Quarantine Art Show
Thank you for attending the first ever Forestry at Home virtual art show! The show ran from May 18-29 and featured incredible art created by College of Forestry faculty, staff, and students.
Quarantine Art Show
Wood and Metal Art
ODF plaque
Artist: Ryan Schmidtgall
Woodburn
Artist Statement: Just a woodburn of ODF!
Title: The wave
Artist: Robert Bancroft
Woodcarving
Artist Statement: This is a wave hand carved using only a chainsaw.
Title: Endurance
Artist: Ray Van Court
Spalted wood
Artist Statement: Turned spalted white oak bowl, showing fungal decay and insect damage. The heartwood is keeping it together despite external threats, which is the energy we all need right now.
Wood burning
Artist: Michaela Rust
Pyrography
Artist Statement: Having more time at home, I have been practicing woodworking small designs on magnets through pyrography.
Title: Losing yourself
Artist: Max Schoenfeld
Frame
Artist Statement: Painting and building random things in the house during the stay at home orders. It is always good to keep some paints lying around your apartment.
Tree Saws
Artist: Elizabeth Gangwer
Plasma Cutting
Artist Statement: My dad has a side business called "Wee Little Forge" where he does metal art. I did some pieces in 4-H growing up; so with more time at home during quarantine, I decided to pick up the plasma cutter again and give it a go!
Horseshoe Butterfly
Artist: Elizabeth Gangwer
Stick Welding
Artist Statement: I have a garden dedicated to a friend of mine that passed away. She loved butterflies, so I created this piece to put in the garden.
Title: Sit in a canoe and pull the river beside you
Artist: Leon Rogers
Wooden Paddle. Tupelo and redcedar.
Artist Statement: Wood has long been a gateway to how we access water, from wooden cups to barrels to wooden ships. The paddle at one time was a primary means of transport and communication over bodies of water. While...
Photography
Title: Alone in the Woods
Artist: Sarah Bogden
Digital
Artist Statement: This was a photo taken walking my friend's private land.
Title: Words of the Wiser
Artist: Robert Schmidt
Photography
Artist Statement: Inspired by an album of my favorite music, I challenged myself to illustrate it in a photo. This photo is also posted on my photo instagram account: robert._.jpeg
Title: Canary in the Current
Artist: Leigh Torrence
Specimen (nymph Plecoptera) captured from Soap Creek; then photographed through a dissecting scope; and image edited in Adobe photoshop
Artist Statement: I wish to highlight the complex beauty of the creatures who live in freshwater streams and who can help us identify the...
Paintings
Title: In the midst of quarantine, I found within me an invincible sea of fire
Artist: Rebecca N. Weber
Collage
Artist Statement: I don't know what the chickens mean. Maybe it's a metaphor for how humans approach issues like global pandemics and climate change, or maybe they're just funny looking birds on a colourful background...
Title: Hairy Woodpecker on Burned Snag
Artist: Mary Holland
Monotype over intaglio print
Artist Statement: This piece highlights the importance of forest fire in healthy ecosystems, and combines my love for print arts and forest ecology.
Title: Mount Rainier
Artist: Kylie Brooks
Watercolor
Artist Statement: Watercolor is one of the new hobbies I picked up during quarantine. I love painting the outdoor spaces I am homesick for!
Title: Fox Scream
Artist: Jessica Eve Blunn
Acrylic Painting
Artist Statement: Last summer, I was camping out in Southwestern Colorado and I had to get out of my tent in the middle of the night. When I was out in the darkness by myself, I heard a clear, loud, and very close fox screaming into the night. This is the painting that...
Title: Moonlight
Artist: Jack Todaro
Acrylic on Canvas
Artist Statement: I have been painting for 4 years, most of my paintings represent my relationship with nature.
Title: Octopus
Artist: Erica Harry
Acrylic paint/canvas
Artist Statement: I started to learn how to paint with acrylics just over one year ago. The octopus is the first painting that I did :)
Landscape
Artist: Erica Harry
Acrylic paint/canvas
Artist Statement: I started learning to paint with acrylic paint just over one year ago. Lately I have been learning how to do landscapes and finished this one at the end of April.
Title: Heron at sunrise
Artist: Claire Tortorelli
Watercolor
Artist Statement: These regal and steadfast creatures remind me of a modern-day dinosaur.
Title: Nature's Cells
Artist: Bill Ripple
acrylics
Artist Statement: This is the first time that I have attempted painting, but Covid-19 is providing a great opportunity to something new. I am doing a type of fluid art known as acrylic pouring.
Jewelry
Oar Horn Pendants
Artist: Phil Mann
Jewelry
Artist Statement: In an effort to combine digital modalities with traditional ones, I created digital models of the oar horns historically used on many types of row boats, which I then 3D printed. Using the prints as patterns I used the ancient technique of "lost wax" casting to cast them in bronze....
Vole skull and Amethyst
Artist: Ashley Back
Jewelry
Artist Statement: I pulled this vole skull from the pellet of a wild Barn Owl. It is attached to a piece of raw amethyst with wire and superglue.
Furniture
Red Alderfall Coffee Table
Artist: Robert Bancroft
Furniture
Artist Statement: This midcentury modern coffee table was designed to store board games without sacrificing the look of your room. It features sliding doors with continuous grain on both sides giving you the option to have one large opening or two small side compartments. The table is...
Chicken coop
Artist: Kathy Motter
wood
Artist Statement: Mostly built by husband Jim, but I "assisted" and made the antler closures and window pulley.
Stand for washer/dryer with rolling drawers underneath
Artist: Jon Souder
Douglas fir; birch plywood.
Artist Statement: Art as utility! Utility as art!
Fiber Arts
Title: Drip.
Artist: Tiana Noelani Thorp
60"x60" cotton tapestry dyed with cold water reactive dyes
Artist Statement: This is an original, free form psy dye piece. I have been making tapestries for almost two and a half years now.
Title: Stay Golden
Artist: Christina Fierro
Cross Stitch
Artist Statement: I took up cross stitch about ten years ago. This pattern is by Steotch.
Title: Gnome Garden Party
Artist: Ashley D'Antonio
Fiber Arts (knitting)
Artist Statement: I am an avid knitter and was looking for something fun, easy, and whimsical to knit during the Stay At Home order when I found a series of gnome knitting patterns. These are all of the gnomes and their accessories (balloons, beer mug,...
Poems
Poem: A Run For the Hills
Artist: Ashley Hatleberg
Artist Statement: This poem was inspired by my experiences conducting Spring Chinook spawning surveys on the McKenzie River.
Ode to Soils and Society, Winter 2020 Term*
Extensive yet hidden to shallows or depths
Teeming with seen and unseen critters,
Cycling that from above, downward
Then upward again via tentacles like Hydra’s curls.
For food, fiber, forage, and fuel crops
Necessary to groups or individuals, all wanting MORE!
These wanting hordes toil,...
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