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Klamath Falls, OR
Favell Museum, September 9-October 22

Stefan Savides, Prickly Pair Mourning Doves, bronze, 24 x 10 x 18.

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Gene Favell opened the Favell Museum 40 years ago as a place to share and preserve Native American artifacts and western art. Every year from 1973 to 2001, the avid collector hosted shows at the museum to promote established and emerging artists, attracting collectors from around the country. The shows came to an end after Favell passed away, but four years ago, the museum reintroduced the time-honored tradition as the Favell Museum Invitational Art Show and Sale. A jury process was used for the first time this year. “We anticipate this will be our best show ever, as we welcome an outstanding roster of new and returning artists selected from among many applicants,” says Janann Loetscher, executive director of the museum.

The event showcases some 190 works by 32 contemporary representational artists from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Northern California. In contrast to the museum’s western-focused art collection, the art show and sale features a wider range of art across a variety of media, styles, and genres, including still lifes, landscape and figure paintings, and wood and bronze sculptures, among other works. Western art does make an appearance, though, including paintings by Don Prechtel, whose works portray historical military and western scenes, cowboys, and Native Americans. Also on the roster are Jim McVicker, Michael Gibbons, Ilene Gienger-Stanfield, Fran Kievet, David Mensing, and up-and-coming artist Ria Krishnan. Internationally known sculptor Stefan Savides contributes bronze bird sculptures such as PRICKLY PAIR, depicting two mourning doves with outstretched wings. “It was my goal to capture their very swift, erratic flight,” says Savides, whose knowledge of avian anatomy and design helps inform his works.

The show’s opening celebration kicks off with an artists’ reception and sale on September 9 and continues on September 10 with demonstrations from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Throughout the six-week event, visitors can vote for their favorite artists, try their hand at painting in a collaborative art piece, and take part in a scavenger hunt that “encourages people to meet the artists and look at their work very carefully,” says Loetscher. Proceeds from the show benefit the museum, which is now a nonprofit organization. —Kim Agricola

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