Eastern Washington wildlife photographer Mark Peters will present the second installment of a rotating art show at Chelan’s Nature’s Window Museum as part of its 2024 art gallery series. A fine-art photographer from Ephrata, WA, Peters captures the beauty of landscapes and wildlife, with a particular focus on the endangered Sage Grouse. Trained in photography and darkroom techniques at Eastern Washington University, Peters is driven by a passion for nature that began in childhood. His work has been widely exhibited and published, aiming to raise awareness for wildlife conservation. The exhibition opens on August 1, 2024, and will run throughout the month.

Louis Kollmeyer is a Signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. He has received a number of awards and other honors. His paintings have been in 42 invitational and group shows, in over 50 juried exhibits, and 20 one-man shows. Two paintings were included in the Americans in Paris Exhibition in 1976, a Bi-Centennial of contemporary American painting.

Twenty years ago, Jerry McKellar concentrated on root canals, crowns, and fillings in this thriving private dental practice in Colville, Washington. He had graduated from the University of Washington in 1969, spent two years with the Army Dental Corps, and then set up a practice with his wife Gayle, a dental hygienist he’d met in school. Life, however, took an interesting turn in 1987 when McKellar cast his first limited-edition sculpture entitled Startled. No one, however, was more startled than McKellar who found his love of art so strong that, by 1994, he began to devote himself to it on a full-time basis. Although the transition sounds a bit absurd, he finds that the intricate three-dimensional work of dentistry furnished good basic foundations for his sculpting. In fact, he has no formal art training other than a few patina classes. “Part of dentistry has to be quite artistic for the work to be good,” says the 63-year-old McKellar. “It does transfer over.”