Venue: Blowing Sands
Other sponsors:
Ballard ReUse and Seattle ReCreative
Location: 5805
14th Ave NW, Seattle WA 98107
Web Address:
www.blowingsands.com
Show
Description:
Artists all started with the
same mission: To bring new life to the discarded.
From that beginning, they have woven, painted, hammered, and sewn to
create original works. The pieces range from the whimsical to the
sophisticated, intricate to bold, folk to modern. This art show is
an entertaining collection based on the concept that inspiration is where you
find it.
The show will be on
display through May 11th.
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Artwalk Date: April 9th 6-9pm
Artist’s Name(s): Narboo
Artist’s Web Address: https://www.facebook.com/Narboo
Type of Art on Display: Original Paintings
Brief Description of the Art Work:
I am a local artist residing in Ballard and my home studio is in the Greenwood Collective. I am influenced by the city and nature and this is why I love Seattle. My art is full of bold lines, lots of color, and crazy animal and bird characters that have real human emotions.
www.narboo.com
www.narboo.com
Name of Display Venue: Monster Art & Clothing
Monster Art & Clothing
(206) 789-0037
139K 
Captain's Supplies
Is a 119-year-old marine supply and navigation company, which has been in several locations in Seattle. They just moved to 1120 NW Ballard Way, which is the former site of the North Sails sail loft and other businesses. Captain's Supplies have turned the upstairs into a gallery, which hosts a rotating art exhibit.
For their inaugural exhibit, Northwest Birds, is a photography exhibit by local birders Judy Roan and John Reeder. The show runs through April 30
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Artist Andrew Bergin-Sperry
Andy Bergin-Sperry is a 26-year-old woodworker. Born and raised in Washington State, Andy has been surrounded by Washington’s incredible forests his entire life leading to a love for trees and passion for woodworking. The spark that lit the fire for Woodworking happened in 2012 when Andy Decided to build a Tiny House On Wheels. With little to no carpentry experience, Andy designed and built his House on wheels. After working for a custom homes building company for two years, he knew woodworking was his calling. Ready to blaze his own trail, SperryMade “Wood Goods” was born.
SperryMade is a woodworking company dedicated to creating one of a kind functional art by bringing new life to old trees. Specializing in end grain cutting boards, SperryMade’s goal is to create heirloom quality perfectly imperfect “Wood Goods”. No two cutting boards are identical, the same way every human is beautiful and unique in there own way. The raw natural wood grain gives each SperryMade piece its own individual character. And chances are, SperryMade is creating your personality’s matching “Wood Goods” right now!
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Artist’s Web Address: unknown
Type of Art on Display: Paintings, Prints, glass and photographs
Brief Description of the Art Work:
BallardWorks Exhibits "Making a Statement"
Saturday, April 9th, 2016 6:00pm-9:00pm
BallardWorks, 2856 NW Market St., Seattle 98107
"Making a Statement" exhibits Artwork and Artist Statements from Artist Trust EDGE graduates, 2013-2014. Participating artists: D.Lisa West, Andie Styner, Ellen Hochberg, Isobel Davis, Mary Ashton, Anita West, Susan Derrick, Louise Hankes, Kip Kania, Melissa Koch and John Webster.
If you are not familiar with the term "artist statement" the following Is a definition by Ariane Goodwin, author of "Writing the Artist Statement." "Like the art that it reflects, an artist statement uses its sincerity of purpose and its purity of intent to create a powerful word-reflection of the art and the artist." Come and enjoy the art and the artist statements of this group and see if the statements accompanying the art cause you to see the art in a new light.
Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Saturday, April 9th, 2016. Open 6:00-9:00 pm only. Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue. Includes painting, wood working, sculpture, wearable fiber art, encaustics, print making and more, all under one roof. www.ballardworks.com.
For the first two months of 2016 the Push/Pull book club met to discuss the surreal Russian novel, The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Part of the assignment was to create art based on the novel. This is a unique show in that the artists have been meeting for months to discuss the subject and what they are working on.
Artists will be on hand to talk about their pieces and their impressions of the story. (Art on display through May 12th)
Featuring work by
Corianna Garrels
Maxx
Melissa McClintock
Aaron Morgan
& Mark Campos
For those not familiar with The Master & Margarita here is a bit to get you interested, from the chapter Satan's Grand Ball:
"Those ten seconds seemed extremely long to Margarita. Obviously they had already passed and precisely nothing had happened. But here something suddenly crashed downstairs in the huge fireplace, and from it leaped a gallows with some half-decayed remains dangling from it. The remains fell from the rope, struck the floor, and from it leaped a handsome dark-haired man in a tailcoat and patent leather shoes. A half-rotten little coffin ran out of the fireplace, its lid fell off, and another remains tumbled out of it. The handsome man gallantly leaped over to it and offered it his bent arm. The second remains put itself together into a fidgety woman in black shoes, with
black feathers on her head, and then the man and the woman both hastened up the stairs.
'The first!' exclaimed Koroviev. 'Monsieur Jacques and his spouse. I commend to you, Queen, one of the most interesting of men. A confirmed counterfeiter, a traitor to his government,
but a rather good alchemist. Famous,' Koroviev whispered in Margarita's ear, 'for having poisoned a king's mistress. That doesn't happen to everyone! Look how handsome he is!'
The pale Margarita, her mouth open, watched as both gallows and coffin disappeared into some side passage in the front hall.
'Delighted!' the cat yelled right into the face of Monsieur Jacques as he came up the stairs."
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Ladies and Gentlemen, and Tiny Flying Elephants
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Ballyhoo
Babushkas
Missing the disapproving looks of love from your grandmother? Come see them and the always missed house spirits in these intricate ink illustrations by Dillon Lacey.
Dillon's illustrations will be on display through May 6th at Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop.
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1679263338989296/
Artists will be on hand to talk about their pieces and their impressions of the story. (Art on display through May 12th)
Featuring work by
Corianna Garrels
Maxx
Melissa McClintock
Aaron Morgan
& Mark Campos
For those not familiar with The Master & Margarita here is a bit to get you interested, from the chapter Satan's Grand Ball:
"Those ten seconds seemed extremely long to Margarita. Obviously they had already passed and precisely nothing had happened. But here something suddenly crashed downstairs in the huge fireplace, and from it leaped a gallows with some half-decayed remains dangling from it. The remains fell from the rope, struck the floor, and from it leaped a handsome dark-haired man in a tailcoat and patent leather shoes. A half-rotten little coffin ran out of the fireplace, its lid fell off, and another remains tumbled out of it. The handsome man gallantly leaped over to it and offered it his bent arm. The second remains put itself together into a fidgety woman in black shoes, with
black feathers on her head, and then the man and the woman both hastened up the stairs.
'The first!' exclaimed Koroviev. 'Monsieur Jacques and his spouse. I commend to you, Queen, one of the most interesting of men. A confirmed counterfeiter, a traitor to his government,
but a rather good alchemist. Famous,' Koroviev whispered in Margarita's ear, 'for having poisoned a king's mistress. That doesn't happen to everyone! Look how handsome he is!'
The pale Margarita, her mouth open, watched as both gallows and coffin disappeared into some side passage in the front hall.
'Delighted!' the cat yelled right into the face of Monsieur Jacques as he came up the stairs."
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/467685296765151/
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Tiny Flying Elephants
"Ladies and Gentlemen ...and Tiny Flying Elephants" is Krissy Downing's first international art exhibit featuring twelve giant paintings that will grace the 26th floor of QRE Plaza in Hong Kong! To celebrate the release of this new work, Krissy will produce a limited number of prints to be concurrently displayed at Push/Pull Gallery in Seattle. Krissy's vivid portraits of mutated puppy-bees, a giant rainbow seahorse, miniature giraffes, teacup bunnies (and more!) will sprawl our walls April 9th through May 12th, 2016. Can't make it to Hong Kong? Stop by Push/Pull and grab a few of these gorgeous prints before they disappear!
Krissy is a Seattle based surrealist painter who creates large, colorful works in oil and acrylic. An enthusiast of the beauty in merged contrast (the stark harmonies of light against dark, the delicate "in between" of serenity and chaos, the absurdity of lighthearted lyrics sung in a minor key...), her figurative pieces celebrate human complexities while exploring a playful world of imaginary creatures poised in commonplace scenes with grand gestures of whimsy against the slightest hint of profound emotion.
Krissy is a Seattle based surrealist painter who creates large, colorful works in oil and acrylic. An enthusiast of the beauty in merged contrast (the stark harmonies of light against dark, the delicate "in between" of serenity and chaos, the absurdity of lighthearted lyrics sung in a minor key...), her figurative pieces celebrate human complexities while exploring a playful world of imaginary creatures poised in commonplace scenes with grand gestures of whimsy against the slightest hint of profound emotion.
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Ballyhoo
Babushkas
Missing the disapproving looks of love from your grandmother? Come see them and the always missed house spirits in these intricate ink illustrations by Dillon Lacey.
Dillon's illustrations will be on display through May 6th at Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop.
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1679263338989296/
