My Own Two Hands
is a fun-filled community arts event in and for the community of
Sisters, Oregon. Sponsored by the Sisters Folk Festival for the
benefit of the Sisters Americana Project.
Tickets for
the Art Auction & Party, April 10, 2010 are now available!
My Own Two Hands began in 2001 as a fundraiser for
the Sisters Americana Project, the educational outreach component of the
Sisters Folk Festival. The project began with 'Painted Strings.' Utilizing
donated, unplayable guitars, area artists embellished each of the instruments
in their individual style. Painted Strings was followed in 2002 with Kite
Strings a community Kite Fly and Kite-themed auction and party.
For the past nine years, My Own Two Hands has celebrated how one individual
can change their community for the better by using their own skills in a positive
way. The two-day event is a community celebration of the arts; from performance
to visual to the written word. My Own Two Hands has it all.
View Art Auction Donations Online,
or download a PDF list of all the art here (over 20 megabytes)
The Shanghai Woolies will provide music for this year's Art Party
“....a new twist on the music of the flapper era: Jitterbug music, Big band, Swing. The raucous, slippery, foot-happy jazz you’d expect to hear at the legendary Cotton Club. ... hard to resist ...”
-Scott Lewis, The Oregonian
Serenade to a Savage...
Why Don't You do Right?...
After a city-wide show of visual and performing arts at our Art Stroll & Chili
Feed on Friday, April 9, the donated works will be put up for auction the
next evening for the benefit of the Sisters Americana Project and arts
education in the Sisters public schools and community. Our Saturday night
Auction Party, held at Ponderosa
Forge and Ironworks, brings together the art, the artists and the community
in a fun evening of celebration featuring great food, live music and both
silent and live auctions.
The
Sisters Americana Project, a cross-curricular program in the Sisters Schools,
is about exploring American folk music and arts and using them to illuminate
the history, life and culture that we all share. The project provides teaching
staff, guest artist workshop sessions, instruments, recording and live
performance opportunities for the students. The Sisters Folk Festival's
My Own Two Hands event is the primary funding source for this tremendously
successful program.
Learning to play the guitar, writing original songs, recording, producing
events and hands-on experience in traditional American folk arts and crafts
are the facets of the educational curriculum that gives students a voice
for social change and vehicles for self-expression. My Own Two Hands is
an invitation to all community members, artists and collectors alike, and
people of all ages to support and expand the Sisters Americana Project
and to build a better community through the arts.
unplayable guitars, area artists embellished each of the instruments
in their individual style. Painted Strings was followed in 2002 with Kite
Strings a community Kite Fly and Kite-themed auction and party. 
