Check Lowell gallery for last-minute gifts
Published 5:10 pm Friday, December 21, 2007
Artists from around the region are gathering at Lowell Art Works to help you with your last-minute holiday shopping.
From noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, the Lowell Art Works Holiday Shopportunity takes place at Lowell Art Works gallery, 5205 S. Second Ave., Everett.
Artists have created unique gifts and stocking stuffers for this event. Spiced cider, cookies, candy canes and cocoa will be served.
A new hostess: Artist Irina Milton will be filling in as the hostess for Solovei Art Gallery to present an exhibit called “Indian Summer” that was previously shown at Milton’s studio.
The exhibit features portraits of people from different countries and continents, and works reflecting spiritual traditions by American Indian artists including works by Tom Colton, Galina Doder, JL Mac Kechnie, Cheryl King, Galina Milton, Irina Milton, Ned Mueller, Janet Myer and Christina Williams. Also on display will be selected works from Milton’s artist collection.
Milton offered to move the Indian Summer exhibit while Solovei Gallery owner Lyussy Hyder takes time off for the holidays. The show runs through Saturday at the Solovei, 2804 Grand Ave.
Touchable textiles: There’s still two weeks left of the Joan Colvin exhibit at La Conner Quilt Museum, where 20 quilts from this Samish Island artist’s collection are on display on the first floor.
The show runs through Dec. 30 at the museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner. Admission is $5 for nonmembers; members and children under 12 are free.
Colvin’s exhibit highlights five of her recent pieces which have never been shown publicly, along with other selections representing themes such as trees, birds, sea life and mysterious, beautiful women.
Colvin, who has a reputation for spectacular designs and muted colors, is also a noted fiber arts author, lecturer and teacher whose work has been featured in many exhibits, in numerous publications, and on the public broadcasting stations and home and garden television.
