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<< Previous   of   Next >> (click to enlarge) "The Empty Seat" by William Fahey   ADVERTISEMENT   CONTACT THE HERALD Melanie Munk, Features Editor munk@heraldnet.com   Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 Three artists explore life near the Cascade Range By Theresa Goffredo Herald Writer “Cascadia: Born From Nature” displays three Snohomish County artists, each using a different medium to express the shared experience of living close to the Cascades. The show has ceramics by Marguerite Goff of Stanwood, fiber art by Patricia Resseguie of Camano Island and mixed-media paintings by Renate Trapkowski of Camano Island. In Cascadia “each artist responds to living life and loving nature in this extraordinary place,” said EvCC Russell Day Gallery director and art instructor Sandra Lepper. “Cascadia: Born From Nature” is on display until Oct. 29 at Everett Community College’s Russell Day Gallery, 2000 Tower St., Everett. 100 bottles of pop on the wall: In the United States, 2 million plastic beverage bottles are used every five minutes, 106,000 aluminum cans are used every 30 seconds and 1.4 million brown paper bags are used every hour. In an exhibit opening at Pacific Science Center this weekend, Ballard-based photographer Chris Jordan puts these kinds of statistics of consumerism into large-scale images with the hope that his messages will help you change the way you view the world. “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers” opens Saturday and continues through Jan. 3 at Pacific Science Center, 200 Second Ave. N., Seattle. Tickets range from $7 to $18. Call 206-443-2001 or visit pacificsciencecenter.org. “Visual Words” is a joint exhibit of artwork by Lynda Sherman, a letter press artist, and Doug Keith, an illustrator and graphic designer, now on display through Oct. 30 at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds. Each year for the Write on the Sound Writers’ Conference, also held in Edmonds, a joint exhibit at the Anderson Center features artists who use the written word in their artwork or are book illustrators. Using handset metal and wood type, Sherman translates everyday experiences into paper ephemera and tactile objects. Sherman will present “Textural Printing: The mystical secrets of letterpress printing revealed,” from 12:30 to 1 p.m. Sunday in the Edmonds Plaza Room, 650 Main St., Edmonds. It’s free. Keith’s artwork includes pieces that give insight into the creative process of making good picture books. “Fall into Art” is an art show heralding the beginning of fall with animal paintings — in colored pencil, pastel and watercolor — for which Beverly Wilkinson has become known, landscapes by Joan Pinney and organic inspired jewelry made from such things as leaves, pods and stones created by Jolie Maki. The show runs through Oct. 31 at Arts of Snohomish Gallery, 105 Cedar Ave., Snohomish. Meet the artists at a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 17. Seattle acrylic artist William Fahey, known for magic realist paintings, said he “delights in painting impossible things with an earth-bound naturalism.” Fahey’s paintings are on view through Nov. 4 at The Rob Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island. And while on Whidbey you can also visit The Open Door Gallery + Coffee at the historic Bayview Cash Store, which is exhibiting new paintings by Lauryn Taylor through Oct. 13. A reception to meet the artist will be held starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the store, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley. Taylor’s exhibit, “To Timbuktu and Back,” explores associations with the mysterious city of Timbuktu with paintings that contain spicy translucent colors combined with graphic symbolism, architectural elements and rich textural backgrounds. Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com. READER COMMENTS Be the first to comment. You must be a registered user and verify your e-mail address to post comments to blogs or articles on HeraldNet. To register, click here. To read other terms and conditions, click here. Log out

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