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This year Nancy Barnhart, photographer, and Jean Vavrek, fabric artist and painter, integrate creative photography and fabric work in an October workshop promising exciting links between art and the natural world. Returning to Flick Creek House is local author, Ana Maria Spagna, who conducts writing workshops. This fall she will teach Peeling Back: A workshop on the personal essay . See details below. Each workshop takes place at secluded Flick Creek House on upper Lake Chelan, near Stehekin. Designed and built by the Barnharts, the house offers an ideal setting for comfort, artistic pursuits and expansive views of Lake Chelan and the surrounding mountains. Three miles down the lake from Stehekin, the house lies in a private cove with no other houses in view. Electricity comes from a small water turbine. There are no phones or other distractions of city life, only sound of Flick Creek and waves lapping on the sandy beach. Kayaks and a rowboat are available for your use. For photos and more information on the house go to: www.stehekinvalley.com and click on Flick Creek House. |
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October
3-5 Peeling Back: A workshop on the personal essay. $240 |
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October
10-12 Shaping
Creativity $240 |
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Ana
Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin. After fifteen seasons
on trail crew, she now teaches writing online and in Stehekin's one
room school, a combination that she says suits her well.
Her work has recently appeared in Mountain Gazette, Open Spaces, Oregon
Quarterly, and in the anthology A Mile in Her Boots. Her first book,
Now Go Home: Wilderness, Belonging and
the Cross Cut Saw, was named one of the Best Books of 2004 by The Seattle
Times. Ana Maria is a graduate of the University of Oregon and of the
M.A. program in fiction writing at Northern
Arizona University. |
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Jean
Vavrek grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, an industrial city. As a teen
she saw the ocean for the first time and was infatuated with it.. She received
a BA with Honors in Fine Art from Western College for Women in Oxford,
Ohio. Afterward she lived in various cities doing various jobs until she
encountered the Western mountains and fell in love. Her love for mountains
inspired her to turn away from cities and head for the hills. Thirty years
ago she came to Stehekin with her husband and has enjoyed exploring this
landscape, both on foot and through a variety of artistic media, including
printmaking, collage, fabric art, oil pastels and brush drawings directly
from nature. Her work has been exhibited widely and is included in many
private collections. Fifteen years ago she helped found the Golden West
Gallery and has served on its board since. She has been a member of the
local craft cooperative for thirty years and has worked as a National Park
Service interpretive ranger for twelve years. She's an avid gardener, loves
flowers and likes to relax by cooking. Contact: jeanvavrek@gmail.com |
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Nancy
Barnhart,
longtime Stehekin resident and photographer has eight years of experience
leading photography workshops at Flick Creek with her photographer
husband. Nancy added photography to her long list of creative pursuits
soon after moving to the remote Cascades over 30 years ago. Photography
books published with her husband include, Lake Chelan & The North
Cascades, Stehekin-A Mountain Community, Holden Village-A Christian
Renewal & Mountain community. She has extensive and intimate
knowledge of the North Cascades, which is reflected in her stunning
artwork. Her attention to detail compliments her knitting, gardening,
baking and photography. |
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