Artist Lam Ton Featured in the Local Newspaper

August 4, 2010

Tualatin Valley Artists' member Lam Ton was featured in an August 4th article in the Forest Grove News Times. The write-up can be view online at www.forestgrovenewstimes.com.

Ton is the featured artist for August at Influence Gallery, and his art will be on display through the end of the month.

For more information on TV Artists or Influence Gallery, call Linda Holland, 503-956-5604.

 

Influence Gallery shows Tschida work

Friday, July 31, 2009
The Hillsboro Argus

Tualatin Valley Artists at Influence Gallery will celebrate its second anniversary on First Tuesday, Aug. 4, will a show featuring painter James Tschida.

An artist's reception will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery, 131 SE Third Ave., Hillsboro. Music will be by Crazy Chester Jackson's Ramblin' Choirboys.

Tschida, a member of TV Artists since its beginning, has been painting for nearly 30 years.

A Cornelius resident, he is self-taught, but credits Roberta St. Louis, a Portland Community College art instructor, as especially inspiring.

He specializes in landscapes, floral still lifes and scenes from other countries in oils, and currently is taking watercolor classes.

The show, which runs through Aug. 29, also will include works by other TV artists, including Michele Bufton, Linda Holland, Jim Williams, Devon Berrong, Arturo Villasenor, Priscilla Decker, JanSu Hirst and Jeff Harness.

Influence Gallery's First Tuesday is held in connection with Artwalk on Aug. 4. For more information on TV Artists or Influence Gallery, call Linda Holland, 503-956-5604.

 

HART is now also a showcase for art

October 21, 2008
Posted by Kay Demlow, special to The Oregonian

The next time you're near Hillsboro's Civic Center on a weekday afternoon, stop at Hillsboro Artists' Regional Theatre to visit an art gallery. The community theater is sharing the colorful walls of its lobby at 185 S.E. Washington St. with Tualatin Valley Artists, the nonprofit organization that formerly occupied a space at Influence Gallery.

TV Artists members will share staffing time with HART's manager, Jeannette Noble. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. weekdays.

When HART completed construction on this new space in 2007, one of the goals was to have an ongoing showcase for local art on the lobby walls. Now, says Noble, "The dream is becoming a reality."

During October, the featured artists will be Jackie Woodward, Michele Bufton, James Tschida, Linda Holland and Jerry Stutzman. Their works add energy and variety to the room. HART and TV Artists plan to continue this arrangement, possibly adding more hours.

For more information, call HART at 503-693-7815 or Evan Acey at 503-267-7967.

-- Kay Demlow, special to The Oregonian

Influence Gallery will change locations

September 16, 2008
Posted by Kay Demlow, special to The Oregonian
Categories: Hillsboro News

Kay Demlow, special to The OregonianEvan Acey and Linda Holland greet visitors on the final First Tuesday Artwalk at the original Influence Gallery location in downtown Hillsboro.

Influence Gallery, the site of many open-mic Friday events, open forum poetry nights, and an ongoing display of original art by local artists, has moved out of its former space at 231 E. Main St.

Evan Acey, president of Tualatin Valley Artists, and Linda Holland, board chairwoman, will move the gallery to another space downtown while Acey's computer-repair shop, Right Now P.C., moves a few shops back to Suite D in the Weil Arcade, 232 E. Main St.

Acey will continue to work at the computer-repair business, while Tualatin Valley Artists will open the gallery in one of three spaces they have been looking at.

According to Holland, "Our artist members are behind us 100 percent and think this is a smart move." For more information about TV Artists, call Holland at 503-648-2539.

Open-mic music events will still take at 7 p.m. Fridays downtown, alternating between Of Earth and Air at 269 E. Main St. and Taylor's Restaurant at 264 E. Main St.

-- Kay Demlow, special to The Oregonian

Influence Gallery partnership shifts, focuses on the future

Friday, August 22, 2008
By JoAnn Boatwright
The Hillsboro Argus / The Argus

A kind of pall hangs over the table at Influence Gallery in downtown Hillsboro where Evan Acey and Linda Holland discuss major changes in the art collaboration for which they had such high hopes.

Acey owns Right Now, P.C., and Holland heads Tualatin Valley Artists and for more than a year the two enterprises have shared space in a light-filled storefront in downtown Hillsboro.

But hard economic times and a city just on the cusp of becoming an arts destination have prompted the two to adjust their dreams.

"Maybe we were a year too early," said Holland. "At first it was kind of sad, but now it's exciting to think about the changes and the evolution of TV Artists."

Acey moved his computer business across the street from its former location in August of 2006 and continued his high high-tech work in the back of the shop.

Out front, Acey dreamed of a gallery and musical venue, which became a reality with the arrival of TV Artists, a nonprofit artists' cooperative, and a series of popular Friday night open mic events.

Holland, an artist for 30 years, had her own dreams. She knew a lot of local artists and wanted a place where they could gather together and show their artwork.

It was a match made in heaven for a while, but Acey footed the rent bill with dwindling financial support from the artists who suffered from lack of buyers for their wares. "The gallery has taken me away from my

computer business and has hurt me quite a bit," said Acey, who, in a few weeks will move to Suite D in Weil Arcade, where the space is functional, but lacking the light-filled windows, the gallery space and the visibility of its Main Street location. "I can't run the gallery by my heart. I just can't afford it," Acey said.

Fiscal responsibility is now what Acey and Holland are after. Both have plunked plenty of their personal money into the venture. "We all know we aren't going to get rich selling art," Holland said. "But Hillsboro isn't a tourist town and the economy doesn't help."

Meanwhile, TV Artists are considering a couple of downtown locations in which to create a gallery, Holland said. "We're not going to leave downtown," she added while expressing appreciation for all that Acey has done for the group.

In fact, the two will continue to collaborate, with Acey serving as TV Artists board president and committing to 20 hours a week as a volunteer grant writer.

"I envisioned a little Narnia in the middle of downtown Hillsboro," said Acey. "I'd hoped for a place that was a little oasis of beauty where people could come, look at the art and going away feeling good."

Both Acey and Holland look fondly at the gallery venture. "I guess you could say we are embracing the change," said Acey. "We can walk away with our heads held high."

This Saturday, TV Artists will hold silent and oral auctions starting at 2:30 p.m. at the gallery, 231 E. Main. On the auction block are lunch with Mayor Tom Hughes, a major proponent of the downtown arts scene; a Hawaiian vacation, health and wellness packages, artwork and a variety of services, including dates with eligible bachelors and, perhaps for later, officiating at a wedding.

For information on TV Artists, contact Linda Holland at 503-956-5604.
For information on Acey's business, Right Now, P.C., call 503-648-8249.