Troutdale Art Center

06/05/2026

ATRUM ARTE ARTIST RECEPTION 5-8p
June First Friday
..Is the perfect opportunity to sign the guest book to be entered in this month's drawing for a TAC gift card, and...

💫🖼️🐑🎸🍷 Yes, that includes the guest artists' work!
💫 You get to enter again every time you come through the door on any day. Because we love to see you again.
💫 You get an extra entry for every artist you buy something you love from.
💫 We shifted from $50 in 2025 to $75 in 2026, because that small extra gift is a way we can acknowledge how much we appreciate you being here. Whether you're stopping to simply breathe in the art or are on a mission.

We're looking forward to seeing you tonight and remember, the shuttle runs from our front door up to the street fair when you're done with us!
- Your friends at TAC

06/05/2026

ATRUM ARTE
The family was at First Thursday (Portland OR) last night and then is here tonight for First Friday At TAC to open their June / July show, and then follows THAT with the weekend at Portland Indigenous Marketplace!

This artist thing ain't for the weak of heart and body 😉.

What a night!! We met so many new folks today. HUGE kudos to the volunteers who put this event together. It’s a huge endeavor!

If you’re new to our family: Yes, we exist. Yes, we make everything ourselves. Brent is the luthier (he makes guitars). I make wood carvings and wool paintings and work with fiber. The kiddo makes a little of everything and helps with everything too. We are a family of artists. We have stories and meaning behind all our work. Come out to meet us this weekend or tomorrow night for the art show opening next we will be vending for 4th of July!

05/31/2026

This squirrel has me in thrall. Every time I come across it again, I have a different feeling about what is going on in this sweet soul. Sometimes it feels like a prayer, sometimes it feels like despair, sometimes it feels like concentration, sometimes it feels like grief, sometimes it feels like an overload of gratitude, sometimes it feels like a simple can’t believe I did THAT.

When I am working on a show, I do a lot of digging around. On websites, in social pages and feeds - the depth and breadth of the Artist that is in public view. With Astrid and Brent of Atrum Arte, that’s a lot of depth and breadth.

I’m glad we have two months.
Come Friday.
L

ATRUM ARTE 🐿️
Show Opening and Artist Reception
First Friday June 5th 5-8p
Show runs through July

(This squirrel is sold, but bet you could talk her into giving you an early call on the next one.)

05/30/2026

Have you ever received a text with utterly amazing news that began with a sentence that started out with the very first five words translating to keep your mouth shut and your messaging hushed, and you celebrate with and for the Artist and, implicit in your response (in that you don’t whine about the restriction), is your acceptance of the restriction, and, so, about an hour later, they send you a picture of the utterly amazing news, and…

… then it gets really hard?

Yeah, that happened today.

No, I won’t tell you or show you the picture or leave my phone lying about with the screen inadvertently left open or anything like that, but…

…wait for it.

Anyway, Dancing In The Dark has nothing to do with the utterly amazing news, other than seeming appropriately moody to the moment on my end.
But the good news is that I got the first ever good picture of it tonight.
L,L

Dancing In The Dark
Loree Harrell; c. 2003
16x20 Acrylic on Plexi

05/30/2026

ATRUM ARTE 🐑🖼️🎸🍷
First Friday Artist Reception & Show Opening

From the artist...
Wool by at least three different Oregon farmers from Black Sheep Gathering, art inspiration by Mother Nature and Oregon itself, framing by Baer Charlton, and art by me.

It’s more than just something pretty. It’s helping so many folks live their dreams.
- Astrid

June 5th Opening Reception 5-8p
Show run June and July, 2026

Baer Charlton

05/27/2026

ATRUM ARTE
Astrid Beatrix and Brent Furstner
FIRST FRIDAY JUNE 5TH ARTIST RECEPTION
5-8p

Guess who finished the mint green guitar? The luthier did! He will be for First Friday June 5 from 5-8pm. The artists there are amazing! Wow! We are beyond excited for this opportunity and thankful.