Digital art, collage and photos at Edmonds CC

Exhibits featuring digital art, collage and photography are all opening at Edmonds Community College.

At the ArtsNow Gallery at the Edmonds Conference Center, 201 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds, the Northwest Collage Society will show works through Oct. 31. A free reception for the artists will be 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 20 during the Edmonds Third Thursday Gallery Walk.

At Edmonds Community College Art Gallery, 20000 68th Ave. W., in Lynnwood, “The Digital Age” art exhibit will be open through Dec. 7. This exhibit features mixed media and digital art works by Bonny Lhotka, Karin Schminke and Dorothy Simpson Krause. The artists will lecture on artistic exploration in the digital age at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Triton Union Building. A reception is also planned from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Oct. 19 at the college’s art gallery.

And the public can join students from Ray Pfortner’s “Shoot and Show” photography class and view their work at the ArtsNow Gallery at the Edmonds Conference Center. A reception is planned for 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14.

“Evolution: Leaving the Land of Should”: The artists of Raven Rocks Studio believe that creating art is an evolutionary process, one that can’t happen by anticipation or by the process of what an artist should create, but is born in a flash of insight, or grows and matures with the artist. It’s not often that anyone but the artist has the opportunity to watch the process unfold.

During the month of September, the artists of Raven Rocks Studio are offering the public a chance to watch the creative process evolve. Artwork from Mary Jo Oxrieder and Windwalker Taibi will be on display in its initial stages of creation. Every Saturday throughout the month, the artists will add to the works, bringing them into the studio to work on them so the public can track the progress. On the final Saturday, Sept. 29, the finished artwork can be seen at the gallery at 220 First St., Langley.

To further celebrate life outside the box, the studio will host a Harvest Moon open house from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 22 to welcome the fall equinox and to feature the unveiling of Taibi’s newest Snake Medicine Stick and Oxrieder’s latest Talking Stick, honoring the process of change in the circle of life.

Keeping with the spirit of this experiment, the whole month will be a kaleidoscope of changing art. Each week, new paintings, jewelry and mixed media pieces will come and go.

Together we can make art: Skagit Artists Together is putting on a show called “Journeys: Inward and Outward” in Anacortes to celebrate the opening of the fall arts season in a first-ever collaborative art show.

A reception with hors d’oeuvres, wine and beverages is planned for 6 to 9 p.m. tonight at Depot Arts Center, 611 R Ave., Anacortes.

The show, which continues through Sept. 29, features the creative visions of 23 Skagit Valley fine artists. Show juror Susan Parke selected 31 pieces representing watercolor, oil and acrylic painting, metal sculpture, printmaking, pottery, ceramic art, fine art photography and mixed media. Parke selected “Night Owls” by La Conner artist Christie Houston as the show signature piece and poster image.

Skagit Artists Together includes more than 60 Skagit Valley artists and art aficionados working to bring awareness and focus to the range of art created by Skagit Valley artists.

The Skagit Artists Together opening and reception will be part of the First Friday Anacortes Art Walk.

Also in Anacortes: Watercolors and oils will be on display during the Northwest Impressions show through Sept. 27 at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. The show features new work by Marty Rogers, James Moore and Jane Wallis.

What a doll: For 20 years, Donna Linn, mental health counselor and certified expressive arts therapist, has lead healing workshops, from cancer recovery groups to women’s gatherings, and has shared her doll-making experience. For the first time at Seattle’s Art/Not Terminal Gallery, those workshop participants will share their “Spirit Dolls” with the public.

The show opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., Seattle. The show runs through Oct. 4.

Also on display will be “7 Continents: Photographs by Kim Hood.” The show is composed of black and white images from all seven continents.

She talks in colors: Vancouver, B. C. artist Bobbie Burgers says she uses flowers as her translator and Manfred Lindenberger expresses the pulse of life with vibrant, bright colors. These artists are showing their work through Sept. 29 at the Foster/White Gallery, 220 Third Ave. S., Suite 100, Seattle.

Digital art works are on display at Edmonds Community College.