Welcome new artist Shannon Osborne! Shannon s acrylic paint pours are on display at the gallery now. Check out her bio and artist statement!

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1 Happy New Year from The Gallery of Ocean Shores!!! Brent Whitmire is January Artist of the Month! Celebrate with us on Saturday January 19. Brent Whitmire will be the featured artist during the third Saturday Art Walk event in January. Drop in and see Brent s incredible photography. Brent will be available to answer questions at the Gallery from 12-4, refreshments will be served. Welcome new artist Shannon Osborne! Shannon s acrylic paint pours are on display at the gallery now. Check out her bio and artist statement! Studio 6 Clay Class Some Seats Still Available for January! Sandy Early s clay instruction class still has a few open seats. Make sure you sign up soon for this incredible learning experience. The class is scheduled for six-weeks beginning Jan 5 and continuing through Feb 9. This class is for handbuilding and using the potter s wheel. Beginner level students will start at 10 AM and go until Noon. Intermediate level students will start at 1:00 and to till 3:00 PM. The cost for this class is $100. New Coastal Interpretive Center poster art. The Coastal Interpretive Center continues its policy of using art from local artists on their billboard posters for 2019 and for January will feature a beautiful photo taken by Mardi Krusemark of a Great Blue Heron. The poster can be seen outside the CIC through February and prints are available in the gift shop and at The Gallery of Ocean Shores. Art in the Round Friday Evening Event Beginning Friday January 11 at from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM the Gallery is launching a new monthly event. Displays will be set-up throughout the Gallery and the Workshop with easels for artists to come together and draw, paint and photograph professionally set-up exhibits In the Round. It s a casual event for socializing, creating art, and learning from each other. Refreshments will be served. New Monthly Classes Starting in January! JuLee Wolfe and Linda Carman are hosting jewelry classes each month on the 2 nd Saturday and 4 th Monday of each month depending on the calendar. Their first class will be January 12 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. We are implementing a photography curriculum for beginners and advanced amateurs. Beginner courses will be on the 4 th Saturday of each month starting with Getting Off Auto on January 26 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. LuAnne Daily is teaching acrylic pour and gem trees each 4 th Saturday beginning on January 26 from 1:00 PM to 4:00PM. Classes alternate beginning with acrylic pour in January and then gem tree in February. More information is available on each individual class flyer in the newsletter. Ongoing Weekly Classes: Tuesdays Watercolor with Roy Lowry Thursdays Art Media with Roy Lowry - also - Pastels & Colored Pencil with Penny Dalton & Mary Daniels-Lee Fridays Clay Studio Guidance with Gary Ganz New Monthly Classes are being scheduled: Sat Jan 12 Jewelry Classes Saturday & Monday with JuLee Wolfe and Linda Carman Mon Jan 21 Repeat of Jewelry Class Sat Jan 26 Acrylic Pour and Gem Trees every fourth Saturday with LuAnne Daily Sat Jan 26 Photography Curriculum every fourth Saturday beginning with Getting Off Auto Check out the calendar attachment included in this newsletter print it and put it on the fridge!

2 January Artist of the Month B R E N T W H I T M I R E Brent has been a photographer since the age of 12, growing up the son of a renowned portrait photographer, Ken Whitmire. He worked as a darkroom technician, printing for his father s studio from the age of 15. He studied photography, interned at studios internationally, and was a member of the Professional Photographers of Washington from the age of 13 until his mid 30s. He entered yearly competitions, won many merits and trophies, attended numerous conventions, and seminars. He was an official photographer of Camp WannaComeBack in 1987, the Canadian Cancer Society s Summer event for children with Cancer. In 1989, he was invited to be a staff photographer for the Canada Games, where he was in charge of both the photography of the swimming/diving, and the cycling events. He briefly worked as assistant to Mary Ellen Mark in 1995, on her first assignment for New Yorker Magazine. In 2000 while he was working for RollingStone.com, he photographed the Grand Opening of the Experience Music Project. During the three day concert festival, he photographed James Brown, Bootsie Collins, Kid Rock, Metallica, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others. Brent s EMP Grand Opening photo gallery received over a million hits in just the first weekend it went live. He worked with the magazine website for the next two years, photographing about a hundred performers. Brent photographed Grammy Winner, Mathew West and his wife and daughter, for their family portrait in He worked with Vanderbilt University and the Kennedy Center in 2006, to create a photo essay of a week long music camp event in Nashville, TN for people with Williams Syndrome. Back in Washington, in 2006, he was an unofficial consultant on press relations and procedure to the company promoting and facilitating the Sasquatch Concert Festival at The Gorge, in George. During all this time, he has been influenced by photographers he s met, like Mary Ellen Mark, Gregory Heisler, Cole Weston, Jigger Schmidt, John Kasinger, Gene Hattori, and of course, his father, Ken Whitmire, and people he hasn t like, Ansel Adams, and Edward Weston. Brent lives in Redmond, Washington, with his wife, Diane, and his three step children, Nicole, Emma, Max, and Luna the dog. #29 B R W h i t m i r g m a i l. c o m ( )

3 Artist Statement: Welcome New Artist Shannon Osborne I believe there are many kinds of art and artists. Art has always been part of my life, though I have never called myself an artist. My first job after moving to Olympia in 1975, was as a floral designer, which I did off and on all through college at Evergreen. From 1981 thru 1985 I owned a Gallery/Cafe in Olympia called Smithfield Cafe. We had different artists each month, along with poetry readings and music. I mostly painted with watercolors throughout my life and in the early nineties began making clay beads and jewelry, mostly earrings, which I sold on consignment and at craft fairs. I also went into designing gardens for myself and others around that time and later got into painting with acrylics on vases and boxes and canvas for friends and family. I continued like this until about 6 years ago, when I hit a very dry period creatively. Then, last year, my niece turned me on to acrylic paint pouring and it sparked me. I love the process, it's elemental, energetic and expressive. In each painting I discover a new universe. This works for me, as I have spent the last 33 years in the healing arts, the last 26 years as an acupuncturist. My life has been devoted to working with elemental energies in people, to achieve Balance and harmony, which helps us to live healthier and happier lives. Taking this process to this new method of painting has been liberating and life changing. Each piece I work on is a journey: it's emotional, spiritual, edifying. It has been transformative, and in that sense, I guess, is my artist statement: My art is about transformation and creation. I take the elements, which are the paints and mediums, and find the life and creative expression that is arising from their meeting the canvas, and with tools and other forms of manipulation, I find balance and harmony and, hopefully, beauty. Beauty being the result of finding that point where the elements arise and harmony and balance are achieved.

4 New Art at the Interpretive Center The Coastal Interpretive Center continues its policy of using art from local artists on their billboard posters for 2019 and for January will feature a beautiful photo taken by Mardi Krusemark of a Great Blue Heron. The poster can be seen outside the CIC through February and prints are available in the gift shop and at The Gallery of Ocean Shores. Art in the Round Beginning Friday January 11 at from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM the Gallery is launching a new monthly event. Displays will be set-up throughout the Gallery and the Workshop with easels for artists to come together and draw, paint and photograph professionally set-up exhibits In the Round. It s a casual event for socializing, creating art, and learning from each other. This is a time for artists to come together and share their mediums. Themed exhibits vintage and current as well as costumed models will be available. Refreshment will be served. People should bring their cameras and art materials. As this event grows the displays may become more interesting Ideas and help setting up displays are welcome.

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