Hello and Welcome!


Meet the Artist, Sept 2010

Margaret J. Miller

Quilt Maker and Teacher

Join us: Thursday,

September 9 at 7:00 pm


Margaret J. Miller

 

Please visit her website at www.millerquilts.com

 


coming soon:

  • Resources
  • Artist Directory

 

Meeting Info:

You don't have to be an artist, just be interested in getting together with people from the Colfax, WA area. Young or old, everyone is welcome!! The Arts Council meets the third Tuesday of each month, unless moved due to a holiday. Meetings begin at 6:30 pm and are held at the Whitman County Library, Colfax Branch, 120 S. Main Street in Colfax, Washington.

 

Colfax Arts Commission Mission:

• To increase awareness and enjoyment of the arts in Colfax.

• To promote the visual, performing, and literary arts of Colfax.

• To create venues for local artists and arts groups.

• To coordinate opportunities for the community to experience a variety of artistic media and hone artistic skills.

CAC — Connecting Artists and Community — in Colfax, Washington
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Meet the Artist, September 2010

On September 7, 2010, at 7:00 pm, at the Whitman County Library on Main Street - downtown Colfax, WA - we will meet Margaret J. Miller.
You can visit her website and see more of her work at her website www.millerquilts.com.

Please join us for this Meet the Artist event. Light refreshments will be served. All Meet the Artist events are free and open to the public.

Meet the Artist

  City Lights by Margaret J. Miller

 

Letter from CAC president —Debi Anderson
I hope you are all enjoying your summer! CAC's summer break has come to an end and it is time to get back into our projects once again.

Our meetings will resume on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, at 6:30 pm, at the newly remodeled Whitman County Library. If you have not yet seen what they have done, take this chance! It is a beautiful space and something for us to be proud of.

On the agenda for our next meeting so far is the 2010/2011 Banner Project....our 4th Annual Banner Project! Another thing for us to be proud of.

Also, we will start our Meet the Artist series again. First up this year is Margaret J. Miller. If you are not familiar with her or her work, please visit www.millerquilts.com, you will be most inspired! It is an honor to have her and I hope we can all work together to make this the big event that it truly is.

If you have topics you would like to see on future agendas, please let me know. I am excited to see all of you and catch up. See you Tuesday night, new meeting room of the Library! — Debi



We have done it again!!
The 2010 Banners are Up in Colfax for the Summer!!
Drive thru the center of downtown Colfax, and you will see them hanging from the light poles. If you can't make it to town, follow the links below to see the banners. Be thinking of your banner design for next year!!


See all the banners from previous years and find out who won the "People's Choice" awards.

See the banners from 2009 here.
See the banners from 2008 here.

Template of banner to scale on 11 x 17 sheet here.

 

competition-promo
Colfax Hangs It Up :: Part 3 :: 2010 Banner Winners
Emily Adams: Haunting
Emily Adams: Haunting

Whitman County Library, co-sponsor of the banner project, has hosted the artists reception in the past. However, since construction is underway at library headquarters, the reception will be in the Fellowship Hall of the Baptist Church on Mill Street at 7 p.m. March 4, Anderson said. Prints of the banner paintings will be available at the reception and a slide show of the banners will accompany introduction of the artists. The People’s Choice will be announced and awards presented.

A large jar, which has previously been placed at the library, will be available for People’s Choice donations at City Hall this year. Residents are reminded that the People’s Choice Award is made up of donations of money, art supplies and other amusing items. Individuals, businesses and organizations are encouraged to support the local artists by donating to the award.

Kelan Becker: Bountiful Harvest
Kelan Becker: Bountiful Harvest

The 2010 “H’Art of the Palouse” banner paintings were hung Sunday, February 21, in the central blocks of Colfax's Main Street, according to Debi Anderson, president of Colfax Arts Council, sponsor of the annual event. “We encourage everyone to enjoy the colorful new exhibit of banners then vote for their favorite adult and youth banners for the People’s Choice Awards,” Anderson said.

As in past years, ballots with pictures of all the 2010 banners have been prepared and will be available in a number of downtown locations this week. The public may vote for a banner from both the adult and the youth divisions and place their ballots in the attached paint cans. Votes may be cast through March 4, including at the opening of the reception for the 2010 artists.


Debi Anderson: Cowboyin' on the Palouse
Debi Anderson: Cowboyin' on the Palouse



“The People’s Choice Award is split between the adult and youth winner. So we always hope for a good, hefty prize that will reward both. The Arts Council will put in some seed money, but our finances are pretty tapped by the expenses of running the program - the cost of banners, hangers, making prints and copies, and that kind of thing,” Anderson said. “We really appreciate the community's support for the award.”


Artists for the eleven 2010 banners are Craig Whitcomb of Lewiston, Sarah Moore of Pullman, and Jim Fitzgerald of both Olympia and Colfax; Kelan Becker and Briana Reynolds, youth division, Colfax; and Mae Claypool, Jerry Jones, Lori Unger, Debi Anderson, Dick Gebhardt and the team of Emily Adams and Hannah Walker, all from Colfax.

The panel that juried the entries included Kim DeHart, Chamber president, and Colfax artists Bill Reynolds and Tracy Randall.



    Mae Claypool: Prune Orchard           James Fitzgerald: Native
  Mae Claypool: Prune Orchard   James Fitzgerald: Native
Richard Gebhardt: Manning Bridge Jerry Jones: First Train to Colfax 1883
  Richard Gebhardt: Manning Bridge   Jerry Jones: First Train to Colfax 1883
       Sarah Moore: Hay Window        Brianna Reynolds: Friendship
  Sarah Moore: Hay Window   Brianna Reynolds: Friendship
Lori Unger: Sunset on the Palouse   Craig Whitcomb: Concrete River Bed
  Lori Unger: Sunset on the Palouse   Craig Whitcomb: Concrete River Bed
Make 2011 the year you enter a banner!!

Check back here for the competition entry form for 2011.

In the meantime, print out the to-scale template below, for sketching out your ideas, and look at the 2008 Banner images for ideas and inspiration in creating your banner in 2011!

Template of banner to scale on 11 x 17 sheet here

See the banners from 2008 here and get ideas for your banner in 2011!

People’s Choice ballots were available around town at these participating business:
  • Cottage Gate
  • Flowers   More
  • Tick's
  • Two Old Gals
  • Cougar Food Mart
  • Grange Supply
  • Top Notch
  • City Hall
  • Rosauer's deli