ICC ~Chili Feed
8th Annual Chili Feed
“dinner is on us*” is back after a two year hiatus
October 16, 2022
4:00 PM
Celebrate the season and visit with friends,
old and new
Weather permitting we’ll have a bonfire as well this year!
*ICC to supply the chili and cornbread*
BYOB & a side if you’d like
Annual Board Meeting 3PM

The Community Art Project at ICC : A Bottle Tree Project
Date: May 1, 2021
Time: 10am – 1 pm
Place: ICC North Lawn
What: Bottle Tree Build
Why:  Celebrate spring and bring in good energy to our community
How:  Save your bottles
Who: All are welcome to join, help, and advise as the tree grows
 


Have you seen bottles on trees, or sticks, or posts and thought
“what is that?” , “how beautiful!”,  or ‘ why?!’  Well members of
the ICC want to build a bridge between - the year we’ve had
and the years of community to come at ICC  -
with Bottle Tree Art\Folklore Project

~ All are welcome and encouraged to participate~


* Covid protocol will be followed for this event.  As of this writing Benton County is in the High Risk category. 

Bottle tree history is rooted in the cradle of civilization, African, Southern folklore, and tradition.
 
Bottle trees
A bottle tree is a post or trunk with branches that are decorated with bottles that are open downward, towards the trunk.
 
Glass 
Glass bottles began circulating through Africa, Egypt, and Mesopotamia in 1600 BC. The belief that spirits could live in these bottles quickly followed.
 
History
have a long history of spiritual, cultural, and aesthetic significance in American history and garden design. The folk art tradition of creating bottle trees carried over to the people of the Congo starting in the ninth century. African people brought the tradition of bottle trees with them when the slave trade began in the 17th century. In the US, bottle trees started in the Old South and spread to Appalachia. 
 
One of the more common interpretations is that they protect the home, field, or garden by catching evil spirits, which are attracted to the bottles by their bright colors. Once inside, the sunlight destroys the spirit.   Other interpretations suggest the spirits are trapped inside the bottles in the evening. Then, the morning sunlight destroys them. If you pass by and happen to hear the wind blowing across the bottles, it is thought to be the sound of the spirits trapped inside. Bottle trees have also been thought to bring rain, luck, and to make trees bloom.
 
Intrigued? want participate? Here is how:
 
• Save an empty bottle or two and contribute to the ICC Bottle Tree. Drop the bottle off at ICC in the bottle box on the porch anytime  before 10am May 1 installation.
• If you want, attach a label explaining what evil spirit you hope to catch with it (see history above).
• A colored glass bottle about the size of a wine bottle is good
• Cobalt blue is the traditional color, but any color, or clear is fine. You can also make a colored bottle by swirling paint in a clear bottle.

The Independent Community Center and David Paul Bayles
A community art and history event

    Photographer David Paul Bayles invites the community to make art and history


Pioneer Telephone Company is bringing high speed communications to the rural areas of Philomath, and photographer David Paul Bayles has created a unique art opportunity for the community by creating a series of quirky, semi-abstract photographs of the orange pipe that will carry the fiber optic cable. 


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WHEN Sunday, January 3rd. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

WHERE The Independent Community Center
the corner of Fern and Airport Roads
 31615 Fern Rd. Philomath

WHAT ICC will host a public event
inviting the community to participate in the creation of an artwork
exploring themes of
connection and communication
​ in the year 2020.

 When David first noticed the orange pipes, he learned from a work crew that Pioneer Telephone company was bringing fiber optic cable to his rural neighborhood. His visual interest grew as more pipes began to swirl and swoop beside the country roads. The pipes burrowed into the ground in one place and burst up from it in another. The bright synthetic orange color vividly contrasted with the natural roadside hues. 

At first he viewed the pipe like veins, arteries or sutures coursing through the earthʻs body. As he built a collection of images, the idea emerged of the pipe as a thread stitching together a patchwork quilt of rural Oregon. The sunny, optimistic color of the pipe promised more and faster communication between neighbors next door and across the globe. 

The basic human need for connection, contact and communication has been dramatically altered in the year 2020, due to the pandemic, social distancing, masks and Zoom.  This photographic project offers the public an opportunity to reflect on those changes. 

On January 3rd, 2021, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.,  the Independent Community Center will continue its 102 year history of bringing community together by hosting an interactive art project. On one 24-foot-long roll of fine art paper, David has printed 15 of his fiber optic photographs. Walking down the long roll of paper viewing the images in a continuous line, reflects the experience of driving along Fern Road during the installation of the pipe. This unique photographic print will be on display at the ICC  where guests are invited to write in the large border areas of the print their personal stories, thoughts and ideas about connection, contact and communication in 2020. 

When completed, this piece will be a historical artwork sharing the individual experiences of life in 2020. This photographic time capsule will eventually be archived in a university special collection where it will be available for historians, researchers and museum curators. Imagine viewing this work in a hundred years when handwriting may be obsolete, and the history books on the pandemic and politics of this year have been written! Please join us and help create a timely record of art and local oral history.

Please Note:  We will be following all Covid-19 protocols with masks mandatory and social distancing maintained between non-family groups. Volunteers will be on hand to facilitate, clean surfaces and ensure a creative and safe experience. David will be there to answer any questions you have about the photographic project.

Contact: For more information please contact David Paul Bayles at 541-760-9696 or david@davidpaulbayles.com.

 David Paul Bayles Photography
24662 Ervin Road
Philomath, OR 97370
United States 
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