tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3059249277654235992024-02-18T20:53:40.050-08:00PatrisUrban Images, Regional Landscapes and Still life oil paintingsPatrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.comBlogger212125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-29837845059396637642019-03-30T18:17:00.002-07:002019-03-30T18:17:22.983-07:00Glacier Plein Air 2019 -- Accepted!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">
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Just found out I was selected to participate in the 2019 Glacier Plein Air! Super excited, nervous, and full of thoughts on planning for this big event.<br />
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-76637303331917612862019-03-18T17:23:00.002-07:002019-03-18T17:23:19.451-07:00Plein Air Painting From Montana Paint Trip<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-9944613051872357902019-01-16T22:33:00.003-08:002019-01-16T22:33:45.902-08:00Goat Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I started this paitning en plein air, but had to go back to the studio and figure out how to paint some kind of goat type shapes that would look natural. I have never attempted anything like this kind of painting before so this was a whole new challenge for me.<br />
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It sold in the annual Art and Ag Art Exhibition in 2018. Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-32248265061525659712019-01-16T22:21:00.004-08:002019-01-16T22:21:52.559-08:00Crockett View<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-32484108878113579602019-01-03T11:40:00.005-08:002019-01-03T11:40:53.367-08:00Plein Air Paintings by Patris available for purchase<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Plein Air Paintings by Patris</b></span><br />
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The studio will be open Friday from noon to nine pm July 29, 2018 and Saturday by appointment. Sunday July 1 the studio will be open from1 pm to 6 pm for exhibition viewing.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Broadway Rain Series," a collection of oil paintings featuring the Oak Park Broadway corridor depicted in an impressionistic rainscape setting. </span><br />
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-60161338529652149832018-05-22T13:25:00.003-07:002018-05-22T13:25:50.478-07:00Paintings from the "Broadway Rains Series" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-7939936840008812252018-04-13T14:39:00.007-07:002018-04-13T14:39:49.596-07:00"The Broadway Rain Series" May 3 - June 30<br />
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This series of impressionistic rainscapes focuses on Oak Park's Broadway corridor. </div>
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-79151521137774945502018-03-16T09:16:00.002-07:002018-03-16T09:16:43.315-07:00Montana Plein Air painting 2017<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of my plein air paintings from last autumn when I painted my in my home state of Montana. My heart and soul will always be here in the Big Sky Country, even if I am living in my funky urban community of Oak Park.<br /></span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Glacier Plein Air</span></b><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: small;">original oil on canvas panel</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: small;">available for purchase at Patris Studio and Gallery</span><br style="font-size: medium;" /><span style="font-size: small;">3460 Sacramento, CA </span></td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-84526155930004991672018-02-26T13:45:00.002-08:002018-02-26T13:45:50.908-08:00Honored to study with Suchitra Bhosle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Figure Portrait Workshop with Suchitra Bhosle at Patris Studio and Gallery</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing black and white studies from a photo is such a great way to study values.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learning from such an accomplished artist like Suchitra is such a treat and inspiration to my artist soul. </td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-13481716124714861252018-01-22T17:23:00.001-08:002018-01-22T17:23:10.209-08:00Patris Studio and Art Gallery : Beginning Portrait Drawing Mini Workshop 1/27/18<a href="http://patrisstudiogallery.blogspot.com/2018/01/beginning-portrait-drawing-mini.html?spref=bl">Patris Studio and Art Gallery : Beginning Portrait Drawing Mini Workshop 1/27/18</a>: Join us for a beginning portrait drawing mini workshop with Patris this Saturday from 1 pm - 4 pm. drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci No exp...Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-70448171747444473622017-11-29T12:42:00.002-08:002017-11-29T12:42:53.858-08:00Sold!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So happy that this painting found a home with my childhood friend Brenda. We grew up together in Montana and have remained close ever since grade school. Our life paths brought us both to California, but Montana remains a special place in our hearts forever. <br /><br />This painting reminds me of the warmth of the holidays - shared with love ones, filled with joy and laughter. </span><br /><br /></td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-88629915615975691732017-11-29T12:25:00.001-08:002017-11-29T12:25:23.578-08:00Glacier Park plein air 2017 Some plein air paintings from Glacier National Park during 2017. Having grown up here in this area of Montana has had a profound influence on my artistic inclinations. I love painting these plein air landscapes, inspite of the cold, the wind, the thousands of tourists swarming around. <div>
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I'm looking forward to creating some large scale paintings as my next body of artwork. based on my plein air studies and photos from Glacier Park. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Glacier Park autumn 2017.<br /> I pulled over on the side of Going to the Sun Road and painted this scene. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A plein air piece from summer 2017. <br />The day started out beautiful and ended with rain pouring down and I grabbed everything and ran inside the lodge with all of the other tourists. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My back yard growing up in Montana</td></tr>
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Today marks the day to go full circle in my art journey. As a child growing up in Northwest Montana, my heart and soul were imprinted with the natural beauty that surrounded me.<br />
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I had always loved art and wanted to be an artist living in Montana and painting the beautiful world that surrounded me.<br />
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Life gets in the way, things change, paths take a different course. I didn't become a full time artist until much later in life. But my heart longed to return to the place where my art spirit was born.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking a lunch break with one of my best painting buds, Abigail VanCannon up in Glacier Park.</td></tr>
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I began taking little painting trips back up to Montana over these past 5 years. <br />
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Last year I took my art buddy Abigail and we painted in Glacier Park.<br />
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This year, I applied to the Hockaday Museum of Art Plein Air 2017 event. I was one of 30 artists chosen to participate in the event. The big show and sale will be this coming Saturday. at the Hockaday Museum in Kalispell, Mt. <br />
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This is full circle now in my art journey. I return as a professional artist to the place where my art spirit was born.<br />
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-55642148358836666542017-06-09T17:09:00.000-07:002017-11-29T12:44:49.758-08:00Harbor Impressions<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I used a plein air painting and photo reference to create a much looser style with a thicker application of paint.</span></td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-14077053345506526122017-06-05T16:52:00.000-07:002017-11-29T12:44:16.390-08:00For Sutter<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-78777706079714531912017-05-31T16:47:00.000-07:002017-07-25T22:35:12.378-07:00Alameda Harbor<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-25290661868875892542017-05-26T16:43:00.000-07:002017-05-31T12:30:13.550-07:00Glacier Park Plein Air<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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8x10 plein air painting from summer 2016 Montana paint trip.<br />
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0Glacier National Park, Montana, USA48.7596128 -113.7870225000000323.6763033 -155.09561650000003 73.8429223 -72.478428500000035tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-37270960081790269712017-05-22T17:20:00.001-07:002017-05-22T17:20:54.864-07:00That Day<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">11 x 14 plein air with studio finish<br /><br />I started this painting on a day in 2016 way out in Winters, CA when I got a very bad call from a good friend with some tragic news. I threw my plein air gear in the truck and sped back to Sacramento to UCDavis hospital where I said my final good by to Terre Johnson, my landlord, my friend, my neighbor, my art patron. <br /><br />I was never able to finish the painting until one day I happened to see it in the pile of unfinished artwork. With the last brushstroke in place and finished to the point where I could live with it, I suddenly realized it had been a year to the date when I first started this piece, sped off to the hospital, and said good bye to one of the most important people in my art life.<br /><br />It was "That Day" that changed the course of so many lives, including mine. <br /></span></td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-36019604465335336162017-05-22T16:52:00.000-07:002017-05-22T16:52:19.705-07:00Glacier Park Plein Air 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-36699557684116671082017-05-22T16:42:00.001-07:002017-05-22T16:42:19.401-07:00Sold! St. Marys<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-12225385560395531342016-10-17T21:19:00.001-07:002016-10-17T21:31:55.286-07:00Art Revealed Show: Patris Studio and Art Gallery<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fq7zqU6_etE" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<b>The "Art Revealed Show" with Gayle Rappaport Weiland interviewing Patris</b><br />
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Way back in June of this year, Gayle asked me to be her guest on the Art Revealed show for sometime in October. I've known Gayle a long time and thought this would be a fun thing to do. I wasn't sure what my "Art Reveal" would be at that time, but thought "Oh something clever will come to mind as we get closer to the filming day." I was busy with the studio, summer travel plans, and just trying to keep up with the day to day activities at the studio.<br />
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As the filming day neared in October, Gayle called me and I shared with her that I just saw the For Sale sign pounded into the ground outside my studio. The Patris Studio and Gallery was being sold and I myself was not able to purchase it. Gayle and I brainstormed ideas, and both agreed the show had to go on.<br />
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When the camera crew showed up to begin filming that October afternoon, I hugged Gayle and said, "You are never going to believe this. I have something very exciting to reveal on the "Art Revealed" show today.<br />
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Click here to see what Oak Park artist Patris is revealing on this episode of "Art Revealed."Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-45903444268300476002016-09-27T17:52:00.001-07:002016-10-17T21:39:42.737-07:00What will happen to Patris Studio and Gallery? <div class="story-gallery " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "McClatchy Sans", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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Patti “Patris” Miller is known around Oak Park as the optimist. The slight woman with the can-do attitude who, for years, has approached every seemingly intractable task in the rags-to-riches neighborhood with a smile on her face.</div>
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But the day we met at Old Soul, her eyes were sad. Troubled even.</div>
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Within a few days, she knew a sign would be going up outside of her art studio on Second Avenue, a business she has run for almost five years in a neighborhood where she has lived for 25 years.</div>
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“For sale,” it says. What it really says is, “priced out.”</div>
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Patris Studio Gallery is about to become <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article65516352.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">the latest victim of gentrification</a>. The owners of her building are selling it, not really for profit, but for personal reasons. No matter, it’s a bittersweet pill to swallow for Miller, who moved to Oak Park back when it was overrun by drug dealers and helped lead efforts to revitalize it.</div>
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“I saw the beauty in Oak Park and now everybody sees it,” she said.</div>
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Miller is truly a victim of her own success, as are so many of the people who worked so hard and contributed so much to infuse a depressed Oak Park with new businesses and energy, only to see longtime, mostly black and brown residents being forced to leave as rents skyrocket. That’s the inescapable, double-edged sword of gentrification.</div>
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Miller isn’t black. She’s a white woman who grew up in Montana.</div>
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But if I’ve learned anything about Oak Park, it’s that it’s a neighborhood that while, yes, was<a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article94488087.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">most recently home to black Sacramentans</a>, also has housed an eclectic mix of people of all races and ethnicities. In her time here, Miller has earned her right to call the neighborhood home.</div>
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Fresh out of college in Minneapolis in 1986, she moved to Fair Oaks at the urging of her aunt. She landed a job as a teacher for Rio Linda School District helping the children of Asian refugees. It was work she had done in college, but Miller wasn’t much of a suburbanite.</div>
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“My heart was really in the city, in the inner city,” she said. “It just so happened that this whole area was inner city at that time.”</div>
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She started renting a room in Oak Park in 1991. She loved the neighborhood so much that she bought a condemned crack house in 1996 and, along with her husband, began refurbishing it.</div>
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“The sign on the door was like, do not enter. And I’m like, we’re buying this one.”</div>
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Miller also started volunteering at a church that had a gang outreach program. Eventually, she got involved with efforts to reduce crime in the neighborhood. Lots of neighbors were banding together to establish a drug-free zone.</div>
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Her efforts evolved into stints on neighborhood advisory committees, some strategic planning panels and membership in the Oak Park business association. She joined the group that helped bring supermarket Food Source to the food desert that was on Stockton Boulevard, and she organized Oak Park’s first multicultural festival.</div>
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Back then, drug houses were on almost every corner and Miller swears women couldn’t walk down the street because people “would think you’re a prostitute.”</div>
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“We were all kind of in this challenge of trying to make our neighborhood livable,” she said. “There were a lot of friendships started.”</div>
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But Miller’s mother died in of cancer in 1997, only in her 60s. Miller began thinking about her own life and what she wanted to be known for.</div>
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“I thought, I could become an artist and use my art to showcase how beautiful I see Oak Park as.”</div>
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So she started taking art classes at Sacramento City College and went to part-time at her job. That took her to midtown, where she studied with a master artist for years, until he retired and she took over his art studio at S and 12th streets.</div>
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The desire to return to Oak Park, not just to live, but to work, led to the risky business decision to close the midtown studio and open it at the corner of 35th Street and Second Avenue.</div>
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The was no trendy La Venadita taco joint across the street then. Nor were there pricey apartments. A lot of things were on the verge of happening, but getting art students to venture just a few miles from midtown required a whole lot of convincing.</div>
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While packing, she found her old “PR binder” – a now dusty packet of documents that she stocked full of good news about Oak Park. It was the only way she could convince potential art students to come down.</div>
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“I had the map,” she said, pointing at a printout. “See, it’s not that far, really. It’s not that far.”</div>
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Also, in that binder? Her artist statement about her commitment to the neighborhood. It culminated in her “Oak Park Treasures” series – less midlife crisis than a legitimate open-ended collection of paintings of scenes in the neighborhood and just outside its boundaries.</div>
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In 2003, The Sacramento Bee captured part of Miller’s process as she dabbed green onto canvas, adding detail to the trees towering beyond the old Oak Park library building near McClatchy Park library. Over the years, she often has been seen on a sidewalk, standing over an easel.</div>
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Last week, Miller read aloud what she once wrote. “My greatest aspiration is to support the renaissance of this neighborhood and invite others to enjoy the treasures of Oak Park.”</div>
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The irony.</div>
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Miller’s not mad about it. She is a little sad, though. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help save her studio. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/2n8xgexd" target="_blank"> click here to visit the Go Fund Me Page</a></div>
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“I understand there are forces beyond my control, but I’m still going to hang onto my vision as much as I can.”</div>
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Miller paused, watching her two small dogs weave through the studio cluttered with paintings and easels to bark and chase the shadow of a man on the sidewalk.</div>
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“My vision as an artist is to be not just an artist for myself, but an art resource for the greater community. How do I balance wanting to stay in the neighborhood, but maybe being priced out of my neighborhood?”</div>
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Erika D. Smith: <a href="tel:916-321-1185" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba;" title="">916-321-1185</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/Erika_D_Smith" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0d76ba; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">@Erika_D_Smith</a></div>
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Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-70966962440283172912016-07-05T09:00:00.000-07:002016-07-05T09:00:13.284-07:00Montana Plein Air Paint Trip<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A beautiful spot in Glacier Park to set up and paint. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was unusually hot while my painting pal, Abigail Van Cannon, and I were up in Montana painting. A cool breeze blowing off the Middle Fork of the Flathead River provided the perfect air conditioning for us. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lunch break and then we'll get another painting done before heading back to my dad's house. He still lives in the same house where I grew up, which is about 30 minutes from where we are here in Glacier Park. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">While we were painting here by these raging waters, a whole group of horses and riders walked by us and over the bridge. </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know for certain that growing up in this breath taking beautiful scenery has influenced my art and my passion for plein air landscape painting. Another magnificent scene to behold.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back at my dad's house. I grew up on these 20 acres of of gorgeous landscape under the big sky. No doubt that my art today is influenced by the beauty that surrounded me as a young person.<br />It's haying season now and lots of work to get it cut, raked, baled, and hauled into the barn. I remember having to help get the haying all done. Hard work for sure. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Montana, Montana, glory of the west<br />Of all the states from coast to coast,<br />You're easily the best! </i></b></span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Patrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03657803869436004845noreply@blogger.com0Glacier Park, Columbia Falls, MO 59912, USA48.4479632 -114.1413441999999948.363591699999994 -114.30270569999999 48.5323347 -113.9799827tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-305924927765423599.post-63007830773465415092016-06-07T23:18:00.000-07:002016-06-07T23:18:49.034-07:00New Series: Rainy Night Broadway<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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