Wanda Anderson
Wanda enjoys doing art, particularly drawing and making things with clay. She has been creating art since she was in school and continues to do so for fun. When she is not creating art, she is meeting with the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow group, which she is a proud member of.
Ocean Wonder
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This ceramic cylinder vase is painted with deep blue glaze around the outside. There is a thick line of brown glaze around the bottom and the inside is painted with pink. The outside has different textures that resemble plants that could be found in the ocean. The opening of the vase features a waved texture, similar to that of a seashell and there is a ridge that runs the length of the vase, reminiscent of that found on a conch shell.
Michael Cisneros
Michael is new to making art and has enjoyed coming to artAbility workshops this year. He finds art exciting, and especially enjoys painting dragons. When he is not making art, he enjoys bowling and running track as well as working for SEL in Moscow.
Dragon Wing
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This piece is a cylindrical vase with a rounded bottom. It has wing-like structures sticking out from the top and middle. The texture is like various sizes of scales, which gives it the appearance of snakeskin and dragon scales in different places. The middle of the piece contains patches of vertical spiral impressions. On the front of the piece, there are markings that look like scratches. The piece is colored with a blend of light red and deep blue with bits of bright yellow around the rim. The colors blend into a dark purple on one side.
Geo Garden
Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper
This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is dusty pink with bunches of light blue and pink flowers. In each corner is a pale yellow square patterned thoroughly with delicate pale pink, yellow and blue flowers. Between and layered on top of each square is a green triangle with various pink, yellow, blue and white flowers. In the center, with points directed at each green triangle, is a red square covered with wispy pink, blue and white flowers.
Sarah Cooley
Sarah has been making art for as long as she can remember! She is creative and enjoys art in all mediums. Aside from art, she enjoys hanging out with friends, watching television and playing video games.
Untitled
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This piece is shaped like a leaning, cylindrical vase that flares out at the bottom and has petal-like structures that unfurl like a flower in bloom. The body of the vase is dimpled and has a few distinct curved markings on one side. The base is covered in small bubbles and grooves with peaks like the raise of the waves on water. Most of the piece is painted a muted sunflower yellow. It's covered in white, purple and blue patches that resemble a flower's petals. A few of the dimples on the piece are painted green, resembling small leaves. The petal-like structures at the top are painted deep maroon.
Kenyon Cornelius
Art makes me feel good about myself. I like to do art because I can show my feelings without talking. I also really like to make potholders with loops of different colors. They are useful art. I have been selling them at the Moscow Food Coop for 10 years. I can draw, paint and make potholders by myself whenever I want. I like being independent.
Mouse
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape, which flares slightly at the bottom and opens to a slightly wavy rim. It was made by wrapping a sheet of clay around a cylinder. The seam where the clay was pressed together is quite apparent. This is where the rim gets its wavy appearance, as it bends a bit, following the curved edges of the clay sheet. The glaze highlights this seam as well. A thick band of navy blue starts at the vase’s bottom, running diagonally up and to the right until it reaches the seam. Past that line, the piece is golden, orange and pink. Along the seam, following its curve, are several yellow spots. A pink hook shape is also painted on top of the navy band.
Untitled
Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper
This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is brown and thoroughly patterned with small blue flowers with tan leaves. A triangle of gray fabric dotted with yellow, pink, white and teal firework-like blotches stretches top to bottom across the right half of the piece. In the bottom left corner is a trapezoid of blue fabric patterned with white hearts, dots and sparkles. At the center is a grey, semi-rectangular form with white polka dots. It has two opposite sides with dramatic valleys and peaks. On top of everything are two long, skinny red pieces with small blue and yellow flowers. One is shaped like a butter knife, and both have one scalloped side.
Caroline Doty
Caroline has enjoyed making art since she was a child. She began by painting rainbows. Since then, painting has been one of her favorite mediums. She enjoys art because it makes her happy even after having a bad day. Caroline likes to hang out with her friends, to watch her beloved Oregon Ducks, and to spend time with family. She has been working at Hodgins for almost 15 years! She is also a member of the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow group.
Cougars
Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper
This print uses silver and red ink. At the bottom right is a light silver stamp and two collections of silver dots. At the top middle of the page is a small silver print with thin ink definition on the tree rings and a small splotch underneath. To the right is a large, horizontal red print. It has a watercolor-like quality to the ink the leaves a light coloring behind. In the bottom right corner is a thick print with large lines on the outside and large rings. The red ink is much darker than the other red on the page.
Happy Birthday Mom
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This piece is a cylindrical vase-like shape with a wavy rim. It has a lot of texture, as if the artist patchworked scraps of extra clay onto the vase in various places. Most of the piece is painted orange with a reddish tint. This is broken up with sizeable, blocky, abstract patches of blue. The whole piece has a painterly appearance, with obvious brushstrokes and varying opacity to the glaze.
Highschool
Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper
This piece uses red and gold ink and two stamps of each. On the righthand side is a vertical, almost symmetrical stamp. The red ink has a watercolor quality to it, blotching out around the bottom and becoming defined towards the top. The rings are visible throughout, with many small dots. In the bottom middle of the piece is a large black print. It has a slight U-shape with good border definition at the top and thinning out towards the bottom. The rings are very visible, with a large variety of space between them. Toward the middle top of the piece is a sideways red stamp that has thick line definition and small blotching around the edges. On the right side of the piece is a boot-shaped black print, with lighter ink distribution.
Nature
Workshop: Quilting Collage
Fabric on paper
This piece is made of fabric scraps glued onto a 12-inch-by-12-inch piece of paper. The background is light pink. In the top left is a large square featuring a green, blue and white hummingbird hovering above some pink, red and light blue flowers. The background is mainly white covered in faint grey script and boxed in with a square green border. Outside the border is light blue with light grey script. In the top right is a near diamond shape cut out of white fabric with various butterflies on it. In the bottom right is a near square shape made from brown fabric with white cross-stitching and bunches of blue, orange, green and pink floral designs. In the bottom left, four scraps of fabric are layered together. Three are a purple, green and white floral design, and the furthest left piece is the butterfly pattern.
Tawny Espy
Tawny has been making art for over 20 years. She enjoys crafting and learning new mediums. She also enjoys sports and has been involved in basketball, bowling, swimming and track. Tawny is also a member of the Self-Advocacy Movement of Moscow. She also enjoys attending her class in Partners and Policy Making.
Dakota Memorial Piece
Workshop: Clay
Ceramic
This piece is circular with a heart at its center, mounted on a rectangular base. There's a butterfly towards the apex of the heart and several flowers at the top of the circle. There are letters that follow the curve of the circle on each side. On the left side of the heart is the inscription “I Ruff Mom.” Similarly, on the right side is the name “Dakota” and the date “02/11/24.” The circle is painted a deep blue with bursts of bright yellow, baby blue, pastel green and pink. The heart is painted a bright red with the words painted in alternating shades of blue and orange.
Sunshine Rainbows
Workshop: Monochromatic Texture Art
Plaster on canvas
A rectangular canvas is covered in a thick layer of white plaster. Using tools, a picture of sunshine and rainbows has been carved into the wet canvas. The sun is featured in the top left corner, with two fluffy clouds to the right. Directly below the clouds are two half-rainbow shapes. Along the bottom, straight grooves run from left to right, signifying the ground or dirt. There are three large flowers carved into the dirt.
The Idaho Fish
Workshop: Tree Ring Printing
Ink on paper
This composition uses silver, red, gold, black and bronze ink to create the likeness of a fish. The top of the print, on the right edge is dominated by a large, quarter circle print of primarily red. There are gold and silver accents throughout. It resembles the tail fin of a large fish. Running the length of the top of the page are thin, silver prints from the same stamp. They all use lighter ink application that accentuates the rings of the stamp used. In the middle of the piece, the same stamp used atop the page is used in three, dark vertical strokes of silver ink with gold accents. These resemble the ribs of a fish. To their right, at the edge of the page, is a thick, L-shaped stamp using dark ink with sprinkles of gold throughout the middle and along the top. This is oriented to look like the lower jaw of the fish, with the main face left blank. Along the bottom of the entire piece runs a line of bronze stamps that gets thinner as it moves up the composition.
Untitled
Workshop: Watercolor Paper Weaving
Ink on paper
This piece is a drawing using markers or pen. The background of the picture is colored light blue in random, scribbled strokes. At the middle of the page is a large purple heart. It too is colored in random, scribbled strokes. There are three pictures in the heart. At the top left curve of the heart is a drawn black and white butterfly. In the top right curve of the heart is a drawn red flower with a stem and leaves. At the center of the heart is a cross. The top, right and left portions of the cross are colored the same light blue as the background, while the center of the cross is colored a pinkish-purple.