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Story... exhibition, guest artist Mardi Wood at High Desert Gallery.
Event Description: High Desert Gallery is excited to announce guest artist, Mardi Wood, February 17 to April 11, 2012. “A Story..”, exhibition is featured at High Desert Gallery, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon.
Mardi Wood's ceramic work is the result of a process developed over many years of making. Evidence of the artist's hands can be felt in her paper-thin cups and bowls. The balance and subtle weight of each piece have been created by fine adjustments made at every step of construction. Inspired by her roots in the Northwest and her family home on the Columbia River, Woods' vessels are painted with layers of glaze and oxides built up during repeated firings.
Woods now lives in Northern California, and has a second residence in Italy. Images of Maremmana cattle, drawn from the Italian landscape, often appear in her recent work.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing.
Event Link: http://www.highdesertgallery.com
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Raise Me Up is an effort by Deschutes Children and Families Commission, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), DHS, and Casey Family Programs to shed light on the challenges of children in foster care. Casey Family Programs is the largest national operating foundation whose sole mission is to provide and improve – and ultimately prevent the need for – foster care.
A grassroots effort to bring over 200 community members together to represent the number of children that spent at least one day in foster care last year is scheduled during the noon hour on April 2, the beginning of Child Abuse Prevention month.
As a call-to-action we are asking citizens during their lunch hour to meet in front of the courthouse starting at noon. The “Raise Me Up” ceremony will start at 12:15 with opening remarks provided by Judge Brady and a foster care youth. The ceremony will conclude at 12:30 with a special flag raising ceremony and citizens joining hands around the courthouse. The flag will fly the month of April to remind our community the challenges foster children face and what people who want to serve can do - fostering or adopting children, volunteering to help or working directly with youth, or raising awareness about foster care.
“As a community it is our fundamental obligation to help children who are in foster care through no fault of their own,” said Pam Fortier, Executive Director of CASA of Central Oregon. “Raise Me Up” is a call to action for everyone who believes that these vulnerable children deserve the opportunity to grow up happy, healthy and successful. But to truly raise these children up, and reduce the need for foster care in the first place, we need the help of the whole community. Together we can lift up the lives of children in foster care and we think this event will inspire people to do just that.”
Visit www.raisemeup.oregon.gov , for more information about foster care and how you can serve children in Deschutes County.
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