Join us for First Thursday on May 7 to meet our featured artists Carol Bietsch, Marilyn Moore and Masami Kusakabe.
Mingle with fellow art lovers in historic downtown Longview. Live acoustic guitar music provided by local musicians.
About the Artists
Carol Bietsch – Watercolor Paintings
Carol works from real life photographs. She began painting after retirement, never having tried it previously and certainly not realizing she had any talent for it. Watercolor has always been her favorite medium, although she enjoys anything that can be creatively construed as art. The serenity of painting in addition to having others enjoy her work is her greatest satisfaction. She almost always has a camera with her because she never knows what photo op might be around the bend!
Not Our First Rodeo
Kayaks
Good Day Sunshine
Art Walk
Marilyn Moore – Jewelry
Over the years Marilyn has focused more on making jewelry. This has opened up a new audience for her work and given her different teaching opportunities. She enjoys life’s journey! She finds infinite possibilities when working with color and form. As a basket maker she finds that three dimensional sculptural structures are interesting and often her basket making skills translate into jewelry.
Wire adds a new feeling to her work; the way light reflects off it, the color and glitter, are exciting. The materials have new limitations to explore.
Take Flight
Celtic Memory
Blue Chandelier
Masami Kusakabe – Jewelry
Masami is a Japanese artist who has loved making beautiful things since she was a student. She started making customized bead jewelry and teaching bead classes when she was in Japan.
Most of her bead works use Swarovski crystal beads and Japanese Miyuki seed beads.
It changed her life when her husband transferred jobs and they moved to the United States. It was the turning point in her career because she was inspired by Japanese concepts of beauty which look from outside of Japan. She came to realize the beauty of traditional Japanese paper, called WASHI (wa=Japanese, shi=paper). She began to make Japanese frame using Washi and beautiful beads. It merges traditional and modern to form a new Japanese art.
Since joining The Broadway Gallery she enjoys creating jewelry, cards and Japanese frame.
