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3 Day Workshop with Michael Gibbons

JULY WORKSHOP SOLD OUT!
You have asked for another. Here it is on September 17, 18 & 19, 2010! Sign up now!
For information, registration form and supplies list, please click on Workshop Information or contact Gallery Michael Gibbons at (541)336-2797
Workshop Information

"Wildflowers on Yaquina Head"

First Weekend Toledo
Saturday, June 5, 11am - 5pm
Sunday, June 6, noon - 5pm
Gallery Michael Gibbons will be featuring paintings of the sea; specifically the Pacific Ocean from the wild to the sublime.

YRMA Exhibits Permanent Collection

First Weekend Toledo
Yaquina River Museum of Art
Saturday, June 5, 11am - 5 pm
Sunday, June 6, noon - 5pm
You are invited to view paintings from the Museum's Permanent Collection including "School House" by Jacqueline Hewitt.
Brenda Citron, shown with Michael Gibbons, presented the painting in pastel to the museum in memory of her sister Sondra Humphrey, a long time resident of Toledo.
Other art in the collection include work by Don Prechtel, Ivan Kelly, Mark deGraffenreid, Jack Wenstrom, Ed Young, John Hewitt and Michelle Taylor.

YRMA joins Toledo Quilt Quest

On May 8, 2010 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, the Yaquina River Museum of Art will be showing "Grandfather's Old Suits" and "Daddy's Ties", quilt and wall hanging in conjunction with Toledo's Quilt Quest. Throughout Toledo will be more than 200 new, historical and art quilts. YRMA will also exhibit paintings from the permanent collection in the School House.
Toledo Quilt Quest MMX

"EVENING DESCENDING IN THE ORCHARD"

A gift to New Avenues for Youth from the Michael and Judith Gibbons Trust in memory and gratitude for the life of Joyce Furman, friend, lover of creation, patron of the arts, and angel among us. [Click for more info]

After School Art Program students visit Yaquina River Museum of Art

Wednesday, January 27, at 4:00 pm, nine junior and senior level students from Newport High School After School Art program with teachers Casey McEneny and Teresa Atwill, International Exchange Student Program, viewed “ESTUARY”, a series of 23 small oil studies created by artist Michael Gibbons for a commissioned painting in the Permanent Art Collection of Mahonia Hall, the Oregon Governor’s official residence in Salem. This solo show was recently shown in the National Arts Club in New York City where many first time viewers saw the landscape of the Yaquina River Watershed of Lincoln County. Gibbons has had “ESTUARY” under wraps in his studio since 1998 when he completed the commissioned painting entitled “ARNOLD CREEK ESTUARY”. [Click for more info]

Drawing for raffle winner

Steve Wilson, Chairman of the Board and Richard Nichols, Board Member drawing the winning ticket for the fund raising quilt along with Judy and Michael Gibbons, museum founders on January 15, 2010 at the museum exhibit space in the “School House”, 151 NE Alder Street, Toledo. All funds go to education in the arts program of the museum. [Click for more info]

Winner of 2009 Raffle

Lori Mickelson, Lincoln City is the delighted winner of “Yaquina River Art Museum in the Woods” quilted wall hanging. Lori and Dean along with Judy Gibbons, from the museum are shown in the Yaquina River Museum of Art, 151 NE Alder Street, Toledo on Monday, January 18 in the museum exhibit space. The quilt was designed and pieced by Monica Lyons, and quilted by Julie Rockwell from Toledo in collaboration with Maxine Moodie whose donation made it all possible.

Traveling exhibition of "Estuaries and Quiet Places"

The Oregon debut of "Estuaries and Quiet Places" opens with a champagne reception to meet the artist, Saturday, December 12 from noon to 5:00 pm in the Legacy Arts Terrace - School House at 151 NE Alder Street, Toledo, Oregon [Click for more info]

Hometown Holiday Celebration

Join us at the Yaquina River Museum of Art School House in the Legacy Arts Terrace December 12 & 13 and 19 & 20 from 10:00am to 5:00 pm [Click for more info]

"Yaquina River Art Museum in the Woods"

Yaquina River Museum of Art Fund Raiser [Click for more info]

Estuaries and Quiet Places; a painter's view of Oregon

"Arnold Creek Estuary"
oil on linen 62" x 42" by Michael Gibbons, 1998
from the Mahonia Hall Permanent Collection, commissioned in 1998 and made possible by the generosity of Greenbrier Companies of Lake Oswego and Bill and Joyce Furman of Portland, Oregon
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Vistas & Vineyards Artists & Founders Show

Toledo artist Michael Gibbons, a founder of Vistas and Vineyards plein air painters, Corvallis, has been invited to show his work at their annual juried October art show at the LaSells Stewart Center, in the Giustina Gallery on the campus of Oregon State University. The Founders Show will be hung in the Murdock Gallery in the south concourse. Gibbons served as a Mentor Artist beginning in 1989 and continues to give an occasional art workshop for the group on location in a vineyard of choice in the Willamette Valley. The show will be open October 3 to 30 with a reception at the center for the artists on October 11 from 6:30 to 8:00pm and the public is cordially invited to the show. The show includes art in many two dimensional medium including oil, pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, graphite and colored pencil.      [Click for more info]

Art Walk 16 at Gallery Michael Gibbons

This marks the 16th year of Toledo's Annual Art Walk Celebration on Labor Day weekend, September 5, 6 & 7. Please click on Your Invitation to the 16th Annual Art Walk for a peek at what is planned for Gallery Michael Gibbons.
This years Art Walk promises to be an exciting event with 15 artists throughout Toledo showing their work. Paintings, drawings, glass work, metal sculpture, wood turning, photography, jewelry, copper molded art, hand painted original design clothing and much more. Artists will be on hand to talk about their art. Self-guided tour maps will be available at galleries and merchants in Toledo. Visit http://toledoarts.info for more information.
Your Invitation to the 16th Annual Art Walk

Art Walk 16: Paulette Hanson, guest artist

Gallery Michael Gibbons hosts Paulette Hanson in the J.P. Studio as guest artist at this years Art Walk Celebration.
Paulette Hanson returns from Delaware to show her latest work!

Art Walk 16: Dee Boyles hosted by the Yaquina River Museum of Art

Dee Boyles will be showing his work at the Yaquina River Museum of Art School House in the Legacy Arts Terrace.
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Don Prechtel Prints on display

Don Prechtel, artist working in historical genre and collector of antique western and military accoutrement, returned from his Creswell studio for a solo show of original oil paintings co-sponsored by the Museum and the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, June 5-28 at the Newport Visual Art Center. [Click for more info]

Michael as John Singer Sargent

Toledo, Oregon competes as a Finalist in the All America City nationwide competition [Click for more info]

YRMA - Toledo High School Chautauqua Program

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Oregon Chautauqua Program

Yaquina River Museum of Art May Exhibit

The Moodie Collection of Porcelain Dolls

Family History in a book

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Winner of 2008 Yaquina River Museum of Art Benefit

Shirley and Mark O’Donnell of Albany, Oregon, winners of the 2008 benefit from the Yaquina River Museum of Art, Toledo, are shown receiving the prize oil painting entitled “AZAELAS AND BLUEBELLS” by artist Michael Gibbons. The Museum sponsors art education programs for the Newport and Toledo schools and makes a residency program available to mature artists. Gibbons has donated a painting to the benefit each year since the Museum’s founding in 2003.
The Museum exhibit opening on May 1 will feature Porcelain Dolls by Maxine Moodie and a Vintage Jewelry Show. The public is invited to a wine and cheese reception from 5:00pm - 7:00pm to meet the artist. The School House is located at 151 NE Alder St., Toledo, in the Legacy Arts Terrace. For more information please call the Museum at (541)336-1907.

Don Prechtel, Artist in Residence at Yaquina River Museum of Art

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"The Flowers of the Faithful"

Michael Gibbons at the 50th Tubac Festival of the Arts February 4 - 8, 2009 [Click for more info]

Miniature Show: "Fog Descending on Sutton Lake" by Michael Gibbons

"Tiny Jewels" Miniature Show
Paintings created specifically of the Oregon landscape for the "My Oregon" series.
Opening Reception with the artist during Toledo's Hometown Holiday Celebration on Saturday and Sunday, December 13 & 14, 11am - 6pm. Show continues through December 21 at Gallery Michael Gibbons.

MICHAEL GIBBONS PAINTING CHOSEN FOR PAINT THE PARKS 100

“View behind the Mission” oil 15” x 21”
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"Azaleas & Bluebells" by Michael Gibbons

Yaquina River Museum of Art announces drawing for "Azaleas & Bluebells", a 10" x 8" oil painting in a museum quality custom gold frame. Painting valued at $3,000. [Click for more info]

LIGHT AT THE YAQUINA RIVER MUSEUM OF ART

Board Members of the Yaquina River Museum of Art, Toledo, are shown with a check for $3,132.00 received from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund to install a ceiling and track lights in the Exhibit and Education Room of the School House. The School House, built in 1887, was originally used as the Sunday School for the 1st Methodist Church and is part of the Legacy Arts Terrace at 151 NE Alder Street. Donations of carpet and floor covering were received from Friends of the Museum and it is planned the space will be open to the public by December 13 for the Toledo Home Town Holiday Bazaar. Some 800 people passed through this museum building in 2008 and the addition of adequate lighting will make it possible for added programs in the space.

YRMA hosts Dave Masko, photo journalist

Dave Masko, wartime photo journalist, speaks of art in Bosnia

Yaquina River Museum of Art presents a talk by Dave Masko, photo journalist, on his experiences in art in Bosnia. Masko, retired U.S. Air Force, served five tours of duty in Bosnia before, during and after the war with the Serbs. He will share a story of a Bosnian artist and the art from that wartime. Dave will bring a photo feature story about art that survived after the war in Bosnia that he produced for the European Stars and Stripes Newspaper. From 2005 – 2008 Dave Masko worked as a Special Education (art teacher) for the Mapleton School District. He found art classes for both autistic and other students very important and rewarding and will speak on this subject as well.

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Michael Gibbons painting at Schreiner's Iris Garden

MICHAEL GIBBONS PAINTS IN THE BERRY BOTANIC GARDEN [Click for more info]

New addition to YRMA's permanent collection

Don Weller presents donation of watercolor "California Coastal Farm" by John Hewitt to the Yaquina River Museum of Arts curator, Michael Gibbons.
John Hewitt, former resident of Toledo, now residing in Ft. Bragg, CA was the guest artist in the School House, sponsored by the Yaquina River Museum of Art during Art Walk 2008 on Labor Day weekend.

Michael Gibbons & Ivan Kelly draw names for Art Walk prizes

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"Pine Grove at Marsh Edge"

"My Oregon" by Michael Gibbons
New paintings and other work done on location around Oregon by Michael Gibbons, Thursday through Sunday, 11:00 am-6:00 pm at his Signature Gallery, 140 NE Alder Street, Toledo. Call (541)336-2797 for more information.
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"Know Your Museum" at the Yaquina River Museum of Art

Michael Gibbons, founder, and Don Weller, chairman of the board of trustees spoke about the museum at the February 19 meeting of the Civic Club, the oldest continual organization of its kind in Toledo, at the Toledo Public Library. At the meeting, Brenda Mullinack, Toledo resident, made a presentation to the museum in memory of her sister, Sondra Humphries, a long time Toledo resident, of a painting in pastel of the “School House” by Jacqueline Hewitt, Toledo artist known for her street scenes.
The painting was gratefully accepted and will be displayed in the Permanent Collection of the Museum.
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Local artists in the YRMA School House for Holiday Celebration

Decorative gourd by Caroll Loomis and glass art by Larry Sommer [Click for more info]

Michael Gibbons membership in the National Arts Club, New York City

Michael and Judy Gibbons, Toledo, (on right) with guests, Jess Smith of Seal Rock, and Jo and Frank Geltner, South Beach at the National Arts Club, New York City while on the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts Music Tour

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Toledo artist Michael Gibbons paintings included in CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts) Directory

“Presence” oil on panel 12” x 8 ¼”
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“Farm near Mary’s Peak” is published in the 2007-2008 Christians in the Visual Arts Directory (CIVA)

"Farm near Mary’s Peak” oil on panel 12” x 18”
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