Last Monday Poetry Reading

Influence Art Gallery sponsors an open mike poetry reading every final Monday of every month, at 7pm at the gallery. The Event is hosted by TV Artsts member Lucinda Huffine.

Open to readers and listeners alike, it is a community event that sparks creativity, excites new ideas, invokes contemplation and brings out some very good local poets. You may be surprised! A sign-up sheet is available at the beginning of the reading. Come and join us on the last Monday of every month for some great poetry in a casual, supportive, and beautiful environment.

Influence July Gallery Opening

The featured artists for July 2008 opening at Inluence Gallery are Linda Holland and Michelle Bufton.

Linda Holland

Linda Holland was born and raised in Montana, then moved to Oregon to avoid the snow and to look for opportunities to grow a business. She achieved both those goals and never looked back. read more

Hillsboro Plein Air: An Outdoor Painting Event

On Saturday, July 19, the Walters Cultural Arts Center will host Hillsboro Plein Air: An Outdoor Painting Event and competition presented by the Hillsboro Arts and Culture Council. Last year over two dozen artists painted in the open air of the historic downtown Hillsboro area for fun and prizes. This year painters will again read more

Open Mic Music Every Fridays @ 7 pm

Join TV Artist for open microphone music every Friday night the the Influence Art Gallery hosted by TV Artists President Evan Acey.

Influence Gallery Show Features The Jewelry of Di Angelique Schisler

June 3 through July 27

Di Angelique Schisler

Di Angelique Schisler has been in many facets of business for more than thirty years. Designs 2 Di 4, jewelry art & design, is her business passion. Di has a broad range of design history to draw from. Di has always loved color and design. She searches for unique, signature art, something that shares our individual passions and stories. Di makes only one of every design, so that an individual has something truly unique to share. She believes there is strength in simple and elegant artistic designs. Her enthusiasm and passion stirs when she sees an individual share a signature creation, a courageous and daring design. Di has a mystical artistic garden with more than one hundred roses. Each flower is unique in its beauty, color, shape, smell as is one of a kind jewelry art design. She has been and is honored to teach, and more specifically to teach "Jewelry Art Design & History" and "Jewelry as a Business" for PCC. In her youth, has raised sheep on a farm and worked in berry fields. Di has always found a way to volunteer her time to make a difference in the community. Past Chair of the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors, on the Business Committee for the Arts, and now through HPD Mediation, DV, VFW Patriots Pen Program, and NAMI BofD and Executive Committee.

Influence Gallery Show Features The Art of Jackie Woodward

June 3 through July 27

Jackie Woodward

Although she was born in South Dakota where her mother taught school on the Rosebud Reservation (Lakota Sioux Indians) in a one-room schoolhouse, Jackie Woodward moved to Oregon as a small child and grew up in Portland. Currently she lives in Hillsboro.

Woodward was a member of the Oregon Society of Artists where she exhibited her paintings while she worked at Tektronix for seven and a half years where she started and supervised a small Graphic Arts Support Group in the Field Engineer Training dept in Marketing.

Woodward exhibited in the San Francisco Bay area, Monterey Bay area as well as in Nevada, selling her painted silks (scarves, garments and yardage for doll makers), She also designed and sold quilts and dolls among other sculpted fabric items. She became a member of the "Flying Phoebes Doll Club" and over a period of years, branched out into one-of-a-kind sculpted clothed character dolls of polymer and air-drying clays. She made all of their clothing and props and used her hand-dyed silks for embellishments.

After studying more sculpting from the human form in 97 through the Palo Alto Art League she honed her skills in anatomy while completing pieces from live models. When she moved back to Oregon in 99, she joined the Pacific Northwest Sculptors, not only as an active exhibiting member but also served on the Board and chaired the events committee.

In 2003 Woodward began a foundry class studying bronze casting while working with Oregon Carving Stone and casting/pouring finished pieces with Hydra-stone and Bronze. After taking classes at PCC Rock Creek Campus Woodward began sculpting with water -based clay and working from live models as well as firing the finished products.

She has been a member of TV Artists since September, 2007 and now serves on the hanging committee as well as showing her sculpted clay pieces. She will be displaying wall hangings hand-built from stoneware slabs in a complex manner marrying two different colored clays together and then painting the design with colored engobes, then scribing the designs and stretching the clay to gain the distorted shape. They are bisque fired and then re-fired to develop the engobe colors and protect the clay colors so the design would show. After the final firing, bamboo is attached with leather to hang the piece.