Wallowa Valley Arts Festival

Wallowa Valley Arts Festival

42nd Annual Wallowa Valley Arts Festival
September 20-22, 2024

Dear Artists and Art lovers,

The Josephy Center for Arts and Culture is thrilled to host the 42nd Wallowa Valley Arts Festival in Joseph, Oregon from Sept. 20-22, 2024. If you haven’t been to Joseph, this year would be the year to participate and visit our beautiful town. Joseph is known for its breathtaking scenery, myriad outdoor recreation opportunities, art galleries and Main Street’s bronze sculptures. The Festival showcases sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, fiber arts, glass, jewelry, an En Plein Air competition and more! Our judge this year is distinguished painter Karen Bakke.

Happy creating,

Jeff Costello and Arianna Olsen
Board Member and Program Director

Festival Winners

Festival Judge: KAREN BAKKE

As the Impressionists have done, Karen Bakke enthusiastically paints vibrant and fresh en plein air paintings (outdoors, on location) and breathes that same life into her studio paintings. She is not held back by any one type of subject or medium and is persistently creating challenges for herself. Karen strives to find that certain  “je ne c’est quoi” - evoking a memory, a mood, or passion.

Karen is a member of the American Impressionists Society, PSGNWA, NWPastel Society, PSWC, PAWA (president 2017-2021), and the Yosemite Sierra Artists. She has earned many entries into juried shows and won several awards.

Karen resides in beautiful Sedro-Woolley, WA, “the gateway to the great North Cascades”. She and her husband travel to Southern Yosemite twice a year to paint the amazing character of this lesser-visited area.
Karen’s professional background includes toy design, illustration and visual-effects in the tv and movie industry.

Thank You to our Sponsors!

And thank you to our individual donors...

Suzi and Glenn Brown, Richard Skovlin and Sandra Skovlin Bosley, Anette and Nils Christoffersen, David and Ingrid Cook, Jessica Davis, Carolyn Gilbert, Thomas Gallagher, Michael Homan, Nancy Knoble, Beth and George Morris, Lou and Deyette Perry, Marky Pitts (in memory of Ed Pitts), Allen N Schauffler, Kirk Skovlin and Anne and Brad Stephens.