I’ve been getting lots of comments on my last post, many of them questions about the show based on Ivan Doig’s The Whistling Season. I forgot to put the information about the show into my post! Here is the press release regarding Lake Oswego Reads 2010!

Hear the Author
Tickets Available Saturday, January 30 at 11 A.M.

Ivan Doig, author of The Whistling Season, will be speaking at Lake Oswego High School about “Passion, Precision, and Whistling a Work Song.”  This event is for high school age and older.  Admission is free but a ticket is required for this event.  Tickets will be available at the Lake Oswego Public Library starting at 11 A.M. on Saturday, January 30. There will be a two ticket per person limit and a Lake Oswego Library Card is required. Note: the tickets will be valid until 15 minutes before the event begins on February 17.  Seating is first come, first served.  Wednesday, February 17, Lake Oswego High School Auditorium, 2501 Country Club Rd., 7 P.M. Free but tickets are required.

Art Show

Opening Art Show Reception:  February 4 at 6:00 P.M.

Imagine! How do you capture the essence of 345 pages in a single piece of art?  That’s what faced the 18 artists listed below from the Splash! group.  In their 4th year of meeting this challenge, their visions will be unveiled for the first time at Graham’s at the reception. From Lakeridge High School, art teacher, Shannon McBride and 14 art students read The Whistling Season and have prepared 15 pieces of art interpreting what they read.  From Lake Oswego High School, art teacher Katie Brink and Artist -in-Residence Michael Orwick had 14 art students work in oil to re-create the scenery from the book.

Throughout February, the adult art will be displayed at Graham’s Book and Stationery and the high school art will be displayed at Chrisman Picture Frame & Gallery. Opening Art Show Reception, Thurs., February 4, 6:00 P.M. – 7:30 P.M., Graham’s Book and Stationery, 460 Second St. and Chrisman Picture Frame & Gallery, 480 2nd St.

Thirteen artists from the talented Splash! group and five invited artists have created images that came to them as they read The Whistling Season. Their interpretations are imaginative and amazing.  Artists include:

1.  Ruth Armitage
2.  Kara Pilcher
3.  Susie Cowan
4.  Dave Haslett
5.  Mary Ellen Otten
6.  Anna Mastellos
7.  Dyanne Locati
8.  Janet Otten
9.  Lee Baughman
10. Patricia Schmidt
11. Jan Rimerman
12. Kathy Bethurum
13. Lois Larsen
Guests

1.  Bill Baily
2.  Barbara Vance
3   Barbara Wagner
4.  Linda Terhark
5.  Deborah Marble

I also received a beautiful photograph from my cousin of my Great-Aunt Lois & Uncle Harry’s farm in Redstone, Montana which should get you excited to read this book! Thank you Carol!

Lonely Montana Farm - Carol Skiles