TM Volume 28 November • December 2019 Number 6 www.ArtAccess.com THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS ART ACCESS Feature Volume 28 Number 6 CONTENTS “My life will be the best illustration of all my work.” FEATURE ~Hans Christian Anderson Write of Way…Mary Lou Sanelli 4 Danish author (1805-1897) Ekphrastic Writing…Janée J. Baugher 6 Bellevue Art Museum…Edie Everette 10 ArtXchange Gallery…Susan Noyes Platt 12 Whatcom Art Museum…Chloé Dye Sherpe 14 Poetry…Alan Chong Lau 16 Listings VISUAL ART Listings Anacortes, WA 18 Bainbridge Island, WA 18 Belleveue, WA 22 Bellingham, WA 22 Bremerton , WA 23 Laurits Andersen Ring • “A Visit to a Cobbler’s Workshop” Camano Island, WA 23 oil on canvas, 37 x 47.25 inches Edison, WA 24 Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark Nordic National Museum • Seattle, WA Edmonds, WA 25 Everett, WA 25 Front Cover: Friday Harbor, WA 25 Kirkland, WA 26 Laurits Andersen Ring • “Has it Stopped Raining?” 1922, oil on canvas, 25.4 x 21.7 inches La Conner, WA 26 Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark Nordic National Museum • Seattle, WA Lyden, WA 26 Mercer Island, WA 27 On the Edge of the World: Mount Vernon, WA 27 Masterworks by Ocean Shores, WA 27 Laurits Andersen Ring Port Orchard, WA 28 Port Townsend, WA 28 from Statens Museum for Kunst Poulsbo, WA 29 – The National Gallery of Denmark Seattle, WA Through January 19, 2020. • Ballard 30 • Columbia City 31 The exhibition at the National Nordic Museum has been made possible by the generous • Downtown 31 support of Mary & Greg Moga. • First Hill 32 • Georgetown 32 Additional sponsors include: • Pioneer Square 35 Barbro Osher, 4Culture, Arts Fund, City of Seattle, and Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. • Sand Point 38 FACEGROUP EXHIBITION FIRST • SODO 38 NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM • University District 38 OCTOBER 12 — FEBRUARY 23 2655 NW Market Street • Seattle, WA Snohomish, WA 38 (206) 789-5707 • [email protected] Tacoma, WA 39 Jessica Rycheal, Proof (detail), 2016, digital photograph. Courtesy of the Artist. Tues-Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Vashon Island, WA 39 Thurs: 10 A.M.-8 P.M., Closed Mondays Whidbey Island, WA 39 www.nordicmuseum.org MAPS Publisher Bainbridge Island, WA 19 Maps FREE ADMISSION Debbi Lester Poulsbo, WA 29 TO THE GALLERIES 363 DAYS PER YEAR Downtown Seattle, WA 30 Special Thanks Georgetown / Seattle Map 33 Museum Hours: Daily, 10am-6pm Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 34 Cheryl H. 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Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Allied Arts of Initial map placement one-time design fee is $35. CRAFT OF THE PUGET SOUND REGION. Whatcom, Cascade Art Museum, Alliance for Pioneer Square, A welcoming landmark just 35 minutes from downtown Seattle by ferry – make a day of it! Doris Lester, Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester (Happy Birthday!), Image(s) with the listing: $110 each. Limit 4. Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil, Ryan Vancil, Corbin & Georgie Hart, Submission and payment are done online: Madeline (Happy Birthday!) & James Pratt, Cayden & Alder www.artaccess.com/submitprintad THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EXHIBITION SPONSORS: 2 ArtAccess.com © November • December 2019 ArtAccess.com © November • December 2019 3 May You Never Have To Run For Your Life One of life’s unavoidable responsibilities is to show up at your friend’s fund- raising event. You could send a check. But if she’s been reminding you of the date for months; comparing her entertainment line-up to Hamilton, you really do need to attend. I’m joking. But even if I wasn’t, I’d never want to let her down. She’s been Write of Way Write good to me. Loyal, generous, honest. But not too. Still, I’m a little fearful of round table seating. It makes me feel like I’m ten years old again waiting for the popular kids to reject me. So I always try to find at least one person I can see myself making small talk with. One woman looked interesting enough. At least I wanted to think her tree-of- life earrings meant she might be fun. I put my coat over the back of the chair next to hers and we got to talking. Of course we did. I wish I could say it’s possible to recognize what side of an issue someone is on based on earrings alone, but one should never make such assumptions. Now, I’m a little sensitive about immigration, I feel protective. The more my tablemate drank, the more obnoxious she became, and we were only halfway through our salads. And so came the probe. “But your parents came legally, right? They didn’t come expecting a free ride?” I wanted to say, free ride? How many immigrant’s do you know who want that? Most come to work at kitchen or field labor. I’m sure you didn’t raise your son to move on down to Fresno to hand pick tomatoes. But to answer your question directly, no, I don’t think my family came legally, they came desperately. It’s why they were called WOPS. Without Papers. The legal process began after they arrived. Oh, and one other thing: May you never have to run for your life. I didn’t say this. I sat there with a big fat fake smile on my face, trying to be socially-correct where the worst thing you can say is the truest thing you feel. The polite thing to do is just say, “Excuse me,” and pretend to see someone you know across the room. I did know someone! At the head table. After congratulating my friend (she raised a ton of money for a scholarship program), I passed two women discussing Good Friday, “What’s so good about it again? I can’t remember.” “It’s when Jesus rose from the dead.” “Was it before or after he walked on water?” They laughed. “My first husband thought he could walk on water, too, but my lawyer showed him just how quickly you can go under.” Every once in a while you overhear someone who knows how to make easy, light, irreverent conversation, who reminds you that it’s possible to be sassy and bold and respectful all in the same breath. Not that it’s ever smart to assume. But I pulled up a chair anyway. I’ve replayed a lot of the evening over and over in my mind, looking for a reason I should have stayed home in my sweats, but I can’t find one. It was a really good cause. And the entertainment was top notch. Mary Lou Sanelli Mary Lou Sanelli is an author, speaker and dance teacher. Her first novel, “The Star Struck Dance Studio (of Yucca Springs)” was recently published by Chatwin Books. Ask for it at your favorite independent bookstore. For more information, visit www.marylousanelli.com. 4 ArtAccess.com © November • December 2019 ArtAccess.com © November • December 2019 5 After Sandro Botticelli’s c. 1475 painting, Spring After Francisco de Goya’s painting, The Third of May 1808 in Madrid: The Execution at Principe Pío In a citrus grove in spring, the wind distributes the pollen, then Goya admired the maverick monarch Napoleon, but when his army gestation happens and hence, flora sprouts from her mouth. Spring invaded Spain, Goya experienced war firsthand. In addition to personified as the maiden carries a bunch of flowers and petals. conveying sympathy for the victims of war, he showed how the French Mercury as Wind on one side of the canvas. The three Graces, soldiers were also victims, with their “just follow orders” mindset. intertwining all 30 fingers, signify love for humanity. In the center, Ekphrastic Writing Some soldiers cover their eyes in disbelief and choke on gun smoke Venus cloaked in a white gown and red wrap. Cupid hovers above her and blood liberating from the luckless. The blood reaching the soil, and aims his arrow carelessly. All bodies are symmetrical and serene. penetrating the earth, lurching to its core, mingling with other roots The translucent gowns, see the curves and see their faces like friends. and life in which God exists. The cells of the blood, the pebbles on We must relish in spring, but not adhere to it. In winter, the mind was the ground, the fine outerwear of the guards, and the night which at home with the cold white mornings and the short days smelling of holds each man there and can do nothing else. Cued: five prisoners, decay and endings. Do not let spring fool you, she begs, relish in all including a tonsured monk. On one side: a mound of three dead. On the elements: Talk to the wind so no one will hear you, look to Cupid’s the other side, a group awaits the firing squad which functions as aims if you’ve lost direction, gaze at Mercury, for when he appears, a single unit.