Kaseberg at Art in the High Desert

Artists setting up for Art in the High Desert in Bend, Oregon.

A village rises on the banks of the Deschutes River in Bend as Art in the High Desert comes together for three days. This is where Cameron Kaseberg spent  most of his time between August 21st and 24th, 2014. Loving every minute!

As a board member and an exhibiting artist, he sees the show from both sides and considers himself very fortunate to be a part of Central Oregon's premier juried fine art festival. The show is produced by artists, for artists, and art patrons and draws top artists from across North America. 

The artists village for three days along the Deschutes River. 

Art in the High Desert was the first art festival Cameron had ever juried for and the first he participated in. "I did not sell a single piece my first show, but I had such a great experience that I immediately applied to a bunch more shows.... and got in," he says. So began Cameron's life on the road for the last seven years, traveling between Texas and northern Washington state throughout the summer. 

"Art festivals aren't for every artists," he says, "but I have had a great time, learned so much, and met so many amazing people that I would not trade these last seven years for anything."

Cameron Kaseberg with his booth at

Art in the High Desert 2014 in Bend, Oregon.

If you have not been to a juried outdoor fine art festival, Cameron would surely encourage you to. "Wether an art lover or an artist, it is worth the time to seek out a quality show near you and explore, experience, and soak it all in," he said grinning. He told us that as an exhibiting artist, the work is hard, the hours long, and that some shows are more rewarding financially than others. But he was serious when he told us he would not trade the experience for anything. 

To learn more about Art in the High Desert visit http://www.artinthehighdesert.com. TO dig a little deeper into Cameron's art and life visit his website at http://kaseberg.com and follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KasebergDesign.

Central Oregon Artist and the Barnyard Boss

Oil Painters of America 2014 Western Regional Exhibition

Central Oregon artist Barbara Slater has been accepted into the Oil Painters of America 2014 Western

Regional Exhibition with her oil painting entitled "Barnyard Boss,” 30x30 on gallery wrap canvas. The show is being hosted by Mountainsong Galleries, located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Paintings will hang from August 30 through September 30, 2014. 

The Oil Painters of America (OPA) is a national organization dedicated to the preservation of representational art. The Juror of Awards for this regional show is internationally renowned master painter Marilyn Simandle.  There are a total of 107 paintings that have been selected from entries submitted from 27 eligible states and provinces. What the juror is looking for is confidence in the handling of paint, composition, design, color, value, movement; an overall looking at paint manipulation and how edges are done.

A member of the Oil Painters of America, the California Art Club and the High Desert Art League, Barbara is represented by galleries in Utah and Oregon and has collectors throughout the United States. Barbara had a thirty-five year career in education. She was also a children’s book illustrator and an advertising and graphic design artist.

HDAL Plans for Second Annual Smith Rock Paint Out

Kim Smith's beautiful painting from the 2013 paint out.

The High Desert Art League has been working on the second annual Smith Rock Paint Out.  It is a free event open to the public on June 21, 2014.  Last year we had painters working in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic. Come join us!

For more information or to sign up to paint in the second annual event, check out the website.

Vivian Olsen Exhibits in May

Join Vivian Olsen on the First Friday Art Walk in downtown Bend. She will be showing her Artwork at Alleda Real Estate on Minnesota St. throughout the month May. You can also view her work at the Green Plow Coffeehouse in Redmond during May.

Twelve Local Artists...

Work by Vivian Olsen
at Alleda Real Estate

Who, Where and When.The twelve members of Central Oregon’s High Desert Art League (HDAL) are an ambitious group with a schedule to back it up. In May alone the group is opening three new exhibits in addition to the galleries where they have individual ongoing shows.

On May 1st Vivian Olsen, known for her wildlife art in oil, watercolor, and pastels, opens a show at Alleda Real Estate on NW Minnesota Ave. in Bend.  Alleda is a great stop during the First Friday Art Walk on May 2nd and a perfect chance to explore Vivian’s unique use of color, technique and abstract backgrounds in her realistic animal portraits. The show runs through the end of May.

Work by Cameron Kaseberg at Broken Top

Work by Janice Rhodes at Broken Top

Cameron Kaseberg and Janice Rhodes present a two-person exhibit at Bend’s Broken Top Club, which runs May 14th through July 15th.  Janice Rhodes is a pastel artist with a fondness for Encaustics. Each of her works is an adventure in design and intuition. Cameron Kaseberg is known for his work in solvent transfer images and was recently featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s television series, Oregon Art Beat. Broken Top Club hosts their Third Thursday Art Walk, Jazz Night, and Wine Tasting May 15th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. If you get to Broken Top before May 14, you can still catch the exhibit of Richard Frederick, Vivian Olsen and Shelly Wierzba.

Work by Helen Brown at The North Rim

The North Rim residential clubhouse is host to Helen Brown’s watercolors through June. Visitors to the clubhouse on weekdays from 1-5pm will find six of Helen’s works with subjects ranging from architecture to dancing figures. The Clubhouse is on Wild Rye Street off of Mt. Washington Drive.

In addition to the three exhibits listed above, the High Desert Art League members are busy with their ongoing gallery shows. Jacqueline Newbold, Janice Rhodes, Shelly Wierzba and Joren Traveller show their work at the Red Chair Gallery in downtown Bend. Helen Brown and David Kinker’s work can be found at the Tumalo Art Company in Bend’s Old Mill District, along with Barbara Slater’s oils at Desperado. Cameron Kaseberg shows at the Artists’ Gallery, Sunriver Village. You can view Cindy Briggs’ work at Bend Your Imagination, Bend, OR 2014.

All twelve members of the High Desert Art League will come together for a group show in July at Sage Custom Framing in downtown Bend.

Through Redmond to Oregon Art Beat

Artist Cameron Kaseberg Makes Oregon Art Beat

Redmond artist Cameron Kaseberg has been pushing, playing with and refining the art of solvent transfer since his college days. It has been an exploration of the process brought to prominence in the 1950’s by Robert Rauschenberg. For Oregon Public Broadcasting it was a unique process and story that will air January 30^th on OPB’s Oregon Art Beat.

For Cameron, the Oregon Art Beat story began at the very first Art in the High Desert festival (Bend’s nationally ranked fine art festival) and the first art festival he had ever done.  There, Cameron met artists who had been featured on Oregon Art Beat. “I was in awe,” he says. “It is a rare Oregon artist whom does not dream of being featured on Oregon Art Beat, and at that festival it became mine, too” he adds. Oregon Art Beat is an Emmy award-winning weekly television series produced by OPB. It profiles artists of all genres, and suggests upcoming events in the Oregon community.

From left to right: Ted Cutler (Audio tech, Oregon Art Beat),
Tom Shrider (Videographer/Editor, Oregon Art Beat),
Katrina Sarson (Oregon Art Beat Co-Host/Producer),
Cameron Kaseberg (artist).

The reality of Cameron’s dream began unfolding in May of 2013 with an unexpected call from Katrina Sarson, a producer for Oregon Art Beat.  Katrina had seen Cameron’s work on the Art in the High Desert website and was intrigued by the process. Within two weeks Katrina and the Oregon Art Beat crew arrived in Redmond to begin filming Cameron’s story. “I was a nervous wreck,” he said, “but the moment they walked in the door all of my trepidation vanished. They were amazing.” He said. Filming took place in Cameron’s home where he works, with a trip to Smith Rock State Park where he sometimes hikes and photographs material for his art.  “In one day we shot elements of every step in the process of making one of my pieces,” Cameron explained. “From photographing at Smith Rock all the way through editing images and putting the final piece together. The last bits of filming were shot as I was setting up for Art in the High Desert to sell my work” he added. 

The Oregon Art Beat episode will air Thursday, January 30^th at 8:00 p.m. on OPB. For more information on Cameron’s work visit www.kaseberg.com or through the High Desert Art League website. To learn more about Oregon Art Beat, visit http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat.

Interpretations set to open at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon

Sanctuary, Smith Rock Series - Watercolor, 21 x 29
By Cindy Briggs

The High Desert Art League is pleased to announce a new exhibit entitled Interpretations: Working in a series” set to open Tuesday, October 1st in the second floor gallery at St Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon.

The members of this group are all accomplished artists who exhibit a wide range of talents in various media. Luminous watercolors, vibrant oils, and pastel paintings are specialties of several members - Vivian Olsen and Cindy Briggs create art in all three media and their subjects range from birds and European scenes to regional landscapes. There is more in the watercolor realm, with the graphic figures and dramatic landscapes by Helen Brown and Jacqueline Newbold. Working in oils, artist Barbara Slater paints large, vivid florals on canvas, and Pam Jersey Bird creates colorful experiences of nature in her semi-abstract mixed media paintings. Janice Rhodes uses hot wax as her medium creating encaustic paintings.  Richard Frederick is a fine art photographer, producing both black & white and color images.  Cameron Kaseberg uses a solvent transfer process to combine inks and images from various printed media as well as his own photos and graphics, chemically dissolving them and transferring the images onto a new surface. Pat Clark produces abstract images using a variety of skills, including the techniques of relief printing, embossment, chine collé, mixed media, and drawing. David Kinker is known for his larger mural and also for his colorful acrylic paintings.  Joren Traveller is our 3-dimensional artist, and creates bronze sculptors of horses and birds.

The exhibition opens October 1^st and runs through December 31st, 2013 at St. Charles Hospital, located at 2500 NE Neff Road in Bend. You can find the gallery space on the second floor near the cafeteria.

Art and Jazz at Broken Top Club!

Sage Custom Framing and Gallery Exhibit