Woodstock Create - April 2025

Author

Zachary M
April 07, 2025

The debut issue of Woodstock Create is here! This month, we received submissions from five creators and one artist group. Thank you to our 68 subscribers for supporting the newsletter and local Woodstock creators.

Do you have in progress and/or completed pieces you would like to share with the community? We want to see them! Submit your creations here for the next issue of Woodstock Create which will be published on Tuesday, May 6.

Addie Boswell

addieboswell.com
@AddieKBoswell

I am an artist and writer who specializes in community-based public art.

For the Dreamers
This painted fiberglass heart is part of the Hearts of Wilsonville public project and will be installed throughout Wilsonville, OR along with hearts by nine other artists.

Mara Iris

Salvage Bookmarks
Mara makes these bookmarks from material that would otherwise be discarded—worn out clothing, hem cutoffs, pillowcases that have started to shred, random ribbon and lace, buttons from her Buy Nothing group, and so on.

Lisa Kagan

[email protected]
503-347-1391

Lisa's Art: familyheirloomarts.com/artwork
Touchstone Retreats, Inspiring Transformation Through Art & Story: familyheirloomarts.com/touchstone-retreats
Family Heirloom Arts, Celebrating Life Stories: familyheirloomarts.com

Lisa Kagan is an artist, writer, creative facilitator, and personal historian. Lisa is the co-founder of Touchstone Retreats, offering writing and art retreats throughout the Pacific Northwest and at her home studio in the Woodstock neighborhood in SE Portland. Lisa believes in the transformative nature of the creative process to heal, empower, challenge, inform, and awaken the human spirit. Her business, Family Heirloom Arts, is dedicated to helping individuals and families celebrate their life stories and significant life milestones through conducting oral history interviews and creating illustrated heirloom books. Lisa received her BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut with a focus on writing and fine art. She has completed intensive studies in the arts at Skidmore College, the University of New Mexico, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Maine Photographic Workshops. Lisa has published two books of original poetry and art, Coming Home to Myself (2021) and Emergence (2009). Lisa is based in Portland, Oregon. Join Lisa at one of her upcoming art and writing retreats at her studio in the Woodstock neighborhood: https://familyheirloomarts.com/events

Befriending Time
Mixed media. This image was created in 2020 as a meditation on the different markers of the passage of time during the long period of pandemic isolation.

Elemental
Mixed media. These masks were created using a paper pulp-base, featuring acrylic paint and black ink. They explore the color and energy of different elemental forces in nature that we can embody in different moments.

Radiance
Mixed media. This image features painted paper that I created, which was then used to create this paper mosaic. This piece explores the way our light comes from the inside out, even in these dark times.

Zachary M

Sorcerer Miniatures
Acrylic paint, ink, and basing materials.

Untitled Missive
Marker and gold leaf on 4” x 6” watercolor postcard

Diablo Horadrim
Acrylic and enamel on 8” x 8” canvas with brass fittings and faux leather

Jennifer Pratt Equine Artist

Statement

As an artist, I have dedicated myself to the subject that inspires me most, the equine form. I am drawn to the lines in a horse’s conformation, fluid, angular, curvaceous and graceful. My process always begins out in the field. In a paddock or the wild, usually one or two horses captivate my interest, evoking the desire to create. This happens through witnessing their character, movement, and reflections of light on their coat; sometimes I am also inspired by the story of what the animal has to share.

Back in my studio, I cover the walls with field notes, photographs, and studies. As I am creating, I explore ideas on how I can expand and accentuate the equine lines that interest me the most. I often rely on simple stoic poses and find my way to express these poses uniquely. Sometimes the work is representational but depending on where my ideas take me, I also diverge into figurative abstract, including Cold Wax medium and mixed media. These two genres, while visually different, balance my creative flow and satisfy myself as an artist and designer.

Bio

Jennifer Pratt is a Canadian-born-and-raised artist currently living in Portland, Oregon. The equine form is her chosen muse. Her studio time is currently divided between figurative oil painting and abstract cold wax and mixed media. Trained as an Interior Designer at Sheridan College in Oakville Ontario, she practiced commercial design until renting studio space in a rustic old mill inhabited by a band of renegade artists. These artists encouraged Jennifer to show her own artwork and ultimately, she ended up trading her drafting table for an easel as a result.

Jennifer has shown her work in the US, Canada, and horse-loving Sweden. She continues her artistic education by travelling to workshops. She is greatly influenced by abstract artists and thinkers who encourage her to push boundaries and utilize her former training in the elements and principles of design.

South Steens Copper Mare
16” x 20” oil on panel

South Steens Golden Boy
16” x 20” oil on panel (framed)

Freya
11” x 14” Mixed media on cradled panel (oil, cold wax, crayon, graphite, charcoal)

Reborn Church of Craft & Good Junk Sanctuary

We are a group of people who get together Sundays, usually at Dick's Primal Burger's community room, in the afternoon. We range in age from mid-20s to 80s. Our kind leader, Eileen McGarvey, is committed to providing a safe and welcoming space for all people to learn from and to inspire each other as we pursue our creative sides.

The Reborn Church of Craft has three commandments:

  • Respect/love yourself

  • Respect/love others

  • Respect/love your environment

Most Sundays we bring personal projects to work on. On the last Sunday of each month Eileen McGarvey, proprietor of Good Junk Sanctuary (a creative reuse center) and leader of Reborn Church of Craft, leads a visual arts workshop.

Intuitive Collage Greens (by Rasa)

Intuitive Collage Warm Colors (by Hugh)

Sewing Kit (by Melissa)