Location:
Mindpower Gallery 417 Fir Avenue Reedsport, OR 97467 Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm or by appointment phone: 541-271-2485 e-mail : [email protected] facebook: Mindpower Gallery |
In Business: Since 1989
Services: Custom Framing, Art Restoration and Sport Jersey shadowbox frames. Main Gallery: Focus on Original Fine Art, Sculpture and Custom Furniture pieces. Gift Area: Focus on hand-crafted items in wood, metal, clay, glass and fiber arts. Workshops: (call for current schedule) - jewelry making workshops, bead classes, collage. Traveling Shows and Specialty Exhibits: Seasonal Since arriving some 22 years ago, Tara and Tamara Szalewski have taken the opportunity to be involved in their community. They learned that what makes this area special is the diverse nature of the individuals who have come to call the Northwest their home. The Mindpower Gallery was bulit with diversity in mind. A maze of rooms surprises travelers to the area who simply are astounded that the gallery goes on much further than anticipated The layout works well to showcase the wide range of styles exhibited throughout each year. It is because of this that many large city traveling exhibitions make a stop in Reedsport. Shows are transitional and evolving, because they move and change according to the environment they are placed in. The Mindpower Gallery is one such environment where an art show's appearance changes dramatically once exhibited inside it's walls. Because of it's unique maze-like room structure and it's many different painted walls, the exhibitions are given a fresh presentation which is definitely worth a drive to go see. As far as diversity goes, the Szalewski sisters have quite a diverse background themselves and have been involved in a wide variety of activities throughout their years in business. They grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm and traveled extensively throughout the United States before their family built a sailboat and lived on it for 5 years before moving to the Reedsport/Winchester Bay area. Once here, their family started the business of Mindpower Gallery, in part to fill their mother's life long dream of being an artist and having a great place to show it. They are proud to have helped their mother, Rose Szalewski, to fulfill her dream before she died of cancer in 1996. Tara and Tamara have continued to showcase artists and make changes throughout the years and enjoy it's evolution as a coastal gallery having faced economic changes as diverse as the coastal weather. Both highly active, they belong to the local art and business alliance, CDABA which is currently in the process of gearing up for it's fall gala during the halloween weekend. When not working or volunteering on a project, both sisters like to get out and about in the coastal landscape. |