January 2012 ArtWalk Venues

La Tienda Folk Art Gallery
2050 Northwest Market Street

Stay here in Ballard, but explore a bit of Africa. This month, La Tienda showcases unique, handmade sculptures and artifacts from the dark continent. Peruse their one-of-a kind statues, instruments and more, and add something exotic to your collection.



Umpqua Bank

2032 NW Market Street

Stop in and welcome this newest spot on the ArtWalk! Chris Lui, Vice President of Yuen Lui Photography Studios, showcases photographic artwork of dreamlike images titled Visions of Heaven. These 40x60 color prints, taken with an arial perspective, explore a dream of possibilities of an afterlife.



Great Harvest Bread Company
2218 NW Market Street

Featuring new paintings by beloved local artist Matt Bazemore. Brighten your winter day enjoying a slice of warm bread while browsing scenes of Ballard Avenue, Golden Gardens and the Ballard Locks. And be sure to see his newest painting done just for this show--Bop Street Records.



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

Stop in and join this great group of artists for their debut in the ArtWalk. Several resident artists will have their studios open with work on display, including forget/fabricated metal, enamel work and drawings.


Kula Movement Center for Yoga & Health
5340 Ballard Avenue NW

Celebrate their First Anniversary in conjunction with the ArtWalk. Festivities include live music and an AcroYoga demonstration, refreshments, complimentary chair massages, a raffle give away and more! This event is free and open to all ages.

January 2012 ArtWalk Artists

Moon Shine Gallery
5402 20th Avenue NW

This new stop on the ArtWalk features paintings of northwest marine and alpine scenes by John Holm, whose work has been featured in Surfers Journal and Liquid Salt. He has also shown in galleries in Honolulu and Kauai.

Waiting for Orders / Ballard Shipyard #3

The Scoop at Walters
6408 32nd Avenue NW

Charles Fawcett, whose medium is oil, specializes in marine subjects. He has exhibited widely and his work is regularly featured on the cover of 48North and the FOSS Maritime calendar. He is a member of EAFA, the American Society of Marine Artists and is Secretary of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters. He is also a Master Mariner and keen yachtsman.

Venue
5408 22nd Avenue NW

Artists and non-artists alike can participate this month at Venue’s Interactive Art Project: Year of the Dragon. Make origami creations and add your own mark to a giant wall collage featuring the image of a dragon in honor of the start of the upcoming Chinese Year of the Dragon on January 23rd. Contribute your own photos, drawings and well wishes for the upcoming new year and enjoy tasty snacks with an Asian theme.




Habitude Salon & Spa
2801 NW Market Street

Diane Culhane starts each day in her studio at Building C in Ballard with lots of coffee. (And sometimes, a Safeway apple fritter!) On the canvas, color and form begin as visual dialogue... a conversation. Images develop from layers of acrylic glaze that build from bottom to top as she intertwines drawing and painting in the composition. Story making and short vignettes from a world she knows and experiences. "A world of my own creation where I get to pretend. A world I know well where secret places reveal themselves to me as a whisper, a knowing, a longing, or a prayer ...I love to paint!" Culhane is also an arts educator who directs and owns Kelsey Creek Fine Art School, a summer program for children.


KISS Cafe
2817 NW Market Street

Nico Lund, a Seattle artist and graduate from the University of Washington with an Interdisciplinary Visual Arts degree, has been working with many different kinds of art media in the last 10 years. But now she's made her way back to the beauty of traditional oil paint, where she enjoys the process of visiting each painting and being able to pick up from where she left off and have all the layers of paint sill communicating and working into one another. Lund loves to tell stories and create landscapes where the characters are free to invent themselves. The stories have no beginning, middle or end. The intention is to let the idea of each painting come from a deeper place than her conscious awareness, while at the same time allowing daily experiences and observations to play into each composition. Each painting is an attempt to connect with my role in this human experience and the wonder of existence.

January 2012 ArtWalk Venues

Annie's Art and Frame
2212 NW Market Street

Showing the work of Sarah Takahashi, a nationally exhibited Seattle painter. Her minimalist and highly textured paintings feature people and animals against a severely limited background for a slightly eerie but graceful effect. The artist will be present.






Blowing Sands Glass Studio
5805 14th Avenue NW

They are honored to host work by renowned recycled metal artist Dan Klennert, who has brought some of his large pieces up from his Elbe, WA studio. Visit with Ruffus the Rooster, the spider, the seahorse, a Fatboy motorcycle and all 8 plus feet of Buckeye, a horse made largely of horseshoes, and more. Klennert's work has been featured in the documentary feature America’s Heart and Soul and is beloved by 14th Avenue pedestrians each year about this time. Truly fun pieces to warm your spirits this January!


SHAKTI Vinyasa Yoga
2238 NW Market Street

Gay Seydlitz was raised in Chicago where her father worked from home as a freelance graphic designer. Surrounded by his drawings, art was a part of every day life. After graduating from the American Academy of Art, she worked as a graphic designer and art director in Chicago, and then in Seattle from 1989 to the present. A few years ago, she decided to try fine art painting and at this mature stage, she feels able to truly express herself on canvas. Seydlitz currently works as an expressionist painter in acrylic mixed media, starting with paint to add abstract texture and color to the canvas. After letting the canvas sit for a while under observation, she allows the image to reveal itself. At times the result is purely abstract and other times the most simple forms and pleasures in life come through. This process has been very freeing and has shown her a new way of expressing herself creatively. Seydlitz has found the best thing she can do as an artist is to get out of the way and the let art come forth. She hopes this is just the beginning of a long awaited calling and looks forward to the surprise of seeing what lies ahead in her artwork.

Special December ArtWalk Concert

Market Street Singers
Ballard First Lutheran Church
2006 NW 65th Street
7:00 PM

Join the Market Street Singers for a performance of holiday joy, winter reflections, and some wicked seasonal comedy. This unconventional community choir promises to leave no aspect of the season unwrapped. Admission is free, but contributions are always gratefully accepted.

And after the concert, you'll find "the Singers" on the go, caroling around downtown Ballard.

For more information visit their website or call 206-465-3296.

December 10 ArtWalk Venues

Ballard Great Harvest Bread Co.
2218 NW Market Street

Featuring photography by Dan Fenstermacher, a Seattleite who recently returned from a year of teaching in China. While living in China, Dan traveled extensively throughout China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. His show focuses on the people and places he visited during his year abroad. Stop by to meet the artist and enjoy some tasty Great Harvest treats!


Nightingale Gallery
2215 NW Market Street

After extensive design training, Pittsburgh native J. Craig Thorpe moved to Seattle where he started his own architectural illustration business. While his ink and water color renderings have interpreted design concepts for countless NW clients, Thorpe is known nationally for his oils of contemporary railroad themes. Amtrak used his painting of the Olympia, WA station on its 1993 national corporate calendar, opening the door to dozens of railroad commissions for noted clients such as Union Tank Car Co., General Electric and the White Pass & Yukon Route in Alaska. Recent Amtrak commissions include the Centennial paintings for Washington, DC Union Station and Glacier National Park. For the last 16 years, Thorpe has produced yearly calendar art for Alaska Marine Lines, the maritime company shipping barges of containers to Alaska. He also specializes in iconic NW scenes. Thorpe is primarily a landscape painter and even his industrial commissions set the subjects in their unique settings. Says the artist, " The haste, cynicism and expediency of our age has blurred an ability to see beauty. These images help people refocus." He combines a technical accuracy with a painterly style evoking an emotional response from the viewer: "That painting makes me want to be right there!"

Artists for December ArtWalk

Building C (Artist Studios)
1148 NW Leary Avenue
(1 Block North of Leary on 14th, Banner marks entrance)

Take this opportunity to visit the open studios of twenty-four professional artists and purchase unique and wonderful gifts. Artists include: Carol Mallett Adelman, Ben Brackin, Andree Carter, Steve Costie, Diane Culhane, Sue Danielson, Michael Dickter, Louise Durocher, Robert Hardgrave, Virginia Howlett, Mary Iverson, Terry Leness, Mike (Mikela) Naylor, Piper O’Neill, AJ Power, Patricia Ridenour, Sarah Savidge, Robin Siegl, Jennifer Stenhouse, Gillian Theobald, C.L. Utley, Margaret Watson, Lilly West and Junko Yamamoto.

We apologize for incorrectly placing this venue on our quarterly map. Please note that Building C is located south of NW Market Street, just above Leary Way.

Vain
5401 Ballard Avenue NW

Featuring the jewelry collection of Jamie Cox of Deuce. For as long as she can remember she has always had a thing for jewelry; you can even call it a sort of love affair. Her jewelry design came from this love affair, as she explains, “a girl’s jewelry box can only hold so much! So with love, creativity, and a vintage flair Deuce was born.” Jamie’s collection is a mix of new and vintage elements.


Three Girls Bakery
6209 15th Avenue NW

This month their salon presents Warm Up to the Holidays, a group show featuring Candis Bergerson, Rebecca Ellison, Diana Federighi, Eve Ingraham, Atarah Levy, Louisiana Levy, Janine Manners and Mary McKee.


Venue
5408 22nd Avenue NW

Daniela and Chris Shelton, who live in a cottage at the edge of the woods on an island in the Puget Sound, are Hasenpfeffer, Inc. They merge modernism with traditional craftsmanship to create their line of children's dolls. Semi-interlocking patterns result in more than just a friendly looking doll; these original shapes allow them to minimize waste material and use only remnants, discontinued or closeout fabrics, making for eco-friendly designs. Outfits for the dolls are often knitted by Ursula, Daniela's mom, who lives in Switzerland and scours stores for remnant yarn. All Hasenpfeffer dolls, bears and lambs are stuffed with hypoallergenic fiberfill made in the US.

Root. Integrative Health
Carnegie Library Building
2026 NW Market Street

It's their First Annual Holiday Extravaganza! Local artist Marcie Swift is featured, along with Reggae guitarist, Shan Coleman, who will captivate your senses with their innovative talents! Come and relax with your favorite practitioners while enjoying delicious food- compliments of Mr. Gyros, catchy beats and of course, our holiday flare!

December ArtWalk Venues

BalMar
5449 Ballard Avenue NW
Movement + Light. And a clean windshield. That’s how Ben Scherer created this series of photographs. Each shot was taken from his car while driving through Seattle’s streets at night. The electric patterns come from a variety of different car and shutter speeds, camera positions, turns and bumps in the road. Vibrant lights from stores, bars, cars, buses, signs, and sometimes the slightest bit of daylight, provide raw and real color. While each shot is digital, they are not retouched. The series started as an effort to capture the unique nighttime energy of Seattle’s diverse neighborhoods. Scherer's inspiration was simply wanting to try using his camera to create art and his imagination to make the familiar seem extraordinary.


Annie's Art and Frame
2212 NW Market Street

Celebrating Annie's 20th Anniversary this month with a group showing of work by their employees. Each framer has contributed an original work of art in the theme of Winter. Signed prints of each piece are available. Meet many of the artists, celebrate the Season and join in the Anniversary Celebration!

La Tienda Folk Art Gallery
2050 NW Market Street

This month begins the celebration of their 50th year in business! With a focus on local craftspeople, they're featuring ceramists Loren Lukens and Matthew Patton of Seattle, and Still Fire Pottery from Whidbey Island; and jewelry artists Christy Decker of West Seattle, Carmen D'Anguis of Seattle, Crawsister Jewelry, and NW Coast Jewelry from Portland. Plus many more local and American crafts artists. Help them celebrate and find some unique gifts for the special people on your list.



Blowing Sands Glass Studio
5805 14th Ave NW

They've collected rooms full of sparkling glass by David Smith, Lon Clark, Charles Friedman, and Karen Sutherland; pottery pieces in high-contrast black and white by Larry Halvorsen and nature’s green by Julie deRouche—just the thing for holiday gift giving. This month, the gallery space also features garden and domestic art by Sooze bloom deLeon grossman and sculptures by renowned recycled-iron and wood artist Dan Klennert, whose work was featured in the documentary feature “America’s Heart and Soul.” Don't miss seeing some of his indoor pieces from his studio in Elbe, WA.