Authors & Artists Fair

9th annual benefit fundraiser, supporting summer reading

10am-6pm, Saturday, December 6, 2008

Atrium of the Lane Events Center (Lane County Fairgrounds), next door to Holiday Market

Free admission ($1 - $5 donation suggested to support summer reading) 

The Lane Library League gratefully acknowledges our event sponsors:

SELCO Community Credit Union

KVAL-TV Channel 13

KLCC-FM 89.7

MEET THE AUTHORS & ARTISTS!

Buy autographed books and artwork! Support summer reading programs in Lane County!

Each year, about 40 top Oregon authors and about 17 of the best local artists are invited to attend this benefit fundraiser. A portion of all sales benefit the Lane Library League's summer reading and literacy programs.

VISA and MasterCard can be used for purchases. Food and music are available next door at Holiday Market. Come enjoy the fair December 6!

2008 ARTISTS:

Taft Chatham - digital photography, T-shirts, cards, and posters

Shirley M. Collins - handmade note cards and books, and photography

Meredith Ferrell - silk scarves

Michael Fromme - ceramic animals figures

Ellen Gabehart - stationery, prints, and watercolors

Barbara Gleason - bird-decorated tiles, prints, and greeting cards

Susan Johnson - wildflower photos and cards

Debbie McDaniel - fused glass

Ginny McVickar - old-fashioned prints on purses, book bags, and linens

Rich Owen - prints

Lynn Peterson - ceramics, mosaics, cards, whimsical clay birds

Steve and ZoAnn Reinmuth - bronze sculpture (figurative, sound-producing, mobile, and monumental)

Edie Roberts - calligraphy

Victor Schramm - paintings, prints, and pastels

Janell Sorensen - paintings, prints, watercolors, and cards

Valley Calligraphy Guild - calligraphy bookmarks and note cards

Betsy Wolfston - clay artwork

2008 AUTHORS :

Debra Whiting Alexander - "The Art of Authentic Friendship" (2008), "The Emotional Recovery Resource Kit", "Loving Your Teenage Daughter Whether She Likes It Or Not", and "Children Changed By Trauma

Mabel Armstrong - "Women Astronomers: Reaching for the Stars" and "How to Invest in Rental Properties Without Mortgaging Your Soul"

Dan Armstrong - "Prairie Fire" and "Taming the Dragon", novels of environmental suspense

Judith K. Berg - "Weathered Wood" (2008, short stories), and "The Otter Spirit", a natural history story of a river otter, an otter researcher, and the spiritual bond between them.

Joe Blakely - "MacArthur Court" (2008, a history of the stadium), and five books about Oregon sports history and the Oregon Coast

Joseph Blum - "Bedtime Stories: A Novel of Cinematic Wanderlust" (2008), in which cinematic gypsy Jake Spinner moves across a mythic landscape fulfilling his purpose in life that, “Movies are the stories of my time and I use them to light the eyes of those around me.”

Sharon Brandsma - "Glory Rose and the Gloaming" (2008), a young adult fantasy novel set in Merlin's England

Jo-Brew (10am-2pm) - "Anne Marie's New Melody" (2008), the sixth in a series of novels about women in retirement, set in Lane County

Tyler Burgess - "Eugene Oregon Walks" (2008) and "Walking Made Powerful"

Alison Cadbury (10am-2pn) - "Panigyri: A Celebration of Life in a Greek Island Village" (2008)

Jane Capron - "Best Friends" (2008), the fifth in a series of mysteries featuring Andy Keller, the manager of a Eugene mobile home park

Alison Clement - novels: "Twenty Questions" (Oregon Book Award winner, 2007) and "Pretty Is As Pretty Does"

Amy Costales (10am-2pm) - bilingual children's books with Latinos as protagonists: "Lupe Vargas and Her Super Best Friend", "Hello Night", and "Abuelita Full of Life"

Linda Crew (10am-2pm) - eight novels including "A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon: 1845" (Oregon Book Award winner 2006), "Brides of Eden," and "Children of the River"

Milt Cunningham - "Where Trails Cross" (2008), a historical novel about Oregon Trail pioneers in 1860s Nebraska

Kassy Daggett - " The Gift of a 50th Birthday: An Anthology of Fifty-Words on Turning Fifty" (2008)

Carola Dunn - murder mysteries in the popular “Daisy Dalrymple” series, including her latest, "Black Ship" (2008)

Pat Edwards (10am-2pm) - "From Sawdust & Cider to Wine" (a history of Lorane, Oregon and the Siuslaw Valley), and the Siuslaw Valley literary magazine "Groundwaters"

Jan Eliot - "This Might Not Be Pretty" (2008) and six other anthologies of her syndicated cartoon strip "Stone Soup"

Ellen Gabehart & Merideth Ferrell - "Young At Art: Easy Art Lessons for Educators"

Katharine Emlen (10am-2pm) - "Believe" (2008), a gift book of poetry and photography on self-empowerment

Dan Gleason - "Birds: Life on the Wing" (2008) and "Birds! From the Inside Out"

Tom Hager - "The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, A Doomed Tycoon, and A Discovery that Changed History" (2008), "The Demon Under the Microscope", and "Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling"

Melissa Hart (2pm-6pm) - "Media Literacy Grades 6-8" (2008), "101 Ways to Love A Book", and "The Assault of Laughter: A Daughter's Journey Back to Her Lesbian Mother"

Bonnie Henderson (2pm-6pm) - "Strand: An Odyssey of Pacific Ocean Debris" (2008), "Best Hikes With Kids: Oregon", and "Day Hiking: Oregon Coast"

Ann Herrick - young adult and children's books, including "The Queen Bee" (2008), "Walk Softly and Watch Out for Bigfoot", "The Chocolate Day", and "The Perfect Guy"

Jasmine Hunter - "Culture, Education and Drug-Free Sport: A Child's Perspective" (2008), art and essays by children

David Imus - "Oregon Map, Second Edition" (2008), "Sierra Nevada Map", "Alaska, USA", and other maps

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant - "Laugh Track & Field" (2008), "Not Guilty By Reason of Menopause" (2008), "Are You Playing With Me?", "Life Is Funny: A Riveting Tale of Comedy, Hairdressing, and Texas Politics", and other humor books

Lauren Kessler - Narrative nonfiction and biography, including "Stubborn Twig" (The 2009 Oregon Reads selection and 2009 Readin' In The Rain selection), "Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's", "Clever Girl", "Full Court Press," and "The Happy Bottom Riding Club"

Kevin Kurtz - "A Day in the Salt Marsh" (2008), a children's book

Lynn Peterson - "Twice a Hero", an illustrated a children's history book of two Polish heroes of the American Revolution

Barbara Pope (2pm-6pm) - "Cezanne's Quarry" (2008), a mystery about art and culture

L. J. Sellers - "The Sex Club" (a murder mystery set in Eugene), "Beyond Conception", and other books

Dorcas Smucker (2pm-6pm) - "Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting:More Family Life in a Farmhouse" and, "Ordinary Days: Family Life in a Farmhouse", collections of her columns from the Register-Guard.

Lotte Streisinger (2pm-6pm) - "The Potter and the Muse: The Creative Process Illustrated Through the Medium of Clay" and "From the Sidelines"

William Sullivan - "Oregon's Greatest Natural Disasters" (2008), "100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon" (2008), "The Case of Einstein's Violin", and other books

Shirley Tallman (2pm-6pm) - "The Cliff House Strangler", "Murder on Nob Hill", and "The Russian Hill Murders", mysteries set in San Francisco in the 1880s.

Maryana Vollstedt (2pm-6pm) - 15 recipe books, including "The Big Book of Chicken (2008), "Pacific Fresh", and "The Big Book of Easy Suppers"

Julia Weiler (10am-2pm) - "More Sand in My Bra: Stories Funny Women Write From the Road" (2008)

Bob Welch - "Pebble in the Water" (2008, about the writing of Frances Slanger's biography), "Easy Company Soldier" (2008), "American Nightengale", and several collections of columns from the Register-Guard

TIPS for authors & artists :

Would you like to be considered for participation in future events? Please email sullivan@efn.org with your name, address, phone number, email, a one-sentence description about each of your books, and/or a website address that shows your artwork. A committee selects authors and artists for the fair, and notifies participants in September. The fair is always held on the first Saturday in December. Authors are also invited to attend two other Eugene booksignings on a first-come-first-served basis: the Oregon Authors Table at the Art & the Vineyard Festival during the 4th of July weekend, and the Oregon Authors Table at the Lane County Fair in the middle of August. To be invited to these events, submit the same information to the same email address.

If you are participating in the 2008 A&A Fair, please note that set-up begins ONLY after 9am on Saturday, December 6. Use only the back loading dock entrance for set-up, because the hall's front doors do not open before 10am. Find the loading dock in the middle of the back of the largest building at the fairgrounds (when you enter the fairgrounds at the main entrance at 13th and Jefferson, keep right to park at the back of the large building). When you enter the loading dock entrance, the Atrium is down a hall, next door to the large Holiday Market room. There is no power for spot lighting in the Atrium, but each table will have a red tablecloth. Programs with maps showing your table's location will be on the VISA table at the front of the Atrium. Your nameplate and nametag should be on your assigned table, along with a supply of VISA slips and a sales tally sheet. Food and drink may be purchased next door and consumed anywhere, but we cannot sell food or drink in the Atrium. Bring some change to simplify your cash sales. Please keep track of all your sales so that you can donate a percentage of the total to the LLL before you leave. If you do not have a VISA machine, your customers may use the Lane Library League's machine with no fee. You should write your name and the item's price on a duplicate VISA form (provided at your table). Ask the customer to take the entire form to the VISA station at the front of the Atrium to pay. When the customer returns with the back half of the form as a receipt, you may give them the merchandise. The LLL's VISA volunteers will keep a record of the transaction, but you should too, to make sure you are credited at the end of the day. If you have enough VISA sales to offset your donation percentage, the LLL will write you a check at the end of the day. Volunteers will be on hand when you leave to help you with bookkeeping and payment. You may leave at any time after 5:30pm, although we encourage you to stay until the fair closes at 6. Thank you for helping the Lane Library League!

TIPS for volunteers :

If you would like to volunteer at the Authors & Artists Fair, please send an email to sullivan@efn.org. Some volunteers are needed from 7:30am-9:30am for setup, but most volunteers are needed for two-hour shifts from 10am-noon, noon-2pm, 2pm-4pm, and 4pm-6pm as front-table greeters, front-table VISA clerks, and roving author/artists hospitality helpers. Greeters pass out programs at the door and encourage visitors to donate $1-$5 for the summer reading program. VISA clerks run the VISA machines and tally sales (which is not as difficult as it sounds). Hospitality helpers bring bottled water and VISA slips to authors/artists and offer to watch tables while authors/artists take short breaks. Please arrive for your shift 5 minutes early so that you can learn your duties from the previous volunteer. Thanks for helping the Lane Library League!

Downloadable POSTER for 2008 fair (print out and post!):