KPIC CBS 4 News: Douglas High School Art Program Gets Donation

Douglas High School Art Program Gets Donation
WINSTON, Ore. (KPIC CBS 4 News)—The Douglas High School art department got a big gift Monday morning, when they received a donation of art and books from Park West Gallery out of Southfield, Michigan. It was all thanks to the friendship that was struck between Winston Mayor Rex Stevens and a renowned artist.

Art students and faculty members from the high school were on hand to see the donation, which included 20 works created by Park West artists.

Mayor Stevens says they told the founder and CEO of Park West, Albert Scaglione, about the successful art program at Douglas High School, and of the fiscal challenges facing the school district. Scaglione was impressed that a small, tight budgeted district would still place an emphasis on the arts.

Artist Dominic Pangborn, who represents Park West, was on hand to present it to the school. Pangborn also created a special painting of a tiger to present to the city, and is also creating a new logo for the City of Winston. He says they hope to inspire the students. “We wanted to introduce diversity in terms of style, technique, artists and so on, so you’ve got a really good mixture here,” said Pangborn.

Art teacher Deborah Cusack says the donation will be a big boost to the art program at the school. “This is an art teacher’s dream, usually we have to get the money, put them all on a school bus, get chaperons and haul them to Portland or Ashland. Here, it was brought right to our city of Winston, and it’s just a wonderful, wonderful event,” said Cusack.

Stevens told KPIC News, “The value is how much these young and aspiring artists here in this community can take and benefit from this.” The art has an estimated value at up to $40,000 for the 20 pieces that were donated.

Pangborn presented the 4×4 foot painting of the tiger to the Winston City Council at their meeting Monday night. Thanks to Pangborn, the city will soon be showing off its new logo, that features the cheetah with Douglas Fir trees behind it.

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News Radio 1240 KQEN Reports on Park West Gallery Fine Art Donation

News Radio 1240 KQEN (Nov. 15, 2010)—The Public Schools in Winston received a large donation of art in a special ceremony this morning.

Park West Gallery in Southfield, Michigan has donated 20 works by Park West artists as well as art books.  International artist Dominic Pangborn presented the city of Winston with a work he created especially for the town. Mr. Pangborn was the designer of the city seal for Winston.

Park West Gallery’s Founder and CEO Albert Scaglione met Mayor Rex Stevens and his wife Gail at a Park West Event in September. After learning about Winston’s strong support of arts education even during tough economic times, Mr. Scaglione decided to assist Winston’s art students and the greater community.

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Park West Gallery Fine Art Donation in The News-Review of Oregon

Winston gets new logo, painting
WINSTON, Ore. (NRtoday.com)–An internationally known artist has donated a painting to the city and redesigned the city’s logo. The colorful abstract painting by Dominic Pangborn was unveiled Monday at a Winston City Council meeting.

Dominic Pangborn stands beside the tiger painting he created and donated to the city of Winston. Pangborn has also designed a new city logo that depicts another large cat, a cheetah. Photo credit: Kathy Korengel I/The News-Review

Pangborn, a Michigan resident, was present at the unveiling. He said he was born in Korea and in 1962 came to Jackson, Mich., a city very similar in size to Winston. “It was almost like walking into my own hometown,” Pangborn said of arriving in Winston. He become interested in Winston after meeting Winston Mayor Rex Stevens and his wife, Gail, in September.

The Stevenses have been collecting art since 2005. “I think we hit it off,” Pangborn said. “I took a real deep curiosity (in) this Winston.” As a result, Pangborn has redesigned the city’s logo.

On Monday, he remembered asking city officials of the previous logo, “What’s this cat jumping over the pile of pine trees?” “It’s not a cat, it’s a cheetah. It’s not a pine tree, it’s a Douglas fir” he was told, Pangborn recalled with a smile.

An illustrator who has designed logos for Fortune 500 companies, Pangborn persuaded city officials it would be more appropriate for the cheetah to be looking through, rather than flying over, the trees, Rex Stevens said as he held up the new logo. Stevens said he hopes the city will soon start incorporating the logo into its letterhead and other city materials.

After designing the logo, Pangborn said he decided to donate one of his paintings to the city. “Not just any painting,” he said. “I wanted to do something special.”

About two weeks ago, he created the colorful painting unveiled Monday. Partially obscured by the abstract nature of the work, the face of a tiger glares at viewers. The painting will be hung in the Winston Community Center, Stevens said.

Pangborn’s visit was part of an all-day event prompted by a recent gift. The chief executive officer of a Michigan-based art gallery donated 20 pieces of framed art and a set of art books to Douglas High School.

Albert Scaglione, CEO of Park West Gallery, offered the works of art to the city after meeting the Stevenses in September. Park West Gallery, which has galleries in Michigan and Florida, has donated art and art books to communities in those two states and throughout the world.

A ceremony was held Monday morning at Douglas High to accept the paintings and serigraphs. After the ceremony, Pangborn spoke with art students.

“It was really wonderful to see the eyes of some of those kids that are really into art,” Stevens recalled. “They were hanging on his every word. They were inspired.”

To learn more about Pangborn, visit www.pangborndesign.com.

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