These violet delights have violet ends
Get both your art and health needs met when the Chessman Gallery, located inside the Lincoln City Cultural Center, presents a new show by arts collective High Fiber Diet. “No Shrinking Violets,” runs from Friday, Oct. 9, through Monday, Nov. 9, featuring works from more than 30 fiber artists.
Instead of an opening reception, opening night will feature the fun new format that started with the advent of COVID-19, with Gallery Director Krista Eddy and Executive Director Niki Price walking you through the new show live at 4 pm on the center’s Facebook page. Facebook@ lincolncityculture.
High Fiber Diet includes artists from Southwestern Washington and Western Oregon, who work with fiber to express their interpretation of the world and themselves. Members are committed to understanding the academic principles of art and integrating them into their individual creative processes. Applying their knowledge of composition and design, they explore and resolve the unique challenges of using fiber as a creative medium. For more than 20 years, the group has successfully produced juried exhibits of two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual art, as well as wearable art. Members’ artwork has been included in numerous magazines and books, as well as a variety of private and public collections.
Purple is passionate, opulent, over-the-top, regal, assertive, luxurious, mysterious, expensive and fantastical. It’s the color of women’s suffrage, Roman emperors and many princes and wizards. These artists strive to not be shrinking violets, but instead to produce art that speaks to their passions and is prevalent with the color purple, or eggplant, amethyst, magenta, mauve or even violet.
As an added bonus, the Lincoln City Cultural Center Fiber Arts Studio is up and running and featuring a show by textile artist Teresa Ruch through Nov. 30. Ruch has a passion for color that she expresses in handwoven, hand-dyed clothing that flows with color and drape.
“No Shrinking Violets” will run through Monday, Nov. 9, in the Chessman Gallery, inside the Lincoln City Cultural Center at 540 NE Hwy. 101. The center is open from 10 am to 4 pm, Thursday through Sunday. For more information, go to lincolncity-culturalcenter.org, become a friend on Facebook, or call 541-994-9994.
