She’s known as a garden-art goddess and an extraordinary recycler. But on Saturday, Kim Groff-Harrington will take on the role of curator for an art show that heralds the world’s has-beens.
The recycled art show is called “One More Time” and runs through Nov. 7 at Lowell Art Works, 5205 S. Second Ave., Everett.
The opening party for the show is from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday. In keeping with the green theme of the evening, guests are encouraged to BYOG, bring your own drinking glass.
As guest curator, Groff-Harrington has assembled a collection of work to help visitors be inspired, amazed, delighted and educated about how to redirect the discarded. This is what Groff-Harrington says on her Web site about her artwork and her belief system:
“My work comes from my want, need to reduce/reuse/recycle, and the challenge of using discarded and surplus materials to revive and continue in the folk art tradition of taking broken, unwanted, discarded items and bringing new life to them. The process includes much pounding, cutting of metal, and my unique way of wiring materials together.”
Other artists of the reclaimed include Chris Lemmon, Tami Walker, Shelley Holm and Terri Shinn.
Glowing glass: Master glass artist Sonja Blomdahl makes a pit stop in La Conner to bring her 25-year retrospective to the Northwest.
Blomdahl’s traveling exhibit opens with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and runs through Jan. 4 at the Museum of Northwest Art, 121 S. First St., La Conner.
The exhibit has more than 30 blown glass vessels, gorgeous in color and graceful in form that are iconic of Blomdahl’s elegant style.
“As an artist my focus has been with the vessel. In the vessel, I find the form to be of primary importance,” Blomdahl said in a prepared statement. “If I have done things correctly, the profile of the piece is a continuous curve, the shape is full, and the opening confident.”
The Italian term “incalmo” stands for the technique Blomdahl uses that joins multiple bubbles together, forming a band of color. The word translates to mean “to be calm.”
Along with Blomdahl’s glass, Shelley Muzylowski Allen is showing her “modern menagerie” of animal-themed glass sculptures in the Benaroya Glass Gallery.
In her first solo show at the museum, Muzylowski Allen demonstrates her skill with the animal anatomy, illustrating her talents in a palette of deep and metallic hues.
In Anacortes: “Observations” is the new exhibit of work from Skagit Valley contemporary realist Larry Heald on display through October at Insight Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes.
Heald, who studied at Yale University under the National Scholarship Award and was a past instructor at Pennsylvania State University and Western Washington University, has had a number of prestigious exhibitions and has exhibited widely in galleries from New York to San Francisco, and many in between.
Feathered friends: The show “Birds of Whidbey” presented by Freeland artist Craig Johnson highlights a collection of original and limited-edition watercolors based on the birds of that community.
The art show and benefit is from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday in the second floor Front Room at Bayview Corner, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley.
Fifty percent of art sale proceeds will be donated to Whidbey-Camano Land Trust to help preserve habitat for wildlife. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be offered.
Watercolor: October at WiseDesignz, 2908 Wetmore Ave., Everett, features work from the Port Gardner Bay Watercolor Society beginning with an artist’s reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Years of yarn: The Seattle Weavers’ Guild annual show and sale runs from Thursday through Oct. 25, featuring the work of more than 100 local and regional artists and offering high-quality textiles, art for the walls and, new this year, recycled pieces.
This is the guild’s signature sale, at St. Mark’s Cathedral’s Bloedel Hall, 1245 10th Ave. E. Seattle. The show runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 24 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 25.
The guild, in its 71st year, features such unique works as hand-woven scarves, rugs, blankets and one-of-a-kind garments, tapestries, baskets, jewelry, accessories for pets, children’s items, handmade cards, woven paper art, household goods, hats, bags and yarn.
New this year will be items made with organic and recycled materials, plus a new department called “Art for the Wall,” featuring traditional woven tapestries to contemporary wall hangings and matted, framed fiber art. Spinning and weaving demonstrations will take place throughout the event.
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