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4/15/2016

Paper Gardens 2016 Contest Winners

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Dear Friends,

     Our Judges have presented us with the results and all of the authors have been notified.  We are now busily putting together the Paper Gardens 2017 book.  

     Thank you to all of the Yamhill County writers who submitted such wonderful work to Paper Gardens this year.  Here is a list of the pieces that have been selected by the judges for the Paper Gardens 2017 book.

Our Judges: 
  • Dr. Anna Keesey, Linfield College Professor and author of the award-winning novel Little Century was our Prose Judge.  
  • Oregon Poet Laureate and Confederated Warm Springs Tribal Member Elizabeth Woody was this year’s Poetry Judge. 
     There were 525 total entries for Paper Gardens 2017 so being selected for publication is truly an accomplishment.  There is no ranking this year within categories.

     We had participation from 29 schools, including public and private and elementary through high school, and from every town in the County.
  
The Paper Gardens Celebration and book release party.
  • May 4th at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg.  We will begin at 7:00 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30.  
  • All authors will be recognized as they come on stage to be introduced, receive their own copy of the Paper Gardens 2017 book, and be asked to read their winning piece.
  •  The Chehalem Cultural Center (https://www.chehalemculturalcenter.org) is located near the Newberg Library at 415 E. Sheridan Street.  There are entrances and parking in front and back of the building.  
  • Take a look at the special exhibit, Blending Poetry and Cloth, in the Cultural Center Gallery when you come.  

     We are truly grateful for the support of the Arts Alliance Board, The Chehalem Cultural Center and our sponsors:  McMinnville Kiwanis, McMinnville Noon Rotary, Newberg Community Foundation, Yamhill Cultural Coalition (with support from the Oregon Community Foundation & the Oregon Cultural Trust).

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8/27/2015

Paper Gardens Creative Writing Contest for 2016 is open for submissions

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We believe in starting early.  The Deadline is March 1, 2016. 

If you start now before you know it March will be only days away.  The Entry Form can be found here.  Yes, its right here on this website.  Print it, put it on the wall next to your desk.  When those poems are done or that story is polished to perfection, take down the entry from and send it to: PO Box 1334, McMinnville, Or. 97128.

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5/30/2015

Marg Johansen Scholarship & Arts Alliance Scholarship Awarded for 2015

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Arts Alliance awards $2000.00 for college scholarships to promising artist who are graduating from high school


Newberg High School senior Violet Fox  received the  $1000 Marg Johansen Scholarship.  She is planning on attending University of Oregon this fall majoring in art, studying to be a medical illustrator.  She is a member of National Honors Society.   She has been artistic director of high school productions of two Shakespeare plays.  She was featured in Youth Arts program and an art show at the Portland Art Museum (2011-2012)
 
McMinnville High School senior Ashley Lavender received the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County  Scholarship of $1000.  She will be studying film at Portland State this fall.  Her plan is to become a director.  During  her time at Mac High she has been on the dance team and student of the month at the Media Arts and Communication Academy.  She has been active in the theatre department in both Gallery Theatre and Mac High.
 

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5/29/2015

Discover Art Every Day 

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Chehalem Cultural Center's Jessi Rich wants to meet working local Artists.

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Jessi Rich, who is a writer and Education Coordinator for the Chehalem Cultural Center, talked with Lynda Phillippi host of the Arts Alive TV show about the Center's Summer Programs.  The programs for children 4 and up run July to August.  There are also adult programs like the watercolor class taught by Gary Buhler.

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5/28/2015

AAYC President Kris Horne talks about Lavendar Festival's new home

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The Lavender Festival July 11-12 will be at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg.

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Former Chehalem Cultural Center Board Chair, current Center Board member, and Arts Alliance of Yamhill County President, Kris Horne talked with Lynda Phillippi on Arts Alive about the new and improved Lavender Festival and the associated Paint Out and Art Show.


    The Lavender Festival has been going in Yamhill County for 10 years.  This year it will move from the town of Yamhill to Newberg at the Chehalem Cultural Center.  There will be craft venders, food venders Wine and Beer providers, and even Lavender product vendors.   There will be the usual self guided tour of the Yamhill County lavender farms.
    As part of the Lavender Festival, local artist Susan Day created a lavender fields paint out with an art show during the Festival itself.  The Chehalem Cultural Center's ballroom will be used for the Art Show.  The Paint out will begin on June 25th.  There will be two classes for the show, professional and emerging artists.
    Watch the Arts Alive interview.  Kris explains the details.

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5/25/2015

Dance helps music become motion

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Edwina Castle's Gallery Ballet and Tap production of Cappellia and its summer programs

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    Recently Edwina Castle who is on the Board of the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County and who moving force behind Gallery Ballet and Tap talked with Lynda Phillippi on Arts Alive TV.  Gallery Ballet and Tap is putting on a production of Cappellia May 29th and 30th on the main stage at the Gallery Theater in McMinnville. 
    This will be the third time Gallery Ballet has produced Cappellia, which is a beautiful love story set in an old German village.  It is an old ballet first produced in Paris in 1870.  Gallery Ballet produced the ballet in 1998, 2007 and now in 2015.  For this production there will be a number of new dances and several male dancers.
    Edwina also talked with Lynda about the extensive summer programs that Gallery Ballet and Tap will be offering.
   


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4/8/2015

Paper Gardens Creative Writing Contest announces 2015 Winners.

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Award Celebration Friday 4/17/15 at 7 PM at Chemeketa Community College McMinnville Campus

The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County is excited to announce the winners of the 2015 Paper Gardens Creative Writing Contest.   The 2015 Poetry Judge, recent Oregon Poet Laureate Paulann Petersen, the Prose Judge novelist Samuel Snoek-Brown, and the Art Judge graphic designer Phyllice Bradner have made their winning selections.  Judges’ selections will be published in the 2015 Paper Gardens Chapbook.  Along with the adults, youth and children from 15 different Yamhill County Schools will be honored at the Awards Celebration on Friday, April 17th at 7PM at Chemeketa Community College McMinnville.

The Winners are:

Poetry - Youth Free Verse

1) Ashes Given To the Sea              Peter Van Horn  

2) Rainbows                                         Mikayla Reck 
3) To Dance in the Rain                    Anna Wiard    

                  Honorable Mentions:

Spring                                                     Kara LaVeine  

City                                                           Rakhi Grant          

Wormholes                                             Gabriel Hornback  

We Build Walls                                      Aubrey Koskela 

Sprocket                                                  Madison Brumbaugh   

Poetry - Youth Traditional (3 Awards)

Why We Have Life                               Troy Pigman   

Summer                                                Addisyn Hendrickson   

Two Houses Down                               Elizabeth Warren    
                  Honorable Mentions:

The Night                                              Olivia Brodeur  

For Spring We Cheer                         Ashton  Schimmel

Poetry - Youth Haiku (3 Awards)

A Little Taste of Oregon                     Christopher Martinez-Geronimo

The Willow Tree                                   Olivia Dredge     

Softness of the Hill                              Wrenna Lindsley  

Poetry - Youth Poetry of Place

New Girl                                                  Nickole Babikoff    

Prose - Youth Short Story

 1) In Flew Enza                                    Cassidy Malick      

 2) Painted Silence                              Rebecca Long     


 3) Peter and Pan                                  Emily Adams    

ART - Youth

1) Bad Kitty                                              Nakia Moore 
2) Untitled                                               Isaac Risseeuw   
3) Tiger                                                     Ashlyn Wolfe    
4) Untitled                                               Jennifer Garcia-Guzman

 

Poetry - Children’s Free Verse (3 Awards)

Classroom                                               Sophia James  

Time                                                          Coralyn Reinker 

I Used To Be But Now                            Kade Weeks  

                  Honorable Mentions:

Could You Would You                          Margaret Bowman

And Nothing Was Impossible            Hannah Simmons    

The Mountain                                        Coralyn Reinker

Finishing                                                 Katherine Castro

Day and Night                                         Mystique May

History                                                        Cali Willius 

 

Poetry - Children’s Limericks

Eyeless Silas                                             Blake Harris 

Poetry - Children’s Diamantes / Diamond Poems (3 Awards)

Aliens and Humans                             Quincy Reuter

School/Home                                          Anna Gerber   

Dogs and Cats                                         Morgan Gerhart
 

Poetry - Children’s Traditional (3 Awards)

If Fairies Paint the Butterflies           Lillie Spencer 
  

Winter Fun                                              Cole Harper     

Beach                                                          Britney Fischer                                      CVMS, Newberg

                  Honorable Mentions:

A Simple Pencil                                       Katherine Castro   
   

Boys and Girls                                         Isabella Warden

Arguing with Dad                                    Lillie Spencer

Boys and Girls                                         Lillie Spencer  

Ocean                                                          Allie Macartney  

Poetry - Children’s Haiku (3 Awards)

Airplane                                                    Nicholas Nyburg  

Trees                                                          Sierra Savage   

The Wind                                                   William Nice   

                  Honorable Mentions:

Getting UP in the Morning                  Ellen Dong

Refrigerator                                            Cole Harper  

Poetry - Children’s Poetry of Place

1) Yamhill County                                Aanya Bhatia     

2) Space to Earth                                  Sydney Berkey    

3) Memorial’s Playground                 Peyton Scales  

Prose - Children Short Story

1)     The Mortal God                              Logan Ferry 

2)     Edward the Elf                               Olivia Jaczko   

3) When I Remember                           Annika Selke  

                  Honorable Mention:

Oscar the Dog                                         Kaia Brantner 
 

Prose - Children Creative Non-fiction

1) The Claim of Strange                    Sophia Elaine Morris Arias       

2) My Friend, Samson                        Mikenzie Paskewich     

Prose - Children Essay of Place

1) The Craziest River Trip Ever            Adeline Rich                    
 

Poetry - Adult Free Verse

1) Eda Flourine Baslee                                        Pat Angland

2) Our Minds Have All the Neurons…             Linda Hoard

3) My People Come from Dirt                             Lucinda Hultine

                  Honorable Mentions:

Thoughts Are Constant Travelers                Rachel Lanieg

No Aubade                                                          Thea Evenstad                     

Stone Carin in the Woods                                Fran Hunter

Observations of Dementia                               Pat Angland

Poetry - Adult Traditional

1) Halloween                                                         Linda Hoard

2) Meditation on Alpha-Naught                       Thea Evenstad

3) An Earthen Praise Sonnet                             Jeff Strobel

                  Honorable Mentions:

Summer Tanka                                                      Lucinda Hultine

An Oak Tree’s Enchantment                               Jeff Strobel

The Chief                                                                   Mike Paull

 

Poetry - Adult Haiku

1) Spines                                                                      Bernice Owens

2) Haiku                                                                        Quinn Riesenmay

Poetry - Adult Poems of Place

1) Nirvana                                                                   Susan Easterly   

2) In This Place                                                         Margaret Cross

3) Matthew’s Creed                                                    Mike Paull

Prose - Adult Short Story

1) Between Two Bodies                                               David Woolen

2) Carla’s Serious Problem                                        Loren Wilbur

Prose - Adult Creative Non-fiction

1) Under the Dogwood Tree                                      Jeanne Drevas

2) What Love Looks Like, As I Recall                        Gary Tandy

3) Along the Way                                                          Chris Hoover

 

Prose - Adult Essay of Place

1) Fall Equinox                                                              Fran Hunter

 

ART – Adult

Welcome to Our Garden                                  Marcine (Marcy) Dillon

Young Poet in Overalls                                       Christa Brandenburg      

 

The winning and honorable mention authors will receive a free chapbook, a one year family membership in Arts Alliance of Yamhill County, and a certificate of recognition.  First place winners will be invited to read their work at the Awards Celebration April 17th  at 7PM at Chemeketa Community College, McMinnville campus.

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4/1/2015

Adam Gallardo at Terroir Creative Writing Festival

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Writing for YA Audiences: Finding the Emotional Truth Inside the Lie of Fiction

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No matter what genre you intend to write, when writing for a young adult audience, it’s critical that you write as honestly as possible about the characters’ emotions. Novelist Adam Gallardo will explore how to maintain this emotional truth as you write.  His workshop the the Terroir Creative Writing Festival is at 11:30 to 12:30 on Saturday, April 18th at the Chemeketa Community College McMinnville campus.

Gallardo is a writer who lives and works in Oregon. He's mostly known for writing comics (Star Wars: Infinities -- Return of the Jedi, 100 Girls and Gear School volumes one & two).

His debut novel, Zomburbia, published August 2014. It's sequel, Zombified, will publish January 2015.

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3/31/2015

Samuel Snoek-Brown at Terroir Creative Writing Festival.

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Getting the Details Right: Research and Setting in Fiction

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“The devil is in the details” the saying goes and it is as true in writing fiction as it is in rolling out a grand policy decision. 

In this workshop Samuel Snoek-Brown will help you learn how to make any fictional settings, objects, or people come to life through careful and accurate details.  This will be a popular workshop, space is limited, registering early will assure you a chair.   The workshop will be from 2 PM to 3 PM at the Chemeketa Community College McMinnville campus.

Sam is the author of two books: flash-fiction chapbook, Box Cutters, from sunnyoutside press; and his novel, Hagridden, from Columbus Press.   He is a recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship.  He has been shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition, twice for short fiction and once for a novella, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award.

Sam teaches writing for Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Chemeketa Community College.  He is the production editor for Jersey Devil Press and has served as the fiction judge for local literary contests in Oregon and Indiana. This year Samuel is Judging the Prose for the Paper Gardens Creative Writing Contest for adults, youth, and children in Yamhill County, Oregon.l.

He was raised mostly in Texas; I’ve also lived in Oregon and Wisconsin, and he loves to travel: in addition to driving much of the US, I’ve visited Mexico, Turkey, Canada, Scotland, Austria, The Netherlands, and Thailand. I recently spent two years living in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. He  lives in Portland, Oregon

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3/26/2015

John Silbey Williams at Terroir Creative Writing Festival

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How to be your own Editor

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John Sibley Williams  will be presenting a workshop that  provides authors with all the tools and guidance necessary to become their own successful publishers. Including aspects of professional editing and design, logistics and distribution, and publicity and marketing, the goal for this presentation is to offer enough details to make writers “publishing professionals,” with an insider’s knowledge of the business and marketplace.  This is a workshop will be from 3 PM to 4:10 Pm on Saturday April 18th at the Chemeketa Community College McMinnville Campus.

John Sibley Williams is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Controlled Hallucinations (FutureCycle Press, 2013) and The End of Mythology (Virgogray Press, 2013), and has served as editor of the recent Northwest poetry anthologies Alive at the Center (Ooligan Press, 2013) and Motionless from the Iron Bridge (barebones books, 2013). He is the winner of the HEART Poetry Award and has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Rumi, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. A few previous publishing credits include: American Literary Review, Third Coast, Nimrod International Journal, Rio Grande Review, Inkwell, Cider Press Review, Bryant Literary Review, Cream City Review, RHINO, and various anthologies.

John co-founded the Inflectionist poetry movement, edits its journal, The Inflectionist Review, and serves as Board Member of the Friends of William Stafford and Co-Director of the Walt Whitman 150 organization. He also co-founded the Moonlit Poetry Caravan, a Portland-based critique group.

John holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier College and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University, where he served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and Marketing Manager of Three Muses Press.

Currently John works as Marketing Director of Inkwater Press and as a freelance literary agent and publicist, representing poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction. He lives in Portland, Oregon



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