See sweet art at ‘Tea and Talk’

The Newport Coastal Arts Guild invites you to meet artist Sue Friesz for “Tea and Talk” on Thursday, Sept. 1. She will bring examples of her work and talk about her inspirations from Egypt to the Oregon Coast and points in between.Friesz describes herself as a Pacific Northwest artist who invents her own visual language from observations of nature. Her contemporary, interdisciplinary works in painting, drawing, sculpture and assemblage reveal her interest in the aesthetics and structure of trees and plants as well as in the built world. She is inspired by many sources, from her formative years enjoying the outdoors in the Midwest to her time experiencing other places and cultures while living in Paraguay, Brazil and Egypt.Friesz has exhibited in solo as well as group exhibitions. Her work has been in the New American Paintings Exhibition in Print and can also be found in corporate and private collections. She has won grants from the Avenue of the Arts Foundation and Public Arts Commission in Kansas City, Missouri, and is a recipient of the Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Fund in New York.The event begins at 2 pm on the second floor of the Newport Visual Arts Center, located at 777 NW Beach Drive. For more information, go to the Coastal Arts Guild on Facebook.