Beginning March 5, 2024 and running through April 30, 2024 The Seaside Public Library will be exhibiting original color pencil drawings by artist Cathy Stearns. The works will be presented in the Library foyer and Community Room.

The thrust of Stearns’ work visually depicts movement, time and space within natural environments. She choreographs line and color to provoke memories of sensations, and physical expressions of the body and the elements. She appreciates the intimacy of drawing with color pencil on a smooth surface of fine paper. Her work is obsessively detailed yet animated beyond the surface.

Cathy Stearns is a visual artist with a background in painting, dance, and animation. She has shown her work in various museums, galleries and alternative spaces in Oregon, California, Arizona, Chicago, Michigan and Bulgaria. She currently has a studio space at the Astoria Studio Collective and is active with Astoria Visual Arts.