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Volume 29 March • April 2020 Number 2

www.ArtAccess.com ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 1 THE NORTHWEST GUIDE TO ART ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 29 Number 2 FEATURES

Asian Art Museum…Susan Noyes Platt 6 Schack Art Center…Edie Everette 8 Ekphrastic Writing…Janée J. Baugher 10 Features

VISUAL ART Anacortes, WA 11 Bainbridge Island, WA 11 Listings Bellingham, WA 13 Camano Island, WA 14 Edison, WA 16

Listings Edmonds, WA 16

Everett, WA 17 John Garret • “Babble Basket No. 5” Friday Harbor, WA 17 various reused materials & metal 12.5 x 15 x15 inches Schack Art Center • Everett, WA Gig Harbor, WA 17 Kirkland, WA 18 “One should be a work of art La Conner 18 or wear a work of art” Lynden, WA 19 ~Oscar Wild (1854-1900) Mercer Island, WA 19 Irish auhor, poet, playwright Mount Vernon, WA 20 Ocean Shores, WA 21 Port Orchard, WA 21 Front Cover: Port Townsend, WA 21 Namu Cho • “Fall 1” 24k gold, ruby, and steel, 2.75 x 1.5 x .25 inches Poulsbo, WA 22 photo credit: Mark Nantz Photography Seattle, WA Schack Art Center • Everett, WA • Ballard 23 “Currents 2020” • Columbia City 24 Northwest Designer Craftsmen • Downtown 24 Exhibit and Symposium • First Hill 25 March 5-April 11 • Georgetown 25 • Pioneer Square 26 “Story Tellers: • Shoreline 30 Two Friends; Two Cultures” • SODO 30 PEREGRINE David Boxley and Chris Hopkins • University District 30 Reception: Saturday, April 25, 1-4 P.M. Tacoma, WA 31 with a performance by the Git Hoan Dancers O’GORMLEY: Whidbey Island, WA 31 April 25-June 13 SCHACK ART CENTER OLD TREE MAPS 2921 Hoyt Avenue, Everett, WA Bainbridge Island, WA 13 (425) 259-5050 • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., FEBRUARY 14 — JUNE 3 Mercer Island, WA 20 Peregrine O’Gormley (LaConner), Scythe, bronze, first edition, 32”h x 30”w x 18”d. Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. Promised Gift to Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. Photo by Alec Miller. Poulsbo, WA 21 [email protected] Maps Downtown Seattle, WA 25 www.schack.org Georgetown / Seattle, WA 27 Publisher Pioneer Square / Seattle, WA 28 FREE ADMISSION Debbi Lester TO THE GALLERIES 363 DAYS PER YEAR Special Thanks Helen Johanson, Greg Miller, Reed Aitken, Museum Hours: Daily, 10am-5pm Art Access • (888) 970-9991 Cheryl H. Hahn, Karen Stanton, Gregory Hischak, Gwen Wilson, [email protected] Clare McLean, Alec Clayton, Sean Carman, Tom McDonald, Kathy Cain, Deloris Tarzan Ament, Elizabeth Bryant, 550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island Box 4163 • Seattle, WA 98194 Susan Noyes Platt, Molly Norris, Ron Glowen, Adriana Grant, Molly Rhodes, Milton Freewater, Erica Applewhite, May/June info & payment due April 10. Mitchell Weitzman, Lauren Gallow, David John Anderson, Rachella Anderson, Kim Hendrickson, Christine Waresak, WWW.BIARTMUSEUM.ORG Eleanor Pigman, Edie Everette, Katie Kurtz, Chris Mitchell, Listing in Art Access is a paid service. Meg McHutchison, Tammy Spears & Shauna Fraizer, The charge for 60 word listing per month is Steve Freeborn & Tia Matthies, Bill Frisell & Caroled’Inverno, Museum of Northwest Art, Schack Art Center, Frye Art $39 or $51 with map placement, if available. Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Bellevue Arts Museum, DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARY ART Initial map placement one-time design fee is $35. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Allied Arts of Whatcom, Cascade Art Museum, Alliance for Pioneer Square, & CRAFT OF THE PUGET SOUND REGION. Image(s) with the listing: $110 each. Limit 4. Doris Lester (Happy Birthday!), Teresa Cassady, Joey Lester, A welcoming landmark just 35 minutes from downtown Seattle by ferry – make a day of it! Submission and payment are done online: Danny Lester, Debbie & Richard Vancil (Happy Birthdays!), Ryan Vancil, Corbin (Happy Birthday!) & Georgie Hart, www.artaccess.com/submitprintad Madeline & James Pratt (Happy Anniversary!), Cayden & Alder THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS EXHIBITION SPONSORS: 2 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 3 artist Kathy Jones with her painting Leo Osborne with his painting and sculpture artist Steve Jensen with his art artist Rob McKirdie with his sculpture fiber artist Linda St. Angelo artist Liz Tran with her painting Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Island Gallery • Bainbrige Island, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA

artist Mihan Sarani with his painting artist Ryan Kelly in front of his artworks artist Warren Dykeman with his paintings artist Diane Williams with her art artist Mylen Tumaliuan-Huggins with her artwork Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Method Gallery • Seattle, WA Suzanne Zahr Art & Architecture • Mercer Island, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA

(L-R) artist Sean Michael Hurley and his beloved (L-R) artists Peggy Foy and Nadine Kariya artist Kara Mia Fenoglietto artist John Dempcy stands among his paintings artist Michael Frey with his photograph Justine stand with his painting stand with Kariya’s jewelry display with her installation ZINC Contemporary • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Arcana Metalwork at 57 Biscayne • Seattle, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island, WA

(L-R) artists Melinda Hurst Frye and Jenny Riffle artist Genna Draper by her paintings artist Rob Droessler his wall sculpture artist Brian Fisher with his artworks artist Susan Lowrey with her artworks Gallery 4Culture • Seattle, WA Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA

artist Peggy Murphy with her painting artist Mark McKnight with his photographs artist Diane Walker with her photograph artist Jane Sprintwater stands next to her artwork artist Sharrey Doré with her jewelry Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts • Bainbridge Island, WA Bainbridge Arts & Craft • Bainbridge Island, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA Arcana Metalwork Gallery 57 Biscayne Artist Studios • Seattle, WA 4 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 5 “Writing Images” includes painting, Finally the new gallery has a separate calligraphy, and poetry. Don’t miss contemporary art exhibit, “Belonging,” the small horizontal book made of centered around the enormous and stacked palm fronds, then enjoy the familiar Do Ho Suh’s “Some/One,” larger masterpieces. These fragile light made of hundreds of military dog tags. sensitive works most likely are to be on In addition to international superstars, display for only six months. be sure to find the work of our own Akio Takamori. His group of poignant The narrow gallery, “Color in Clay,” ceramic figures depict villagers he faces the park with a long display remembered from his childhood in Japan. ranging from white to polychrome. It has no labels which encourages simply looking at the colors as they change according to the light. A video display includes all the information about each piece if we want to pursue the detail. Just to the right of the front entrance, “Kamadeva, God of Desire” greets Kenzan Tsutakawa • “Gather,” LED light canopy installation us in “Spiritual Journeys.” Akio Takamori • “Sleeper 1,” stoneware, 5 x 26 x 9 inches Fuller Garden Court of the Seattle Asian Art Museum (facing front entrance) © Artist or Artist’s Estate, Gift of Lucy and Herb Pruzan, photo: Adam Hunter/LMN Architects Highlighted here as an outstanding in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum 12th century masterpiece of the photo credit: Elizabeth Mann Seattle Asian Art Museum: Reimagined. Reinstalled. Reopened. South Asian Collection, it was Seattle Asian Art Museum • Seattle, WA formerly lost in the many works in As you leave the large new space, pause Visit the dazzling new installations at now allow views out to the park and the Fuller Garden Court. After exploring with Kim Soja’s “Mandala: Zone of the Seattle Asian Art Museum as soon beyond. Restored windows throughout the images of gods of Hinduism, Zero,” three “mandalas” made from juke as possible! In a striking departure from the museum allow frequent views of Buddhism, and Islam, pause in the next boxes, each reciting a different chant tradition, the museum is now organized Volunteer Park and its magnificent trees. gallery, “Awakened Ones,” and listen from Gregorian, Islamic, and Buddhism, thematically rather than by geography, to chants: these three Buddhas are from The new gallery of over 2600 square feet an example of ecumenism so crucial in Seattle Asian Art Museum • Seattle, Washington Asian Seattle the only Asian Museum in the country to Japan, China, and Thailand. is scaled to the rest of the building. In today’s world. take this bold step. It is a huge success. addition there are newly imagined “Divine Bodies” emphasizes the human Perfect. Hats off to the curators and Themes enable us to see familiar works education spaces and a state-of-the-art body, accompanied by a video that the staff. with new eyes, and to enjoy never before lab for restoring the mounting of outlines “mudras,” the complex blessing seen masterpieces. Each theme includes Asian painting, the only one west of gestures of Buddhism. We can see a Susan Noyes Platt many countries, and each object often is the Mississippi. Even the auditorium teaching gesture in the early 9th century Susan Noyes Platt writes a blog www. the result of crossing boundaries, such has new seats (made by the original bronze of Buddha Shakyamuni. This artandpoliticsnow.com and for local, as a Chinese robe made firm) and better lines of sight. bronze is so sensitive to oxygen that it national, and international publications. with Russian silk. required a special case and has never First look up at the delicate canopy The Seattle Asian Art Museum, located been displayed before. Anita Dube’s As you explore the in the Fuller Garden Court by Kenzan at 1400 E. Prospect Street in Seattle, photographs “Offering” of ceramic eyes twelve themes, enjoy the Tsutakawa, the grandson of our famous is open Wednesday from 10 A.M. on hands creating mudras hangs above cultural intersections. George Tsutakawa. Composed of LED to 5 P.M., Thursday from 10 A.M. a riveting thousand armed eleven In fact, the theme of the lights in a pattern based on Asian textiles, to 9 P.M., Friday from 10 A.M. to 5 headed Guanyin. Dube’s work is one entire museum is the it swoops toward the front door and the P.M., Saturday from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., of many contemporary works loaned intersections of culture. outside world. and Sunday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. For by our generous local collectors Sanjay Architectural firm LMN Many works have never been shown Parthasarathy and Malini Balakrishnan. info, visit www.seattleartmuseum.org/ restored the stunning before such as a Filipino “Fichu” visit/asian-art-museum. 1933 Art Deco building. or shawl, made of pineapple fiber in As you approach the the first gallery off the Fuller Garden entrance, you at once Court titled “Are We What We Wear?” notice that it glows In another radical act, the curators a subtle pink color as a added contemporary work in most of result of the restoration the galleries, amplifying their themes. of the exterior. The So in this gallery we see jewelry reglazing of the doors and ceremonial clothing, along with contemporary Korean photographer “Kamadeva (God of Desire)” ca. 12th century, Indian, Jung Yeondoo’s “Bewitched” project. sandstone, 36.5 x 9 x 9.5 inches Purchased from the The two photographs pair a young Alma Blake Bequest woman dressed for her humble job with and General Acquisition Fund Photo: Elizabeth Mann the same woman outfitted for her fantasy (L-R) Jung Yeondoo • “Bewitched #2 Seoul” Seattle Asian Art Museum life to explore the Arctic. C-print, each 62.6 x 51.6 inches, Estate of Rosa Ayer Seattle, WA Seattle Asian Art Museum

6 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 7 8 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 9 traditional fiber arts through contemporary WASHINGTON works and installations. Media include • Bainbridge Anacortes Washington Island, VISUAL ART After Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures ANACORTES lace, embroidery, quilts, wearables— reconstituted and re-purposed objects— SCOTT MILO GALLERY conceptual sculptures, and art installations. Start with a metal skeleton of what serves your pleasure: a house, a 420 Commercial Avenue • (360) 293- Old Tree 6938 • Mon-Sat: 10:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M. Peregrine O’Gormley (La Conner) mug, a human figure. Then, take clay and obliterate the metal with and by appointment • gallery@scottmilo. is featured in his first solo art museum it, rendering it inexhaustible of air and mind and any wayward form com • www.scottmilo.com exhibition. This major show combines Featuring new, bold pastels by Steven various series—sculptures of wildlife that disagrees with this surface. You may add mounds of clay or as R. Hill of Lopez Island. Enjoy landscapes in carved wood, bronze, stainless steel, of our region and seascapes, too. Also little as possible. In this manner, you will sculpt Everyman, and how and mixed media. His sculptures honor showing are oils by Karen Bakke, nature, blending meticulous craftsmanship you depict him here people will remark on: Did you make him portly, paintings and ceramics by Susan Cohen Ekphrastic Writing with his concerns for the environment. Thompson, oils by Jennifer McGill, disheveled, mute? Is he capable of doing anything? Have you captured Styles range from exquisite representation and acrylics by John Roser and new and realism towards subtle cubism motion, devolution, mutation? This figure remains lean. Scarcely clay glass and jewelry, too. Reception with and abstraction. the Artists: Friday, March 6, 6-9 P.M. Fragments beset the metal, the bones of which poke out of him—he with his March 6-March 31. Presenting Anna Teiche’s first solo art Join Scott Milo Gallery for its “4th elongated, attenuated, atrophied limbs. His head looks straight on, his museum exhibition. Teiche (Bainbridge Annual Tulip Poster Artists Past and Island) is a painter and fiber artist focused features are cast in bronze, yet I cannot tell his eyes from nose. Does Present Show.” Featuring new acrylics on textile patterns and bright motifs. by 2020 Artist, Jennifer Bowman, he feign movement of thought and promise—that solitude starves from Current works are inspired by artistic acrylics by 2019 artist Ben Mann, color residencies and travels around the world. ourselves? Merely alone, we are left in the skeleton of our daily skin, photographs by Randy Dana, artist Teiche portrays human figures enveloped for 2000 & 2003 and oils by 2018 artist the way the bronze catches the light and absorbs it into itself—that in highly patterned textiles—connecting Melissa Jander, and new glass by JLS the viewer to both the familiar and abstract. color, that light that spreads around a room only hibernates there inside Glass. Reception: Friday, April 3, 6-9 P.M. April 3-28. BERGH IMAGES GALLERY Giacometti’s thin figure. I imagine him falling off the edge. BAINBRIDGE ISLAND 400 Winslow Way East, Suite 115 • (206) 451-4849 • Tues-Fri: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. • info@ Janée J. Baugher berghimages.com • www.berghimages.com Janée J. Baugher is the author of two ekphrastic poetry collections, Fine art photographer Andrew Bergh The Body’s Physics and Coördinates of Yes. Her poetry and prose have exhibits evocative images on different been published in Tin House, The Writer’s Chronicle, Boulevard, NANO mediums including metal, canvas, fine art Fiction, Nimrod, and The Southern Review, among other places, and acrylic prints, matted prints, and custom- she teaches at Richard Hugo House. In autumn 2020, McFarland framed B&W prints. It is one of the few is to publish her academic book, The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating galleries in King/Kitsap Counties to Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction. focus exclusively on fine art photography. Andrew Bergh says, “Partner Carol and I encourage browsing and treat visitors like welcomed guests!” Receptions: Friday, March 6 & April 3, 6-8 P.M.

Margaret Chodos-Irvine • “Correspondence” sewn cotton batiste fabric, with letters and cards BLACKBIRD BAKERY in pockets that the artist and mother 210 Winslow Way East • (206) 780- wrote each other over many years Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA 1322 • Mon-Fri: 6 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 6:30 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun 7 A.M.-6 P.M. BAINBRIDGE ISLAND • [email protected] • MUSEUM OF ART www.blackbirdbakery.com 550 Winslow Way • (206) 842-4451 • Through March and April, view Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • Bistro: 10 Lily Diament-Hansen’s nature inspired A.M.-3 P.M. • Free Admission original hand sewn quilted panels. • [email protected] • www. Motivated by her observations, she biartmuseum.org challenges herself to capture those images Fiber 2020 using fabric and thread. Her hope is that This exhibition explores diverse ways viewers can experience themselves within artists are working in fiber and textiles. the environment being depicted—be it Over thirty-five artists are featured walking in a forest, relaxing on a secluded in this large group exhibition, from beach, or snorkeling over a coral reef. http://www.artaccess.com

10 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 11 Annual Print Show BELLINGHAM New work from 10 Northwest artists: Jite Agbro, Jan Branham, Dawn Endean, ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY Bellingham, Washington VISUAL ART Pam Galvani, Meg Hartwell, Renee 1418 Cornwall Avenue • (360) 676- Jameson, Maryann Kirkby, Kathryn 8548 • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Lesh, Rebecca Strabo, and Lynda Sat: 12-5 P.M. • [email protected] • Swenson. From abstract mark making to www.alliedarts.org landscapes and portraiture, their work Allied Arts Whatcom continues to inspire. Reception with the READS Challenge Artists: First Friday, April 3, 6-8 P.M., Allied Arts of Whatcom County, in with music by The Jenny Davis Jazz Trio. partnership with the Bellingham and Margret Darrah • “Tulpan Fika” Whatcom Libraries, hosts the annual cut paper, 8 x 10 inches Beverly Davis • “Freedom” The Gallery at Grace • Bainbridge Island, WA Whatcom READS Art Challenge. Artists acrylic painting, 11 x 14 inches include Louise Magno, Seren Fargo, Whatcom Art Market • Bellingham, WA THE GALLERY AT GRACE Judy Laub, Mimi Oritz, Gary Theriault, 8595 NE Day Road • (206) 842-9997 • Mon- WHATCOM ART MARKET and Nick Payne. March 6-28. 1103 - 11th Street • (360) 738-8564 Fri: 9 A.M.-4 P.M., Sun: 8 A.M.-12 P.M., RARE: Recycled Arts Resource Expo • Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • www. and by appointment • communications@ Friday & Saturday, April 3 & 4 whatcomartmarket.org gracehere.org • www.gracehere.org Join Allied Arts of Whatcom for the Celebrating 10 years! Whatcom Art Margret Darrah is a lifelong artist 8th Annual Recycled Arts Resource Expo Market features 45 local artists from of Swedish descent. Having created (RARE)! RARE is a two-day event that Whatcom and Skagit Counties with in several mediums, she is currently highlights creative reuse in the form of an eclectic mix of fine art paintings, mixed paper-cutting, influenced by the old- art, craft, and music through exhibits, media, whimsy, objects d’art, wearable art world European/Scandinavian and workshops and performances. RARE also knits, stunning photography, handcrafted scherenschnitte traditions. Each original promotes art organizations and facilities wood carvings, jewelry, etched and art piece is hand-cut with sharp, tiny that incorporate sustainability in their glass, and much more! The Fairhaven 4th scissors. Her latest collection on view is Robert Schlegel • “Color Blocks” facilities and programs. Friday Art Walks are monthly from 5-8 “Halvsvedskärare (Half Swede Cutter).” acrylic, 20 x 16 inches Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA P.M.—except December. Reception: Sunday, March 8, 11 A.M. ROBY KING GALLERY FOURTH CORNER Through April. 176 Winslow Way East • (206) 842-2063 FRAMES & GALLERY WHATCOM MUSEUM • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 12-4 311 West Holly Street • (360) 734-1340 • Old City Hall Building, 121 Prospect P.M. • [email protected] • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • framr4u@ Street, Thurs-Sun: 12-5 P.M. • Lightcatcher www.robykinggallery.com aol.com • www.fourthcornerframes.com Building, 250 Flora Street, Weds-Sun: 12-5 Leap! In March, featuring acrylic paintings P.M. • (360) 778-8930 • Admission: $10 by Robert Schlegel and cut steel and This Artist Choice show could only general, $8 student/senior/military, $5 found art sculptures by Dan Brown. happen once every 4 years! Artist’s children under 5 • info@whatcommuseum. Schlegel explores the tension between inspiration?... Frogs, kangaroos, and org • www.whatcommuseum.org the representational and the abstract. He lords a leaping…you get the picture. The Lightcatcher: responds to structures, landscapes, and artists took a “leap of faith,” dropped off Conversations Between Collections: animals in their surroundings with works unframed original art for Fourth Corner Smithsonian American Art Museum on panel or canvas and often includes Frames & Gallery to frame and the gallery and the Whatcom Museum collage materials. Brown’s welded leaped right in! Take a leap and come see Whatcom Museum presents three Through March 30. sculptures are of birds, fish, and animals this show! masterworks from the Smithsonian

are often with solar lights. March 6-29. Corinne Carbone • “Those in the Shadows” acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches Ericksen Ave. NE Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Bainbridge Map Island Ferncliff Ave. Three Tree Lane NE ISLAND GALLERY Wyatt Way SR 305 400 Winslow Way East, Suite 120 • (206) 2 The BPA 780-9500 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Theatre Bainbridge Island KiDiMu New Brooklyn

Madison Ave. N. Historical Sun: 12-5 P.M. • ssn@theislandgallery. City Hall Museum net • www.theislandgallery.net 6 4 Abstract Landscapes 7 5 8 THE 3 Madison Ave. N. Winslow Way East Presenting paintings by Bainbridge Olympic Drive SE

Madison Ave. N. 1 artist Corinne Carbone. Her work reflects 1. Bainbridge Arts & Crafts i 2. BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) Ferry to Seattle an inner dialogue often wrought with 3. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art conflict and curiosity, connecting the 4. Bergh Images Gallery i viewer with a collective consciousness 5. Blackbird Bakery WA 6. The Island Gallery Ferry around current issues such as the refugee 7. Roby King Gallery N crisis. Reception with the Artist: First Dan Brown • “Water is King” 8. Winslow Art Center Studio & Gallery (2nd Floor) cut steel and found water tank, 36 x 24 inches i Information Friday, March 6, 6-8 P.M. with music by Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Songbird, Bainbridge musicians Larry Dewey & Mary McCormic-McInnis. http://www.artaccess.com

12 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 13 against arguably the most picturesque push artistic boundaries. One can see location in the Pacific Northwest, this a wide variety of themes, styles, and self-guided two-weekend art tour is media in this show…both giving a nod truly unique. Join the thousands who to tradition as well as embracing edgy, have made this annual event a tradition. wild experimentation. Gala Reception: Saturday, March 14, 4:30-8:30 P.M.

Susan Cohen Thompson • “Soul Retrieval,” (detail) mixed media, 6 x 18 inches Judith Heim • “Chairpersons” Thompson Art Studio • Camano Island, WA acrylic, collage on cradleboard, 24 x 18 inches Matzke Fine Art Gallery • Camano Island, WA THOMPSON ART STUDIO Whatcom Museum… Daily by appointment • dottiburton18@ MATZKE FINE ART GALLERY 2188 Lowell Point Road • (425) 750- msn.com • www. dottiburton.com American Art Museum as part of a five- AND SCULPTURE PARK 4994 • by appointment • susan@sct-art. Artist Dotti Burton says, “2020 is year partnership made possible through 2345 Blanche Way • (360) 387-2759 com • www.thompsonartstudio.com finding me waiting for spring! I have Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation. • Fri, Sat, Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by Opening March 6, Susan Cohen been painting several colorful new “Conversations Between Collections” appointment • [email protected] • Thompson is showing oil paintings abstract landscapes and also some small highlights the three masterworks in www. matzkefineart.com and ceramics at Scott Milo Gallery in and medium size non-objective pieces. conversation with pieces from the Present Tense Anacortes. At her Camano studio she is (All of which be photographed and on Whatcom’s collection. Through Women Painters of Washington preparing for the annual Camano Island my website). Being a home body and January 3, 2021. celebrates 90 years as a member-owned Studio Tour in May, when her studio spending time painting allows me time The Global Language of Headwear: and operated arts organization! Founded opens to the public for two weekends: for visitors to my studio. Please call me Cultural Identity, Rites of Passage, in 1930, this group has continued to May 8, 9, 10, 16 & 17 from 10 A.M.-5 and you will find yourself welcomed.” and Spirituality P.M. Otherwise, visitors by appointment. Presenting 89 extraordinary hats and headdresses, this exhibition represents countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America and is a tribute to the stunning diversity Camano Island, Washington of the world’s cultures. Organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C. Through April 26. CAMANO ISLAND

Kathy Hastings • “Wingtips at Sunset,” (detail) VISUAL ART photo encaustic, mixed media, 8 x 21 inches Camano Island Studio Tour • Camano Island, WA CAMANO ISLAND STUDIO TOUR 848 N. Sunrise Blvd, Suite C • (206) 930- 5280 • May 8-10 & 16-17 • Fri-Sat: 10 A.M.- 5 P.M. • [email protected] • BIMA Juried Spotlight www.camanostudiotour.com Group exhibition featuring Camano Island Studio Tour May 8-10 & 16-17 Puget Sound visual artists Dotti Burton • “Arriving” Fridays-Sundays, 10 A.M.-5 P.M. acrylic painting, 24 x 24 inches Dotti Burton Studio & Gallery • Camano Island, WA The Camano Studio Tour is one of the Open June 27 most diverse and well-regarded events in Summer 2020: through Sept. 27 DOTTI BURTON STUDIO & GALLERY the state. With over 30 artists representing 29 Vista Del Mar Street • (206) 714-3647• FREE ADMISSION nearly every medium imaginable set THANKS TO MEMBERS & DONORS LIKE YOU Detailed info available by March 15 550 WINSLOW WAY, BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SUBMISSION DEADLINE APRIL 30 15 14 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 WWW.BIARTMUSEUM.ORGArtAccess.comVisit: © www.biartmuseum.org/juried-spotlight March • April 2020 Tea Pots EDISON FRIDAY HARBOR Featuring the Sculptor’s Workshop Everett • Friday Harbor Gig Harbor, Washington VISUAL ART Annual Group Show. April 14-May 14. Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case: John Dewhirst and friends wood carving group show. Through March 31.

EDMONDS SNO-ISLE LIBRARY Edmonds Library, 650 Main Street • (425) 771-0230 • Mon-Thurs: 9 A.M.-8 P.M., Fri: 9 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 1-5 P.M. • [email protected] • www.edmondsartscommission.org Jasmine Valandani • “to rest and then to rise” Life Below the Waterline watercolor, acrylic, ink, gouache on baker’s linen cloth Presenting underwater photography 31.25 x 24 inches Thomas Wood • “Trilobite I” Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA group show featuring Carl Baird, Deon Venter • “Pyramid # 2,” (detail) monoprint, 5 x 4.5 inches oil on canvas, 108 x 170 inches i.e. gallery • Edison, WA Jasmine Valandani presents new Drew Collins, Bruce Kerwin, Pat photo credit David Barrowman San Juan Islands Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA i.e. gallery works that explore “a quiet tension Gunderson, Audrey Garbacik, and 5800 Cains Court • (360) 488-3458 • Fri- that exists between the center and Jen Vanderhoof. Through March 18. SAN JUAN ISLANDS

Edison • Edmonds, Washington Edison • Edmonds, Washington Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by appointment margins, figure and ground, opening to The next show features paintings by MUSEUM OF ART • [email protected] • www. imaginative potential of spaces between Ben Groff. March 19-April 30. 540 Spring Street • (360) 370-5050 • Fri- ieedison.com and beyond.”Artist Talk & Reception: EVERETT Mon, 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • [email protected] Thomas Wood exhibits his 2-year Saturday, April 4, 12 P.M. April 3-26. • www.sjima.org exploration of Trilobites as subject matter. SCHACK ART CENTER Missing/Highway of Tears Kathleen Skeels displays her ceramics 2921 Hoyt Avenue • (425) 259-5050 Deon Venter’s exhibit title refers to a and drawings on clay of bugs, birds, and • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: stretch of Highway 16 in Canada where 18 us. Artist Reception: Saturday, March 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. girls, mostly Aboriginal, were murdered. 7, 4-6 P.M. Artist Talk: Saturday, March • [email protected] • www.schack.org With this installation composed of 21, 4 P.M. March 6-29. • Free Most Mondays except Labor Day. individual portraits alternating with flower VISUAL ART Marc Aronson layers and removes Currents 2020 paintings, he hopes to convert the subject coats of oil to create contemplative abstract Northwest Designer Craftsmen into life-affirming art. These nature poems paintings, luminous planes of color, and Exhibit and Symposium form a potent metaphor and memorial for Schack Art Center and Northwest a landscape feel. Mike Scott sculpts on a Ann Morris • “Spring Floats” the young lives lost. March 6-May 25. lathe turned wood burls, colored and bamboo fronds, bamboo twigs, dried daffodils, sinew, Designer Craftsmen present “Currents Domestic Bliss 6 x 18 inches 2020,” an exhibit celebrating excellence waxed for a sense of antiquity. Reception: Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA This exhibit by Holly Ballard Martz Saturday, April 4, 4 P.M., Artist Talk: in craft and design. The exhibit explores transforms objects associated with Ann Morris presents her series of Saturday, April 18, 4 P.M. April 3-26. current and continuing trends in craft domestic labor, traditionally the purview bronze sculpture, incorporating a variety making, while highlighting the individual of women, and supplants their original of natural objects, a study of how human artists. Opening Reception: Thursday, purpose and highlights obstacles, which life is interwoven with nature. Artist Talk March 5, 5-8 P.M. March 5-April 11. impede the quest for gender equality. & Reception: Saturday, April 4, 12 P.M. Free admission. March 6-May 25. April 3-26. Story Tellers; The Pulse of Water Flex Gallery: Two Friends, Two Cultures June Sekiguchi creates a site responsive Showing artworks by Fred Birchman This exhibit brings together two friends, installation where fresh materials, patterns, and Evelyn Woods. David Boxley and Chris Hopkins, from Lisa McShane • “Lhaq’temish: River in Winter” and surfaces help convey messages of oil on linen on panel, 14 x 30 inches EDMONDS very different backgrounds and cultures, cultural identity and personal narratives. Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA but who speak with one voice using the March 6-May 25. SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY FRANCES ANDERSON CENTER common language of art to communicate a GIG HARBOR 5742 Gilkey Avenue • (360) 766-6230 700 Main Street • (425) 771-0230 • FAC & story that is uniquely American. Opening • Daily: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • EAF Gallery: Mon-Fri: 8:30 A.M.-8 P.M., Reception: Saturday, April 25, 2-5 P.M. EBB TIDE GALLERY [email protected] • www. Sat: 9 A.M.-2 P.M. • eac@edmondswa. featuring Git Hoan Dancers. April 25- 7809 Pioneer Way • (253) 851-5293 • Daily smithandvalleegallery.com gov • www.edmondsartscommission.org June 13. Free admission. 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • billwachtler1@gmail. Light and its interaction with water Edmonds Arts Festival Gallery: com • www.ebbtideart.com and land is the main element in Lisa NW7 Group Show The gallery represents 14 local artists McShane’s paintings. McShane uses Featuring Sue Robertson, Lynn featuring a variety of painting styles and layers of translucent oil paint and resin to Hanson, Angela Bandurka, Tracy Felix, media as well as photography, ceramics, create deeply luminous paintings. Artist Donna Wallace, Nancy Thompson, Mona glass art, live-edge wood tables and hand- Talk & Reception: Saturday, March 7, Smiley-Fairbanks, and Binky Bergsman. made purses. One of Ebb Tide Gallery 3:30 P.M. March 6-29. March 13-April 9. artists is always present to help you find something special for your home or office. Stop by and enjoy seeing beautiful, creative http://www.artaccess.com items of original local art.

16 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 17 KIRKLAND psychedelic taste the artist willfully LYNDEN Jan Tervonen joins “Imaginative

indulges in. March 3-29. Perspectives” with work that evolved from Lynden • Mercer Island, Washington VISUAL ART Julia Goloshubin presents still lifes her passion for the mid-century modern era on canvas. In Heidi Barnett’s show style and Japanese art. She finds a common “Somewhere in Time,” she used palette thread in those lines, colors, and simplicity knives, fingers, and a variety of eclectic of design and incorporates them into her tools—including Q-tips—to apply paint mixed media collages on paper. Tervonen’s to her canvases. Her work hints at the small scale abstracts are a harmonious fit

fundamentals of pointillism while pushing into this collection.

the style in new captivating directions, Gregory Kammer titling it towards organic pointillism. “Between Winter and Spring, West Seattle, Washington” oil on linen, 35 x 60 inches March 31-April 26. Jansen Art Center • Lynden, WA KIRKLAND ART CENTER GALLERY LA CONNER JANSEN ART CENTER 620 Market Street • (425) 822-7161 • MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART 321 Front Street • Tues-Weds: 11 A.M.- Tues-Fri: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 11 A.M.- 121 South First Street • (360) 466-4446 7 P.M., Thurs: 11 A.M.-9 P.M., Fri-Sat: 5 P.M. • [email protected] • • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 11 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun-Mon: Closed • www. KirklandArtsCenter.org P.M. • [email protected] • www. [email protected] • www. 2020 is a year of heritage and hindsight museumofnwart.org jansenartcenter.org in the Kirkland Arts Center Gallery. For The Barn Shows The Jansen Art Center hosts four over fifty-eight years, artists have found MoNA is honored to showcase The exhibits that alternate on a quarterly Kirkland • La Conner, Washington Kirkland • La Conner, their voices within these walls. This Barn Shows! Commemorating the annual basis. Jansen Art Center welcomes, exhibition, curated by Donna Lindeman art shows held at the Reim’s Farm on Fir “Between Seasons: Paintings of the Porter, offers a look back at where Kirkland Island, starting 1987, featuring artist like Pacific Northwest” by Greg Kammer, MIVAL GALLERY Arts Center has been with an eye to where Guy Anderson, Clayton James, and “The Distance Between” by Barbara 2836 - 78th Avenue SE • (206) 619-6276 it may go. Opening Reception: Friday, many others. The Museum is excited Miller, The J Studio Showcase, and • Thurs-Sat: 12-6 P.M., Sun: 12-4 P.M. • March 20, 6 P.M. March 17-April 25. to bring back this popular show to “The Spring Juried Exhibit.” Opening [email protected] • www.mival.org the community with the original artist Reception: Thursday, March 5, 6-8 It may be rainy and gray outside but it’s participants. Come visit! Opens March 28. P.M. with Artist Talk at 6:30 P.M. always colorful inside MIVAL Gallery. Be surprised by your own emotions MERCER ISLAND evoked by springtime colors—and also VISUAL ART by happily clashing colors. Come enjoy the “Emergence.” Join the artists and their friends on Friday, March 6, 5-8 P.M. for the lively Opening Night. March 5-29.

Heidi Barnett • “Walking in Sunshine” acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Jan Tervonen • “Cityscape 3” Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA Colette Griffith • “Art Bash 2020,” watercolor mixed media collage on paper, 11 x 14 inches Skagit Artists ART BASH Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts • Mercer Island, WA PARKLANE GALLERY Lux Art Center • La Conner, WA 130 Park Lane • (425) 827-1462 • Tues-Sun: SKAGIT ARTISTS ART BASH CLARKE & CLARKE hours vary, Second Friday Art Walk 603 Morris Street • March 21-29 • Call ART + ARTIFACTS 5-8 P.M. • [email protected] for hours • [email protected] • 7605 SE 27th St #105 • (206) 232-4456 • www.parklanegallery.org www.skagitartists.com • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. • Waterworks In celebration of the beautiful Skagit [email protected] • www. Karsten Sculpture ethnoarts.com Working with a palette and images Valley daffodils, Skagit Artists hold “Lotus Blossom” influenced by water, Marne Jensen has their annual ART BASH in La Conner Imaginative Perspectives created a series of paintings focusing on at the Lux Art Center, located at 603 This group show features Chris City of Lakewood and the this life-sustaining element of nature that Morris Street, from March 21-29, with Baumgartner, Scott Gibson, Noble Lakewood Arts Commission nourishes our planet. March 3-29. lots of local art and demonstrations Golden, Agnes Lee, Suzanne Werner, The Wild Card provided by Skagit Artists’ members. and introduces Jan Tervonen. This is a Google & LinkedIn.com A play of color, an embracing of Opening Reception: Saturday, March show of eclectic works from artists who the monochrome, and reality colliding 21, 4-6 P.M. For more information, excel in imagining and creating works from [email protected] their individual perspectives with notedly with a dream describes the art of Sobia visit these websites: www.skagitartists. By commission only Shuaib. This show manifests as a deeply com, www.lovelaconner.com, and www. unique techniques and materials. Their intense collusion of the norm with a luxlaconner.com. individual compositions encompass resin, folded papers, ink, collage, watercolor, http://www.artaccess.com encaustic, metal leaf, fiber, and acrylic.

18 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 19 MIVAL Gallery… Wed-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun:12-4 Grange Hall is transformed into a students to participate in this annual

Treasures in Miniature P.M., Closed Tuesdays • info@ fabulous art gallery, featuring exquisite student show. These are amazing, talented VISUAL ART perryandcarlson.com • www. art and craftwork…pottery, paintings, kids and it is always a fun show to see. This annual MIVAL Gallery show perryandcarlson.com jewelry, glass, scarves, garden art, purses, Reception: Saturday, March 14, 1-4 hits its 10th anniversary. A favorite A Delicate Balance: herbal products, photography, and wood P.M. Through March. amongst regional and local Mercer Island Life in the Skagit Valley artistry. This annual show is awesome… The Sidney Museum and Arts artists—and amongst many perennial This March group show features and it’s near the tulip fields in Skagit Association is pleased to feature viewers. These artists exhibit 2-D and 3-D Natalie Niblack, Jean Behnke, Ann Valley! Opening: Friday, April 3, 6-8 Bernice Walsh, Barbara Mills, small art works in all mediums. You are Reid, Theodora Jonsson, Jules Faye, P.M. with live music and refreshments. and Susan Hyde. These venerable sure to surprised! Awards Ceremony & Lou Cabeen, Heidi Epstein, Jane Alynn, South Kitsap artists feature some of their Reception: Friday, April 3, 5-8 P.M. OCEAN SHORES Kris Ekstrand, Jessica Gigot, Sue best work in oil, acrylic, and mixed Ocean Shores • Port Orchard Townsend, MERCER ISLAND GALLERY, Roberts, Kathleen Faulkner, Kathryn media. This is a wonderful and exciting COMMUNITY & EVENT CENTER Glowen, Nicolette Harrington, Jessical opportunity to see their work. Reception: Gigot, Elizabeth Tapper, Stella Spring, Saturday, April 11, 1-4 P.M. 8236 SE 24th Street • (206) 275-7609 Twila Johnson-tate, Cynthia Camlin, • Mon-Thurs: 8 A.M.-7 P.M., Fri- PORT TOWNSEND Sat: 8 A.M.-5 P.M. • diane.mortenson@ Virginia Hand, and Ellen Michael. mercergov.org • www.mercergov.org/ In April, presenting new work by Mount Vernon, Washington Mount Vernon, Page.asp?NavID=3177 Anita Lehmann. Through March 13, featuring artworks by Susan Lally-Chiu, Cheryl Renée (L) Ceramic by Gary Ganz (R) painting by Kathleen Guest Long, and Fasika Moges. The Gallery of Ocean Shores • Ocean Shores, WA Photography Duo THE GALLERY OF OCEAN SHORES Highlighting the photographic works 849 Point Brown Avenue • (360) of Ray Pfortner and David Fishman. 289-0734 • Daily: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6:30-8 • [email protected] • www. P.M. March 16-April 24. thegalleryofoceanshores.com

VISUAL ART Puget Sound Sumi Artists The Gallery of Ocean Shores hosts a Reception: Friday, May 1, 6:30-8 duo of featured artists in March. Painter P.M. April 27-June 5. Kathleen Guest displays primarily Gary Alan Newberg • “Natural Urges” abstract work. Ceramics artist black walnut, 66 x 38 x 32 inches Ganz showcases work in raku and other Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA styles. Reception: Saturday, March 21, Top (L-R): Marguerite Goff, Linda Ballard NORTHWIND ARTS CENTER Bottom (L-R): Lucinda VanValkenburg, Janet Hamilton 12-4 P.M. with refreshments. Rexville Grange Gallery • Mount Vernon, WA 701 Water Street • (360) 379-1086 •

Weds-Mon: 11:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • info@ REXVILLE GRANGE GALLERY 19299 Rexville Grange Road • (360) northwindarts.org • www.northwindarts.org 466-0477 • April 3-12, 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • Just Passing Through www.rexvillegrangeartshow.com A juried exhibit presented in conjunction with Port Townsend Public Washington Installation view of Warren Dykeman’s exhibit From April 3-12, the Rexville Suzanne Zahr Art + Architecture • Mercer island, WA Library’s Community Read: “Whiskey When We’re Dry” by John Larison. SUZANNE ZAHR MERCER78th Ave SE ISLAND Artists responded to the determination ART + ARCHITECTURE 2 that drives a sister to search for her brother 2441 - 76th Ave SE, Suite 160

84th Ave SE after losing her father; her resilience to

• (206) 354-1567 • Mon-Fri: 76th Ave SE N Mercer Way SE 24th St survive desperate circumstances; the 9 A.M.-5 P.M. • shannon@ LuAnne Daily • acrylic pouring First Friday various meanings of faith, religion, and suzannezahr.com • www. Art Walk The Gallery of Ocean Shores • Ocean Shores, WA

80th Ave SE spirit. Opening Reception and Art Walk: suzannezahr.com/artists 5-8 P.M. SR 305 4 In April, the gallery features multi- Saturday, March 7, 5:30-8 P.M. Art Talk All Together, All Different media artist LuAnne Daily. Her work by Juror Sarah Jane: Sunday, March 8,

SE 27th St 77th Ave SE Featuring Seattle artist, 78th Ave SE includes stained glass, gem trees, and 76th Ave SE 1.P.M. March 5-29. Warren Dykeman, in a pop- 1 acrylic pouring. Reception: Saturday, up exhibit by studio e. Art & SE 28th St April 18, 12-4 P.M., with refreshments.

Wine: Friday, March 6, 5-8 P.M. CrestIsland Way 3 84th Ave SE PORT ORCHARD Mercer Island Map Island Mercer Through March 30. SE 29th St 81st Place SE PICHAstock, Skin: A visual SIDNEY GALLERY & MUSEUM This exhibit is an exploration 202 Sidney Avenue • (360) 876- 3693 • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-4 P.M., Sun: Artist Premium Online Profile of the African identity. Through N for $10 per month includes: May 25. SE 32nd St 1-4 P.M. • info@sidneymuseumandarts. com • www.sidneymuseumandarts.com • Artist Directory Images MOUNT VERNON 1. Clarke & Clarke Art + Artifacts Annual Student Show • Listing in Artist Directory 2. Mercer Island Gallery, Community & Event Center • Multiple Photo Albums PERRY AND CARLSON The Sidney Museum and Arts 3. MIVAL Gallery 504 South 1st Street • (360) 899- 4. Suzanne Zahr Art + Architecture Association invites junior and senior www.artaccess.com 5032 • Mon: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., high schools students and home schooled

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Elements of Great Photography Annette Fourbears (basketry & VISUAL ART This juried art exhibition for Puget beadwork) colorfully express timeless Sound emerging and professional artists themes in Aesop’s Fables: Ancient Wit of all disciplines includes some new and Wisdom. This is a very grown up artists, some of your old favorites— take on the familiar, and some not so paintings, photography, and sculpture familiar, stories we all love. Reception: at Port Townsend’s premier gallery. Art Saturday March 14, 5-8 P.M. as part Walk & Opening Reception: Saturday, of Poulsbo Second Saturday Art Walk. March 7, 5:30-8 P.M. March 5-April 26. Through April 5.

Ars Poetica: Where POULSBO Seattle, Washington: Ballard Poetry Meets Art Jane Friedman • “Work in Progress” mixed media, 84.5 x 60 inches Jury selected poems and interpretive Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA artworks are displayed side by side Poulsbo, Washington Image & Abstraction during the month of April. Opening Alice Dubiel • “Homage to George Tiller, M.D. (1941-2009)” edition 100, installation view at CoCA, Invitational exhibit featuring Alan Reception: Saturday, April 11, during 11 x 8 (paper) + other objects, acrylic on paper and Newberg and Jane Friedman. Alan Poulsbo’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk, board, 10 ml polyester stencil, spray paint can CoCA • Seattle, WA Newberg’s award-winning abstract wood 5-8 P.M. Poetry Reading and Artist sculptures evoke the sensuousness of Talk: Sunday, April 19, 1-3 P.M. It’s PLANET ART nature and the feminine, while Jane free and refreshments served. 2811 NW 93rd Street • (206) 782-7455 • Friedman’s encaustic and oil paintings classes, studio, and by appointment are inspired by the interplay of nature VERKSTED GALLERY • [email protected] • and human nature. Art Walk & Opening 18937 Front Street • (360) 697-4470 • www.planetart.us Open Daily: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • Planet Art is the studio of Alice Dubiel, VISUAL ART Reception: Saturday, April 4, 5:30-8

P.M. Art Talk: Sunday, April 5, 1 P.M. [email protected] • www. visual artist and educator, interested in April 2-26. HISTORIC DOWNTOWN verkstedgallery.com critical theory, natural history, and music, POULSBO’S ARTS DISTRICT This 30-year-old co-op art gallery working over 35 years. Thunder and POULSBO SECOND SATURDAY ART WALK has a lot to offer, with fine hand-crafted Lightning Press is a low toxicity studio, Art Galleries open daily and every 2nd art from local artists. Look for beautiful offers workshops collagraph, digital NE Iverson Street Saturday until 8 P.M. year-round, for Art pottery, stunning photography, mixed chin collé, and polyester litho. For current Walks! Come Gallery hop, shop, wine, media jewelry, watercolors, and more. exhibits and activities, see Planet Art 5 and dine in charming historic downtown Over 35 artists and reasonable prices, the Blog: www.planetart.space. Follow Poulsbo’s Arts District on beautiful local gallery for you, since 1987. on Twitter @odaraia. Coming soon: thunderandlightningpress.info. Liberty Bay. You’ll find create-it- SEATTLE yourself studios, museums, a community Opening March 6, work from Dubiel’s Bjemeland Pl. NE Jenson Way NE Jenson Way 7 4 NE 3rd Avenue • Ballard • 1990’s series, “Crisis Management in Moe Street NE theater, and the SEA Discovery Center. Come mingle with artists, eat great food, NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM Reproduction,” is on display at Gallery and enjoy. For information, visit www. 2655 Northwest Market Street • (206) One, located at 408 N. Pearl St., HistoricDowntownPoulsbo.com and 789-5707 • Tues-Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., in Ellensburg, Washington. It is part of www.FindPoulsbo.com. Thurs: 10 A.M.-8 P.M. Closed Mondays the “Girlfriends of the Guerrilla Girls” • [email protected] • www. and includes work of 9 other Northwest nordicmuseum.org feminist artists. Reception: Friday, Public Way 10 N How the Other Half Lives March 6, 5-8 P.M. Gallery hours are: 2 Mon-Fri: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 11 A.M.-4 Poulsbo, Washington Map Poulsbo, Washington The father of photojournalism, Jacob FRONT STREET NE 9 Riis, took his camera to the tenements of P.M., and Sun: 12-4 P.M. Through March New York to illustrate the plight of the city’s 28. For further information, visit http:// impoverished residents at the turn of the www.gallery-one.org/events/2020-march- 20th century. Through March 15. exhibition or call (509) 925-2670. 6 Gudrun Sjödén: A Colorful Universe Also her art is featured at CoCA, in the The technicolored story of an inspired, “20/20 Vision exhibit. March-April. For 1 knowledgeable, and principled creator of further information, www. cocaseattle.org. fashion for women worldwide is brought to vivid life in “Gudrun Sjödén: A Colorful 3 NE HOSTMARK ST Universe.” This career retrospective of Swedish fashion designer Gudrun Sjödén Lori Barrett • “The Fox and the Cock” (b. 1941) examines her philosophy, process, 8 mixed media and collage Front Street Gallery • Poulsbo, WA and practice through watercolors, clothing, 1. Dancing Brush 6. Gallery at Liberty Bay FRONT STREET GALLERY textiles, and archival materials in a stunning List your art exhibit 2. Front Street Gallery 7. Maritime Museum 18881-A Front Street NE • (360) kaleidoscope of color and patterns. For in Art Access 3. Carrie Goller Gallery 8. Sea Discovery Center more information, visit https://www. 4. Historical Museum 9. Stix Gallery 598-6133 • Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • for a mere $39 per month 5. Jewel Box Theater 10. Verksted Gallery [email protected] • nordicmuseum.org/exhibition/sjoden. www.frontstreetgallerypoulsbo.com March 28-September 6.

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VISUAL ART COLUMBIA CITY GALLERY dream. Landscapes wrapped in the golden This exhibit brings together the 4864 Rainier Avenue S. • (206) 760- light of evening or the silvery reflections work of two Seattle-based artists, Francesca Lohmann and Rob Rhee, 9843 • Weds-Sun: 11 A.M.-7 P.M. • of night feature images of the dream-state who collaborate with gravity, time, [email protected] • www. with flying chairs and boats being rowed and the forces of nature in their columbiacitygallery.com across the sky. Opening: Wednesday, sculptural practices. In form and Members’ Gallery: April 1, 6-8 P.M. April 1-May 2. content, the exhibition proposes a Living Color PATRICIA ROVZAR GALLERY mutualistic model of co-creation, Showing art by gallery artists Dianne 1111 First Avenue • (206) 223- celebrating contingency, entanglement, Bradley, Kerri Eden, Osa Elaiho, and Terri Davis • “9/11 Memorial View,” oil, 12 x 16 inches 0273 • Daily: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and interdependence. Through April 19.

Joan Robbins. Through March 29. Seattle, Washington: First Hill • Georgetown Art Stall Gallery • Seattle, WA • [email protected] • Unsettling Femininity Community Gallery: 2020 Vision www.rovzargallery.com This exhibit examines historical Unbound: Beautiful 2020 Come and see how Art Stall Gallery’s Into the Wild conventions of representation during Artwork created by participants of 13 artists see the world around them and In this body of work, Ivy Jacobsen the late nineteenth and early twentieth the behavioral health art therapy program reflect that in the creation of art. explores the wild parts of her enchantment centuries to probe the politics of looking at Asian Counseling and Referral and fascination with nature as her source and question our habitual ways of Service (ACRS), which offers culturally material. Already accustomed to working viewing images of women. Through appropriate curricula to support recovery. August 23. in mixed media from oil paint to resin, Through March 29. the new work also incorporates collage. • Georgetown • Members Gallery: Opening: Thursday, March 5, 6-8 P.M. Presenting art by gallery members: Through March 28. EQUINOX STUDIOS Joann Bohannon, Christine Lee, Joan 6555 - 5th Avenue South • Mon-Sat: 10 The Eternal Landscape Mamelok, Margaret Tylczak. Artists’ A.M.-6 P.M. • [email protected] Leslie Wu shows new works in oil on Reception: Saturday, April 4, 5-7 P.M. • www.equinoxstudios.org canvas. Gleaned from memory, experience, April 1-May 10. Equinox Studios has breathed new and observation the exhibition explores the Community Gallery: life into almost 100,000 sq. ft. of industrial effects of light and atmosphere within the The Resting Place space, making it the largest arts venue in Mary Molyneaux • “So Long” composition and are a visual autobiography This exhibit examines the intersections Seattle and home to over 125 artists and mixed media painting, 24 x 32 inches informed by the artist’s surroundings in the of grief, migration, and cultural identity Gallery Mack • Seattle, WA artisans in metalworking, woodworking, Pacific Northwest.Reception: Thursday, among Filipino Americans. Artists include: ceramics, painting, photography, design, GALLERY MACK April 2, 6-8 P.M. Through April 30. Ronald Antonio, Ryan Diaz, Derek 2100 Western Avenue • (206) 448-1616 dance, music, video, sculpture, and much Orbiso Dizon (curator), Raychelle Duazo, • Mon-Sun: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Closed • First Hill • more. Come check Equinox Studios out Imee Jeanne Pajimula, and Janelle Tuesday • [email protected] • www. anytime. Equinox Studios participates FRYE ART MUSEUM in Georgetown Art Attack every Quibuyen. Artists’ Reception: Saturday, gallerymack.com 704 Terry Avenue • (206) 622- Second Saturday, 6-9 P.M. April 4, 5-7 P.M. April 1-May 10. Mixed media paintings by Mary 9250 • Tues-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., • Downtown Seattle • Molyneaux occupy the space between Thurs: 11-7 P.M., Closed

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installations that address the TH talented brushes. A welcome and artful A urgent global issue of climate A VENUE VENUE A A VENUE offering of color for you to brighten up your change and the specter of VENUE David Poleski • “Witnessing the Dream State” MADISON personal space. Dash in to the Art Stall oil painting, 28 x 24 inches mass extinction. Through ART ACCESS © 2020 Gallery in Pike Place Market (Seattle’s Gallery Mack • Seattle, WA Reproduction without Art Access’ ARTWALK written permission is strictly prohibited April 19. N FIRST THURSDAY own since 1907). Art Stall Gallery has been Self-taught artist David Poleski paints (Self-Guided Tour) MARION 6-8 P. M. offering beautiful original art for 55 years. subtle scenes of Seattle neighborhoods, http://www.artaccess.com COLUMBIA

24 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March A•RT ACCESS'April 2020 Y PR 25 way. Reception: Thursday, March 5, slate of subjects from nature. Each carving 6-9 P.M. March 4-28. is an environment unto itself, depicting Georgetown Map Transient on Four moments the artist has experienced over Cyn Lyon Moore continues exploring a lifetime of observing life in the wild. the psychic world of wild free and caged Focusing on the personality of his subjects fauna, and the inescapable relationship these sculptures explore the natural world between animal and human. Reception: by engaging viewers with narrative. Thursday, March 5, 6-9 P.M. March 4-28. March 5-21. Ladyhood Urban Guardians Kate Harkins plays with paints, George Rodriguez draws from thinking of women, real or otherwise known, themes of culture and community, she wants to pass the mic to. Reception: especially with a focus on protection, Thursday, April 2, 6-9 P.M. April 1-25. inclusion, and sanctity. Rooted in his study Burrow of traditional temple guardian figures Scott Gibson • “Breath!” Heather Wilcoxon • “Fire #10” This work by Liz Ophoven resembles from around the world, Rodriguez’s based on the poem “I have never sat with the dead” oil on paper mounted on canvas, 42 x 41 inches a deep dive inward and the process of highly individualized ceramic forms by Greg Nelson, mixed media on panel, 34 x 34 inches studio e gallery • Seattle, WA Fogue Studios & Gallery • Seattle, WA trusting the unknown forces that co-create reveal inherent commonalities across STUDIO E GALLERY FOGUE STUDIOS & GALLERY 609 South Brandon Street • (206) 762-3322 our lives. Reception: Thursday, April 2, cultures and now he pays homage to 5519 Airport Way S. • (206) 717-5900 • • Thurs, Fri, Sat: 1-6 P.M. • info@studioe 6-9 P.M. April 1-25. the creatures of our urban environment. Weds-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M., gallery.org • www.studioegallery.net DAVIDSON GALLERIES April 2-25. Open until 9 P.M. for Georgetown’s Second Unsettled Waters 313 Occidental Avenue South • (206) GALLERY 110 Saturday Art Attack • info@foguestudios. In her first Northwest solo exhibit, 624-7684 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-5:30 P.M. 110 Third Avenue South • (206) 624-9336 com • www. foguestudios.com Bay Area artist Heather Wilcoxon • [email protected] • www. • Weds-Sat: 11-6 P.M. or by appointment The Visual and The Verse displays mixed media paintings featuring davidsongalleries.com • [email protected] • www. An exhibit of the first collaboration seemingly recognizable objects made Introductions gallery110.com between Seattle artist Scott Gibson and out of thick lines in abstract color fields. A showcase of recent works from artists Island Paintings II—Landscapes of Tacoma poet Greg Nelson. On view are 15 The interaction of these elements in new to Davidson Galleries celebrates the the Pacific Northwest Coast paired paintings and poems that explore the Wilcoxon’s works makes for an exciting thriving present and future printmaking Artist David Haughton presents life experiences of these lifelong friends. voyage of discovery of the inner workings community. Featuring: Robert Jancovic, landscapes of the British Columbia and Both of their works are deeply emotional of perception. March 5-April 4. Jeffrey Marron, Mazatl, Kelvin Mann, and explore and expand on the meaning Delusions of Grandeur and Caroline Thorington. Reception: Washington Coasts—a body of work in the events of their lives. Opening Featuring art by Brian Sanchez. Thursday, March 5, 6-8 P.M. March 5-28. which began over a decade ago and is

VISUAL ART Seattle, Washington: Pioneer Square Seattle, ART VISUAL Washington: Reception: Saturday, March 14, 6-9 Opening Reception: Saturday, April Mezzotint Invitational being shown for the first time this March P.M. March 7-April 26. 11, 6-9 P.M. April 9-May 23. New works from accomplished artists at Gallery 110. March 5-28. and introductions of new artists working GALLERY 4CULTURE • Pioneer Square • in this versatile, technically complex, 101 Prefontaine Place South • (206) 263- Reception: ARTXCHANGE and captivating medium. 1589 • Mon-Fri: 9-5 P.M., First Thursday, April 2, 6 P.M. April 2-May 2. 512 First Avenue South • (206) 839- Thursdays: 6-8 P.M. • www.4culture.org 0377 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-5:30 P.M., FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY Future Memory First Thursdays until 8 P.M. • info@ 220 Third Ave. S., #100 • (206) 622-2833 Nichole DeMent’s encaustic portraits artxchange.org • www.artxchange.org • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • seattle@ on rice paper reveal the intersection of ArtXchange Gallery exhibits fosterwhite.com • www.fosterwhite.com the creative subconscious and the power contemporary art with a global Drawings in Stone of art. Opening: First Thursday, March perspective and art from around the world Tony Angell presents relief carvings in 5, 6-8 P.M. March 5-26. Housewright Gallery • Georgetown/Seattle, WA reflecting the diversity of influences HOUSEWRIGHT GALLERY shaping the Seattle community. Gallery 6107 - 13th Avenue South • Weds-Sat: artists include vibrant Bubblism 12-6 P.M. • (206) 566-6117 • contact@ paintings by Marcio Diaz, iconic lighted housewrightgallery.com • www. fish sculptures byElaine Hanowell, large- housewrightgallery.com scale installations by June Sekiguchi, Housewright Gallery features art, and contemporary artists from Cuba, sculpture and ceramics spanning mid- Vietnam, Australia, and more. century through today. Curated by Tim CORE GALLERY Pfeiffer, current works on display 117 Prefontaine Place South • (206) by artists: Jim Dine, Pervis Young, 467-4444 • Weds-Sat: 12-6 P.M. • info Mark Tobey, and Philip McCracken. @coregallery.org • www.coregallery.org Housewright Gallery features bronze sculpture made by Branch, Jill Young Generational Resonance Porcelains, Scott McCellen Pottery, Sculptor Sarah Fansler Lavin in and Nancy Fargo Pottery. The gallery collaboration with Stephanie Wood ethos conveys an organic and hand present this participatory installation crafted experience. Come say hi! invites experimentation with creating and listening to sound in a non-conventional

26 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 27 Gallery 4Culture… • [email protected] • www. Nets and Arches jrinehartgallery.com PIONEER SQUARE • SEATTLE Subtle Matter 14 Nate Clark’s exhibit includes hand-tied nets and cedar arches that offer an The “Subtle Matter” series by embrace—an examination of our Tara Flores is a collection of painted et meditations on the healing properties of 1 e relationship with time, technology, and the ethics of a changing world. Opening: First crystals. Through April 4. In Context Cherry Str reet Thursday, April 2, 6-8 P.M. April 2-30. Using photographs of rough urban James St2nd N GLASSHOUSE STUDIO landscapes, Joseph Steininger elevates Yesler Way Av 311 Occidental S. • (206) 682-9939 seemingly decrepit subject matter to Pr e Ext • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 11 A.M. the level fine art by painstakingly hand 4 First A efontaine 7 -4 P.M., First Thursday: 10 A.M.-8 P.M. cutting intricate stencils that lay the

S 5 • [email protected] groundwork for elaborate spray-painted Pioneer Square Map venue 12 • www.glasshouse-studio.com compositions. Each layer of stencil is S. Washington Street Glasshouse Studio is Seattle’s oldest spray-painted rebuilding the image and 2nd A 3rd A 4th A 5th A 6th A glassblowing studio showcasing a imbuing it with new life and context. wide range of glass and custom lights April 11-May 23. venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. 6 with an emphasis on Northwest artists. S. Main Street Providing the unique chance to watch the 34 glassblowing process from start to finish. 10 9 8 11 GRAY SKY GALLERY 320 First Avenue S. • (206) 913-3242 S. Jackson Street Thurs-Sat: 11-4 P.M. and by appointment 13 • [email protected] • www. King Street Occidental A grayskygallery.com Seattle, Washington: Station Gray Sky Gallery is a contemporary S.King Street art gallery located in the historic Pioneer Square Art District of Seattle. It provides 2 a bright, inviting space for people to

venue S. connect with local artists and their work. Karey Kessler • “Deep Time” watercolor on paper, 36 x 42 inches CenturyLink The diversity of styles and mediums has Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Field made it a favorite destination for those in SHIFT GALLERY Art Walk search of that “perfect piece.” New winter 312 South Washington Street • Fri- Self-Guided Tour hours: Thursday-Saturday, 11 A.M.-4 P.M. Sat: 12-5 P.M., First Thursday: First Thursday CenturyLink Field 5-8 P.M., by appointment • info@ 6-8 P.M. Event Center shiftgallery.org • www.shiftgallery.org S. Royal Brougham Way Here, is the Place Karey Kessler’s maps purposefully Safeco Field create complexity and focusing Guy Anderson • “Daedelus Alone” instead on an ambiguous network of oil on paper, 51.5 x 121.5 inches Christian Grevstad Gallery Space • Seattle, WA thoughts about the climate change, Edgar Martinez Drive S. impermanence, and the immensity of CHRISTIAN GREVSTAD time. Artist Talk: Saturday, March 14, GALLERY SPACE 2 P.M. March 5-28. 1. ‘57 Biscayne 8. Glasshouse Studio 312 Occidental Avenue South • (206) 2. ArtXchange Gallery 9. Gray Sky Gallery 938-4360 • Mon-Fri: 9 A.M.-4 P.M., or 3. BONFIRE Gallery 10. Christian Grevstad Gallery Space by appointment • [email protected] 4. Cafe Paloma 11. J. Rinehart Gallery • www.grevstad.com Continuing exhibits include works 5. Core Gallery 12. Shift Gallery by Northwest Master and legendary 20th 6. Foster/White Gallery 13. Stonington Gallery Century painter, Guy Anderson, plus 7. Gallery 4Culture 14. Women Painters of WA glass and metal sculptures by Joseph McDonnell. Other items in the gallery include pieces by Don Charles, an American sculptor known for his ART ACCESS © 2020 sculptures of mixed-media including Reproduction of map without the permission from Art Access is strictly prohibited. wood, metal, and found objects.

J. RINEHART GALLERY 319 - 3rd Avenue South • (206) 467- Leah Gerrard • “Twined #2,” wire sculpture Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA http://www.artaccess.com 4508 • Tues-Sat: 10:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M.

28 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 ArtAccess.com © March • April 2020 29 Shift Gallery… [email protected] • www. It takes over the entire museum, owned jewelry store specializing in

Indirect Course modernglaze.com with large-scale installations, photos, custom design. VISUAL ART Tacoma • Whidbey Washington Island, After Mark Strathy, paintings, and videos by artists such The meandering wire sculptures by WHIDBEY ISLAND An Invitational as Sadie Barnette, Andrea Bowers, Leah Gerrard incorporate negative Featuring a collection of watercolors and Oscar Tuazon. A wide range of space and shadows. Also on view are by the late artist Mark Strathy, a artist-activated programs accompanies drawings by guest artist Sean Pearson. Through April 26. Artist Talk: Saturday, March 14, 2 Seattle native who spent his painting the exhibition. P.M. March 5-28. career in New York City. Artists invited to create artwork inspired by Strathy are Laura Brodax, Bette Burgoyne, Sean Gallagher, David C. Kane, Toby Kilpatrick, Rachel Siporin, Deborah Stevenson, and Lana Sundberg. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 6-9 P.M. April 18- June 6.

Faith Scott Jessup • “Moonlight” • SODO • Hayv Kahraman • “The Audience,” oil on linen, oil on panel, 18 x 18 inches Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Front Room Gallery • Whidbey Island, WA Johnson Co. Community College, Kansas Gift of the Jedel Family Foundation Courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles FRONT ROOM GALLERY Photo: Robert Wedemeyer 5603 Bayview Road (upstairs Bayview Henry Art Gallery • Seattle, WA

Becky Street • “Circus Act 1” Cash Store, corner of Bayview & monoprint, 30 x 22 inches Marshview Roads, 4 miles north Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA JACK STRAW of Langley) • (360) 321-4145 • Days & NEW MEDIA GALLERY Horse Sense hours of shows can vary monthly. (check 4261 Roosevelt Way NE • (206) 634- Artist Becky Street presents an out below) • [email protected] • exploration of childhood memories 0919 • Mon-Fri: 9 A.M.-5 P.M. • jsp@ www.frontroomgallerybayview.com riding horses through printmaking. Erika Roa • “Animal House” jackstraw.org • www.jackstraw.org color photographic print, 20 x 30 inches Natural Individuals Artist Talk: Saturday, April 11, 2 Plasteel Frames & Gallery • Seattle, WA P.M. April 2-25. This show, “Natural Individuals,” by PLASTEEL FRAMES & GALLERY artist Yunmi Her employs integrated VR 3300 1st Avenue South, Suite #499 • (206) and sculpture to investigate the spatial 324-3379 • Mon-Fri: 9 A.M.-5:30 P.M. characteristics of collecting behavior and Sat: 9 A.M.-1 P.M. • plasteelframes@ explore the lost identity of a collected gmail.com • www.plasteelframes.com object. VR image and sound interact Unposed with a viewer’s gaze and show a virtual A collection of work from five world created with internet image data. photographers who document families, Artist Talk: Friday, March 13, 7 P.M. celebrating reality over staged perfection. Through March 27. Shedding light on the complexities of Large String Array parenting, childhood, and relationships With over a thousand piano strings exposes real-life challenges while stretching from floor to ceiling, Robert Jessup • “Whidbey #29” examining love and family in its most oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches inches the “Large String Array” by Cameron Front Room Gallery • Whidbey Island, WA humble and honest forms. Artists include: Fraser transforms the Jack Straw gallery Susan Mask • “Porch Welcome” Kristi Tamcsin, Erika Roe, Andi Faith Scott Jessup paints everyday into a resonant instrument. The walls mixed media, 12 x 9 inches objects and landscapes that are equal parts

VISUAL ART Seattle, Washington: Shoreline • SODO • University District • SODO Shoreline • University Seattle, ART VISUAL Washington: Buescher, Jessica Uhler, and Jennifer Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA echo with the daily activities of the living Jones. Opening Reception: Saturday, invention and description. Robert Jessup Back Then building: music, people, traffic, and radio. March 21, 6-9 P.M. March 21-April 30. presents new abstract paintings that seek Susan Mask’s paintings are based Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, a dynamic ordering of form through an on old photographs that capture • University District • 7 P.M. April 17-June 5. interaction of spontaneity and deliberation. the spirit of the African American TACOMA Reception: Saturday, March 6, 5-7 community that flourished in Oberlin HENRY ART GALLERY P.M. Gallery hours: Weds-Sun, 12-5 P.M. Village (Raleigh, NC), a freedmen’s 15th Avenue NE & NE 41st Street • (206) THE ART STOP March 6-29. bureau community founded after the 543-2280 • Weds, Fri, Sat, & Sun: 11 A.M.- 940 Broadway • (253) 274-1630 • Tues- Breaking Free Civil War. Artist Talk: Saturday, 4 P.M., Thurs: 11 A.M.-9 P.M., Closed: Fri: 9:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M., Sat: 9:30 A.M.- “Breaking Free” of traditional 4:30 P.M. • [email protected] • www. April 11, 2 P.M. April 2-25. Monday & Tuesday • www.henryart.org art rules, Louie Rochon’s work differs In Plain Sight ArtStopTacoma.com wildly in style, scale (some up to 12 feet), • Shoreline • This exhibit features fourteen inter/ The Art Stop features fine, hand- color palette, and composition. These MODERN GLAZE national artists whose work addresses made American craft in a variety of paintings scream “Uninhibited, Fresh & 14800 Westminster Way N. • Fri-Sat: narratives, communities, and histories media and showcases artists from the Truly Unique—Fearless!” An exhilarating 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by appointment typically hidden in our public space. Pacific Northwest and across the U.S. show, not to be missed. Reception: Friday, The gallery shares space with LeRoy April 3, 4-8 P.M. Gallery hours: Fri-Sun: http://www.artaccess.com Jewelers, an independent and family- 11-5 P.M. April 4-26.