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Volume 28 July • August 2019 Number 4

www.ArtAccess.com THE MONTHLY GUIDE TO THE ARTS ART ACCESS CONTENTS Volume 28 Number 4 FEATURE “An artist is an explorer” Poetry ~Henri Matisse …Paul Hunter 4 French artist (1869-1954) Simon Hanselmann at Bellevue Arts Museum …Eddie Everett 8 yəhaw̓ at ARTS at King Street Station

Feature …Susan Noyes Platt 10 Portraits and Self-Portraits by Northwest Artists at Cascadia Art Museum …Chloé Dye Sherpe 12 Write of Way…Mary Lou Sanelli 14

VISUAL ART Anacortes, WA 15 Arlington, WA 15 Bainbridge Island, WA 15 Bellevue, WA 19 Bellingham, WA 19

Listings Bremerton, WA 20 Joe Max Emminger, “Four Moons Night Voyage” Camano Island, WA 20 acrylic on canvas, 44 x 49 inches courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery, photo: Dale Cotton Edison, WA 20 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA Edmonds, WA 22 Everett, WA 22 Front Cover: Friday Harbor, WA 23 Joe Max Emminger, “My Life So Far” (detail) Kingston, WA 23 acrylic on canvas, 72 x 44 inches Kirkland, WA 24 courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery, photo: Dale Cotton Mercer Island, WA 25 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA Mount Vernon, WA 25 “Joe Max Emminger: The Long Way Home” Port Angeles, WA 26 Through September 29. Port Orchard, WA 26 Artist Talk: Sunday, July 28, 3 P.M. Port Townsend, WA 26 Poulsbo, WA 27 “Carol Milne: Knit Wit” , WA Through September 29. • Ballard 28 Artist Talk: Sunday, September 8, 3 P.M. • Columbia City 29 “Departures and Arrivals: • Downtown 29 Artists in Abstraction” • First Hill 31 Featured artists include Mark Bennion, • Georgetown 31 Mary Coss, David Eisenhour, • Pioneer Square 33 Charles Emerson, Anne Hirondelle, • University District 37 Sequim, WA 38 Michael Howard, Jan Hoy, Denzil Snohomish, WA 38 Hurley, Fumiko Kimura, Steve Smith, Stanwood, WA 38 Jono Vaughan, Robert Wagoner, Tacoma, WA 38 Stephen Yates, Ellen Ziegler, and Paul Ziakin. Vashon Island, WA 39 Through September 29. Whidbey Island, WA 39 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Yakima, WA 39 550 Winslow Way • (206) 842-4451 MAPS Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • Free Admission Bainbridge Island, WA 17 www.biartmuseum.org Poulsbo, WA 27 Publisher Downtown Seattle, WA 30 Debbi Lester

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Still Tuning Up Bright As Ever

On the porch new farmer and new wife Once Evaleen feeding chickens what with supper dishes done and dried all around her in the yard tossed Poetry settle into silence both let be the diamond out of her wedding ring to hear the twilit pond’s full chorus rise so quit wearing the eyeless thing and usher in the summer prodigal even to wash dishes weed the garden with every living creature home at last stuff their Thanksgiving turkey every thing that wintered in the muck which had to bother Charlie or trailed the southern flight now back it wasn’t the money it was awake to sing however loud and long what-all the shiny thing meant its overture to interrupted life as near eternal as they’d likely get now Charlie lays a finger to her wrist so for several years killing a hen and in the dark her blind hand catches his for dinner once or twice a week like the final bird of daylight strong but sure it has no business out this late out behind the barn he’d cut about to settle for a quiet place to rest the craw from the gizzard dig the gravel there spread it out that both agree and in that subtle touch without another gesture trundle off on a piece of white paper he kept to bed beyond the night still tuning up folded around his reading specs its purple bruise just fading in the west down the front of his overalls still breathless in the dark not cooling yet till one night that sparkler bright as ever

turned up there it was inside a life

since the evening she’d lost it where Who the Hairdo is For once the hens were in for the night In bed with her with curlers he’d looked hard with a flashlight the night before the big day for hours on his hands and knees eighth grade graduation for their oldest girl who also knew if it was there he’d a found it but slept in the pink foamy things said you know how quick a hen can be once a thing catches her eye after fidgeting and sighing stirring half the night Paul Hunter Charlie asked her to undo These and twenty-some others grew out of a long poem about shy country peo- all she was holding together ple finding love, a piece called “Luminaries” that first appeared in his third for later for the effect that farming book called “Come the Harvest” (Silverfish Review Press, 2008). she wanted to be perfect said who is the hairdo for anyway Evaleen said okay went to the bathroom and left the door wide so he

could watch while she unwound each lock of hair shook and combed it out for the shine bounce and flair for him not some old PTA

4 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 5 artist Lillian Pitt with her sculpture artist Peter Millett with his sculpture (L-R) artist Dawn Cerny, artist Larry Pentz stands artist Terry Furchgott artist Richard Royal artist Jane Rosen Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA Greg Kucera Gallery • Seattle, WA studio e owner Dawna Holloway, with his sculpture with her painting with his glass sculpture with her glass sculpture and artist Gabriel Stromberg Gallery IMA Seattle, WA Harris/Harvey Gallery • Seattle, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Traver Gallery • Seattle, WA studio e • Seattle, WA

artist Shawn Huckins with his painting artist Dan Friday with his glass sculptures artist John Buck with his art artist Joyce Gehl with her encaustic painting artist Terry Siebert with her Majolica pottery Foster/White Gallery • Seattle, WA San Juan Island Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA Greg Kucera Gallery • Seattle, WA Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA

artist Tyson Grumm with his painting artist David Eisenhour with his artworks artist Elyse Pignolet with her ceramic art artist Tracy Lang with her artwork artist Andre Petterson with his artwork Patricia Rovzar Gallery • Seattle, WA Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Koplin Del Rio Gallery • Seattle, WA Blackbird Bakery • Bainbridge Island, WA Foster/White Gallery • Seattle, WA

artist Becky Street with her art artist Marit Berg with her artworks artist Steve Schneider with his photograph artist Amanda Sweet with her painting artist Lauren Greathouse with her photographs Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Jeffrey Moose Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Gallery 110 • Seattle, WA

6 artist Becky FletcherArtAccess.com with her painting artist © NanaJuly Kuo holds • August her artwork artist2019 Laura VanHorne with her art artist Patty RogersArtAccess.com with her artwork artist Kate © Roberts July with • her August artwork 2019artist Meggan Joy with her artwork7 Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA Roby King Gallery Gallery 4Culture • Seattle, WA Core Gallery • Seattle, WA Bainbridge Island, WA Bainbridge Island, WA 8 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 9 We are invited to go forward into the Not far away another type of weaving exhibit in order to create community. hovers over us. A twelve foot high “Big Foot” hovers over us as it “Lifts the Sky.” HollyAnna “CougarTracks” de Coteau Littlebull (Yakama/Nez Perce/ Cayuse/Cree) upcycled 15,190 pieces of plastic to weave this giant. She explained that it represents the wasted past in its orange/red hued back and the future in its green/ blue front. Be sure to look in the stairwell for a mixed media homage to weaving by Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos/Confederated Timothy White Eagle (White Mountain Apache) • “Songs For The Standing Still People” mixed media installation piece Tribes of Coos/Lower Umpqua/Siuslaw) ARTS at King Street Station • Seattle, WA “Eagle Machine dancing<<<<

a community audience to “lift the sky” Nico Inzerella (Mexican American, Indigenous) • “Itzá” through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. together. In her telling: “The Creator wheat paste on birch panel-gold leaf, copper, acrylic, and First Thursdays, 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. latex, oil, photo credit: Mel Carter has left the sky too low. We are going to ARTS at King Street Station • Seattle, WA For information, visit www.seattle.gov/ have to do something about it, and how arts/experience/galleries/arts-at-king- can we do that when we do not have a Spend the time to explore the various street-station-gallery. Films and other common language?…We can all learn subtle works hanging on walls, but don’t exhibit all over town check https:// one word, that is all we need. That word miss the entire corner devoted to stunning yehawshow.com. Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena and Jewish) • “Awapuhi” (detail) archival pigment print from scanned tintype is yəhaw̓—that means to proceed, to go cedar hats, baskets, skirts, and capes. ARTS at King Street Station • Seattle, WA forward, to do it.” 10 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 11 artist. His hair is wildly sticking up in figure in the composition. She holds an every direction, brow furrowed, and umbrella but doesn’t use it. Two people every piece of stubble on his chin is are huddled under an awning to protect distinct. Jensen drew him quickly and themselves from the rain and warm up on emotionally, though it is difficult to a damp evening. McCosh looks up at the determine which emotion won over in sky, maybe to try to determine if the rain the end: anger or admiration. will continue. McCosh has painted herself as a confident and professional New Perhaps one of the most nationally Yorker who is unaccompanied on her way celebrated artists in the exhibition is home from work. This surely gives the Imogene Cunningham (1883-1976). She viewer insight into how McCosh viewed is represented in almost every major herself, and it is an inspiring point of view. museum in the United States and is considered an important pioneer in the This exhibition is packed full of portraits

Cascadia Art Museum field of photography. She was a member and self-portraits in a variety of styles and of Group f/64, a California-based group of media. The museum also offers several photographers interested in meticulously programs to accompany the exhibition, Aleah Chapin • “Listening in The Dark” composed and focused images Cunningham including Coffee with the Curator which (self portrait), oil on panel Cascadia Art Museum • Emonds, Washingotn worked with or knew every major allows visitors to hear a lecture from photographer working during this time, David Martin. Cascadia Art Museum including Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, also offers music in the Museum and Portraits and Self-Portraits by Northwest Artists; 1910-2018 Edward Weston, Edward S. Curtis, and participates in the Blue Star Museum Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, Washington Dorothea Lange. This exhibition includes Program. Another wonderful opportunity two of her photographs and they are to view the exhibition is during the portraits of Curt Ducasse and John Butler. Edmonds Art Walk on the third Thursday In January 2019, Cascadia Art Museum Interestingly, another portrait of John of every month from 5-8 P.M. when the opened “Portraits and Self-Portraits by Butler is included in the exhibition by museum is free. You can always count on Northwest Artists,” an exhibition that artist Roi Partridge (1888-1984), who this museum to include artworks by well- includes paintings, prints, drawings, was Cunningham’s husband from 1915 known Northwest artists in addition to and photographs by both modern and to 1934. This situation allows the visitor several you may not recognize. “Portraits contemporary Northwest artists. Curated the unique opportunity to compare how and Self-Portraits by Northwest Artists” by David Martin, the exhibition seeks to Partridge and Cunningham differ in their does just that, and hopefully the viewer demonstrate the variety of approaches representation of the sitter. enjoys seeing both old favorites and to portraiture by Northwest artists over discovering new ones. the past one hundred years. While many exhibitions at Cascadia Art Museum Chloé Dye Sherpe primarily contain artworks created in the Chloé Dye Sherpe is a curator and art first half of the twentieth century, Martin professional based in Washington State.

decided to include artwork by three “Portraits and Self-Portraits by Northwest contemporary artists in this exhibition: Artists; 1910-2018” is on view Wednesday Gary Faigin, William Elston, and Aleah Dorothy Dolph Jensen (1895-1977) through Sunday from 11 A.M. to 6 P. M . Chapin in order to facilitate a visual “Caricature of Mark Tobey” circa, charcoal, private collection through September 29 at the Cascadia dialogue between the past and the present. Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, WA Art Museum, located at 1990 Sunset Viewers are sure to be delighted to see Curtis (1868-1952), Thomas T. Wilson Avenue South in Edmonds, Washington. well-known artists represented in the (1931-2015), Andrew Hofmeister (1913- For more information, visit www. exhibition. Artists such as Edward S. 2007), and Walter Isaacs (1886-1964) all cascadiaartmmuseum.org have artworks in the exhibition. There is even a charcoal drawing of Mark Tobey by Dorothy Dolph Jensen (1895-1977) titled “Caricature of Mark Tobey” included in Anne Kutka McCosh (1902-1994) “Rainy Evening, Bus Corner, Self-Portrait.” the show. Jensen was a student of Tobey circa 1931, oil on canvas, private collection at Cornish in the 1920s. Text by Jensen is Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, WA posted next to her drawing in which she A delightful inclusion in this exhibition is recounts some of her interactions with Anne Kutka McCosh (1902-1994). The Tobey. According to Jensen, Tobey was painting, “Rainy Evening, Bus Corner, hard on his female students and would Self-Portrait,” is an oil on canvas created often storm out of class after declaring, in 1931. At the time, McCosh was living in “There’s no such thing as perspective!” New York. The painting depicts McCosh In one instance, after he left class Jensen in the center of the picture plane dressed quickly drew his face. Tobey returned in a blue work suit with a cream shawl quickly, looked at her drawing and over her head to protect her from the rain. declared: “I like it.” Her drawing is an William E. Elston • “Self Portrait, NYC” The scene is dark and muted, but McCosh Lance Wood Hart (1891-1941) • “In my Atelier” oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches intimate one of the famed Northwest 1919 (self portrait) Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, WA stands out as the largest and brightest Cascadia Art Museum • Edmonds, WA

12 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 13 first solo art museum exhibit. Emminger, WASHINGTON The Italians at the Aquarium a self-taught artist, takes a spontaneous Anacortes • Arlington • Bainbridge Island, Washington VISUAL ART ANACORTES and straightforward approach to painting. I’m reminded that I was not born in Seattle by just about every conversation I have His work is colorful, bold, and whimsical with someone who was. Almost immediately I feel “East Coast.” More to the point, SCOTT MILO GALLERY – yet darker narratives also emerge. East Coast Italian, different in tone and temperament in ways I didn’t fully understand 420 Commercial Avenue • (360) 293- Series featured include those that portray when I was younger. 6938 • Mon-Sat: 10:30 A.M.-4:30 P.M. Seattle and street musicians, families and and by appointment • gallery@scottmilo. cemeteries, and his delightful still lifes. After years of trying to clarify this feeling, I still find it difficult to explain why Italians com • www.scottmilo.com Through September 29. Write of Way Write communicate the way we do, especially to people unaccustomed to passionate debate Scott Milo Gallery features pastels Departures and Arrivals: as a way to, oh, I suppose the best word to use is, bond. from dozens of members of the Signature Artists in Abstraction Member group of the Northwest Pastel This group exhibit featuring fifteen The first time I had dinner at my in-law’s table, I was afraid to open my mouth. I had Society. Presenting new work in landscapes, artists from the Puget Sound region no idea how to speak so softly about things I read in the newspaper. Used to waves seascapes, still life, and florals to choose communicates abstraction through of personal opinion rippling through even deeper waves of expressive reaction, I from. Come see the new jewelry and glass transforming the familiar or sharing was shocked to sit with people, intoxicated people, who seemed to be content in the showcased for the summer. Reception: personal ways of seeing. Inspirations range shoals of current events. Friday, July 5, 6-9 P.M. July 5-30. from cultural histories to contemporary life. Scott Milo Gallery presents new, Featured artists include Mark Bennion, I long for conversations with more heat and hand waving. The dinner table in my colorful hand-pulled monoprints by Marie Mary Coss, David Eisenhour, Charles childhood home was a competitive place. Everyone talked at once, interrupted each Powell of Ilwaco, WA. Also showing are Emerson, Anne Hirondelle, Michael other, said things someone took offense to on purpose. photo encaustics by Kathy Hastings, Howard, Jan Hoy, Denzil Hurley, acrylics by Brooke Borcherding, oils by Fumiko Kimura, Steve Smith, Jono What fun! Lynn Zimmerman, oils by Jane Wallis, Vaughan, Robert Wagoner, Stephen and celebration paddles by Les Eelkema. Yates, Ellen Ziegler, and Paul Ziakin. The other day I walked to the aquarium because I just finished reading “The Soul of Reception: Friday, August 2, 6-9 P.M. Through September 29. An Octopus.” I tell you this because it wasn’t the octopus I wound up studying. It August 2- September 3. was a group of Italians. ARLINGTON

And yes, I heard them, before I saw them. If that is what you are thinking. SOOTER STUDIOS 3723 - 188th St. NE • (206) 354-5025 • But if there are intentional coincidences, and most days I trust there are, I believe this Friday-Sunday, August 16-18, 10 A.M.-6 one occurred to remind me of a huge part of my personality I neglect now that I (try P.M. • [email protected] • www. to) live by a more-Seattle code of ethics. Or what I jokingly call (but only to East psgnwa.org Coast friends) BIDAN: Bring it down a notch. This is the biggest exhibition and auction of this iconic northwest group If the desire to be in the company of your biological tribe is one of the most of artist professionals in years. From overwhelming of human connections, I was reminded of where my qualities originate. inception in 1928 to today, celebrated Watching the group talk and touch and embrace each other freely, I had never felt Pacific Northwest artists have made the Puget Sound Group (PSG) their more distant from the city in which I reside. I felt an urge to run up to them and say, Carol Milne • “Wiggle Room” “I am Italian, too!” professional art community. Don’t miss kiln cast lead crystal out on this rare opportunity. Friday- and Addi click knitting needles, 14 x 10 x 10 inches Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA Sunday, August 16-18, 10 A.M.-6 P.M. Thankfully I stopped myself. Knit Wit

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Carol Milne expands upon ancient I followed them into the undersea dome. I wanted to hug them. I wanted to hold on kiln-cast glass techniques used during to this family with such a strong intensity that, when I couldn’t, I walked past them the Egyptian and Roman periods. Her feeling deprived, devastated, deflated. sculptures defy the meticulous processes required to complete the work. Milne’s So I called my friend Vicki who was born in Seattle. She had no idea why I was ‘knitted’ sculptures go beyond realism calling, and I didn’t bother to say, but as soon as I heard her voice, I felt grounded. and re-creation – they also weave personal memories and stories. Also included are And it strikes me that talking, talking—however fast, drawn-out, cool, or Michael Howard • Untitled (#01-18) cast glass wall panels in garden motifs. impassioned—is still the best way to deal with complicated emotions when basic acrylic on canvas, 48 x 96 inches Through September 29. longings fall flat. courtesy of the artist, photo: Michael Stadler Bainbridge Island Museum of Art • Bainbridge Island, WA Selections: Permanent Art Collection BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Dive into a slice of BIMA’s rotating Mary Lou Sanelli MUSEUM OF ART Permanent Art Collection featuring 550 Winslow Way • (206) 842-4451 • a diverse selection of smaller works Mary Lou Sanelli has published seven collections of poetry, three works of non-fiction, Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • Bistro: 10 upstairs and a furniture art installation and her forthcoming novel, “The Star Struck Dance Studio (of Yucca Springs),” is to A.M.-3 P.M. • Free Admission on the main floor. be published in September, 2019 (Chatwin Books). For more information about her • [email protected] • www. An Abecedarian of Artist’s Books This popular exhibition was part of and her work, visit www.marylousanelli.com. biartmuseum.org The Long Way Home Open Sesame! The Magic of Artist’s Books BIMA presents Joe Max Emminger’s Revealed in the spring. Enjoy an A-Z

14 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 15 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art… Jay Trinidad. Scenes from the Island, provides an intimate and unconventional

immersion in the world of artist’s books Ericksen Ave. NE look at Bainbridge with portraits of people BAINBRIDGE ISLAND Bainbridge Map Island Ferncliff Ave. while experiencing a wide range of artistic Three Tree Lane NE

in their guarded and unguarded moments. SR 305 talent and topics. Through September 29. Wyatt Way For more details on this exhibit, please 2 The BPA visit www.jaytrinidad.com. July-August. Theatre Bainbridge Island KiDiMu New Brooklyn

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Madison Ave. N. 1 i 1. Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Ferry to Seattle 2. BARN (Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network) Danna Tartaglia • “Dogwood Blossoms” oil on canvas, 20 x 30 x 3 inches 3. Bainbridge Island Museum of Art i Bainbridge Island Studio Tour • Bainbridge Island, WA 4. Blackbird Bakery WA 5. The Island Gallery Ferry BAINBRIDGE ISLAND 6. Roby King Gallery STUDIO TOUR i Information N Various locations • (206) 842-0504 • August 9-11, Fri-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: Millard Davidson • “A Royal Ring Promise” oil, 12 x 18 inches � 10 A.M.-5 P.M. • [email protected] The Gallery at Grace • Bainbridge Island, WA • www.bistudiotour.com Join the sunny art scene on Bainbridge THE GALLERY AT GRACE Island, with a self-guided tour of 6 8595 NE Day Road • (206) 842-9997 • Mon- beautiful island studios, and hand-crafted Fri: 9 A.M.-4 P.M., Sun: 8 A.M.-12 P.M., artwork from regional artists. With and by appointment • communications@ live music and juried artists, you will gracehere.org • www.gracehere.org find jewelry, paintings, pottery, garden New oil paintings by Bainbridge art, sculpture, photography, glass art, Island artist Millard “Mick” Davidson. encaustics, mixed media, and more. Bring Davidson talks about the work: “Since a friend, shop locally. You’re sure to find we seem to be overexposed to discord some gems! August 9-11, Fri-Sat: 10 and the mundane, I aim for visual poetry, A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 10 A.M.-5 P.M. choosing to seek out what is harmonious in my vision. Each time as I view my subject Kathryn Lesh • “Sand Castles” while setting up my easel, I wonder, monotype, 23 x 24.5 inches Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Patrick Japangardi Williams ‘What if this impression were to pass “Mina Mina Jukurrpa, Ngalyipi unnoticed?’” Through August 25. Printmakers Show (Mina Mina Dreaming, Ngalyipi)” New work from Jan Branham, Dawn acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Jeffrey Moose Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Endean, Pam Galvani, Meg Hartwell, Renee Jameson, Maryann Kirkby, JEFFREY MOOSE GALLERY Kathryn Lesh, Lynda Swenson, Irene 181 Winslow Way E, Ste. F • (360) 598-4479 Yesley. Opening Reception: Friday, • Tues-Fri: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M., Sat: 11 A.M.- August 2, 6-8 P.M. with Awkward Grace 6 P.M. • [email protected] Band. Through September 27. • jeffreymoosegallery.com Jay Trinidad • “Artist and Muse,” photograph � Blackbird Bakery • Bainbridge Island, WA BLACKBIRD BAKERY 210 Winslow Way East • (206) 780- 1322 • Mon-Fri: 6 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 6:30 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun 7 A.M.-6 P.M. • [email protected] • www.blackbirdbakery.com “Every island to a child is a treasure Thomas Fossier • “Bottle” island.” P.D. James’ words come to life wood fired stoneware, 8.5 x 3 inches Island Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA in a new exhibition of photographs by ISLAND GALLERY 400 Winslow Way East, Suite 120 • (206) 780-9500 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. • [email protected] • Artist Premium Online Profile www.theislandgallery.net for $10 per month includes: Summer Cornucopia: • Artist Directory Images Creative Concepts from Gallery Artists • Listing in Artist Directory Multi-media show featuring new work in wood, fiber, ceramic, and wall art. • Multiple Photo Albums www.artaccess.com Opening Reception: Friday, July 5, 6-8 P.M. with The Tracie Marsh Band. 16 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 17 conjunction with Bainbridge Island Land Trust, these painters capture favorites VISUAL ART sites on Bainbridge Island as well as the lands that have been preserved by Bainbridge Island Land Trust. First Friday Reception: July 5, 6-8 P.M. July 3-28. William F. Reese (1938-2010) Retrospective Internationally renowned artist, William F. Reese, leaves behind an astonishing body of work that includes

oils, pastels, watercolors, sculptures, Bellevue • Bellingham, Washington etchings. Reese lived in Eastern Washington and was an active painter in the Northwest including Alaska. He is Fourth Corner Frames & Gallery • Bellingham, WA known for figure, animal, and landscape FOURTH CORNER painting. First Friday Opening: August FRAMES & GALLERY 2, 6-8 P.M. August 2-September 1. 311 West Holly Street • (360) 734-1340 • BELLEVUE Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • framr4u@ aol.com • www.fourthcornerframes.com BELLEVUE ARTS MUSEUM “You can take it with you and portable 510 Bellevue Way NE • (425) 519-0770 Jeffrey Moose Gallery… AMY ROBERTS SCULPTURE and affordable” are the watch words for • Weds-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., Free 278 Winslow Way East, Suite 200 • (206) this array of original art at FCF. Nineteen Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendemu First Friday: 11 A.M.-8 P.M. • $12 370-4675 • Weds-Sun: 12:30-5 P.M. • talented artists are represented and these return for this summer show. Traditional Adults, $10 Seniors/Students/Military, [email protected] • www.amy- wonderful little works of art are just ground paintings by these Central Desert $30 Family, $5 Teen Tix, Children Free roberts.com perfect for tucking into a suitcase. There is artists, Warlukurlangu (Home of the Fire under 6 • www.bellevuearts.org Amy Roberts Sculpture is an artist- something for everyone and it is a perfect Dreaming) made history in Paris, 1989, part Bad Gateway run space offering viewers a combined way to support your local artist! July 5-27. of the international survey, “Magiciennes Simon Hanselmann’s dysfunctional gallery and studio experience. The work Fins and Feathers De La Terre.” Several artists from this and beloved characters come to life in “Bad blends native Northwest materials with Two alternate modes of transportation center are represented in the Seattle Art Gateway.” Visitors find three-dimensional glass and other light-responsive materials. are well represented at FCF by Lorna Museum. Reception: Friday, August 2, scenes of Megg, Mogg, Owl, and company The emphasis in the space is on process Libert, Laurie Potter, Sheila Steinborn, 6-8 P.M. July-August. abjectly protruding into the Museum’s and inquiry. Visitors can see the interface and Lynn Young. Each of these women The gallery also provides custom galleries alongside every lovingly hand- between sculptural fabrication and finished brings their own style and flair to these picture framing, conservation, restoration, watercolored page from the forthcoming works, with a view into the artists ideas, critters on the move! From oils and and curatorial services. It features “Bad Gateway” book (Fantagraphics her process, and conceptual practice. acrylics, to pastels and one-of-a-kind impressionist landscapes by Neil Books, 2019). Through August 11. carved gourds, these creatures capture you! Andersson, Australian Aboriginal art BELLINGHAM August 2-31. from various regions, and Classic Rock photos by Steve Schneider, ceramic ALLIED ARTS OF WHATCOM COUNTY WHATCOM MUSEUM sculpture and prints by Native American 1418 Cornwall Avenue • (360) 676- Old City Hall Building, 121 Prospect Lillian Pitt, blown glass by Dianne 8548 • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Street, Thurs-Sun: 12-5 P.M. • Lightcatcher Rasmussen, jazz paintings and prints Sat: 12-5 P.M. • [email protected] • Building, 250 Flora Street, Weds-Sun: 12-5 by Cory Bennett Anderson, concrete www.alliedarts.org P.M. • (360) 778-8930 • Admission: $10 fish heads by Bob Lucas, and work by Piece by Piece general, $8 student/senior/military, $5 several Kitsap County artists. For July, “Piece by Piece” showcases children under 5 • info@whatcommuseum. artwork from local artists with a variety org • www.whatcommuseum.org of media: Rae Ellen Lee, Ginny Baker, Lightcatcher: Lois Dahl, and Carol Hansen. July 5-27. Modern Quilts: Set the Table Designs of the New Century Allied Arts of Whatcom County Experience the power of modern quilts William F. Reese • “Fall in Denali” welcomes back WACK, Whatcom’s firsthand in this exhibit of 63 innovative oil, 12 x 12 inches Roby King Gallery • Bainbridge Island, WA Artists of Clay and Kiln. WACK is a non- and inspiring quilts that represent the profit organization dedicated to ceramic best modern of the past decade. See the ROBY KING GALLERY artists from Whatcom County with a Artist Premium Online Profile work of modern quilters past and present 176 Winslow Way East • (206) 842- passion for creative expression with clay. and learn the story of modern quilting for $10 per month includes: 2063 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. • • Artist Directory Images The theme for this year’s show is “Set the from its earliest roots and influences • Listing in Artist Directory [email protected] • Table.” August 2-31. through today. Through August 25. • Multiple Photo Albums www.robykinggallery.com Old City Hall: Showing artwork by three landscape List your art exhibit Firsts in Flight: A Hidden History www.artaccess.com artists: Pamela Wachtler, Ninalee Irani, in Art Access for a Take a “time-line tour” outlining and Robin Weiss. These artists paint iconic mere $39 per month the significant contributions made by sites and views on Bainbridge Island. In

18 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 19 Whatcom Museum… she paints room sized and a new series Sandvig’s idiosyncratic ceramic cats, of geometric abstracts. This summer take cows and other farm animals. The women and African Americans, time to visit her unique studio/gallery. renowned Mother Pluckers play for particularly African American women, to the opening reception: Saturday, July our country’s history of aviation and space 6, 4 P.M. Please join the celebration! flight. Other “hidden figures” include Artist Talk: Saturday, July 20, 4 P.M. Bellingham’s women who worked in the factories and shipyards during World War II. Through August 4.

BREMERTON COLLECTIVE VISIONS GALLERY 331 Pacific Avenue • (360) 377- 8327 • Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. • [email protected] • www. Linda Okazaki • “Spheres of Influence, Unusual Dream” collectivevisions.com watercolor, 62 x 42 inches Bring Beauty Home... Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA Main Gallery: Paintings by Linda Okazaki are Windows Of Imagination Susan Cohen Thompson • “By the Light of the Moon” intuitive, drawing on Northwest archetypes July features art by Junay Johanson. oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches Thompson Art Studio • Camano Island, WA and revealing the magic of everyday life. CVG Underground Gallery: Artist Talk: Saturday, July 6, 3:30 P.M., Also on view in July are artworks by THOMPSON ART STUDIO Elizabeth Sandvig • “Grey Cat” 12 x 4 inches Reception follows: 5-7 P.M. July 5-28. Dong Lim Chung. Bremerton First 2188 Lowell Point Road • (425) 750- i.e. • Edison, WA Friday Art Walk: July 5, until 8 P.M. 4994 • by appointment • susan@sct-art. 2019 Seattle Art Fair: August 1-4 com • www.thompsonartstudio.com July 2-27. Collective Visions Gallery is i.e. is pleased to partake in the Seattle Susan Cohen Thompson’s paintings, closed July 4. Art Fair this year. Looking forward to ceramics, and drawings are gentle Bring Beauty Home... seeing you there. dreamlike portals exploring the inner Main Gallery: Lay of the Land luminosity of nature where everything Lesley Kabalac Memorial Show In Edison for the month of August, is connected, sentient, and numinous. CVG Underground Gallery: the gallery host a landscape invitational The Pacific Northwest landscape is West Sound Printmakers featuring Gregg Laananen, Jef Gunn, symbolically woven into Thompson’s 2nd Annual Print Show Sarah Norsworthy, Patricia Hagen, uniquely stylized works. Arrange a time to Bremerton First Friday Art Walk: Louise Kikuchi, and more. Opening August, until 8 P.M. July 30-August 31. visit Thompson’s wonderful studio, which Reception: Saturday, August 10, 4 P.M. abuts the entrance to Camano Island State CAMANO ISLAND Park. Internalize your experience of art

and nature. Kris Ekstrand • “Fledged” oil on canvas EDISON Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA

Kris Ekstrand presents her delicately abstracted landscapes and a continuation VISUAL ART Bremerton • Camano Island Edison, Washington of her vibrant and energetic portraits of bird nests. Marceil DeLacy features her hand-carved wooden sculptures, inspired by the natural world, peppered with surprising new subject matter. Artist Talk: Saturday, August 10, 3:30 P.M. Pieter VanZanden • “You are What you Make” Reception follows: 5-7 P.M. August 3-25. 6 x 12 x 6 inches Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA

SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY Dotti Burton • “Geometric #3” 5742 Gilkey Avenue • (360) 766- acrylic and ink, 28 x 24 inches Dotti Burton Studio & Gallery • Camano Island, WA 6230 • Daily: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • [email protected] • www. DOTTI BURTON STUDIO & GALLERY Judy Talley • “Skagit Barn” woodblock print, 10 x 10 inches smithandvalleegallery.com 29 Vista Del Mar Street • (206) 714-3647• i.e. • Edison, WA Sculptor Pieter VanZanden continues Daily by appointment • dottiburton18@ i.e. his exploration of the sea, the natural msn.com • www. dottiburton.com 5800 Cains Court • (360) 488-3458 • Fri- life within it, maritime vessels, and the Dotti Burton’s interest in abstract art Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. and by appointment interplay between modern civilization and allows her to simultaneously engage with • [email protected] • www. the environment. being creative and idiosyncratic. She ieedison.com believes that abstract art accommodates July welcomes Judy Talley’s List your art exhibit emotion, feeling, and content of a woodblock prints of Skagit barns and fields in Art Access for a conceptual nature. Her new work has conveyed with a silhouetted, and simple Marceil DeLacy • “Cat’s Cradle” mere $39 per month Port Orford Cedar, aluminum wire, 11 x 9.25 x 5.5 inches been inspired by large outdoor sculpture quilt-like essence along with Elizabeth Smith & Vallee Gallery • Edison, WA

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This jewelry show features traditional VISUAL ART 2019 Seattle Art Fair displays elements of both pictorialism and design and techniques. Through Smith & Vallee is participating in modernism. This is the first solo exhibition of his work. July 11-October 13. August 31. the Seattle Art Fair, with a finely curated survey of its gallery artists. The Seattle EVERETT Art Fair is a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art and a showcase for the vibrant arts Washington Washington community of the Pacific Northwest. Join Smith & Vallee Gallery there, August 1-4,

CenturyLink Field Event Center. Raven Skyriver • “Entangle,” (detail) Friday Harbor • Kingston, Washington glass, photo credit: Peter Kuhlein, 18 x 32 inches EDMONDS San Juan Islands Museum of Art • Friday Harbor, WA EDMONDS SNO-ISLE LIBRARY SAN JUAN ISLANDS Edmonds Library, 650 Main Street • (425) MUSEUM OF ART 771-0228 • Mon-Thurs: 9 A.M.-8 P.M., 540 Spring Street • (360) 370-5050 • Fri: 9 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Fri-Mon: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • admin@ Sun: 1-5 P.M. • [email protected] • sjima.org • www.sjima.org www.edmondsartscommission.org Deep Dive Catherine Eaton Skinner • “Illuminations IV” Crista Matteson • “Garden in My Hair” (detail), encaustic, mixed media, 60 x 40 x 2 inches

Edmonds • Everett, Presenting paintings by Don Wesley. kiln cast glass • photo credit: Daniel Fox The finest Pacific Northwest artists WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA Schack Art Center • Everett, WA Through July 31. reflect on the marine life, ecology, and Illuminations Annual Puget Sound Bird Fest SCHACK ART CENTER issues in our Salish Sea. While delightfully The raven and the other creatures in Featuring a photography exhibit. 2921 Hoyt Avenue • (425) 259-5050 exhibiting the beautiful and amazing her most recent encaustic painting are August 1-September 18. • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: underwater life, it also sends messages about mythology. Using animals as the 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. about threats to the approximately 130 raven, the horse and the dog she explores FRANCES ANDERSON CENTER • [email protected] • www.schack.org variously endangered species in our their many forms and shapes offering an 700 Main Street • (425) 771-0230 • FAC & • Free Most Mondays except Labor Day. ocean. Andrew Shewman’s “Waterline” insight into these images she writes, EAF Gallery: Mon-Fri: 8:30 A.M.-8 P.M., Art of the Garden installation morphs from whale to human “Raven Speaks Circle, Illumination of Sat: 9 A.M.-2 P.M. • eac@edmondswa. This biannual summer favorite shows to vessel form. Through September 16. Hope, Stillness in Shadows, a Whisper of VISUAL ART gov • www.edmondsartscommission.org 135+ regional artists with eclectic mix of Join the art of discovery at SJIMA Blue.” Reception: Friday, August 9, 4-7 The Intersection glass, pottery, and sculpture to enhance any where there is always something new. P.M. August 9-30. Between Art & Technology landscape, as well as colorful photography Presenting this youth digital art exhibit. KINGSTON and paintings to brighten the home year- Through August. round. Through August 31. CRESCENDA GALLERY Wax on Washington Daily free admission. Closed July 4th. 9321 NE HWY 104 • (360) 297-4223 • Featuring an encaustic group show. Fresh Paint: First Sundays: 1-5 P.M. (May-October) Through August 12. Festival of Artists at Work or by chance or appointment Edmonds Studio Tour Preview Saturday & Sunday, August 17 & 18 Anyway August 13-September 20. 10 A.M.-5 P.M. This collective show that defies visual Jennifer Williams • “Narrows” CASCADIA ART MUSEUM Port of Everett South Marina mixed media on panel, 24 x 48 x 2 inches conventions with a variety of unique art 190 Sunset Ave S. Ste. E • (425) 336- Purchase art fresh off the easel during WaterWorks Gallery • Friday Harbor, WA that can be viewed and displayed multiple 4809 • Weds-Sun: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., 3rd the Schack’s summer art festival. Enjoy WATERWORKS GALLERY ways. Enjoy an afternoon of seeing and Thursdays Art Walk Edmonds: 11 A.M.-8 glassblowing and live music while 315 Argyle Avenue, PO Box 28 • listening in new ways with live music P.M. • operations@cascadiaartmuseum. watching artists along the scenic Everett (360) 378-3060 • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.- and amazing art, snacks, and beverages. org • www.cascadiaartmuseum.org waterfront. $2 parking or ride Everett 5:30 P.M., Sun: 11 A.M.-4 P.M. • Opening: Sunday, July 7, 1-5 P.M. July Paintings from the Palouse: Transit Route #6 from Everett Station. [email protected] • www. 7-August 25. Free shuttle from Kingston The Art of Andrew L. Hofmeister waterworksgallery.com ferry dock, call (360) 297-4223. Showing a selection of Andrew L. Nature Interpreted Hofmeister’s paintings spanning five Jennifer Newman’s paintings are decades. Heavily influenced by his composed of layers of recycled maps, Montana roots, Hofmeister worked mostly paper bags, and text to creating message from imagination, drawing inspiration of hope and healing in her paintings. from a variety of sources including classical Jeremy Newman & Allison Ciancibelli’s Artist Premium Online Profile for $10 per month includes: music, traveling, and the unique landscape List your art exhibit glass pieces combine glassblowing with of the Palouse. July 11-October 13. woodworking and metalworking creating • Artist Directory Images Quiet Hour: in Art Access simple, earthy forms of abstract narrative. • Listing in Artist Directory • Multiple Photo Albums Photography of Yukio Morinaga for a mere $39 per month Through July 16. A distinguished member of the www.artaccess.com Seattle Camera Club, Yukio Morinaga http://www.artaccess.com http://www.artaccess.com

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their tapestry inspired art glass, iconic in creating beauty. *Extended Summer MERCER ISLAND VISUAL ART combings, and whimsical floral pieces. Art Walk Openings. Meet the Artist: July 2-August 4. CLARKE & CLARKE Friday, July 12, 5-8 P.M.; Saturday, Nature’s Palette ART + ARTIFACTS July 13, 1-5 P.M.; and Friday, August Kimberly Adams invites you into a 7605 SE 27th Street • (206) 232-4456 • 2, 5-8 P.M. July 12-August 30. finger painted world of texturous color Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: 11 A.M.- MOUNT VERNON that ignites appreciation for nature’s 5 P.M., *First Friday Art Walk: 5-8 P.M. playful palette of color. July 2-August 4. • [email protected] • www. PERRY AND CARLSON ethnoarts.com 504 South 1st Street • (360) 899-5032 • Celebrating 28 years in the arts, Mon, Weds-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M.,

Clarke & Clark Art + Artifaces features Sun:12-4 P.M., Closed Tuesdays • Mercer Island • Mount Vernon, Washington contemporary paintings by Northwest [email protected] • www. and California artists, vintage artworks, perryandcarlson.com objects of adornment, textiles, abstract Where Water Meets Land

Kirkland, Washington Julia Szten • “Comfort,” raku, 14 x 16 inches The Kingston Arts Festival • Friday-Sunday, July 26-28 photography, pottery, and carefully In July, presenting new work by Village Green Community Center • Kingston, WA curated ethnographic treasures from poet and photographer Jane Alynn. Of VILLAGE GREEN ancient cultures. Timeless, unique, her art, Alynn says, “I try for images COMMUNITY CENTER and beautiful one-of-a-kind objects. that suggest the glimmer of dream, 5941 NE Timberland Drive • (360) 271- “Always something beautiful and memory, metaphor, the unexpected.” 8236 • Fri-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: fairly priced.”—Artguide Northwest Also showing work by Seattle ceramic 10 A.M.-4 P.M. • [email protected] • Arist include Chris Baumgartner, artist Anne Traver, “from the motion www.kingstonfestivalwa.org Sharon Carr, Karen Dedrickson, and malleability of soft clay to the The Kingston Arts Festival Anne Waters • “Koi Play” Robert Fornell, Scott Gibson, Noble fixed stillness of fired clay/interruption, acrylic, 24 x 24 inches VISUAL ART July 26-28, Fri-Sat: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA Golden, Barbara Bowman Jay, Torsten activation, destabilization of the vessel.” Sun: 10 A.M.-4 P.M. Kaack, Agnes Lee, and Suzanne Werner. In August, showing paintings by A Walk in the Woods This year marks The Kingston Arts Crazy In Love With Color II Portland artist MaryAnn Puls. Puls says, Anne Waters presents a vision of Festival celebrating 60 years of fine art With a passion for color—all colors, “From the smallest particles of matter, escaping into quiet solitude. She explores shows. Mediums in this juried show and the use of a palette knife to get big countless variations of formations can the vibrant contrast of colorful landscapes include 2D, photography, and 3D. About textural chunks of vivid color onto a occur. I’m intrigued by the possibilities.” 100 pieces of art from around the country and soothing calm of lily ponds. August canvas, Sharon Carr embraces the chaos are displayed in the new community 6-September 1 center. Award winners are to be shown in the grand hallway for the month of August. Fine student art is also on display. Opening: Thursday, July 25, 7 P.M. with food, wine, live music, silent auction, and artist awards. KIRKLAND

Beverly Ash Gilbert • “Moon Rises at Sunset” acrylic, 24 x 24 inches Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA It’s A Colorful Life Celebrating vibrant connections between people across all cultures, Liao Dynasty Mask Beverly Ash Gilbert’s paintings glow with lush color and textural depth. August

Joel and Lori Soderberg • “Ember” 6-September 1. combed glass, 26 x 17 inches Parklane Gallery • Kirkland, WA PARKLANE GALLERY 130 Park Lane • (425) 827-1462 • Tues- Sat: hours vary, Second Friday Art Walk Sharon Carr • “Lopez Spring” Tribal Silver Cuff 5-8 P.M. • gallery@parklanegallery. List your art exhibit 7605 SE 27th Street, Mercer Island, WA • (206) 232-4456 com • www.parklanegallery.org in Art Access A Garden of Color [email protected] • www.ethnoarts.com for a mere $39 per month Joel & Lori Soderberg weave the Tues-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M. and by appointment • Monthly First Friday Art Walk: 5-8 P.M. colors of a vibrant summer garden into

24 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 25 nautical theme. Sail in to meet the artists. advising artists, many of whom are their craft and display their artwork in PORT ANGELES VISUAL ART Reception: Sunday, July 14. represented at Bainbridge Arts & Crafts. many different mediums. An annual event, PORT ANGELES FINE ART CENTER August’s featured show is an open Reception: Saturday, August 3, 5:30 this free self-guided driving tour is a ‘must 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd • (360) 457-3532 mixed media show. This is an opportunity P.M. Art Talk: Sunday, August 4, 1 P.M. see’ for regional artists and art lovers. • Thurs-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. • pafac@ open to all artists working in any type of August 1-September 1. The 6th Annual Artist Showcase juried olypen.com • www.pafac.org mixed media and is shaping up to be an Port Townsend Studio Tour art exhibition for Puget Sound emerging The Power of Small Things exciting and eclectic exhibit including August 17-18 and professional artists of all disciplines This national juried exhibit celebrates metal, glass, ceramics, garden art, and fiber Northwind presents the 21st Annual opens. Work from the twenty-four 2-D and the combined impact of small things— art. Artists’ Reception: Sunday, August 11. Port Townsend Studio Tour a unique event eight 3-D selected artists are exhibited in

from discovering profound beauty in of the summer festival season. Professional the newly remodeled Jeanette Best Gallery PORT TOWNSEND small moments to embracing small changes artists open their studios to demonstrate throughout the year. Poulsbo, Washington that lead to a better world. Reception: Compare & Contrast Thursday, August 17, 5-7 P.M. August Featured artists for the July exhibit 17-September 29. POULSBO entitled “Compare & Contrast” are Mike PORT ORCHARD NE Iverson Street Biskup, Kathy Constantine, Evan

Miller, and Charlie Van Gilder. Opening 5 Reception: Saturday, July 6, 5:30 P.M. Van Gogh’s Yellow Featured artists for the August exhibit entitled “Van Gogh’s Yellow” Bjemeland Pl. NE Jenson Way NE Jenson Way 7 4 NE 3rd Avenue Susan Grant, Meg Kaczyk, Moe Street NE include Wanda Mawhinney, and David Willis. Opening Reception: Saturday, August

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Rebecca Welti • “Late Strobila” Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA POULSBO Poulsbo, Washington Map NORTHWIND ARTS CENTER Public Way 10 N 701 Water Street • (360) 379-1086 • 2

Weds-Mon: 11:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • info@ FRONT STREET NE 9 DOWNTOWN PORT ORCHARD northwindarts.org • www.northwindarts.org Downtown Port Orchard Waterfront • Sea Rites Friday, July 12, 3-9 P.M. Saturday, July Rebecca Welti and Rebecca Wild focus 13, 9 A.M.-4 P.M. on relationships between art and nature. Artisan and Vintage Fair With a microscope, Welti examines the world 6

Port Angeles • Port Orchard • Port Townsend, Washington Angeles • Port Orchard Townsend, Port Friday, July 12, 3-9 P.M. of plankton and carves their forms in wood. 1 Saturday, July 13, 9 A.M.-4 P.M. Presented in conjunction with the 30th Annual Chris Craft Rendezvous on the 3 waterfront in Port Orchard. Artists, arts, NE HOSTMARK ST craft, vintage vendors, art demonstrations, HISTORIC DOWNTOWN games, food, fun, festivities, and fabulous 8 POULSBO’S ARTS DISTRICT vintage Chris Craft vessels at the marina. SECOND SATURDAY ART WALK 1. Dancing Brush 6. Gallery at Liberty Bay Art Galleries open daily and every 2nd 2. Front Street Gallery 7. Maritime Museum Saturday until 8 P.M. year-round, for Art

VISUAL ART 3. Carrie Goller Gallery 8. Sea Discovery Center 4. Historical Museum 9. Stix Gallery Walks! Come Gallery hop, shop, wine, 5. Jewel Box Theater 10. Verksted Gallery and dine in charming historic downtown Poulsbo’s Arts District on beautiful

Rebecca Wild • “What a World This Is?” Northwind Arts Center • Port Townsend, WA

Dan Spence • “Cyclops” With prose and poetry, Wild melds glass, metal, typewriter parts, sizes vary Sidney Gallery & Museum • Port Orchard, WA letter forms and paint to create meditative oceanic reflections. Reception: Saturday, SIDNEY GALLERY & MUSEUM July 6, 5:30 P.M. Art Talk: Sunday, July 202 Sidney Avenue • (360) 876-3693 7, 1 P.M. July 4-28. • Mon-Sat: 11 A.M.-5:30 P.M., Sun: 1-5 Expressions Northwest P.M. • [email protected] Juror, David Sessions curator at • www.sidneymuseumandarts.com Bainbridge Arts & Crafts, selects pieces July’s featured show is a multi-media for the exhibit from artists’ from exhibit showcasing some of the gallery’s Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, favorite artists working in oil, watercolor, British Columbia, and Alaska. Sessions, pencil, photography, and more around a a recognized exhibit juror, works closely

26 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 27 Historic Downtown Poulsbo Art District… Woven wall pieces and freestanding artists in “Girlfriends of the Guerilla been the landmark destination for 54 years. Reception: VISUAL ART Liberty Bay. You’ll find create-it- forms are represented. Girls.” Receptions: Thursdays, August Northwest Impressions Saturday August 10, 5-8 PM as part of yourself studios, museums, a community 1 & September 5, 6-9 P.M. August Andrea Rieger says of her art, “My Poulsbo Second Saturday Art Walk. theater, and the SEA Discovery Center. 1-September 21. Wild plants are like paintings are about capturing a sense of Through September 8. Come mingle with artists, eat great food, wild women: out-of-control, unchaste, place and sharing the feeling of discovery Ballard and enjoy. For information, visit www. ill-bred. and joy that I experience when I see VERKSTED GALLERY HistoricDowntownPoulsbo.com and something that inspires me to paint.” 18937 Front Street • (360) 697-4470 • Columbia City • Through July 26. www.FindPoulsbo.com. • Open Daily: 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M. • COLUMBIA CITY GALLERY [email protected] • www. CARRIE GOLLER GALLERY 4864 Rainier Avenue S. • (206) 760-

verkstedgallery.com Seattle, Washington: Columbia City • Downtown 18801 Front Street • (360) 779- 9843 • Weds-Sun: 11 A.M.-7 P.M. • This 30-year-old co-op art gallery 2388 • Weds-Mon: 11A.M.-5:30 www.columbiacitygallery.com has a lot to offer, with fine hand-crafted P.M. • CarrieGolleryGallery@gmail. Columbia City Gallery celebrates 20 art from local artists. Look for beautiful com • [email protected] • years in Columbia City! pottery, stunning photography, mixed www.CarrieGollerGallery.com Members Gallery: media jewelry, watercolors, and more. Showing a wide range of regional Inked Over 35 artists and reasonable prices, the contemporary fine art, in all sizes, Member printmakers Tina Albro, local gallery for you, since 1987. including paintings, mobiles, bronze/wood Joan Mamelok, Annie Lewis, and Seattle, Washington: sculpture, and jewelry. From realism to SEATTLE Jueun Shin explore many styles of impressionism, including sea/landscape, • Ballard • printmaking including collage, paper still life, figurative, nature, wildlife, sculptures, lithograph, and monotypes. plein air, and abstract. Home of world Through August 11. renowned modernist, Max Hayslette. Jen Sonneborn • “Looking Back at You” Community Gallery: watercolor, 10 x 8 inches Co Draw Seattle Art Stall Gallery • Seattle, WA Appreciate collaborative art; drawings Dog Days! passed between contributing artists Showing Northwest pet portrait artist, to produce a final work with out a Jen Sonneborn. Take a walk through the VISUAL ART single author. For more info, visit www. dog days of August here at the iconic Pike codrawseattle.com. Through August 11. Place Market’s original art gallery! You’ll Members’ Gallery: be glad you did—woof! July 26-August 30. Ques Sera Sera Featuring members Dianne Bradley, PATRICIA ROVZAR GALLERY Lori Duckstein, Osa Elaiho, and Joan 1111 First Avenue • (206) 223- Robbins. Reception: Saturday, August 0273 • Daily: 11 A.M.-5 P.M. Alice Dubiel 17, 5-7 P.M. August 14-September 22. • [email protected] • “Crisis Management in Reproduction: Sustainable Post Germination” Community Gallery: www.rovzargallery.com 1993, acrylic on paper, 44 x 30 inches Seattle Metal Guild Unyielding Planet Art • Ballard/Seattle, WA Paula Gill • “Beach Walk April Morning” A curated exhibit of Seattle Metal Marianne Kolb showcases evocative ceramic tiles, 8 x 5 inches Front Street Gallery • Poulsbo, WA PLANET ART Guild artist; jewelry to metal sculptures. oil on canvas paintings that portray 2811 NW 93rd Street • (206) 782-7455 • FRONT STREET GALLERY Reception: Saturday, August 17, 5-7 strong, bold women, challenging age 18881-A Front Street NE • (360) classes, studio, and by appointment P.M. August 14-September 22. old beliefs that only serve to subterfuge. • [email protected] • Opening: Thursday, July 11, 6-8 P.M. 598-6133 • Daily: 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • • Downtown Seattle • [email protected] • www.planetart.us Through August 15. www.frontstreetgallerypoulsbo.com Planet Art is the studio of Alice Dubiel, Eye Candy visual artist and educator, interested in Beachwalks Also showing, art by Isabelle du Toit Paula Gill explores Northwest coastal critical theory, natural history, and which puts the spotlight on diversity. beaches through her medium of handmade music, working over 35 years. Thunder Reflecting on her South African roots, ceramic tiles: juxtaposing grid-like and Lightning Press, a low toxicity the works in this exhibit address serious textures and patterns—representing the studio, offers workshops by Barbara concerns. Opening: Thursday, July 11, flotsam and jetsam of consumer and Bruch and Dubiel in collagraph and 6-8 P.M. Through August 15. industrial waste—with peaceful coastal other printmaking techniques. For Seattle Art Fair: August 1-4 images. Reception: Saturday, July 13, 5-8 information, see Planet Art Blog: Patricia Rovzar Gallery is pleased to P.M. with Poulsbo Second Saturday Art https://www.planetart.space. Follow on once again participate in the 5th edition Walk. Through August 4. Twitter @odaraia. Andrea Rieger • “Cannon Beach” of the Seattle Art Fair. The gallery Girlfriends of Guerilla Girls oil, 8 x 10 inches Out of the Woods Art Stall Gallery • Seattle, WA programming focuses on works that Sue Skelly displays a contemporary Work from Dubiel’s 1990s series, reflect the human condition featuring ART STALL GALLERY use of Northwest Cedar combined with “Crisis Management in Reproduction,” artists Marianne Kolb, Mark Beck, 97 Pike Street • (206) 623-7538 • Mon-Sat: other natural objects found from many appears at Center on Contemporary Lynda Lowe, Fred Lisaius, Siddharth 10 A.M.-6 P.M. • artstallgallery@yahoo. years of traveling in her own woods. Art, 114 Third Avenue South, Seattle, Parasnis, and Terry Turrell. with 8 other Pacific Northwest feminist com • www.artstallgallery.com Summer Salon Located in the Pike Place Market: Presenting Patricia Rovzar Gallery’s http://www.artaccess.com Seattle’s own since 1907, Art Stall Gallery has stable of artists. August 16-September 3.

28 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 ArtAccess.com © July • August 2019 29 event. Members represent the United • First Hill • kirkalbert.com • www.kirkalbert.com • VISUAL ART Seattle, Washington:VISUAL ART Seattle, First Hill • Georgetown States and Hong Kong. Artwork displayed FRYE ART MUSEUM Instagram: kirkalbertvf is for sale. For information, visit www. 704 Terry Avenue • (206) 622-9250 Kirk Albert Vintage Furnishings is nwws.org July 11-October 6. • Tues-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., Thurs: one of the nation’s premier sources of 11-7 P.M., Closed Monday • Admission found objects, vintage lighting, art, and always free • [email protected] • accessories. Albert’s revolving collection www.fryemuseum.org of “perfect imperfections” has been widely After Preparing the Altar, recognized and his showroom in Seattle’s the Ghosts Feast Feverishly industrial Georgetown neighborhood is Jane Wong’s poems and essays now a destination for many of the country’s unearth silenced histories, immigrant leading retail buyers who are searching narratives, and intergenerational trauma. for distinctive, one-of-a-kind objects. For her first museum solo exhibition, EQUINOX STUDIOS Wong draws inspiration from her 6555 - 5th Avenue South • Tues-Sat: 10

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ART COLLECTIVE and self-illumination. Performances on contemporary art with a global perspective and art from around the world 6007 - 12th Avenue S. (upstairs, across from Saturday & Sunday, July 27 & 28, at 8 CORE GALLERY reflecting the diversity of influences All City Coffee) • (206) 291-6100 • Second P.M. July 5-28. 117 Prefontaine Place South • (206) shaping the Seattle community. Gallery Saturdays: 6-9 P.M. • [email protected] Timothy White Eagle, ritualist, 467-4444 • Weds-Sat: 12-6 P.M. • info artists include vibrant Bubblism The Hamilton Building is a working and Adrain Chesser, photographer, @coregallery.org • www.coregallery.org paintings by Marcio Diaz, iconic lighted space opening its doors for Georgetown continue their 12-year collaboration Tracy Simpson’s “both and” exhibit fish sculptures by Elaine Hanowell, Art Attack. Artist studios and curated with an installation exploring ritual, features her monotypes that reflect feminist explorations in carved wood by exhibitions on view. Ongoing: paintings image making, and tea preparation. circumstances we avoid but desperately Performance Saturday, August 3, 7-10 Humaira Abid, and contemporary artists by Melissa Jeter Albrecht and David need to see as well as the lovely bits we P.M. July 29-August 17. from Cuba, Vietnam, Australia, and more. Johansson, watercolors, and glass by want to see but often miss. Reception: Beth Fishman July 13: . “Ladies,” mixed Thursday, July 11, 6-9 P.M. July 3-27. media works by Emilie Shepherd. Ryan Finnerty’s “Outside Works” is August 10: “Experiments in Watercolor” a show of small works on paper including by Susan Hernday. The Hamilton landscapes and interiors. Reception: Building Art Collective is located upstairs, Thursday, July 11, 6-9 P.M. July 3-27. across from All City Coffee. deCONSTRUCTed KASSIE KEITH Stories bind us; perception divides us. 5527 Airport Way South • Weds-Sat: 11 Mixed media explorations in narrative A.M.- 6 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. • kassie@ by Žanetka K. Gawronski. Reception: kassiekeith.com • www.kassiekeith.com Jeremy Deller • “Lest We Forget” Thursday, August 1, 6-9 P.M. July Art and one-of-a-kind, uncommon photo credit: Lesley Young 31-August 31. vintage, and antique pieces. studio e • Georgetown / Seattle, WA In “Topos,” Aaliyah Gupta explores STUDIO E GALLERY cartography and topography, creating an 134 S. Brandon Street • (206) 762-3322 interrogation of ruin and fragmentation. • Thurs, Fri, Sat: 1-6 P.M. • info@studioe Shoko Zama • “B&B: Connecting the Dots is One Definition” Reception: Thursday, August 1, 6-9 P.M. ink, watercolor, paper collage gallery.org • www. studioegallery.net BONFIRE Gallery • Seattle, WA Uses of History This exhibit offers an idiosyncratic BONFIRE GALLERY sampling of ways in which selected 603 South Main Street • (206) 790- artists, draw from the past as a way 1073 • Thurs-Sun: 12-5 P.M. • bill@ to contemplate the present. Including thisisbonfire.com • www.thisibonfire.com Jeremy Deller, Denzil Hurley, Jacob Lawrence, and Kathy Slade, the artists take up historical narratives, imagery, and cultural expressions in wide-ranging mediums from documentary-style film Karen Mason-Blair • black and white photograph and indigenous regalia to abstract Fogue Studios & Gallery • Georgetown/Seattle, WA sculpture. Through August 3. FOGUE STUDIOS & GALLERY The Eyes Have It 5519 Airport Way S. • (206) 717-5900 A group show of works by an international artists: Merrilee Challis, Lockwood Dennis • “Sears Tower” • Mon-Sat: 11 A.M.-6 P.M., Sun: 12-5 woodcut, 15 x 12 inches P.M. • [email protected] • www. Karoline Collins, Coulter Fussel, Davidson Galleries • Seattle, WA HiDutch, Jim Houser, Jordin Isip, Rich foguestudios.com DAVIDSON GALLERIES Jacobs, Mel Kadell, Jon Langford, Nostalgia is for Losers: 313 Occidental Avenue South • Tues-Sat: 11 A Grunge Retrospective ravis Millard, Nathaniel Russell, Shoko Zama • “Prayer and playER” Butoh dance A.M.-5:30 P.M. • info@davidsongalleries. Iconic Seattle radio DJ, Marco Collins Yusuke, Michael Sieben, and Tim Kerr. dress calligraphy by Yoshiko Higashimura photo credit: Kaoru Share com • www.davidsongalleries.com shares his rare 90s memorabilia collection. Opening Reception: Saturday, August BONFIRE Gallery • Seattle, WA Lockwood Dennis: The Woodcuts Rock photographer Karen Mason-Blair’s 1, 6-9 P.M. August 10-31. “MAGIC BOX: Defining Words Over a 45-year career, artist Lockwood rarely seen and highly collectible photos in a Digital Age” is a collaborative “Woody” Dennis created a large portfolio of Seattle’s music icons before they got of over 500 woodcuts, drawing inspiration famous! Exclusive Nirvana, Soundgarden, installation of paintings, poetry, and List your art exhibit from diverse traditions such as German Pearl Jam, and Alice in Chains photos. Japanese Butoh dance by painter Shoko Expressionist prints, vintage cast-metal (Prints available for purchase). Artist in Art Access for a Zama with ekphrastic free verse poetry Reception: Saturday, August 10, 6-9 mere $39 per month by poet David Thornbrugh. The toys, Japanese woodblock prints, WPA era P.M. 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venue 13 Conversations S. Washington Street The elegance of Will Robinson’s combinations of shape and texture. 2nd A 3rd A 4th A 5th A 6th A granite and basalt sculptures speaks to Opening: Second Thursday, July 11, the artist’s mastery of his tools. Stones 6-8 P.M. July 8-August 8. venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. venue S. hover and float within space, balancing 7 GLASSHOUSE STUDIO S. Main Street effortlessly. The zen-like transcendence of 311 Occidental S. • (206) 682-9939 each piece evinces the potential between 34 • Mon-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: 11 A.M. 12 grounding and flight. His surfaces create -4 P.M., First Thursday: 10 A.M.-8 P.M. 11 10 contrast and tension, polished, and 6 • [email protected] reflective giving way to raw and organic. • www.glasshouse-studio.com S. Jackson Street Opening: Thursday, July 11, 6-8 P.M. 14 Glasshouse Studio is Seattle’s oldest

Seattle, Washington: Pioneer Square Map King Street July 6-20. glassblowing studio showcasing a Occidental A Station 117.5 Ideas for Tattoos wide range of glass and custom lights S.King Street Casey McGlynn’s art-making is driven with an emphasis on Northwest artists. by his use of painting to escape and explain Providing the unique chance to watch the his challenges with his identity. He has glassblowing process from start to finish. 2 created 117 and a half one foot square venue S. paintings, depicting symbols from his CenturyLink visual language which swirl into a dizzying Field crescendo, replete with his playful, Art Walk irreverent tone. Opening: Thursday, Self-Guided Tour August 1, 6-8 P.M. August 1-24. First Thursday CenturyLink Field 6-8 P.M. GALLERY 110 Event Center 110 Third Avenue South • (206) 624-9336 S. Royal Brougham Way • Thurs-Sat: 12-5 P.M. or by appointment • [email protected] • www. Safeco Field gallery110.com Emerging Artist Scholarship Edgar Martinez Drive S. Competition Exhibition Showcasing the work of seven finalists—Josiah Bell, Merkuria Laura Van Horne • “Colorblind” Czerwińska, Eric Chan, JoEllen Wang, mixed media and resin on wood panel, 48 x 36 inches 1. ‘57 Biscayne 9. Gallery 4Culture Gray Sky Gallery • Seattle, WA 2. ArtXchange Gallery 10. Glasshouse Studio Kristen Thacker, Ian Shearer, Nathan Campbell—all emerging artists from GRAY SKY GALLERY 3. BONFIRE Gallery 11. Gray Sky Gallery King County. July 4-27. 320 First Avenue S. • (206) 913-3242 4. Cafe Paloma 12. Christian Grevstad Gallery Space Changing Waters Thurs-Sat: 12-5 P.M. and by appointment 5. Core Gallery 13. Shift Gallery In this exhibit of both 2D and 3D • [email protected] • www. 6. Davidson Galleries 14. Stonington Gallery work, Aaron Brady and Greg Pierce grayskygallery.com 7. Foster/White Gallery 15. Women Painters of WA explore the transformation of our water Attention art enthusiasts! Make the 8. Gallery 110 sources by oil extraction processes and newly opened Gray Sky Gallery your chemicals. July 4-27. next stop when looking for contemporary Surface to Edge art by local Seattle artists. With paintings ART ACCESS © 2019 Matthew Harkleroad’s art has in acrylic, oil, encaustic, resin, and mixed Reproduction of map without the permission from Art Access is strictly prohibited. rich, textural surfaces forming shapes and media, this is the perfect place to connect edges that pulsate with vitality and invite with artists in this bright, inviting space. contemplation. August 1-31. Stop by Thursday through Saturday 12-5 The End of the Mysterious Stranger P.M. or by appointment. http://www.artaccess.com Paintings of fear, sadness, and existential

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Leah Gerrard • “Pleiades,” (detail Guy Anderson • “Umbilical Two” steel wire, glass Jan Koutsky • “Phosphorescence” oil on paper, 96 x 72 inches Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA colored pencil on paper, 28 x 21 inches Christian Grevstad Gallery Space • Seattle, WA Women Painters of Washington Gallery • Seattle, WA Element CHRISTIAN GREVSTAD Leah Gerrard WOMEN PAINTERS GALLERY SPACE ’s show “Element” is an exploration of materials and density Hib Sabin • “Nocturnal Song” OF WASHINGTON GALLERY 312 Occidental Avenue South • (206) Limited Edition Bronze, 15.5 x 6 x 5 inches Columbia Tower 701 5th Ave, Suite 310 through steel wire, found objects, and Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA 938-4360 • Mon-Fri: 9 A.M.-4 P.M., or basketry techniques. Opening: Second • (209) 624-0543 • Mon-Fri: 11 A.M.-4 by appointment • [email protected] STONINGTON GALLERY Thursday, July 11, 5-8 P.M. Artist Talk: P.M. • www.womenpainters.com • www.grevstad.com 125 South Jackson Street • (206) 405- Saturday, July 13, 1 P.M. July 4-28. The Language of Blue 4040 • Mon-Fri: 10 A.M.-6 P.M., Sat: Continuing exhibits include works The color of atmosphere—colors 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. • by Northwest Master and legendary 20th all. This show explores the use of this [email protected] • www. Century painter, Guy Anderson, plus color and what it can evoke, from icy stoningtongallery.com glass and metal sculptures by Joseph blues, greenish-blues, midnight blues, The Still Point of the Turning World McDonnell. More recent additions bright blues…to soft, misty blues. Ever- Santa Fe-based sculptor Hib Sabin to the gallery include pieces by Don present in the northwest landscape, we returns with a haunting new body of Charles, an American sculptor known understand how mercurial blue can be. wood and bronze sculpture and works on for his sculptures of mixed-media 21 artists get into the “blues” and come paper exploring the cycle of life/death including wood, metal, and found objects. out with exciting new work. and transformation. Opens: Thursday, July 11, 6-8 P.M. Book-signing and talk • University District • with Sabin: Wednesday, July 10, 6:30 Robin Arnitz • “Lethargy” ink and acrylic on paper, 38 x 50 inches P.M. Free to attend. July 3-28. Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Maternology Through expressive gestures, Robin Arnitz explores personal internal joys and struggles as and the limitations society puts on women. To view her art, visit robinarnitz.com. Opening: Thursday, August 1, 5-8 P.M. August 1-31.

Stephanie Hargrave • “Insecty” encaustic, 11 x 8.5 inches Carrie Yamaoka • “In The Studio” Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA archival inkjet print, courtesy of the artist Henry Art Gallery • University District / Seattle, WA SHIFT GALLERY Trevor Hunt • “Baby Raven Mask” red cedar, cedar bark, acrylic, copper 312 South Washington Street • Fri-Sat: Stonington Gallery • Seattle, WA HENRY ART GALLERY 12-5 P.M., First Thursday: 5-8 P.M., by 15th Avenue NE & NE 41st Street • (206) In August, presenting exhibits appointment • [email protected] 543-2280 • Weds, Fri, Sat, & Sun: 11 A.M.- by Jason Gobin (Tulalip Nation) and • www.shiftgallery.org 4 P.M., Thurs: 11 A.M.-9 P.M., Closed: Trevor Hunt (Kwagiulth Nation), two Semantic Drift Monday & Tuesday • www.henryart.org mid-career indigenous artists creating Stephanie Hargrave’s art is a study Summer exhibitions at the Henry contemporary versions of traditional of entomology and etymology. To view include: a major retrospective of Chilean- objects such as masks, paddles, and panels her artworks, www.stephaniehargrave. Nequette August • “Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe-19.3 Million” born artist, poet, and activist Cecilia collage on canvas, 36 x 36 inches in a variety of media. Opens: Thursday, com. Opening: Second Thursday, July Shift Gallery • Seattle, WA Vicuña; the first solo museum exhibition August 1, 6-8 P.M. August 1-31. 11, 5-8 P.M. Artist Talk: Saturday, July Sea Change: At the Intersection of of mid-career artist Carrie Yamaoka; as 13, 1 P.M. July 4-28. Great Cities and Sea Level Rise AnneMarie Nequette shows abstract http://www.artaccess.com

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4261 Roosevelt Way NE • (206) 634- you might encounter in any big metropolitan VASHON ISLAND 0919 • Mon-Fri: 9 A.M.-5 P.M. • jsp@ city, where flyers and posters are altered jackstraw.org • www.jackstraw.org with graffiti and tears. August 3- The Final Image September 29. Vashon Island • Whidbey Yakima, Washington Martin Jarmick presents his virtual Annie Lewis doubles down on her reality artwork combining spherical image love of pattern elements. Bold, graphic, and and interactive spaces. Viewers move debris layered with texture, her process-driven Michael Dickter • “Become the Wind” and open passages leading to narrative oil and graphite, 42 x 48 inches works on paper are enlivening. August 3- Museo • Langley, WA vignettes that recount a character’s September 29. memory loss and recollection. The exhibit MUSEO presents the completed virtual reality STANWOOD 215 1st Street, Langley, WA • (360) 221- work and externalizes the discrete text, 7737 • Weds-Sat & Mon: 11 A.M.-5 image, and sound materials it is made of. P.M., Sun: 12-5 P.M. • museo@whidbey. Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, August com • museo.cc 9, 7 P.M. August 9-September 20. July at Museo Gallery celebrates summer by welcoming Michael Dickter, SEQUIM Kris Ekstrand, and Brian O’Neill. Dickter ARTJAM! @ ROCK HOLLOW FARM VASHON CENTER FOR THE ARTS presents his bright and engaging bird 505 E. Silberhorn • (360) 477-8973 19600 Vashon Highway SW • (206) 259- paintings, Ekstrand brings her powerful • July 19, 20, & 21, Fri-Sun: 10 A.M.- 3007 • Tues-Fri: 10 A.M.-3 P.M., Sat: 12-4 charcoal drawings and paintings of nests, 5 P.M. • [email protected] • www. P.M. • [email protected] • while O’Neill shows his elegant ceramic rockhollowarts.com www.vashoncenerforthearts.org vessels and sculpture. Pete Jordan returns ARTJAM! Summer Arts Fest to the gallery in August with a show of GUILDED GALLERY See the work from over 100 Vashon July 19, 20, & 21 8700 - 271st Street NW • (360) 629-2787 masterful landscapes of Whidbey Island. Friday-Sunday, 10 A.M.-5 P.M. Island artists. Solo and group shows • Tues-Sat: 10 A.M.-5 P.M., Sun: include photography, fiber arts, oils, YAKIMA An fun gathering of creativity, 11 A.M.-3 P.M., Closed Mondays • community art activities, and play! wood carvings, 100lb cement headstones, ARTEBELLA ART GALLERY Sequim • Snohomish • Stanwood • Tacoma, Washington Sequim • Snohomish Stanwood Tacoma, [email protected] • http:// drawings, multi-media, assemblage art, Eleven artists working in metal, wood, stanwoodcamanoart.com 1111 W. Spruce St #33 • (206) 915- canvas, clay, and paper show and demo ceramics, and more. New exhibits rotate 4663 • Thurs-Sat: 10 A.M.-4 P.M. and by Visit downtown Stanwood’s Guilded in each week. July 5-August 24. Opening their work. Come join this family friendly Gallery featuring one-of-a-kind fine appointment, [email protected] • experience! ARTJAM! happens during Receptions: Every Friday, 6-9 P.M. www.artebellagallery.com art paintings, photography, pottery, through July and August. Lavender Festival in the barn at Rock glass, sculpture, and jewelry by 35 local Artebella is a traditional fine art gallery Hollow Farm. For more information, WHIDBEY ISLAND representing Washington state artists professional artists. Call or drop by the visit www.rockhollowarts.com. including traditional, impressionist, and gallery to sign up for one of Guilded FRONT ROOM GALLERY abstract painters; ceramic artists; bronze SNOHOMISH Gallery’s drawing and painting classes. 5603 Bayview Road (upstairs Bayview sculptors; collage artists; and fine art Cash Store, corner of Bayview & VISUAL ART TRAUMHAUS GALLERY TACOMA jewelry makers. Located in central Yakima’s 1206.5 First Street • (360) 890-8090 • Marshview Roads, 4 miles north Medical District, Artebella Art Gallery Sat-Sun: 11 A.M.-5 P.M., by appointment of Langley) • (360) 321-4145 • Days includes working artist studios open to the • [email protected] • www. vary with each show. 11A.M.-5P.M. public by appointment. The Gallery is open traumhausgallery.com • [email protected] • www. Thursday-Saturday, 10 A.M.-4 P.M., and Impact frontroomgallerybayview.com by appointment, contact (206) 915-4663. Linde Husk’s paintings are depictions Whidbey Island Surface Design Group of Northwest landscapes with subtle Explore diverse media and fiber hints of our impact on our environment techniques in this exhibit of Whidbey and the acceptance of this impact on the Island artists. Artist Reception: Saturday, surrounding beauty. When Christine Lee July 6, 5-7 P.M. Wednesdays-Sundays, makes prints, she thinks about far-away July 4-14. Artist Premium Online Profile LeRoy Jewelrs • “Dove of Peace Creative Collective for $10 per month includes: Zebra Onyx, 14K Yellow Gold These creative artists present painting, The Art Stop • Tacoma, WA • Artist Directory Images List your art exhibit music, writing & designing, with the goal • Listing in Artist Directory in Art Access THE ART STOP of bringing joy to the world around them. • Multiple Photo Albums 940 Broadway • (253) 274-1630 • Tues- Reception: Friday, July 19, 6-8 P.M. for a mere $39 www.artaccess.com per month Fri: 9:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M., Sat: 9:30 A.M.- Tuesdays-Sundays 11-5, July 17-28. 4:30 P.M. • [email protected] • www. ArtStopTacoma.com http://www.artaccess.com

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