Monte Cristo exhibit something to crow about
Published 9:45 pm Thursday, August 27, 2009
If you hear the sound “caw, caw,” that might be a crow talking trash about you.
Studies of the ubiquitous black-feathered birds have shown that these clever crows can visually recognize individual people and even talk among themselves about “bad” humans. Crows also imitate human voices and have learned to make and use tools to find food.
The revered and sometimes reviled crow will be among the featured works of art in the show “Of Clocks and Crows,” put on by the Arts Council of Snohomish County.
“Of Clocks and Crows” kicks off with a free catered reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the arts council’s Monte Cristo gallery, 1507 Wall St., Everett. At the reception, visitors can meet some of the more than 50 artists participating in the show. The show runs through Oct. 20.
This year, the sixth annual Arts of Snohomish Juried Artist Show will exhibit 25 artists, who hail from as far away as Sequim, in the categories of mixed media, pastels and drawing, photography, ceramics, painting, digital art and sculpture.
The juried show opens Tuesday and runs through Sept. 27 at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery, 105 Cedar Ave., in Snohomish. There is an artist reception planned from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 12 with award winners announced at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call the gallery at 360-568-8648.
Irish painter Josie Gray is from the shores of Lough Arrow in east Sligo, Ireland. He didn’t begin painting until he turned 69 but since then has developed paintings that display his reverential feeling for the land and the sky, capturing the drama of luminous cloudscapes or the backdrop of a river against dusky landforms.
Gray’s companion, writer Tess Gallagher, said Gray’s landscapes “seem to be dreaming into themselves, inhabited by a held-in aliveness that has the effect of seeming to quietly expand as the viewer attends the scene.”
Gray’s work, along with new hand-blown glass art by Robert Adamson and his wife, Janis Swalwell, will be featured during a show that kicks off with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 4 during First Friday at Greenbank Farm with refreshments and the acoustic guitar of Quinn Fitzpatrick at the Rob Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Whidbey Island.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424, goffredo@heraldnet.com.
