Get tangled up in Tea and Talk

Forest Grove artist Emily Jung Miller will visit the Newport Visual Arts Center on Thursday, May 15, for a Tea & Talk session, displaying sculptural baskets stitched from reclaimed fishing rope.

Miller will also talk about her artistic journey with the material, starting at her grandparents' home place in Deer Isle, Maine, to her family's home on Kauai, and now gathering materials from beach cleanups and commercial fisheries in the Pacific Northwest.

She will be leading public workshops round Newport from May 20 through 23, as part of her ongoing collaborative project, Ghost Net Landscape, inviting communities to transform reclaimed fishing gear into art. For more details, go to www.GhostNetArt.com.

Miller’s work is currently on display in the Gladys Valley Building of the Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Thursday’s Tea & Talk will start at 2 pm at the Newport Visual Arts Center, 777 NW Beach Drive.

For more information, email coastalartsguild@gmail.com.