May 31, 2008
What's Going On
Galleries and Art Shows
[Events and Entertainment]
[Galleries and Art Shows]
[Restaurant Activities]
[Meetings and Organizations]
[Classes, Workshops and Seminars]
Exhibits at Bayview Corner
See schedule below
All exhibits are in the Front Room, unless other wise noted.
Art by Fire
Through Tuesday, June 3
The ceramics students at South Whidbey High School present their annual exhibition. The show includes a wide variety of expressions ranging from figurative sculpture to intimate functional objects that explore many different formative, surfacing, and firing techniques. Artists’ reception: Saturday, May 31, 1:00PM to 4:00PM.
Evening with An Artist
Tuesday, June 3, 5:30PM - 6:30PM
Coupeville Arts Center, 15 NW Birch Street, Coupeville
Evening with An Artist will feature textile artist Joan Morris who’s designs were featured in the costumes of the Broadway musical “The Lion Club”. Joan is here teaching a fiber workshop. This casual evening will consist of good conversation, beverages and nibbles. For more information, call Lisa Bernhardt at (360)678-3396.
Art Show
Through Wednesday, June 4
Karlson/Gray Gallery, Langley
Sylvia Chesley Smith will display her thoughtful abstract paintings. The world that Smith paints is a colorful one, inhabited only by ideas and - at most - one recognizable object. The real inhabitants of Smith’s work are the ineffable notions of space, time and energy.
Smith’s work is rendered in bright acrylic on wood, which allows her to erode away layers of paint to represent the passage of time. The result is a beautiful world that is felt rather than completely understood.
For more information, call (360)221-2978.
Art Show and First Friday Celebration
Friday, June 6, 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Rob Schouten Gallery, Greenbank Farm, Greenbank
The gallery is extending the popular Lutschg - Schouten Show through July 3 and will be joining the Farm’s other fine businesses to celebrate First Friday at Greenbank Farm. Visitors to the gallery be treated to refreshments and live music, which will start about 7:00PM.
Schouten is exhibiting original oil paintings and etchings as well as his complete line of new limited edition and open edition giclée prints. This is the largest exhibit of Rob’s work ever shown on Whidbey Island. The gallery is also featuring the unique coil built and slab built ceramic vessels of well known Port Angeles artist Gayle Lutschg. Lutschg’s ceramic vessels are each carefully hand constructed and each piece tells a visual story.
The gallery is open daily from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. For more information, contact Victory Schouten at (360)222-3070 or email info@robschoutengallery.com.
Artist Reception
Friday, June 6, 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Artworks Gallery, Greenbank Farm, Greenbank
The gallery welcomes book/paper artist Mary Hawkins-Key and sculptor Dan Freeman with a First Friday reception. Mary creates elegant handmade keepsake boxes, books and albums using one-of-a-kind hand-painted papers and specialty papers from around the world, combined with paste-painted papers and handcrafted binding methods. The luxurious papers and meticulous craftsmanship invite your small treasures, photos, thoughts, dreams, poems and sketches. Dan sculpts fine woods and prosaic metals into offbeat forms that attract your eye and touch. He weaves in other elements as well – glass, stone, and found objects. Simplicity of form is complemented by a subtle, fine finish in Dan’s work.
In addition to the reception, Artworks Gallery at Greenbank Farm is open daily from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. For more information, please call (360)678-1871 or (360)222-3010.
Art Walk
Saturday, June 7, 5:30PM - 8:00 PM
Penn Cove Gallery, Coupeville
Penn Cove Gallery will be open Saturday evening for its quarterly Art Walk. The Gallery is filled with artwork created by local talent living here on Whidbey Island. Artwork includes watercolor, pastel, oil, mixed media, photography, pottery, glass, baskets, wood carving, jewelry and more. Come by to meet with the artists and enjoy the show. Penn Cove Gallery is located in downtown historic Coupeville. Open daily 10:00AM to 5:00PM.
Art Show and Artists’ Reception
Saturday, June 7, 5:00PM - 8:00PM
Museo, 215 First Street, Langley
Alicia LaChance paintings offer the viewer a modern beauty created through worn surfaces and vibrant imagery collaging small bits of, what she considers contemporary graphic symbolism with nature references.
Master metalworker, Katja Fritzsche’s sculptural work is both luminous and stalwart; revealing references to both antiquity as well as nature, especially in her use of stylized deer and gazelle heads as part of the indoor and outdoor constructions.
The gallery is open daily from 11:00AM - 5:00PM, and the show runs through June 29. For more information, call (360)221-7737, email museo@whidbey.com or go on-line to www.museo.cc.
Metamorphosis: Portraits of Our Children
Tuesday - Wednesday, June 10 - June 18, 10:00AM - 5:00PM
Bayview Cash Store, Front Room, Langley
Recording the growth of 20 Whidbey Island children over an 8 - year period, nationally renowned photographer Rich Frishman exhibits a moving series of fine art black and white portraits. The powerful and poignant images, shot from the Fall of 2000 to the Spring of 2008, follow a group of students from the Whidbey Island Waldorf School as they are magically transformed from vulnerable innocents to empowered adolescents.
Langley resident Frishman, whose photography regularly appears on the covers of Life, Time, Sports Illustrated and numerous other national magazines, began this project when his own son entered the Whidbey Island Waldorf School as a first grader. Knowing that the class would stay together through 8th grade, he sensed a unique setting in which to document the metamorphosis from children to teenagers. Every year these Waldorf students posed for a portrait that penetrated beyond mere appearance, seeking to reveal the inner spirit.
A reception to honor the subjects of this project, the 2008 graduating class of Whidbey Island Waldorf School, will be held from 5:00PM to 9:30PM, on Friday, June 13.
2nd Annual Gotta Have Art!
Friday - Sunday, June 20 - 22, Times unavailable
Bayview Cash Store, Front Room, Langley
The Summer Solstice Art Show by “Artists Run Amok” -- a group of Whidbey Island artists. There will be an artists’ reception on Saturday, June 21, from 5:00PM to 8:00PM. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the proceeds will be donated to benefit the Whidbey General Hospital Foundation.
The featured artists include: Lynn Flaaten, Wayne Flaaten. Mark Lucero, Judy Mello, Kelly Mohs, James Moore and Susan Winkler.
Art Show
Through month of June
1504 Coffee, Freeland
The coffee shop is showing the colorful handmade masks and puppets of Dawn Collins. Located on State Route 525 in the Texaco lot, and open daily 6:00PM to 3:00PM. For more inforamtion, call (360)331-1504,
Featured Artist
Through month of June
Christopher’s Restaurant, Coupeville
Joan Brosnahan will be the featured artist. Joan has developed a unique, unlimited style that is widely known under the signature “Broz”. Broz has collected numerous awards over the years and her pieces are in local Corporate Collections as well as many personal collections in various areas of the US, Canada, England and Germany. See more work by Broz as well as that of 25 other local artists at Penn Cove Gallery on Front Street in Coupeville.
Contemporary Quiltart Association Exhibit
Through Tuesday, July 1
Penn Cove Pottery, San de Fuca
The Contemporary Quiltart Association (CQA) presents an exhibit of member’s work. CQA meets the second Saturday of the month to promote new directions in two dimensional and near three dimensional Quilting and Textile design. While quilting traditionally meant close attention to repetition and mirrored patterns, the new direction in quilting has evolved into issues of surface design, the serendipity of curved lines and hand dyed fabrics. To preview some of their work and learn more about CQA go to www.comtemporaryquiltart.com.
Penn Cove Pottery is located at 26184 State Route 20 in the village of San de Fuca. Hours are general 10:00AM until 5:30PM, Monday through Saturday. For more information call (360)678-6464.
