Nestucca Valley Artisans
Nestucca Valley Artisans annual festival
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The Nestucca Valley Artisans will hold their 20th annual festival on the weekend of 25-26 August
(Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm) at the Kiawanda Community Center in Pacific City.
Sixteen local artists and craftspeople will display and sell their works. The two-day event has provided
rich experiences to the crowds that have visited each year since 1992.
Come browse the original paintings, prints, sculptures, handmade glass works, quilts, photographs,
handmade rugs, ceramic items, leather bags, original jewelry, calligraphy, and other creations,
large and small. Meet and talk with the skilled artists and craftspeople who have made them.
Several works of art, donated by each of the artisans, will be given away in a drawing during the
event. Proceeds would enable the NVA’s continuing support of arts and art education in the communities
and schools of the Nestucca Valley. Examples of contributions by the NVA include purchase of art supplies in
local public schools, salaries for invited lecturers at art workshops, subscriptions to art-oriented periodicals
for local libraries and schools, an annual art prize at the Tillamook County Fair, cash donations to the
Community Art Project, and the donation (this year) of a painted mural to the public library in Pacific City.
Participating artisans work in the Nestucca Valley or nearby communities, such as Cloverdale, Hebo, Lincoln City,
Neskowin, Otis, Rose Lodge, Gleneden Beach and Pacific City on the Oregon Coast.
Featured will be: Martin Anderson, paintings;
Marilyn Burkhardt, oils, encaustics, block prints; Merrily Burger, pieced fabric scarves; Bill Cary, oils,
acrylics, watercolors; Denise Clausen, quilts and calligraphy; Victor Guschov, mixed media, paintings, and
jewelry; Shirley Haines, textiles and rugs; Dana Hulburt, paintings and mixed media; Julius Jortner, photographs;
Mike Loney, paintings and giclees; Ty and Tamara Mautner, Gyotaku fish prints; Donna Ludwig Peterson, oil
paintings; Alita Pearl, handmade leather bags and sterling jewelry; Kate Saunders, glass works and mixed media;
Michael Soeby, hand-thrown ceramic cups, bowls and plates; Gerald Sticka, wildlife paintings.
The NVA festival is sponsored in part by the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission.
The event will be included in the Pacific City Arts Association’s Art Walk on Saturday August 25th.
The Kiawanda Community Center is located on 34600 Cape Kiwanda Drive, in Pacific City, between the main bridge
over the Nestucca River and Cape Kiwanda.
Admission is free. Parking is plentiful.
Refreshments will be available. For further information, please call Marilyn Burkhardt, 503-392-3333,
Julius Jortner, 503-965-7016, or the Kiawanda Center, 503-965-7900.
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