Manzanita presents artistic double-bill

The September show at Manzanita’s Hoffman Center for the Arts features “Alluvium” from Marlana Stoddard-Hayes and reliefs by Tom Cramer.

Stoddard-Hayes uses plant waters and fungi prints in her painting and works on paper. This show is all acrylic or watercolor with spore prints. Stoddard-Hayes recently retired from the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University in Portland, where she guided students to discover their own spiritual truth through a writing practice. She still teaches at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, where she has been an active presence for 33 years, first arriving in Oregon as a Sitka resident in 1990.

Cramer’s current work emerged in the late 1990s as an attempt to merge painting and relief wood carving. The labor-intensive aspect of his recent work is intended to be consistent with the content. His work in this show includes standing figures and relief projects.

Cramer is especially influenced by recent trips to India, Egypt and Europe and would like to think that the wiser and older cultures to which he has been exposed have helped him towards the more timeless goals of what all art should be about: driven by emotional content.

The show will run through Sept. 30, available to view from noon to 5 pm Thursday through Sunday at the Hoffman Gallery, 594 Laneda Avenue.

 For more information go to hoffmanarts.org or call 503-368-3846.