Juried into the Contemporary Fine Art International

Contemporary Fine Art Int'l
Contemporary Fine Art International web site

I have just been juried into the Juried into the Contemporary Fine Art International, hosted by Kimberly Conrad, a Colorado daily painter.

This site showcases:

  • Representational Abstract Painters
  • Nonrepresentational Abstract Painters
  • Abstract & Contemporary Sculptors
  • Encaustic Artists
  • Selected Mixed Media Artists

Purple Treasury at Etsy includes Songwriter

Natalya’s Studio, home of custom knit, crochet & felt designs, has created an Etsy Treasury which includes this purple painting of my daughter, the songwriter.

Visit Etsy for a wonderful shopping experience.

Create an Online Presence ~ Workshop

Create an Online Presence workshop at Linn Benton Community College
Create an Online Presence workshop at Linn Benton Community College

1-day workshop for artists, musicians, and small businesses

April 4, 2009
9:00am to 4:00pm
Room BC-204, Benton Center
, Corvallis, Oregon
$95

To reserve a seat, dial 541-917-4929 for LBCC’s Small Business Development Center.

Corvallis artist and businesswoman, Pam Van Londen, will assist small business owners in setting up a freely hosted web site in just a few hours.

Agenda

  • Overview: what is a web presence and how can you have a successful one?
  • Demonstration: how to plan ahead.
  • Demonstration: how to keep inventory to streamline the process.
  • 15 minute break
  • 1 hour lunch break (on your own)
  • Build a site: Create a web site and add your biography and a gallery (or other documents) (using a free online service).
  • 15 minute break
  • Demonstration: 10 free options for promoting your new web site

Follow-up

Student requirements

  1. Comfort with basic computer skills. Please review this list to help assess your comfort level.
  2. Access to web mail (bring username, password, and link to your online mail site).
  3. Comfort with using a USB stick drive (also known as a thumb drive).
  4. Bring in at least 4 digital photos, music files, and/or documents on a USB stick drive.

Three person show at LaSells Stewart Center

By invitation, my paintings will appear next to Mark Allison’s and Mike Rangner’s at LaSells Stewart Center for the month of December, 2008.

Join us at the reception on December 3 from 6:30 to 8:00pm.

Enjoy the show at Bomb’s Away Cafe

Through November, 2008, 13 of my landscapes in oil and acrylic are hanging at Bomb’s Away Cafe on Monroe St in Corvallis, Oregon. Enjoy lively music while viewing art at this local establishment.

Pam Van Londen shows her work at Bomb's Away Cafe in Corvallis, Oregon

Restaurant Hours
Monday to Friday 11:00am to 10:00pm
Saturday 5:00pm to 10:00pm

Bar Hours
Monday to Friday 11:00am to midnight
Saturday 5:00pm to 11:00pm

Juried into the LaSells Stewart show

Three of my larger paintings have been accepted to the Giustina & Murdock Galleries Reflections on the Color of Life show at LaSells Stewart Center for November, 2008.

The show runs November 1- 28 and the reception is to be held November 5 at 6:30pm.

Reflections on Color of Life exhibit

Four of my pieces have been accepted for the Reflections on Color of Life exhibit at Giustina Gallery at La Sells Stewart Center which runs Nov 1 to Nov 26, 2008.

Join me for the reception on November 5 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm in Giustina Gallery/Murdock Exhibit Area in La Sells Stewart Center on the OSU campus.

Upcoming exhibits

My month at the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis ends on Oct 21. Please take a look at the wonderful gallery this fellowship has in their sanctuary. It makes a great place to hang work AND worship.

On Nov 1 through Dec 15, I’ll be hanging at Bomb’s Away Cafe on Monroe Street in Corvallis. Then they’ll have me back in February 2009 to show my Food on the Table series.

In July 2009, I’ll be showing at Sam’s Station at the corner of Grant and 28th in Corvallis.

Shop Locally for art ~ online

Local artisans’ work can be viewed and purchased online at Etsy. See Corvallis, Philomath, Albany, Lebanon.

My 8×8 daily paintings are for sale at Etsy. Choose landscapes and still life paintings for your home or office. Paintings are priced at $25 and $50 for these original framed paintings, so they make excellent gifts!

Daily Paintings for sale at Etsy

Find paintings for sale at Etsy.com
Find paintings for sale at Etsy.com

My 8×8 daily paintings are for sale at Etsy. Choose landscapes and still life paintings for your home or office. Paintings are priced starting at $25 for original paintings. They make excellent gifts!

Exhibit schedule for summer 2008

Corvallis Art Guild's Clothesline Sale of Art, 2008

I’m a busy gal this summer but have had time to hang my work around town and in Portland’s Sellwood neighborhood (see previous post). Take a look here when you’re in the area:

September

  • Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis
  • Corvallis Fall Festival, Central Park

August

  • Corvallis Art Guild’s Clothesline Sale of Art (August 2), Corvallis Courthouse lawn
  • Timberhill Athletic Club, Corvallis, Oregon
  • Border’s Bookstore, Corvallis, Oregon

July

  • Muldonado’s Furniture, Sellwood, Portland, Oregon
  • Corvallis Chamber Coalition, Corvallis, Oregon
  • La Sells Stewart Center Guistina Gallery, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon

Portland furniture gallery takes on my work

Maldonado’s in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon will be selling my portrait and landscape paintings this season.Maldonado's storefront sign

Sellwood is a refurbished neighborhood in Southeast Portland where you will find many galleries, antique shops, and specialty boutiques, in addition to fantastic food, such as Fat Alberts, Le plangue, and Caprial’s, to name a few.

The new owners of Maldonado’s consign furniture, works of art, locally-made candles, and other artisan gifts.

Visit Sellwood and the store during their community side-walk sale on August 9, 2008. I’ll be there painting and showing more pieces on the South corner Tenino and 13th streets.

Spring cleaning the studio

  1. Pam Van Londen's painting studio, spring 2008Since I live in a one-bedroom apartment with my daughter, room is tight. I noticed a week ago, that I had to move several things just to get in and out of the studio area, cutting down on concentration when my rump knocks something over. Ugh.

So, I’ve rearranged the bedroom/livingroom/diningroom/studio area and found much more room! I now have three easels standing ready and have a small workspace for writing notes.

Hanging About Town this month

I’m hanging about 40 paintings in three locations in April:

  • Fidelity National Title | 435 NW 5th Street, Corvallis
  • Sameritan Health’s Cancer Center | Elks Drive, Corvallis
  • The Grace Center | 980 NW Spruce, Corvallis

Office hours vary for these locations, so call ahead before driving there to view them.

Celebrating Women’s Stories and Women’s Lives

The Back to Basics: Celebrating Women’s Stories and Women’s Lives art exhibit is hanging in the OSU Memorial Union concourse until the end of February.

The artist’s reception will be Thursday, February 7 at 7:30pm in the MU Main Lounge.

I have two works hanging in the show, The Star Jar Cover and The Story Teller (Beth Johnson).

OSU Women’s Center Exhibit

OSU Women's Center Art Exhibit by Pam Van Londen Jan to April 2008I have 35  paintings hanging at the OSU’s Women’s Center from now until April 1.

The Women’s Center is open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9:00am to 5:00pm on Friday, and is located in Benton Annex, the blue house adjacent to Valley Library, on the OSU Campus.

All but two paintings are for sale. In addition, the 8×8 framed panels are for sale in the main room of the Center.

Canvas Paintings half off until Jan 2008

SOLD! ©  Pam Van Londen 2007 Morning Tulips  8x8 acrylic on canvasboardTwelve paintings were sold in the last week to my dear friends Denise, Gregg, Ellen, Karen, Erin, and Cindy and to an anonymous customer at the Bizarre. Thank you all so much!

Hello friends and family :-)

I have painted about 100 paintings in the last 2 years and have many more planned. So I offer to you a big sale which helps me clean out and you to have something new and enjoyable on your wall(s).

My paintings on canvas are half off until Jan 1, 2008 (excludes framed round canvases).

The framed 8×8 square canvasboard paintings are set at just $25 each.

I currently have work hanging at Leading Floral on Madison Ave and at Henderson’s Copies on 2nd Street in Corvallis. Drop by there to take a look at your favorite in person and call me to make a purchase.

Purchase in person or via PayPal. Just click on your favorite at the left, search for it, or scroll through the blog.

I’ve enjoyed your support of my creative endeavors over the years! Have a wonderful winter.

Ready for Fall Festival

Corvallis Art Guild at the Fall Festival in 2007.
Corvallis Art Guild at the Fall Festival in 2007.

This year, I’ll exhibit work in the Corvallis Art Guild booth at the Corvallis Fall Festival (Sept 22, 23).

Stop by to see some of my smaller works in addition to this new oil of Anecortes Beach Garden.

The Fall Festival hours are:

Saturday
September 22, 2007
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday
September 23, 2007
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Reception, county fair, and an auction

What a busy month! I’m not painting much but am getting myself out into the marketplace. My Reception at Corvallis Montessori School was fun; many friends came by to see my work and I met a few new friends. And I sold a painting! Thank you to Jana and Carol for all their hard work.

I received two second-place ribbons at the Benton County Fair; one for the Portrait of My Children and another for Pismo Beach Garden.

And I’ve got a few pieces at auction on Ebay: Sedona 3 Oak Creek and Mission Bay 1

Press Release ~ Landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes

Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes on display at Corvallis Montessori School

June 23, 2006 Corvallis, Oregon — Artist Pam Van Londen is showing acrylic landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes this summer in the new lobby gallery of Corvallis Montessori School on Greeley Street behind the Garden Center. CMS is open for visitors 8:30am to 5:00pm weekdays throughout its summer arts camp program.

Van Londen returned in May from 8 months of traveling the country by motorhome. She and her daughter toured 24 states, stopping frequently to paint, take photographs, write poetry, and visit art galleries and museums.

Landscapes, Seascapes, and Cityscapes on display at Corvallis Montessori School

Mostly working en plein air, Van Londen captured the diversity of terrain and architecture seen as one travels from the wet West, the dry Southwest, and the swampy South.

The most inspirational galleries and museums visited by Van Londen include the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and Metropolitan in NYC, the National Gallery of Art in DC, O’Keefe Museum in Santa FE, New Mexico, and Judy Chicago’s Foundation and Studio in Belen, New Mexico.

“I was inspired by the number of women-only art coops with galleries around the country; they spring up in the smallest of towns; offering art to many rural areas where it may seem like there is little high art happening,” says Van Londen.

Van Londen teaches courses for Oregon State University’s Women Studies and Computer Science programs in addition to providing marketing consulting, web development, and graphic design services to local businesses.

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