February ArtWall: Nancy Travers

Acrylic painter, Nancy Travers was an art professor at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City for 25 years where she taught ceramics, watercolor and other related art courses.

In retirement Nancy has pursued other interests, including landscape design and maintenance and most recently, getting acquainted with the Mexican agricultural workers of the Willamette Valley.

As a native Oregonian, Nancy has spent her life observing the changing fields and crops of the Willamette Valley. Through her landscape design interest she worked along side and got to know a community of Mexican agricultural workers, or trabajadores. These relationships led to travels in Mexico, learning Spanish and essentially “ acquiring an understanding of our neighbors.”

Her current show, Los Trabajadores Mexicanos, is a skillful painterly portrait of an agricultural people and the land they work in Oregon through four seasons of the year. After the February show at the First Unitarian Church, Nancy’s paintings will be on display at Clackamas Community College. Through this show her intent is “to acknowledge and honor these people and their value to our society.”

Nancy will be at the Art Wall at 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 19, to give a talk about her work and answer any questions you might have about this project.  Please join us! 

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December/January ArtWall: Bonnie Tucker

On Sunday, December 18, the art wall welcomes collage artist, Bonnie Tucker. Ms. Tucker's  vibrant collage art is uniquely created by utilizing self-created techniques. Textured and  three dimensional, her vivid work is comprised of layers of  hand painted paper, acrylic painting and found objects.

Ms. Tucker is a retired lawyer and law professor. For the last thirteen years of her legal career she was a Professor of Law at Arizona State University College of Law. During that time she authored several leading books on the subject of disability law and was a visiting professor of law at many other law schools (such as Cornell University Law School and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia). Ms. Tucker has been totally deaf since infancy, but communicates normally via lip reading and speech. Her autobiography about living as a deaf person in a hearing world, ‘The Feel of Silence," has been published in several countries (and languages) in addition to the U.S.

Without benefit of sound, Ms. Tucker’s world focuses totally on sight and feeling. The intensity of that sight and feeling has led to the celebration of visual and tactile effects that are so forcefully expressed in Ms. Tucker’s work. Her hope is that people will not just like and appreciate her work, but will actually FEEL her work, as she does.

Please meet Ms. Tucker at the art wall after each service see and discuss her work.