Wenatchee Outdoors

Calendula: Make Salve & Paint!
2019-06-30 14:00 - 17:00 UTC
Calendula: the art of salve making and painting.
$50.00
June 30th – 2-5pm
Class size: min 5, max 12
In celebration of this healing flower we are going to learn about it’s medicinal properties and uses through an introductory salve making class and learn how to draw and paint this beautiful garden ally.
Sarah Michels with Infuse Organics is hosting this amazing workshop in her studio. She is an expert in creating natural and organic skin care products and will guide us in the basics of how to use Calendula as a salve. We will look at the fresh and dried plant, discuss the science of creating a plant based medicine and create our own. As the salve cools we will take the time to honor this flower by painting it! Amber Zimmerman of Sip & Paint will guide us in a step by step painting class using acrylics on a 6″ x 6″ canvas. We will have time for tea & biscuits too! You will leave with fresh batch of your own salve and art.
Location:
Infuse Organics
13688 Chumstick Highway
Leavenworth, WA 98826
Register: www.sipandpaint.org
More information on the teachers:
Sarah Michels – https://www.infuseorganics.com/
Amber Zimmerman – https://amberzimmermanart.com/

Amber Wray Painting with Watercolor
2019-07-02 09:00 - 2019-07-03 12:00
Amber Wray sees the world differently through painting with watercolor
Local watercolor artist Amber Wray will be leading a two-day workshop on July 2nd and 3rd, from 9am-12pm each day, at Wenatchee River Institute’s (WRI) Barn Beach Reserve, 347 Division St., located along the beautiful Wenatchee River in Leavenworth.
Wray has been painting almost as long as she has been able to hold a brush, and began her focus on watercolor about four years ago. “Most people are intimated by watercolor and see it as a very difficult medium,” explains Wray. Knowing this, she has designed the workshop to be beginner-friendly, guiding participants through exercises so that personal watercolors of landscapes are completed, from beginning to finish.
Wray loves to paint landscapes involving snowcapped mountains and big skies. She finds certain elements in nature fascinating, like mist or smoke. When she strokes brush across paper, Wray finds there is always something that proves to be both challenging and surprising. “You have to be in tune with the medium to tackle it,” said Wray.
Wray grew up in Southern California, was an undergrad at Biola University and attended grad school at Otis College of Art and Design. While in university, she made friends who lived in the Pacific Northwest whom she would visit often. Wray fell in love with the area and after an artists’ residency at Plain’s Grunewald Guild she committed to stay, moving to Leavenworth five years ago.
When Wray isn’t teaching art and design courses through Wenatchee Valley College or Methow Arts Alliance, and helping with WRI’s Amazing Artists Camp (August 5-9, students entering grades 4-6) she spends time outdoors, taking in the nuances of the natural world surrounding her. Writes Wray, “What I hope most in my paintings is to share and inspire a connection to nature. It is outside that I feel most whole and most alive. I want my viewers to also experience a sense of beauty, playfulness, and being alive in each painting.”
The first day of the two-day WRI workshop in July, will be held in the classroom with participants being oriented on basic techniques and materials. The second day is spent outdoors while Wray demonstrates painting landscapes and students apply freshly learned techniques to their own watercolor works of art.
“What I love most about teaching is providing opportunities for people to see the world in a different way, to find time to rest, pause, and be curious about the world around them,” enthuses Wray.
For information about attending this workshop –two-day fee, what to bring and what to wear– please visit wenatcheeriverinstitute.org / Community Experiences / Workshops / Amber Wray Watercolor Workshop, call (509)548-0181, or email programs@wenatcheeriverinstitute.org. To learn more about Amber Wray and her art, please visit amberwraystudio.com.

River Run 5k & 10k
2019-07-04 08:00 - 10:00
Description

The 9th-annual River Run on the Fourth will be held Thursday, July 4, 2019, in conjunction with the Wenatchee Independence Day Celebration. The 5K and 10K will start and finish at Pybus Public Market, which opened in 2013 and is the second-largest public market in Washington state.
Beneficiary: Literacy Council of Chelan-Douglas
Description: The two courses — 5K and 10K — utilize the paved Apple Capital Loop Trail along the Columbia River and feature flat sections, rollers and a few hills. The course is ideal for walkers as well. Participants will enjoy numerous views of the Columbia, the Cascade Mountains and the Wenatchee Foothills.
Start time: 8 a.m. outside Pybus Public Market, 7 N. Worthen St., Wenatchee
Packet pickup: 4 to 6 p.m., July 3, 2019, at Pybus Public Market, 8 N. Worthen St. Wenatchee; and 6:30 to 7:30 a.m., July 4, 2019, at Pybus Public Market, 8 N. Worthen St., Wenatchee.
Course map: Right here!
Runner premiums: Eco-friendly t-shirt with iconic River on the Run Fourth logo and a Finisher on the Fourth medal to all finishers.
Awards: The top three male and female finishers in the 5K and 10K will receive an award.
Timing and results: The race will be timed by Bu Du Racing. Results will be posted on www.runwenatchee.com after the race.
More info: www.runwenatchee.com
E-mail: runwenatchee@gmail.com or info@runwenatchee.com
