“The Art of Linley B. Logan”
“Dew Eagle Strike the Sky” a linoleum relief print by Linley B. Logan
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.
Logan interacts as a multidisciplinary artist creatively ranging from the traditional arts to contemporary artistic expression. His artistic educational background includes industrial and graphic design, and multidisciplinary fine arts. His employment experience encompasses cultural artistic consulting and presentation. He has curated and co-curated two contemporary Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy) art exhibits and has authored articles published by the Smithsonian Institution as well as presented cultural program presentations for the Smithsonian Institution. He has participated by invitation in two International Indigenous Visual Artists’ Gatherings in Hawaii 2007, and Rotorua, New Zealand 2010. Logan serves on local and regional arts boards in Washington state and is the current Chairman of the Kitsap County Arts Board.
“Seh Nayong:geh” is an acrylic painting by Linley B. Logan
Works shown in this exhibit feature a broad range of two-dimensional arts from printmaking to painting and three dimensional arts worked in carving and lost and found art creations.
“Wolf Sucking Up the Resources” is an oil painting by Linley B. Logan
The artist attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico where he received an AFA in Two Dimensional Arts, and AFA in Three Dimensional Arts, and engaged in Museum studies. He also attended a session in ceramics at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle Main and later attended the Rochester Institute of Technology for a BFA in Industrial Design.
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.
“Edmonds Arts Festival Museum Collection featured at the Frances Anderson Center”
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
“Paintings by K Robinson”
“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.
“Ji to E” by Toshi Asai
This is a detail of “Nitobe Inazou” acrylic on wood from “Sakka Series” (“Famous Japanese Writers Series”) by Toshi Asai
The Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation and the Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present the work of Seattle artist Toshi Asai from September 29th through October 29th in an exhibit of work highlighting the intersection of visual and literary arts.
This exhibit consists of two parts: part one (in the display case) contains “Sakka Series” a collection of famous, significant modern Japanese authors. These authors shaped the artist’s knowledge of literature in her early years and still hold a special place in her practice and mindset today. Some of the authors included are Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
The second part of the exhibit (in the gallery) includes a form of collage-like drawing and painting done during an intensive thirty-hour drawing-performance at Project: Space Available on Capitol Hill. The images and words are taken from newspapers, personal journals and various books that form a timeline documentation of an event. It was an intuitive experiment that unfolded over time.
Asai states, “Although I was formally trained to paint traditionally, in recent years I have wanted to mix writings and drawings. For this intensive project, I chose a selection of writings from my current interest: Tsurezuregusa (the harvest of leisure) – 14th century essay by Kenko Yoshida, one of the three representative works of medieval Japanese literatures. I also included portions of current issues and writings from Japanese newspapers. And last but not least, I jotted down my thoughts, feelings and events that happened during the thirty-hour period. All of these combinations became a background, like a far away scene in the picture-making process, before I started to draw animals. The text is not meant to be understood fully, however it is more like my footsteps and past marks over a prolonged period of activity.”
This exhibit is in conjunction with the annual Write on the Sound Writers’ Conference, which will be held September 30-October 2nd, 2011.
The public is invited to Meet the Artist on Thursday, October 20th from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Frances Anderson Center. Born in Nagoya, Japan, Toshi Asai graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Physics and a B.F.A. in Painting in 2003. She currently works and lives in Seattle.
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.
Journey: Clay to Fiber
Over the Fence - Monotype by Dawn Rieck
The EAF Museum is pleased to present work by Dawn Rieck from Monday, August 8 through Tuesday, September 13, 2011. The exhibit is called “Journey: Clay to Fiber” and explores her journey from a clay artist to a fiber artist.
Rieck was raised in a variety of locales throughout Washington State and had opportunities to explore and walk the beaches, or sit, surrounded by the color of water, sun, and rocks.
Creating art has always been important to her. Her grandmother taught her to sew and create with fabric from a very early age and she showed her first painting at 11. Rieck graduated from Edmonds High School and attended Everett Community College focusing on art classes. After marrying, she and her husband ventured from Florida to California and Hawaii, and then to Texas, where she began studying pottery and taught herself to weave. Returning to Edmonds now with their two daughters she set up a studio to continuing pottery, weaving, and beading, exploring and mixing things.
The landscape and architecture has influenced her clay work. She takes the clay or color from the earth and communicates a bit of nature, a moment in time, an emotion. Making art with fabric begins with an exploration of color and the softness of fabric, which is then influenced by our weather and landscape and experiences.
An artist reception will be held from 6 to 7:30 pm on Third Thursday, August 18, 2011. We invite you to come and experience the work and talk with Dawn Rieck about her process.
The EAF Museum is open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 9 pm; Saturday from 9 to 3 pm. It is located at 700 Main Street entrance to the Frances Anderson Center. For information call 771-1984.
The Sculptor’s Workshop presents its interpretation of Art Deco
The Sculptor’s Workshop presents its interpretation of Art Deco, the decorative design concepts originating in the 1920’s: repeating geometric elements and curves, streamlined industrial design, “Flapper” clothing and jewelry, elongated, stylized, graceful figures, animals and plant life, bold posters, and architecture. The main idea is bold, strong design.
The Sculptor’s Workshop has created an Art Deco-inspired building façade collaboration as well as individual figures, enlarged jewelry design, and architectural elements, all made with individual artist’s spirit and zeal. Artwork is primarily made of clay.
Artists include Kathleen Dawe, Robert Dionne, Colleen Duran, Michiko Euling, Lennéa Gandee, Denise Heekin, Kristiana Johnson, Terry Sonmore, Patty Steele-Smith, Janet Still, Masako Thrower, and Leon White.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum will exhibit the work of the Sculptor’s Workshop Friday, July 8 through Wednesday August 3, 2011. On Third Thursday, July 21, come and meet the artists at their Reception from 6 to 7:30.
Art Begets Art
The variation in styles of African mask makers is the focus of Kristi Silver.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum is pleased to present the Potters of Sculptor’s Workshop from May 13 through June 8, 2011.
Have you ever watched an intoxicating film, listened to a favorite piece of music or visited an art exhibit and then experienced a creative surge? The artists of Edmonds “Sculptors Workshop” know this feeling!
“Feminine Texture IV” by Barbara Wyatt
Works by Leina Barnes, Jeanette DeLalla, Faye Gallagher, Sally Jensen, Mike O’Day, Julie Perrine, Jordana Rene, Kristi Silver, Terry Sonmore, Kay Swanson, Mary Ann Tokars-King and Barbara Wyatt will be featured. These artists have been actively at work, creating original pieces inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, African Tribal body art, Gaudi’s architecture, Georgia O’Keefe, Gustav Klimt and others.
Come tour the artists’ journey and witness the results of this inspirational process! Meet the artists and discuss their work at the Third Thursday Artists Reception, May 19th, 6 to 7:30 pm.
SUBJECTIVE: a “blind” collaboration between Gwenn Seemel and Becca Bernstein
Exhibition Catalog available for purchase.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum and the Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present “SUBJECTIVE: a “blind” collaboration between Gwenn Seemel and Becca Bernstein” from March 17 through April 29, 2011 at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main Street, Edmonds.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing tour of Subjective around the Northwest. An exhibition catalog is available locally at the Edmonds Book Shop and on the artists’ websites: www.onefaceatatime.com and www.beccabernstein.net.
SUBJECTIVE: a “blind” collaboration between Gwenn Seemel and Becca Bernstein
SUBJECTIVE: two views each of ten subjects
"Father” by Gwenn Seemel - Subjective consists of two views each of ten subjects: twenty paintings of loved ones immortalized once by a stranger and once by their kin. This series reveals that there is much more to portraiture than mere imitation.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum and the Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present “SUBJECTIVE: a “blind” collaboration between Gwenn Seemel and Becca Bernstein” from March 17 through April 29, 2011 at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main Street, Edmonds. These pairs of portraits reflect the very different perspectives of two artists, collaborating by painting the same subject, but without seeing each other’s work.
Bernstein’s work focuses on human relationships, family, and aging. She explores issues of human fragility and strength in what she describes as “the awkward dance of human interdependence.”
Becca Bernstein earned a BA in Drawing, cum laude, at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She also studied at the University of Glasgow and interned at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. She was selected by Southwest Art Magazine as one of 21 artists to watch. Her awards include the Kimberley Gales Emerging Artist Award, the Lake Oswego Public Art Award, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Public Art Installation Commission among others. Her work can be found in the public collections of the City of Lake Oswego, Oregon, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Cascade Aids Project and the Oregon Ballet Theater.
“Father” by Becca Bernstein
Gwenn Seemel is a full-time artist dedicated to the genre of portraiture. She paints likenesses of individuals for commission but also portraits of groups of people for the purpose of exploring a particular issue. She is the recipient of grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Celebration Foundation, and the Haven Foundation among others. Her work is in the collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art.
Born in Saudi Arabia in 1981, Seemel has lived most of her life in France and the US. Her family settled in Oregon, where she graduating summa cum laude from Willamette University in 2003.
The EAF Museum and EAC Display Case are available for viewing Mon – Fri 9 to 9, Sat – 10 to 3. For information call (425) 771-1984 or (425)771-0228 or visit www.eaffoundation.org and www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/ArtsCommission/ to learn more about programs and visual art exhibits in our community.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing tour of Subjective around the Northwest. An exhibition catalog is available locally at the Edmonds Book Shop and on the artists’ websites: www.onefaceatatime.com and www.beccabernstein.net.
Impressions – Paper & Stone – Artists Reception Thursday February 17, 2011
Patrons met artists Richard Hestekind and Jim Ballard, and shared Impressions of Paper and Stone.
February 17, Third Thursday Art Walk in Edmonds
Edmonds Arts Festival Museum and Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case at the Frances Anderson Center
The exhibit continues through March 14th.
Impressions – Paper & Stone
Impressions - Paper & Stone
A joint exhibit entitled “Impressions – Paper & Stone” at the Frances Anderson Center (700 Main Street, Edmonds) is a collaboration between Jim Ballard and Richard Hestekind. The Edmonds Arts Commission and the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation are pleased to present this exhibit that may be viewed during building hours, Monday-Friday 8 am-9 pm, and Saturday 9 am-4 pm, February 10-March 15, 2011.
This exhibit explores the duality and the dynamic interplay between opposites – light and dark, hard and soft, positive and negative, subtractive and additive, substantive and illusive. The interplay of these qualities converge on our paper and stone.
Jim Ballard’s “Brush Series” – works on paper – evolved from his interst in the brushwork used in Sumi-e and Chinese Calligraphy. This work is his exploratory departure from these traditional expressions. In addition is a prototype book of embossed images along with Braille and English text for the Louis Braille School in Edmonds, a non-profit day school for children who are blind or partially sighted, offering classes from kindergarten through grade twelve. The book is titled Spineless Critters: A First Book of Invertebrates. In 2009, with the help of a Community Grant from the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation, Ballard created this to provide tactile information about insects that other books cannot offer. The book features anatomically correct embossings of spiders, scorpions and other critters with Braille explanations. Samples are on display for touching.
In Richard Hestekind’s “Chrysalis” Series, each rock is a fragment of the skin of the earth. Each has a compositional identity that narrates its own history. On a select few, he engaged in an active dialog exploring their unique character. This process displays another cycle in its metamorphosis of form. In these few presentations, he attempts to reveal what he discovered. Each stone left an impression on him and he left a fragment of an impression on it.
In 1993, Ballard and Hestekind were commissioned to create Community – an installation of carved granite figures throughout the Meadowdale Playfield Park (16700 66th Ave W, Lynnwood). This was a joint project between the Cities of Edmonds and Lynnwood who share the Park.
From the EAF Museum Collection
Since 1970, work has been selected for the Edmonds Arts Festival Museum from the Juried galleries of the annual festival. In addition, several poster originals are now in the Museum Collection.
You are invited to view a selection of these works at the Frances Anderson Center.
Pieces from the EAF Museum collection
Patrons are invited to view additional pieces of the EAF Museum Collection through the month of January being shown at City Hall and the Edmonds Center for the Arts.
Calligraphy on Exhibit at Frances Anderson Center
Iyoko Okano stands with the exhibit of her Japanese Calligraphy
A joint exhibit entitled “Contrasts in Calligraphy” at the Frances Anderson Center (700 Main Street, Edmonds) features traditional Japanese Calligraphy by Iyoko Okano and a variety of work by members of Write on Calligraphers. This exhibit is scheduled in conjunction with the annual Write on the Sound Writers’ Conference to celebrate the intersection of visual and literary arts. The Edmonds Arts Commission and the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation are pleased to present this exhibit that may be viewed during building hours, Monday-Friday 8 am-9 pm, and Saturday 9 am-4 pm, through October 29th.
For Iyoko Okano, Japanese calligraphy has always been a part of her life – even in the lengthy time between when she last held a brush in college and when she met Master Calligrapher Yoshiyasu Fujii and began studying with him. As she continues to study traditional forms of Japanese calligraphy based on Chinese classic literature, she finds that though works are most often created using classic poems, most of the themes, landscapes, and emotions expressed in these words are universal. She sees many examples of these in her life in Edmonds every day in the view of the water and mountains, friendly people and lush nature. This exhibit is a collection of her recent works under Mr. Fujii’s instruction that represent the scenery, people, and warmth of Edmonds. Her work is in the Edmonds Arts Festival Museum Gallery.
The grace and tranquility of this traditional art form fills the EAF Museum at the Frances Anderson Center
Okano began studying calligraphy at age 10 in Tokyo, Japan, and continued through university. She moved to Edmonds in 1987 and began studying with Mr Fujii in 2003. In 2004 she received Silver Prize at the Ninth Japanese Calligraphy Competition in America in Los Angeles. She has also had work selected for display at the prestigious Mainichi Calligraphy Competition in Tokyo, Japan, receiving Honorable Mention in 2006, 2007 and 2010.
The exhibit by nine members of Write on Calligraphers (WOC) is featured in the Edmonds Arts Commission Display Case in the Anderson Center. Included are Susan Russell, Dewey Henderson, Jocelyn Curry Asher, Jean Ferrier, Gayle Waddle Wilkes, Katherine Malmsten, Kathy Barker, Sue Gruhn and Katy Huston. WOC is a (non-profit) organization of Northwest artists who share a love of letters and the paper arts. Regular meetings offer special presentations of interest to calligraphers and paper arts enthusiasts. Meetings take place at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds on the second Tuesday evening of January, March, May, September and November and are open to the public. Members of Write on Calligraphers enjoy special benefits, such as advance information on upcoming events, discounts on workshops and conferences, and access to an extensive library of over 300 books, tapes, slides and periodicals. Every spring the group sponsors “Letters of Joy”, a popular 1½ day mini conference that regularly attracts over 325 participants and vendors at Edmonds Community College. Calligraphy classes are offered through the Edmonds Parks and Recreation Department. For more information visit their website www.writeoncalligraphers.homestead.com.
Jean Whitesavage Drawings at Anderson Center
A “Focus on Public Art” exhibit at the Frances Anderson Center features Jean Whitesavage. Whitesavage and her husband Nick Lyle created a forged steel piece called “Water Plants” in 1997, which surrounds the first floor elevator at Edmonds City Hall. This was one of the percent for art pieces created when the building was renovated for City Administrative Staff offices. The Edmonds Arts Commission and the Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation are pleased to present a joint exhibit of Jean’s work entitled “Working Drawings”. The exhibit at 700 Main Street, Edmonds, may be viewed during building hours, Monday-Friday 8 am-9 pm, and Saturday 9 am-4 pm, March 17 – April 30, 2010.
Madrona Berries by Jean Whitesavage
Jean Whitesavage is an artist who primarily makes sculptures out of steel. She uses blacksmithing and metal fabrication techniques to create voluptuous and complex forms. Whitesavage loves the natural world and speaks the language of living things through her drawing, design and sculpture. She is a self- taught horticulturist who is happily obsessed with gardening as well as using plant forms in her work, often as giant plants and flowers. An example of this can be seen in the installation “Prairie Flowers, Potato and Wheat” in Connell Washington. Six 12’-17’ tall forged steel pieces were commissioned by Washington State Arts Commission and installed along a walking path in 2009. Included are Yellow Bells, Fiddleneck, Shooting Star, Blazing Star, Potato Flower, and Wheat. See pictures at www.whitesavageandlyle.com
EAFF Display Case at The Frances Anderson Center
This exhibit consists of drawings for proposed public and private commissions. The final artwork is in some cases a complex sculpture made of forged steel, and in other cases a glass skylight or a hand woven rug. Also included are working drawings that are used in the studio. They reveal some of the varied stages of development when formulating an artwork. The steps along the way are often beautiful. This show is an opportunity to revisit those moments of the working process with drawing on paper – her first love.
EAFF Gallery at The Frances Anderson Center
She and Nick have collaborated on over twenty public art projects as Whitesavage & Lyle in Washington, Oregon and California. Whitesavage has a BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park PA, and an MA in Sculpture from NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred NY.
EAFF Gallery at The Frances Anderson Center
En Plein Air
Painting on Location
February 2nd – March 12th, 2010
"Genevieve" by Catherine Gill
Genevieve Tuck enjoyed painting on location, known as en plein air painting. She posed and answered her own question many times, “Why would anyone want to be a plein air painter? For me, it is the exciting experience of taking a blank canvas, a portable easel, a small box of paints and brushes, and then producing a painting that has never been done before.” Regarding the value of painting in this fashion, she stated, “It is the fleeting, changeable nature of light that makes it necessary to paint rapidly; whether it is a brilliant sunrise, sunset or the approaching moonlight.” Artists who painted with her agree, and there were many who would trek with her to a painting location and enjoy the experience.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation and the City of Edmonds Arts Commission are pleased to present the work of regional artists who delighted in the opportunity to join Genevieve Tuck on location to paint. Featured artists include Catherine Gill, Faye Castle, Hita von Mende, Jan Wurn, Roberta Crawford, Joan Pinney and Anni Leedy.
Most of the works that will be exhibited were done during excursions with Genevieve. The artists have been asked to provide comments about the experience of painting in this style and of painting as a group. Those comments will be included with the work for patrons to contemplate. Catherine Gill comments: “Painting on location needs a determination, a speed, a “feel” for a place; finding some landscape that you just know will give up its colors and shapes and lines, if only you can get it. The place is so much more than what you see. You stand, connected to all this, and need to summon up the courage to just start making the marks. If you are blessed that day, and determined, a painting will surface. Genevieve taught me that.”
"October Day with Genevieve" by Catherine Gill
Roberta Crawford remembers “right from the beginning she was an inspiration to us all. No matter where we painted, in the mountains, in a pasture by the barn or at the dock among the boats, she could create outstanding compositions and no matter what the weather was like, she’d press on.”
The exhibit opens Tuesday, February 2 and continues through Friday, March 12, 2010. Genevieve Tuck’s artistic spirit remains with all those she touched – painters, patrons, friends and family. She passed away at 100 years of age in August of 2008.
The Edmonds Arts Festival Museum gallery 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, Sun – closed. Information 425.771.1984 or 425.771.0228
Artists Featured in this Exhibit
Anni Leedy – www.annileedy.com
Catherine Gill – www.catherinegill.com
Hita von Mende – www.vonmende.com
Janice Wurn – www.artstallgallery.com/janice_wurn
Joan Pinney – www.joanpinney.com