Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center Quarterly Art Show
(Note: Pick-up for art in the current show, Sunshine and/or Shadows is Sunday, Dec. 29, from 2-4 p.m. in the Hospital Lobby.)
Call to Artists January 2025
Windows/Doors /Walls
For the winter Quarterly Art Show, we invite you to exhibit artwork that features the theme of Windows, Doors, Walls. Your work can be literal representations of interior or exterior parts of buildings or landscaping/gardening. Or you can make art that uses the words as metaphors or symbols for openings, portals, eyes, transitions, barricades, hurdles or other meanings associated with them. Consider relating them to emotion or the five senses in a more abstract approach.
Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center will host Windows/Doors/Walls. It runs January 6 through March 29, 2025. As usual, you can be creative in your interpretation of the theme, keeping in mind that art on the hospital walls is meant to entertain and de-stress the patients, families, staff, and general visitors. It is not a venue for nudity, violence, morbidity, or as a political soapbox. Thank you for your continued positive approach to art in these shows.
Featured Artist is Jan Ayers. Her bio and a sample of her work for this show is below.
Artists may enter 3 pieces using painting, collage, mixed media, drawing, photography, or assemblage in all artistic styles: representational, abstract, impressionistic, or futuristic. All works must be able to be hung on the wall.
The Southern Coos Health Foundation Arts Program continues to remain free to enter. Please consider donating to the Art Program if you are able. For more information, please email Amy Moss Strong at amossstrong@southerncoos.org.
Show Calendar: Show runs January 6 through March 29, 2025
Reception: Sunday, January 12, 2025, 2 – 4 p.m. featuring Summer Wind Ensemble
Delivery of Art: Sunday, January 5, 2025, 2 – 4 p.m.
Bring ready-to-hang art with your paperwork to the lobby of Southern Coos Hospital on Sunday at 2 p.m. or make alternative arrangements with show organizers.
Pick-up Date: Sunday, March 30, 2025, 2-4 p.m.
Location: Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center, 900 11th St. SE, Bandon, OR
Entry Fee: Fee not required. Donations are welcome to help support continuing shows. Please make checks payable to the Southern Coos Health Foundation and bring when dropping off your artwork.
Number of Pieces: 3 pieces per artist, each must be wired and ready to hang, or matted and ready to hang.
Artwork Notes: Please deliver your artwork with the following information included:
- A list of your artwork(s) with your name, address, email, title of piece, and price.
- Entry form for this info is below, or available at drop-off.
- AND please make sure your name and title of the art is on the back of each piece you submit.
- If work is not for sale, include a value for insurance purposes, please.
Sales Donation: At this time, the hospital does not charge a commission fee on sold paintings. However, a donation to the Southern Coos Health Foundation’s Arts Program when there is a sale will help the program to continue.
We reserve the right to refuse submitted artwork due to content, presentation or space. Images may be used for advertising and promotional purposes for this show.
Loss of or damage to artwork located in the hospital is at the artist’s expense unless deemed covered by the hospital’s insurance policy, less deductible.
Other Notes: The costs of producing and hanging this show are underwritten by the Southern Coos Health Foundation and Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center for the benefit of the Bandon and surrounding communities, including patients and families, visitors, staff, and the public.
Please contact show organizers with questions: Ava Richey at 541-297-6118 or Susan Lehman at 541-347-9888.
Click here to download the entry form: Entry Form Art Show Jan 2025 Windows, Doors and Walls
Jan Ayers Bio:
Jan Ayers is a Bandon-based writer and photographer. She was a dancer and poet in New York City in the 70s and 80s. She began taking photographs in the 90s while working in film and television as well as the music business. She has shown her work locally at the Coos Art Museum, the Bandon Library Gallery, the Community Art Gallery in both North Bend and Bandon, Bay Area Hospital, Southern Coos Hospital, Art by the Sea Gallery, and at Eden Hall at Southwestern Oregon Community College. She often collaborated with her late husband, sculptor Ken Ayers. Their last show was called “A New York City Conversation” in the Atrium of the Coos Art Museum in the fall of 2021.
Samples of Jan Ayers art for the Windows, Doors, and Walls show:
Bandon Door by Jan Ayers
Boiler Room Door by Jan Ayers
Filigree by Jan Ayers
Fountain by Jan Ayers
Kitty Looks Out by Jan Ayers
Teapot by Jan Ayers