Visual Arts: Sandpoint Artwalk features 17 new shows

The second Sandpoint Artwalk marks the midway point of the summer art season.

Beginning Friday, 17 new shows open in galleries and alternative venues throughout Sandpoint’s trendy downtown area.

This round of exhibits features the work of several dozen contemporary regional artists including Diana Moses Botkin of Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

Botkin, a former commercial artist, renders representational landscape, floral and figurative works.

“One of my earliest art memories,” recalls Botkin in an e-mail, “is drawing one summer day on large sheets of paper bigger than I was. I still remember lying on the porch with that huge paper and some crayons. I remember the feeling of the cool concrete under my bare tummy even now.”

Over the years Botkin developed her own style of realism.

“I love chiaroscuro lighting and the colors of life,” she says, “as well as capturing fleeting moments.”

All of the Artwalk II displays are up through Sept. 8, with opening receptions on Friday from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Self-guided tour brochures are available at participating locations and in the Pend Oreille Arts Council office in the Power House building, 120 Lake St., Sandpoint.

Artwalk II venues

Look for the brightly colored artist palette signs at the following Sandpoint Artwalk II locations:

“ Ivano’s Ristorante, Park Place Stage and Petal Talk – outdoor sculpture by Mary Alderete and Derk Klein, Tim Thomas, Barry Barush, Rick Thompson, Mark Kubiac, Mike Krejci and Joe McLay.

“ Art Works Gallery, 214 N. First Ave. – art by Susan Dalby, Barbara Field, Teresa Fisher, Marita McDonough and Barbara Mullins.

“ Coldwater Creek Wine Bar, 311 N. First Ave. – Photography by Ben Anderson, Jeff Strauss, Dave Mender and Amy Munson.

“ Everyday Internet Cafe, 502 Cedar St. – Whitney Davison, ceramics.

“ F.C. Weskil’s, 300 N. First Ave. – Lisa VanDerKarr, acrylic.

“ Hallans Gallery, 323 N. First Ave. – Mark Story, photography.

“ Ivano’s Ristorante, 102 S. First Ave. – Gretchen Hellar, mixed media.

“ Misty Mountain Furniture, 502 Cedar St. – Cyndi Morgan, mixed media; Patricia Hicks Ruiz, water media; Dan Shook, ceramics.

“ Northwest Handmade, 308 N. First Ave. – Judy Pederson, watercolor.

“ Northwest Mortgage, 216 N. First Ave. – Doug Fluckiger, graphite; Barbara Pratte Smith, watercolor.

“ Pend Oreille Arts Council Gallery, Old Power House, 120 Lake St. – “Organically Crafted,” mixed media fine crafts by regional crafters.

“ Pend d’Oreille Winery, 220 Cedar St. – Clancie Pleasants, acrylic; sculpture by Tom Brunner.

“ Sand Creek Grill, 105 S. First Ave. – Catherine Earle, water media.

“ Taylor Parker Motors,, 300 Cedar St. – Betty Billups, oil; Diana Moses Botkin, oil; David Keyston, photography; Linda Watt, photography.

“ U.S. Bank, 201 Main St. – Susan Beard, photography; Joanne Sandifur, pastel and watercolor; Cheryl Keyes, pencil and ink.

“ Wine Sellers, 302 N. First Ave. – Barbara Best, glass; Karen Robinson, watercolor; Linda Scott, standing screens.

Julyamsh art show

This weekend, during the ninth Julyamsh Powwow and Encampment, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe is hosting an All-Indian Art Show and Auction in the main pavilion of the Greyhound Park in Post Falls.

The three-day show includes acrylic and oil paintings, jewelry, beadwork and sculpture.

Ric Gendron (Colville) is the show’s featured artist. His paintings are a mixture of traditional Native American cultural symbols and contemporary icons. He often mixes Indian dance with rock and roll.

“The world is color,” says Gendron in a news release. “The world is music.”

Returning artists are David Dragonfly (Blackfeet), George Flett (Spokane), George Hill (Spokane), Rabbit Knows Gun (Blackfeet), Ramon Murrillo (Shoshoni), Lucille Pakootas (Colville), John Wilson II (Nez Perce) and Gail Running Wolf (Blackfeet).

Additional artists exhibiting and selling work are Leroy Whiteman (Northern Cheyenne), Sheryl Grunlose (Colville), Troy De Roche (Blackfeet), Georgia Tongel (Colville), Coke Brown (Spokane), Phillip Beaumont Jr. and John Balloue. The late Tiller Wesley’s (Comanche) work will be presented by his wife, Pam Wesley.

The free show runs Friday and Saturday from noon to 11 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. The art auction gets under way at 5 p.m. on Saturday in the main pavilion.

‘Native Portraitures’

A display of historic “Native American Portraitures” is up Friday through September in the Global Credit Union lobby, 726 W. Riverside Ave.

“The Studio of Rose and Hopkins in Denver, Colo., shot these incredible portraits in 1899 and 1900 as a means of capturing the vanishing way of life our Southwest Native American tribes,” says Dean Cameron of American Fine Art Company in Spokane.

“These images were originally taken on glass plates and after a limited printing were put into storage,” says Cameron in a news release.

In the late 1920s it was discovered that the glass plate images were deteriorating, and contact negatives were made. A series of new limited-edition prints was run from those negatives, including the 20 on display at Global Credit Union.

For more information on the complete series call Cameron at (509) 995-9958 or go online to www.americanfineart.net.

North Idaho studio tour

Artists in the Idaho Panhandle are opening their home studios as part of an annual self-guided driving tour.

The free “Artists’ Studio Tour of North Idaho” is the “perfect opportunity to get a firsthand glimpse of how these creative people actually work,” says tour director Jan Griffitts.

The tour features 40 artists and crafters in 29 locations throughout the communities of Sandpoint, Bayview, Hope, Priest Lake, Bonners Ferry and Clark Fork.

The artists create in a variety of mediums including oils, watercolor, blown and recycled glass, weaving, raku, metal, silks, jewelry, pottery, photography, bronze and wooden sculptures, lamps and furniture.

Studios are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and again July 28 to 30.

Brochures can be picked up at Chambers of Commerce in Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry and Hope/Clark Fork, and at many regional restaurants, hotels and motels.

More information is available online at www.arttourdrive.org or by calling (800) 800-2106.

Other galleries

“ Pastel artist Steve Belzman will demonstrate his painting techniques on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Entree Gallery at Priest Lake, Idaho, two miles east of Nordman on Reeder Bay Road. Call (208) 443-2001 for directions.