Welcome
We are an Art Association that serves the Keizer community with a focus on art education for children and adults as well as a promoter of local artists through monthly art shows.
Keizer Art Association has been in existence since 1977. The three founding members were Don Walton, Marge Browder and Enid Joy Mount.
The Associaton operated out of many locations in Keizer before finding a permanent home here at the Keizer Heritage Building.
Enid Joy Mount was very determined that children have a chance to experience and create art. She helped them find clay in the natural environment (located under horsetail plants) and then make objects they could wood-fire with her help.
Thanks to the generosity of the community and Enid Joy Mount’s family, our Gallery continues to have monthly shows featuring local artists and others from Oregon and beyond.
Our New 2011-2012 Board of Directors are:
Doug Bearce, Interim President
Doug Bearce is an award-winning digital photographer specializing in portraits, landscapes, children and events. He has been a long-time resident of Oregon, attending Southern Oregon State University, majoring in Psychology. He has been taking photographs since high school and recently became more serious with his art, displaying photos at the Marion County Fair, Salem State Fair, International Photography event and many galleries. He recently won second place for his piece “Cathedral Candles” in the Something Red Show, sponsored by Artists in Action.
Helen Nute Wiens, Member at Large
Helen Nute Wiens earned her Master’s Degree in Statistics at the University of Alaska and worked in the Public Health arena in Fairbanks. In Oregon she has been involved with fundraising for local non-profit organizations and was the newsletter editor for the MOMS Club. In the last two years she has turned her passion of silversmithing into a career and opened Calusa Studio in downtown Salem. She is on the Board of Artists in Action. Her work is currently at Lunaria Gallery in Silverton, Gallery B in Salem and she is a featured artist at a local vineyard.
Michelle DePlois, Treasurer
Michelle Duplois is a native Oregonian with a passion for art, even considering it as a career as a child. She studied art at Willamette University and Oregon State University, but majored in Geology. Michelle is on the Board of Artists in Action. She works in watercolor, colored pencil and acrylic and is also a writer, with a published book on the horizon.
Carol Harris, Secretary & Education Chair
Carol Harris has been Education Council Chair at KAA for the last six years and is responsible for developing the extensive and successful art class program at KAA. Carol was born in Baker City, went to OSU and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and Art, a Master’s Degree in Education at WOU and settled in Salem to teach elementary school for 31 years. She lives in the country west of Salem where she and her husband were cherry farmers and now grow hay for horses. Interests are art, 4-H, and traveling. she is an exquisite color pencil artist, winning first place in the Polk County Fair and gallery shows. She has been a KAA board member for six years, serving as Secretary and Education Chair.
Jody Bartruff, Member-at-Large
Jody Bartruff was born in Texas, but has been in the Salem area since the first grade, where she attended the Keizer Elementary School, now the Keizer Heritage Building where the Keizer Art Association is located. In 1981 she received the Artist of the Year at the Oregon State Fair for receiving the most blue ribbons — for sewing, not her current art. She retired from the Marion County Health Department in 2000, and began her art career in earnest, specializing in Chinese Watercolors on Rice Paper, but including all types of mediums: collage, photography, watercolor, acrylics and mixed media. She is active in Artists in Action, Keizer Arts and Woodburn Art and frequently enters art competitions and wins awards.
Micah Boylan, Member-at-Large
Micah Boylan, a native Willamette Valley Oregonian, is an accomplished young acrylic artist whose art career is burgeoning. He regularly enters shows at KAA and one of his pieces is now hanging at the Keizer Civic Center, having been juried in last year for the Mayor’s Invitational. He recently had a one-person show at Venti’s in downtown Salem. He has been drawing since the fourth grade and attended Linn-Benton Community College in art.
Pat Domogalla, Member-at-Large
Pat is an artist with 30 years experience in oil painting, acrylics, and polymer clay sculpting. Over the years she has attended community college art classes, private art classes and workshops with Susan Schewee and Jack Johnston, doll artist. She grew up in the midwest, and has lived in Oregon for 57 years. Her work history includes working as a secretary, bank teller, loan closer, escrow closer. She has taught art at KAA and Greenbalm’s Quilted Forest. She was previously on the Board of Directors at Illahe Country Club and was a volunteer for the Oregon Golf Ass’n for 25 years rating golf courses.
Penny White, Member-at-Large
Penny White is an award-winning calligrapher who also enjoys paste paper, marbling and bookmaking. She is a popular KAA calligrapher teacher. She grew up in London and started out as a secretary for Sir Winston’s son, Randolph Churchill, later for provincial solicitors in the UK, and then NATO in Brussels. After moving to Oregon, she took up calligraphy and continues taking classes and participating at the International Calligraphy Conference. She has been active in the Capital Calligraphers for over 25 years, currently serving as Co-President. She regularly volunteers at Art Fairs and the State Fair calligraphying visitors’ names. She has won several blue ribbons in the State Fair Art Annual. She has participated in shows at the Capitol, Elsinore Gallery, Salem Library, and Keizer. She is also a member of Family and Community Education, serving as secretary.
Jill Hagen, Member-at-Large
Jill Hagen has a professional Master’s degree from OSU / WOU and has worked as a consultant in the Oregon State Corrections system. She had a private practice as an Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor. She works in a variety of mediums: pottery, glass, photography, fabric, bronze and iron. She currently has pieces in a gallery in New York and has a permanently installed contemporary iron totem, titled “Talisman Totem”, in the Oregon Garden in Silverton.
