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Camas First Friday celebrates art, mourns gallery owner

Visitors remember Camas Gallery owner Marquita Call, who died days before signature ‘plein air’ event

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2023 Camas High School graduate Lili Shore holds her "plein air" painting outside the Camas Gallery Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Visitors to the Downtown Camas Association's First Friday event Sept. 1, left handwritten sentiments mourning Camas Gallery owner Marquita Call, who died unexpectedly Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, just three days before her signature "plein air" art event. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

An annual tradition in Camas was marked by sadness this year, after the event’s organizer, Camas Gallery owner Marquita Call, died unexpectedly Aug. 29, three days before artists gathered in downtown Camas for the Camas Gallery’s popular “plein air” event.

Camas artist Liz Pike said Call, 80, started the outdoor or “plein air” painting event “several years ago to help connect the Camas community to local art.”

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