this collective storm. May it soon pass.”
- George Wilson
Imogen Gallery (240 11th St, Astoria) through Monday, March 8.
“I love the rain: The smirr, the smaa saft rain, the dreich, dark days, the deluge. And after the deluge, huge delight in a refreshed landscape and the sight of the receding storm. These studies of the rain calm my spirit and help me hold on to beauty as we live through this collective storm. May it soon pass.”
- George Wilson
At the Wild Edge, monoprint impressions from the land, sea and air of the Oregon Coast by fisherpoet Duncan Berry
RiverSea Gallery (1160 Commercial St, Astoria) through March 9.
"I am incredibly blessed to live in the United Nations Biosphere Reserve at Cascade Head on the central Oregon Coast, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world. This is "life on the wild edge of a continent” where 3500 miles of the North American land mass meets 5000 miles of open ocean. The land, sea and air of this place acts as a muse, sanctuary and teacher for me. My work is to channel the beauty and power of this place, and to show what is possible when we care for the last great places."
- Duncan Berry
RiverSea Gallery (1160 Commercial St, Astoria) through March 9.
"I am incredibly blessed to live in the United Nations Biosphere Reserve at Cascade Head on the central Oregon Coast, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world. This is "life on the wild edge of a continent” where 3500 miles of the North American land mass meets 5000 miles of open ocean. The land, sea and air of this place acts as a muse, sanctuary and teacher for me. My work is to channel the beauty and power of this place, and to show what is possible when we care for the last great places."
- Duncan Berry
When Crab was King: The Rise and Fall of the Kodiak King Crab Fishery, 1950 - 1982.
Astoria Visual Arts (1000 Duane St, Astoria), Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. through March 6
This traveling exhibit features photographic portraits that connect the present and the past. Middle aged or elderly men and women stand before the camera in black and white, their hands holding smaller color images of themselves taken decades before, when the miraculous and dangerous crab fishery was booming. Presented with each photo is a short audio clip of each individual sharing their extraordinary experiences. Fortunes were made and spent with equal abandon. Boats and men were lost at sea on a regular basis every winter. Youth, money and danger made Kodiak an exhilarating place to be during this short-lived fishery.
See an on-line version of the exhibit here, hosted by the Kodiak Maritime Museum.
"We didn't know what to believe. We knew that the boat had sunk and that people had died on board and there was a little uneasiness about that. But I needed a job..."
- Toby Sullivan
Astoria Visual Arts (1000 Duane St, Astoria), Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. through March 6
This traveling exhibit features photographic portraits that connect the present and the past. Middle aged or elderly men and women stand before the camera in black and white, their hands holding smaller color images of themselves taken decades before, when the miraculous and dangerous crab fishery was booming. Presented with each photo is a short audio clip of each individual sharing their extraordinary experiences. Fortunes were made and spent with equal abandon. Boats and men were lost at sea on a regular basis every winter. Youth, money and danger made Kodiak an exhilarating place to be during this short-lived fishery.
See an on-line version of the exhibit here, hosted by the Kodiak Maritime Museum.
"We didn't know what to believe. We knew that the boat had sunk and that people had died on board and there was a little uneasiness about that. But I needed a job..."
- Toby Sullivan
Dios de los Muertos: Dioramas from a Fishing Career
by fisherpoet Catie Bursch
Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer AK
See an on-line version of Catie's exhibit and listen to her describe her work, hosted by the Bunnell Street Arts Center.
"There are feelings, images and stories that have accumulated in me over the 35 years I have fished commercially. Some I have never spoken out loud. Some are told every year. Specific incidents have been reduced in my mind to one or two scenes that stick with me. When I see these scenes in my mind’s eye, the emotions of that moment/day/tide come flooding back."
- Catie Bursch
A Visit to the Studio of Fisherpoet Niel Pfundt
Niel, whose artwork graced our 2020 FisherPoets Gathering poster, gives us a glance at recent work at his Bellingham, WA studio.
Niel, whose artwork graced our 2020 FisherPoets Gathering poster, gives us a glance at recent work at his Bellingham, WA studio.
