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May 2008: When creativity meets the bottom line artist-owned businesses spring forth. Most recent arrivals: Eugene Textile Center and Clay Space.
Suzie Liles and Marilyn Robert, both accomplished artists, planned, worked and invested for a year to purchase, renovate and open Eugene Textile Center, 1510 Jacobs Drive, just off Highway 99 in north Eugene. ETC provides a retail shop, gallery, equipment and materials in a studio environment with classes and studio support for handweaving, surface design on cloth, and nonwoven fiber techniques. www.eugenetextilecenter.com
Clay Space, a complete ceramic facility and membership pottery studio, opened in April in the historic Cox Cannery Building at 222 Polk in west Eugene. Outfitted with 30 wheels, extruder, mixer, and six kilns available to all studio members, it also offers 14 private studio spaces. The dream of owner James Laub, a member of the original Clay Trade, Clay Space is co-managed by Josh Allen and Sandra Harder, owner of Paintworks Design. www.clayspaceonline.com
LaneArts encourages you to visit and find a way to get involved and support these robust and exciting endeavors.
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(Photo below: Artist Alison McNair and Lord Leebrick Theatre Managing Director Angela Henderson contemplate possibilities at Grants Information session convened by LaneArts in March 2008.)
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Building the Arts, December 2007.
It is time to reflect and to consider one additional gift this season - to a building of your choice.
As the University arena and a couple of blocks in downtown dominate our development attention-span, it is more than worthwhile to note the incredible accomplishment and resolve of many in local arts scene as they go a'building. These projects will benefit thousands of audience members, learners, performers, and visitors for generations.
--Eugene Ballet is raising money to buy the Midtown Arts Center at 16th and Willamette with a $2.5 million campaign to be completed by Fall 2008. The building, managed and occupied primarily by the Eugene Ballet Company, with its offices, meeting rooms, Eugene Ballet Academy and dance studios, also houses the LaneArts Council/YouthArts office. Call BalletWorks, 485-3992.
--As the year ends, The Shedd enters its final phase of a significant component of its five-year capital campaign. It has nearly completed raising $4 million to purchase the former church building and parking lot at Broadway and High as an educational and cultural venue and community-owned resource. Call Ginevra Ralph, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, 687-6526.
--KLCC 's capital campaign is nearing completion, having raised over 95% of its $2.45 million goal. By January 2008 the public radio station (89.7 FM) will move to expanded facilities in downtown Eugene, to be owned by Lane Community College. Funding for the purchase and remodeling is primarily from private donations. Call Paula Chan Carpenter, 463-6000
--Last but by far not least -- Congratulations to Emerald Art Center - enough already! They just paid off their bright, art-filled, historic building at 5th and Main - a cultural anchor of downtown Springfield . That's cause for a Solstice celebration!==================================
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