Skagit Valley Herald / goskagit.com
E18 - Thursday, May 8, 2014
OUT & ABOUT ART
Wosk Family Trust”: This exhibit highlights a collection of crazy quilts and embroidered suzanis that were collected by California artist Miriam “DRAW, STITCH AND BURN: EVE DEISHER AND Wosk over her lifetime (1947-2010), and served LANNY BERGNER”: The as inspirational pieces for exhibition is on display through May 18 at Gallery her elaborate collage and painted works. The museCygnus, 109 Commercial, um will also have images La Conner. Deisher comof select works from Wosk bines paper, fabric and as examples of how textiles thread as woven material becomes ethereal structure, influenced her art. “Color in the Great woven thread and wire Depression”: The exhibit become line and all of it features selected quilts is her drawing. Bergner Anacortes, as part of the Spring Film Series hosted employs pyrography tech- from the Josie Teeter by movie man Nick Alphin. The 1947 film stars Gene “MEMOIRS OF A BIRD”: Schlotterback CollecFABRIC ART: A show niques on sheets of metal Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders and a young Check out Northwest tion, including a hexagon of quilts by fabric artist mesh causing the visible Natalie Wood. In 1900, a young widow finds her artist Anne Schreivogl’s Grandmother’s Flower Louise Harris continues surfaces to shift, patterns seaside cottage is haunted, and forms a unique new exhibition, showing through May 31 at McCool relationship with the resident ghost. Free. 360-293appearing and disappearing Garden quilt, a Lily quilt through May 30 at La Con- Gallery, 711 Commercial as one’s gaze moves across and Circle Star quilt along 1910, ext. 21, or library.cityofanacortes.org. ner Seaside Gallery, 101 with some recently comAve., Anacortes. The show the forms. Gallery hours First St., La Conner. The pleted quilt tops on display will also feature paintings are noon to 5 p.m. Friday show features Schreivogl’s by Anne Martin McCool, 6230 or smithandvallee. States — numbering some through Sunday. 360-708for the first time. upbeat, colorful paintings, 562 tribes when her project 4787 or gallerycygnus.com. Museum hours are 11 jewelry by Carole Cunning- com. delighting in the reader’s began in 2012. Project 562 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday ham and Debbie Aldrich, and writer’s world, with CAMANO STUDIO is one of the few contemwood by George Way and OUTDOOR SCULPTURE through Sunday. $7, $5 stuimages of typewriters, porary photographic proj- EXHIBIT: The La Conner dents and military with ID, Art Learmonth, sculptures TOUR: The 16th annual books, and letter-writing. Camano Island Studio Tour ects of this magnitude to be Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit free for members and chilby Tracy Powell, ceramics The gallery is open from dren ages 11 and younger. by Patsy Chamberlain and will take place on Mother’s completed exclusively by a is on display through 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. 360- Barbara Hathaway, handDay weekend from 10 a.m. Native photographer, and 360-466-4288 or laconner March 1, 2015, at public 202-2956 or laconnersea the only large-scale effort to 5 p.m. Friday through quilts.org. woven scarves by Martha locations around La Considegallery.com. to capture the vibrancy Sunday, May 9-11 and Tottenham and gourd art ner. The annual juried of contemporary Native May 17-18, at numerous by Vicki Hampel. Gallery EXHIBITIONS AT MoNA: exhibition features work PAINTINGS AND PASculture through interviews by some of the Northwest’s Three new exhibits continhours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. locations around Camano TELS: “Amanda Houston: and the collection of stoIsland and Stanwood. Tuesday through Sunday. most accomplished artists. ue through June 15 at The Oils and Pastels” continues 360-293-3577 or mccoolart. Check out artwork in a ries. Museum hours are 10 For information, including Museum of Northwest Art, through June 3 at Scott variety of media offered by a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday com. a map of the sculptures and 121 S. First St., La Conner: Milo Gallery, 420 Commerthrough Sunday. $10 adults, works available for sale, 41 juried artists and three “Lucy Mae Martin: cial Ave., Anacortes. The $8 students, military and galleries. Pick up a selfPAINTINGS & CERAMHands On”: The artworks call 360-466-3125 or visit show includes Houston’s seniors, $25 family, free for townoflaconner.org. ICS: An exhibition of new guided tour map at local in the exhibition are brilliantly colored oils as members and ages 5 and paintings by Becky Fletch- merchants or at camanowrapped and sandblasted well as a selection of softer er and ceramics by Jeffrey arts.org. Free. 425-478-0777. younger. 253-272-4258 or stones representing a new QUILTS & TEXTILES: pastel landscapes. Also tacomaartmuseum.org. Hanks continues through side of the Skagit Valley New exhibits continue showing: oils by Seattle June 1 at Smith & Vallee “PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESartist’s heavy, creative through June 29 at the La artist Brooke BorcherdSAN JUAN ART TOUR: Gallery, 5742 Gilkey Ave., ENCE AND CONTEMPOwork life. Martin says, “I Conner Quilt & Textile ing, black and white phoThe 23rd anniversary San Edison. Fletcher’s new RARY INDIANS: MATIKA Museum, 703 S. Second St., am inspired to engrave tography by David Lucas, body of work, “ReiteraWILBUR’S PROJECT 562”: Juan Island Artists’ Studio La Conner. relief-style because there pastels by Pat Meras, Tour will take place from tions,” explores the repeat- The exhibition opens Satare millions of years “Made by Hand: Marioils by Donna Trent and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday ed lines and shapes offered urday, May 17, and contucked behind the surface anne Burr”: Burr handmixed media by Renate and Sunday, May 31-June visually by nature. Hanks’ tinues through Oct. 5 at of every beautiful, unique paints her designs on silk Trapkowski. Gallery hours ceramics are fired in either the Tacoma Art Museum, 1, at 15 artists’ studios. and then creates a complex stone, and the sandblastare 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. a wood-burning kiln or 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma. Check out a variety of ing reveals these layers. design with hand stitching Monday through Saturday. in clay containers known original artworks by more Photographer Matika I enjoy engraving Braille and applique, creating a 360-293-6938 or scottmilo. as saggers, which infuses than 40 artists on display Wilbur, a member of the because it encourages total rich surface that catches com. the surface with random Swinomish and Tulalip and offered for sale from the light and seems to glow interaction with my work flashes from the flame tribes, has taken on the task the source, with a chance … I believe that everybody from within. “LANDSCAPE/MINDstrike. Gallery hours are 11 of photographing every to enter a drawing for art should be able to enjoy the “Suzanis and Crazy SCAPE”: A show featuring a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday federally recognized indig- at each location. Maps and Quilts: Recent Acquisiarts in their own individual artists Mike Adams, Susan- through Sunday. 360-766enous nation in the United brochures for the free self- tions from the Miriam way.” na Bluhm, Jennifer Campbell and Jennifer Zwick IN THE ART BAR: Artcontinues through June 1 work by Cherie Donovan- at Anchor Art Space, 216 Smith is on display through Commercial Ave., AnaMay 31 in the Lincoln cortes. Using landscape as a Theatre’s Art Bar, 712 S. metaphor for a place within First St., Mount Vernon. the mind, regional artists Donovan-Smith, co-creator use sculpture, installation, of the newly founded video and mixed media Artisan Craft Cooperative works to create landscapes in Sedro-Woolley, paints that suggest memory, vibrant, celebratory images humor and fear. Curated of women and creates by Ann Chadwick Reid. whimsical felted objects Gallery hours are noon to and “characters” for her 5 p.m. Friday through Sunown line of cards. 360-336- day. 360-755-3140 or anchor “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir” will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday at the Anacortes Public Library, 1220 10th St., 8955 or lincolntheatre.org. artspace.org.
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guided tour are available at Friday Harbor businesses or at sanjuanislandartists. com.