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Previously Loved Art Sale Date Announced

January 31st, 2012

The 8th Annual Previously Loved Art Sale will be Saturday August 18th.

To donate: bring your paintings, drawings, sculpture, art posters, crafts, art books or periodicals, art supplies, frames, or other forms of art you would like to donate to ArtWorks any Monday, Thursday or Friday between 11am and 2pm, or call 425.774.6049 to make an appointment for drop-off. Donations are tax deductible!

All proceeds from the sale support projects sponsored by the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation.

REMEMBER! To make arrangements to leave donations, contact:

ArtWorks
201 2nd Ave. S. Edmonds , WA 98020
425-774-6049
artworks@artworks-edmonds.org

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Edmonds Art Studio Tour Date

January 29th, 2012

The Edmonds Arts Studio Tour is the 3rd week of September. Save the date and be sure to attend this wonderful event.

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ARTSplash

January 29th, 2012

Hours: Thursday and Friday 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ArtWorks: 201 2nd Avenue, Edmonds, WA 98020
425-774-6049

ARTSplash is a four-day art show exhibiting original art by established and emerging artists. Nearly 50 artists display original art across a broad range of styles and mediums from painting, printmaking, and photography to clay, fiber, and jewelry.

The show will include a special wall of miniature art in many styles and techniques, as well as on-site artists demonstrating their creative talents.

Art lovers can enjoy award-winning work as well as works of new, never-before-seen art at the next show, July 21-22, 2012 at ArtWorks.

ARTSplash is presented by ArtistsConnect, (an affiliate of the Edmonds Arts Festival and Foundation).

A portion of the proceeds from each ARTSplash event supports community arts programs.

Check the ARTSplash website for updates!

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The Art of Linley B. Logan

January 29th, 2012

The Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation and the Edmonds Arts Commission are invite you to experience the multi media artwork of Linley B. Logan from now through March 12 at the Frances Anderson Center.

 
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum and the Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case are located in the Frances Anderson Center, Main Entrance – 700 Main Street, Edmonds. Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri 9 to 9, Sat – 10 to 3. For information call 425.771.0228 or 771.1984. For more information about the arts in Edmonds, please visit www.eaffoundation.org and www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/ArtsCommission.
 

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Sculptors Workshop – NCECA Show – Application Deadline Change

January 10th, 2012

Members of Sculptors Workshop are invited to apply to participate in a juried exhibit in the EAFF gallery
and EAC display case in conjunction with the NCECA conference in Seattle.

Dates:
Show – Monday, March 19 through Tuesday April 24, 2012
Reception – Thursday, March 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
This is a juried show. Please note that the selection process does not guarantee that each artist will have
a piece in the exhibit.

The application must be filled out and received no later than February 10, 2012, including photographs of the work. The deadline is now February 24th.

No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
Thank you for participating in this exciting opportunity to be part of the NCECA gathering and to celebrate
45 years of Sculptors Workshop.

Sculptors Workshop Juried Application 2012

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PAM HAROLD RETIRES FROM ARTS COMMISSION

December 10th, 2011
PAM HAROLD RETIRES FROM ARTS COMMISSION

Pam Harold presented with plaque from Edmonds Mayor Dave Ehrling.

A key member of the Edmonds Arts Commission since 2004, artist Pam Harold will be retiring from the Commission at the end of December. Harold, an avid watercolor artist, served two four-year terms as one of EAC’s visual arts representatives. Harold has been painting for 52 years – a hobby that turned into a career. She has taught painting and journal writing to both children and adults and lectured to many arts organizations in Edmonds and the Seattle area. She is a former member of Edmonds’ Gallery North, Edmonds Arts Festival Poster Artist, and a current member of Women Painters of Washington and Artists Connect. She has coordinated EAC’s exhibits at the Edmonds Library for a number of years and shows her own work in galleries in Edmonds and Seattle.

By ordinance, four of the 7 Arts Commissioners must be professionally engaged in the arts. The Arts Commission is seeking applicants to fill the vacancy Pam Harold will leave at the end of the year. If you are a resident of Edmonds with a passion for the arts and a willingness to volunteer your time on a working board, contact the Arts Office for an application and position description. The application deadline has been extended to December 30. Call 425-771-0228, email Chapin@ci.edmonds.wa.us, or visit www.edmondsartscommission.org where you will find copies of both documents.

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Edmonds Arts Festival Museum Collection featured at the Frances Anderson Center

December 1st, 2011

For the month of December, 2011, the Edmonds Arts Festival Museum will present artwork from the EAFM permanent collection. During the annual festival on Father’s Day Weekend artwork has been selected for the museum each year since 1970.

The collection has developed into a fine representation of Northwest artists, including watercolors by John Fridell, Marjorie Bruce and Crisse Bennett; sculpture by Robert Cooke and Louise McDowell: photography by Art Wolfe; and printwork by Dona Reed. These and other artists help define the character of Pacific Northwest art.

Additional pieces from the EAFM Collection will be presented in the Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case) Frances Anderson Center in January 2012.

Three dimensional works are currently located at the Brackett Room, third floor of City Hall. Other two dimension work may be viewed on the second floor of the Edmonds Center for the Arts

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Sculptors Workshop – NCECA Show Application

December 1st, 2011

Members of Sculptors Workshop are invited to apply to participate in a juried exhibit in the EAFF gallery
and EAC display case in conjunction with the NCECA conference in Seattle.
Dates:
Show – Monday, March 19 through Tuesday April 24, 2012
Reception – Thursday, March 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
This is a juried show. Please note that the selection process does not guarantee that each artist will have
a piece in the exhibit.
The application must be filled out and received no later than February 10, 2012, including photographs of
the work.
No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
Thank you for participating in this exciting opportunity to be part of the NCECA gathering and to celebrate
45 years of Sculptors Workshop.

Sculptors Workshop Juried Application 2012

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Support for Visual Arts in our Local Schools

November 11th, 2011

2011-2012 EAF Foundation Visual Arts Idea Grant Awards

Many student art projects in Edmonds School District 15 begin with the award of a Visual Arts Idea Grant from Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation. Each fall, teachers are invited to apply for financial assistance for visual arts related projects, field trips and curriculum based programming.

Congratulations to the following educators who have received a 2011-2012 Visual Arts Idea Grant from the EAF Foundation.

Elementary School Projects include:
Clay exploration experiences with artist Julie Perrine include Lynn Behrendt’s 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders Pottery Explore at Edmonds Elementary School and Mrs. Maxwell’s 2nd graders Portrait Vessels and Clay Sculpture at Cedar Valley Community School. Brier Elementary’s school-wide Art in Action! Program and Cathi Wrolstad &Tanya King’s Expression of Self (6 projects for 60 students in 6th & 2nd grade at Beverly Elementary will also have support this year.

Other elementary school grants were awarded to:
Karen Wolfe-Fritz, Westgate Elementary, Artist Notebooks for every student; Mrs. Lockhart, Maplewood PCEP, Printmaking; Melissa Marts, Seaview Heights Elementary, school-wide Docent Program; Johanna Kalmus & the Madrona Integrated Team, Masks/Folktales Come Alive for 54 students; Kim Copeland, Madrona K-8 for Endangered Species Screen Printing with artist Bill Matthews for 55 students; Phil Onishi, Sherwood Elementary, Twisted Musicians for 140 5th & 6th grade students; Peggy Lindquist, Westgate Elementary, for The Leader in Me, 203 students and for Button Blanket (NW Native American Studies) for 29 students; Tim McCarthy and his team at Mountlake Terrace Elementary for Fusing Glass Beginning to Advanced , 60 4th graders; Mrs. Berry and Mrs. Tsiakilos for Frog Pond, Mrs. Pendergrass for African Masks, Mrs. Peppin & Mrs. Morel for Portrait Vessels – all with artist Julie Perrine at Maplewood K-8.

Grants were awarded to the following middle school teachers and their projects:
Aleksey Aluf, Meadowdale Middle School, Acrylic Paint (mask & mural projects), 200-230 students; and Leslie Dickinson, Alderwood MS Art Program, Fused Glass Experience for All and Art Materials.

Meadowdale High School teachers were awarded the following grants:
Jill Van Berkom for “Suzy Strelecky in the Classroom and Studio Strobes; D’Arcie Beytebiere, Mixed Media/Plaster and Clay with Judith Bushnell, NCECA (National Council Education for Ceramic Arts) Field Trip and Working Big (large fused glass projects); and Amanda Wood, for Seattle Art Museum Visit and Workshop (Gauguin focus)

Gail Summerfield, Lynnwood High School, received a grant for Drawing and Painting on Fused Glass, and the Edmonds Woodway High School Art Department received their grant for Guest Artist Workshops.

Visual arts education in our community remains a major mission of the EAF Foundation. The Visual Arts Idea Grant program has been providing support for visual arts curriculum in K-12 schools since 1994. For this school year $13,500 funded twenty-eight projects; five partially and twenty-three funded in full. These are exciting opportunities for students in our local schools. The success of this EAF Foundation program begins with community support for the annual Edmonds Arts Festival held each Father’s Day Weekend.

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Paintings by K Robinson

October 29th, 2011

Under The Bridge

“Under the Bridge I” by K Robinson is an oil bar painting on gessoed paper in the “Beach Walk” series now being shown at the Edmonds Arts Festival Museum through December 14, 2011.

The Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation and the Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present oil bar paintings by K Robinson from November 1 through December 14, 2011 at the Frances Anderson Center.

In the Display Case exhibit “Color of Light” the artist demonstrates a progressive study of how to express an idea using different formats and media. Robinson states, “I was inspired to find a way to show these elusive effects of light that changed with the seasons, weather, and time of day … The medium of oil pastels has the color intensity of oil paint but also allows for interesting strokes, overlays, and weaving of color.”

“Beach Walk”, displayed in the EAF Museum gallery, includes representative pieces from an ongoing series of oil bar paintings inspired by walks along the shore in Virginia and North Carolina. The artist says that the techniques possible with oil bar “express well the scintillating energy … felt at the edge of the ocean.”

K Robinson grew up in Virginia, graduating from the College of William and Mary with a BA in Fine Arts. Adding a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, she practiced architecture for many years in Washington, DC. She reconnected with painting in the 1990’s in the golden hills of California’s Bay Area and chose to work in plein air oil painting and botanical watercolors, painting with the Glover Group, painters perpetuating the legacy of the Society of Six with artist and teacher Pam Glover.

With relocation to Seattle in 2003, the artist continued her study and painting at Gage Academy mentored by Mitch Albala, Margaret Davidson and Tom Hoffmann. In 2008 she became a member of 49th Street Studio in Ballard where, with the influence of years of sailing and living on the water, she continues to draw inspiration from the constantly changing coastlines, luminous skies and endless waterways of the Pacific Northwest.

The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum and the Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case are located in the Frances Anderson Center, Main Entrance – 700 Main Street, Edmonds. Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri 9 to 9, Sat – 10 to 3. For information call 425.771.0228 or 771.1984.

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