Venues for April 14th ArtWalk

Art & Soul
2860 Northwest Market Street

Hosting a new spring photography show by Tod Gangler, showing tricolor carbon prints from a series photographed in Mexico.









Monster Art and Clothing
5000 20th Avenue NW

Presenting the art of Seattle’s own Starheadboy, a super prolific artist, who flows his vibrant art through pure stream of conscious and relies on raw instinct, unlimited imagination, and constant inspiration to create his work. Plus a performance by aerialist Sarah Goody, dj Jessie Beans spinning tunes, and refreshments.













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

Join them for an evening of art, refreshments and demonstrations of forging, casting, and enameling. Featured artists include: Bart Turner with Flying Anvil Studios, displaying his amazing glass cast sculptures; painters Karen Badgett and Corianna Garrels; new enamel works by Julia Garrels-Borgeson, and sculpture by blacksmith Patrick Maher.

Great Harvest Bread Co.
2218 NW Market Street

Mindy Kalee discovered a love for photography by accident, after spending nearly three years living, working and traveling through mostly undeveloped and impoverished countries throughout South and South East Asia and Africa. It was during these years that she fell in love with the human spirit, finding life and resiliency in the most obscure, desperate, and painful situations. She was amazed at how individuals and cultures who have suffered so greatly can live with such a profound brightness of spirit, while continuing to advocate in the midst of the travesties around them. Kalee started taking photos of the people and places known to her. She found that in doing so, she was able to capture how the dichotomy of life and death, darkness and light, hope and despair, history and future connects all of us as humans, no matter where we are from on this planet.

April 14 ArtWalk Venues

Market Street Shoes

2232 NW Market Street

Washington pyrographer Rachelle Wirfs looks to the rich plant and animal life found in the cold waters and surrounding green forests of Puget Sound for her primary source of inspiration. Celtic, Japanese and Mexican Folk Art influences have crept into some of her work as well. Pyrography--literally "fire writing"--can be done on a variety of surfaces, but Wirfs prefers to burn her designs onto cherry, pine and basswood. The individual character and grain of the wood determines the design best matched to that piece. Her goal is to create art with a pleasing tactile quality."

Artwork by Mike Zehnder

Blowing Sands Glass Studio
5805 14th Avenue NW

What can be done with a little wood, screws, nails, metal parts, and acrylic paint? Mike Zehnder made “igh+ugh.” Get a good look at his inventive sculptures and a whole host of recycled art and domestic design wares at this year’s 11th Annual RE-Store Annual Recycled Art Show.



Amber Den
1556 Northwest 56th Street

Synæsthesia means "together sensation" and synæsthesia is how Tony Scauzillo-Golden perceives the world. Born in Oxford, UK, growing up in Colorado and moving the Seattle in 1996, the artist graduated from UW in 2001 studying art, architecture and all things creative. He has traveled all over Europe and North America making art all along the way. Nearly all his work is produced while listening to music, visualizing the sounds, or soaking in the full sensory experience on location. Art is a multi-sensory engagement, so enjoy some food or fine beverages while viewing TSG's fine art.



Shakti Vinyasa Yoga
2238 Northwest Market Street

“It’s interesting how as people we change so much as the years go by, but deep down we retain a strong sense of self and that core of who we are tends to stay the same. This is evident in the subjects I choose to photograph – from the first roll of film I ever shot to my most recent.” Born in the Seattle area, Jacob Smithers unleashed his creativity as a child—photography was an early love. He is drawn to our natural surroundings and how time causes change to all things. A photograph is a moment in time, but a photograph can also express a myriad of events within that glimpse. And Smithers has taken his search for discovered beauty one step beyond the photo to the manner in which they are framed. When he first began using conventional frames, he felt they detracted from the photographs rather than complimenting them. Smithers recognized this imperfection in his process and longed for a solution. An old glass cooler top found in a pile of junk sparked the solution. “I bet I could frame a photo in there.” So began a love for reusing old building materials and finding beauty in things otherwise overlooked. While Smithers always felt he had control of the photographs he composed, there was always an element of unknown, a lack of control, in the beauty he discovered. “Continuing this process in which I both harness and relinquish control, finding the perfect frame to complete my pieces was the final step to my work.” As the years have gone by, Smithers couldn’t imagine framing his photographs in anything other than original antique frames. At times the frames need slight repairs and refurbishing, but it’s his preference to keep them as original as possible.

March ArtWalk Artists

Miro Tea
5405 Ballard Avenue NW

Leah Libow's Ancient Configurations of Beauty and Harmony features a mixed media show where beeswax is the primary medium. Along with beeswax, Leah combines a variety of laces, doilies and acrylic paints to forge together pieces that evoke contemplation and while capturing the essence what she calls the Divine Feminine.

Hera

Leah references how honeybees have traditionally been linked to Feminine archetypes. As bees are able to create and spread nourishment, so can a woman.

"Additionally, my use of beeswax comes from a love of the smell and textures created by melting and forming it, from my love for the honeybee’s ability to create and spread nourishment, and from the honeybee’s deep connections to the Feminine Archetype. Using beeswax, doilies, lace, and acrylic, the abstract and organic patterns I create in my paintings become maps to consciousness and to the Divine Feminine."

Leah will be present during the ArtWalk on 3/10 6-9pm and will be available to answer any questions or inquiries.

Eve's

Passage

La Tienda Folk Art Gallery
2050 Northwest Market Street

Shop Local with handmade ceramics from these local potters: Loren Lukens, James Brooke, Carol Ann Bauer and Matthew Patton. Functional pottery for your home to liven up your surroundings.

March ArtWalk Artists

Annie's Art and Frame
2212 Northwest Market Street

The tradition of the bookplate, a small print adhered to the first pages of a book, began before the advent of the printing press to show ownership of what was then a very rare and expensive item. Inspired by discussions regarding the future of the printed book given the increasing popularity of electronic texts, Susan Martin presents a series of block printed bookplates. Primarily dealing in natural themes, she has created her own take on a centuries-old art.



Market Street Shoes
2232 NW Market Street

Featuring New Works from Leigh Riibe, a collection of 51 photographs taken on her iPhone. She captures the beauty of her everyday life with a new technology that is quickly becoming a large part of our society. This exhibit is an attempt at taking something so instant, accessible, and disposable back to a time that was more tangible, artistic and appreciated.


Kula Movement Center for Yoga & Health
5340 Ballard Avenue NW

Stop in for their free AcroYoga Show, featuring TJ and Tracy!

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.