Special Fiber Arts Show in March

High Desert Aspens by Gerrie Congdon

Textiles, paint, quilting

Ballard Works
2856 NW Market Street

This special show offers a unique opportunity to see Fiber Arts Works from 38 artists who belong to the Northwest chapter of the Surface Design Association. Participating artists include: Linda Berlage-Metz, Diane Marie Chaudiere, Laurie Clark, Kathleen Craig, Maura Donegan, Linda Elias, Christina Erickson, Karla Freiheit, Barbara Heller, Nicki Hitz Edson, Mary Hubbard, Ginny Huber, Gay Jensen, Cheryl Kamera, Gaynel Kline, Janet Kurjan, Barbara Kuznetz, Mary Lane, Ann Maki, Barbara Matthews, Maude May, Dorothy McGuinness, Roberta Nelson, Peggy O’Heron, Barbara O’Steen, Marianne Owen Beattie, Seiko Purdue, Lynne Rigby, Louise Roby, Sharon Rowley, Sally Sellers, Carla Stehr, Deb Taylor, Cyndi Wolfe, and Barbara Zander.

Saint Lydia and Saint Martha Portable Prayer Chapel by Laurie Kathleen Clark

Hand dyed fabrics, image transfer, hand painted and crafted figurines, fiber construction, bead work and embroidery

Venues for March ArtWalk

Umpqua Bank
2032 NW Market Street

Chuck Moses, photographic supervisor for Yuen Lui Portrait Studios, is presenting photographs in diptych and triptych format. This placement of two or more images within the same frame creates an associative diaglogue much like a poetic juxtapositon of words within a poem. Titled Dream Sequence, this selection asks the viewer to ponder the relationship of varied images together.


Kiss Cafe
2817 NW Market Street

Professional artist & graphic designer Fabiola Reina has traveled the world. Her art and photography reveal an explosion of colors and emotion, and are inspired by nature, her travels, and by her life experiences. Reina likes to celebrate diversity and the natural, organic world, as well as life's natural emotions that connects us all as human beings. Her exploration with different mediums range from watercolors & soft pastels to acrylic & fine art photography. Her application of colors & form brings out the life and emotion of the objects, celebrating the uniqueness and brilliance that every thing in life has to offer.




BalMar
5449 Ballard Avenue NW

Seattle native Arnel Ramac, who studied art at the University of Washington, has been a professional artist for over 13 years. His subject matter comes from a combination of everyday life, graphic design and pop culture. Arnel uses a combination of traditional painting techniques along with graphic software to capture those moments of inspiration on paper.

The Scoop at Walter’s
6408 32nd Avenue NW

Seattle watercolorist, Kathy Johnson, shows paintings and prints of local landscapes -- ferry boats, Discovery Park, Pike Place Market, Skagit Valley tulips, the Arboretum, and the lavender fields of Sequim.

Blowing Sands Glass/Laura Frost Gallery
5805 14th Avenue NW

It's their Annual Garden Show! This year's exhibition includes pieces by potter Julie deRouche, including wall vases and a bird feeder; paintings by Janet Fagan Smith that will have you seeing spring; driftwood art by Cynthia Heino-Smith; and glass garden stakes by Sooze and porcelain garden stakes by Marissa Motto, both with a touch whimsy.

Horseshoe
5344 Ballard Avenue Northwest

Twozdai A. Hulse grew up all around the greater Puget Sound and has been living in Seattle for ten years, where she currently works as a graphic designer. And yes, that is her real name—it sounds like “Tuesday.” On exhibit is the skyline series, which includes architectural & nature based photographic transfers overlaid with original paintings. Hulse's photographs go through a photo transfer process, giving them a moody texture. She then adds hand-painted details to the images to highlight their unique features. These works include scenes from Mexico, Barcelona, San Francisco, and Seattle and are a perfect example of Twozdai's best skills—photography and painting.





Venue
5408 22nd Avenue NW

For over ten years, the Downing Pottery creed has been to make work that is beautiful, functional and affordable for everyday use. Inspired by the cool tones and subtle lines of the Pacific Northwest, each piece is hand painted with stained clay and left partially unglazed to encourage contact with the medium. Collectors of Sarah Woodson's pottery appreciate the way her designs fit into their modern décor.

New Venues in March ArtWalk

Be sure to stop in and welcome these two new ArtWalk venues! We're excited they've joined us this month to add even more wonderful artwork to the adventure.



The Amber Den
1556 NW 56th Street (Corner of 17th NW and NW 56th)

Currently a graduate student at the University of Washington's Department of Comparative Literature, Collette-Yasi Naraghi spends her free time toying around with cameras ranging from 35mm to large formats, and still to moving. Naraghi has lived in Seattle for six years but spends much time on airplanes. This show includes a selection of photographs of her travels from New York to Berlin, Paris, and Tehran.

Robert Madsen Gallery
5448 Shilshole Avenue

Presenting Wandering Home by Juliana Wisdom, a sculptural fine arts exhibition exploring the physical and emotional needs a home fulfills. The artist plays with combining the ideas of privacy, security, comfort, mixed with transience and mobility. Her current work focuses on creating parallels between forms inspired by shelled mollusks and historical women’s undergarments. “I was intrigued by the idea of stripping away unnecessary material to create the most fundamental notion of home, one that could be taken anywhere a person goes.” Using both structured and delicate garment materials, Wisdom's work reveals conflict between restriction and insecurity in our relationship with what we call home.

March 10 ArtWalk

Root. Integrative Health
2026 NW Market Street, Suite 201

This month marks Root's one year anniversary in Ballard! Thanks to everyone for their continued support and dedication to health! To celebrate, artist Jennie Brott makes a return appearance with a fresh installation. Her new work includes:

Migration, which looks at how Humans affect the Birds’ ability to live.
Harlequin, a theatrical statement of fun and fantasy in a modern designers world, inspired by the film Children in Paradise and the elements of Mid-Century design.
Mod Girl, illustrating the feelings she gets even today from some of her favorite toys, with a visual language that anyone with similar childhood memories can understand.

Plus musical guests, Chase & Trinity, who will sweep you off your feet with their original pop arrangements consisting of drums, organ and guitar. Host Myllis Hiller kicks off the evening with plentiful hors d'oeuvres, beverages and prizes!




Ballard Metal Arts Studios & X-Ray Auto
1122 NW 46th Street

Stop in to this unique studio setting for an evening of art, demonstrations, and refreshments. New work by local sculptor, Ron Klein, as well as work from blacksmith Patrick Maher, enamelist Julia Garrels, painter Corianna Garrels, and blacksmith Rick Crelia.


Habitude
2801 NW Market Street

Kelly Rae Cunningham's paintings began with slabs of clay, ceramic glazes, and the same tools that she uses today to apply, layer, and scrape away paint. Falling in love with mixing colors and the smell of oil paint and turpentine, she turned from clay to canvas. Her work is strongly influenced by the materials she works with, not only their physical properties, but their history. Cunningham paints with many mediums as they lend different qualities to the process: oil for the saturation of color and patience; acrylic for speed; collage and layering for depth; and encaustics (oil and wax) for its tactile quality and similarity to working with clay. Her paintings employ layers of color, boldly worked with palette knives and brushes. In Cunningham's most recent series of work, fleurish, she explores traditional floral paintings through a more whimsical use of dot and line, energetic brush strokes, and bold colors.

ArtWalk Venues for February 2012

Venue
5408 22nd Avenue NW

Jewelry artist Britta Ambauen was originally trained as a print maker specializing in copper etching, but she fell in love with jewelry-making when she did an apprenticeship in Boulder, Colorado. Britta approaches each piece of jewelry as if she were making a tiny sculpture - reveling in the endless possibilities in choices of color, texture, form, materials and movement. She enjoys integrating traditional jewelry styles with new and unconventional components. Each design is hand crafted from sterling silver, 14k gold fill and natural gemstones. Britta strives to create jewelry that brings to mind meaningful ideas and images. It's jewelry made to inspire.


Great Harvest Bread Company
2218 NW Market Street

Award-winning nature photographer Marc Hoffman resides in Kirkland, Washington and his work has been featured in books on the Pacific Northwest, as well as appearing in numerous online publications. In addition to taking photos in the Pacific Northwest, Hoffman makes regular trips to photograph wildlife in Costa Rica.


Kiss Cafe
2817 NW Market Street

Marci paints with oil on wood.... "I paint what I see and feel and I cannot possibly portray in words what my art is about. I'm a visual person. This is visual. See and feel what you can from what I have given you."




Source Salon
5400 Leary Avenue NW

Natali Kolker, who's lived in Moscow, Israel and the US, has been creating and exhibiting art for over 20 years. "Harmony" is the key word for her art, as she is searching for harmony throughout her life. Kolker's earliest works were executed in black and white, but Seattle's vivid landscapes which contrast with the grey sky made her appreciate colors. Now she uses expressive and bright colors in her paintings.

Annie's Art & Frame
2212 Northwest Market Street

Barry Sean Little's current work is concerned with commonly held belief systems, their hierarchical nature, and their contextual validity. These topics are explored through a teleological blend of science, religion, mythology, pop culture, folklore and personal genealogy. All of these belief systems fall under one umbrella of importance and their former status is vanquished. Mediocrity is transformed into the sublime and each life experience contains the potential for epiphany. A dialogue between the viewer and each piece is of paramount importance. The language and wordplay of this dialogue is equally critical. The black and white pen and ink drawings focus on balance, precision of mark making, flow, connective layering, and well ordered stream-of-consciousness. Little lovingly refers to the technique as penance in ink. The mounted and inked drawings deal with saturation of color, symmetry, allegory, and colloquial autobiography. The varnished, cut, gessoed, and float-mounted qualities of these pieces are born from a reliquary aesthetic.

Featured Artists for February 11 ArtWalk

La Tienda Folk Art Gallery
2050 Northwest Market Street

With Valentine's day just around the corner, it's the perfect time for La Tienda to introduce a new line of boxes from Colombia. Hand made from reforested pine and hand painted with bright colors, these boxes are a fun way to store your goodies or just to display on a table. Here's a hint--fill one of these boxes with a piece of jewelry from their new collection of earrings and bracelets made in Snoqualmie, Washington from repurposed silver flatware. It's a special gift inside a special box!




Root. Integrative Health
2026 NW Market Street, Suite 201

All her life, color has served as an emotional guide for Jennie Brott. In fact, it is critical in keeping her outlook of the world fresh, healthy and always grounded. Color and light inspire her, and often are important elements in her work. Whether using rich or vibrant color, or its absence, it always plays a part. Sometimes working in oil, most often Brott likes acrylics and finds more joy abstraction.

Experiencing lots of life changes in 2011 has caused Brott's art to transform with each new series of paintings. Today she is often am inspired by real life events in the world, such as the Katrina aftermath. Most recently, the disasters in Japan are her inspirations. Brott is excited to see what develops over this next new year!




Umpqua Bank
2032 NW Market Street

Chuck Moses, photographic supervisor for Yuen Lui Portrait Studios, is presenting photographs in diptych and triptych format. This placement of two or more images within the same frame creates an associative diaglogue much like a poetic juxtapositon of words within a poem. Titled Dream Sequence, this selection asks the viewer to ponder the relationship of varied images together.

February 2012 ArtWalk Venues

BalMar
5449 Ballard Avenue NW

Seattle native Arnel Ramac, who studied art at the University of Washington, has been a professional artist for over 13 years. His subject matter comes from a combination of everyday life, graphic design and pop culture. Arnel uses a combination of traditional painting techniques along with graphic software to capture those moments of inspiration on paper.

Ballard Metal Arts Studios & X-Ray Auto
1122 NW 46th Street

Join them for a multi-artist show including metal sculptures and paintings by local artist Brandon Bowman; acrylic paintings by Aaron Larson; sculpture and drawings by resident blacksmith Pat Maher; enamel work by resident artist Julia Garrels-Borgeson; and encaustic paintings by resident artist Corianna Garrels. Studios will be open for viewing, along with forging demonstrations and refreshments.




Habitude
2801 NW Market Street

No matter her age or where she's been, painting has always been in Kate Protage's blood. A wanderer, she and her family lived in more than 18 different places of suburban sprawl and she has a love/hate relationship with these cities. Depending on the time of day, two worlds exist in the same physical space: streets that appear gritty, dirty and depressing by day turn into an environment infused with a strange kind of lush, dark beauty and romance at night. These are the moments that remind her to take a breath, look closer, and recognize that there is still beauty in the world despite all of the chaos that surrounds us. While her work is rooted in the real, it’s the junction between sensation and fact that interests Protage. Her paintings and drawings are meant to exist in that grey area between representation and abstraction, where light and solid form are given equal consideration and are almost interchangeable. The streets, the buildings, the sky, the cars – they’re almost incidental as recognizable objects. It’s the detail of an individual shape, an expressive brush stroke, and the way that everything coalesces into a series of value changes and textural rhythms that excites Protage.


Blowing Sands Glass Studio
5805 14th Avenue NW

Annual Seconds Sale! This year they’re letting go of some of David Smith’s wonderful glass light fixtures—the red glass used in them is no longer available, so they can’t be used as samples. If you’ve been thinking about a new light fixture, this is a great time to come by and find something unique and appealing. They’re beautiful pieces! Also find vases, card holders, and assorted glass one-of-a-kinds.