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Member Profile ~ Janet Essley
Winter 2005
Artist Janet Essley moved to White Salmon in 1998 after several years of peregrinations that included Thailand, North Carolina, Hawaii and the Yakima Valley. She met her husband, Paul Moyer, picking coffee in Nicaragua in 1984. Ultimately, trees drew them to the Columbia Gorge.
Janet is a teaching artist through the Artist in Residence program at local schools and a t’ai chi instructor with Community Education. In an exhibit last month at the White Salmon Library, she displayed paintings of women working in sweatshops around the world to make the clothes we buy here in the US. An interactive part of the exhibit encouraged viewers to add their own clothing tags to doll forms between the paintings, creating a distinctive graph of where our clothing originates.
For Essley, a special aspect of RiverHOURS is the understanding of valuing and equalizing our labor as time spent. RiverHOURS is an important step in demystifying money. She explains, “The more diverse methods of exchange of our time that we use, the less likely we are to fall prey to the misconception that our value as human beings is determined by the numbers in our bank accounts.”
Janet has purchased an assortment of goods and services with RiverHOURS, including computer instruction, catering and gourmet chocolates. She accepts RiverHOURS for artwork design and instruction and for t’ai chi lessons.
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