Have you ever wondered what passions dwell at the heart of artists’ inner visions? Which of their works reveal the true spark that kindles their creative souls?
The artists of Raven Rocks Studio expose their deepest look inward in “Our Favorite Things: The Heart of an Artist” this weekend at The Front Room of the Bayview Cash Store on Whidbey Island.
Windwalker Taibi has returned to creating unique contemporary and traditional Indian jewelry and wall art, stretching the boundaries of his visions. Mary Jo Oxrieder’s imagination takes new flights of fancy as she works with her favorite materials: paints, feathers, gifts of nature, beads and glitter.
The show is open from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at 5603 Bayview Road, Langley; 360-579-1021.
Pastel workshops: Margaret Dyer, a nationally acclaimed master pastel artist from Atlanta, will be in Mukilteo to share her expertise in traditional pastel painting techniques in two three-day workshops
Working with live models, Dyer will focus on developing form using light and shadow. Participants do not need prior pastel experience, although some drawing experience would be helpful.
The intensive three-day workshops will run this weekend and next at Now Productions, 724 First St. in Mukilteo. For more information contact Lisa Spreacker at 425-347-1528 or e-mail her at lisajspreacker @aol.com.
“A Hot Summer Nite”: A salute to local firefighters is captured in photographs by Victor Loverro and will be on display at Gallery at the Loft on Camano Island.
An opening reception is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the gallery, 848 N. Sunrise Blvd., Camano Island.
Loverro’s exhibition of large-format black-and-white images honors the local professional and volunteer firefighters of Camano Island and north Snohomish County. The new body of work is a departure from Loverro’s recent landscape studies.
According to the gallery’s Web site, www.galleryintheloft.com, each firefighter reveals his attraction to the necessary but dangerous profession through the choice of stance, equipment and setting. In the absence of color, the photographer focuses on the essence of his subject; the large-format negative creates a crisp clarity that is not possible in other forms of photography, the Web site says.
Gallery in the Loft will donate 10 percent of the sales for this evening to the firefighters’ favorite charity. Selected photographs from this exhibit will remain on display through August at Islander’s Restaurant, next door to the gallery.
For more information, contact Doris Platis at 360-631-0688 or e-mail doris@galleryintheloft.com.
Anacortes Arts Festival: The 45th anniversary edition of the Anacortes Arts Festival is this weekend.
Today through Sunday, 250 artists will fill the historic district of Anacortes with a variety of works, including paintings, photographs, glass, ceramics, fiber art, jewelry and furniture.
Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with extended hours at music venues tonight and Saturday night.
The working-artists area will allow visitors to observe and interact with demonstrating artists on Saturday and Sunday. The area will feature a group of Indian artisans working in wood and basketry.
The musical entertainment includes free performances on two stages and evening entertainment in a number of locations. Go to www.anacortesartsfestival.com for a complete listing.
The youth discovery area will provide free hands-on cultural activities for kids. A Pacific Science Center Exhibit will explore shape and symmetry, and there also will be a rock-climbing wall. Face painting, tap dancing, mural painting and origami also will be offered.
The August First Friday Gallery Walk from 6 to 9 tonight helps kick off the festival. Participating galleries include:
* Artsmart, 714 Commercial Ave., featuring local artists.
* Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., celebrating its fifth anniversary with works by artists McCool, Julie Higgins, Cathy Schoenberg and Rebecca Hyland, jewelry by Debbie Aldrich, Kathleen Faulkner and Carole Cunningham, and ceramics by Teri Silva, Donna Perugini and Makiko Ichiura.
* Keystone Center for the Arts, 619 Commercial Ave.
* Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., showing new upbeat and colorful works by Anne Schreivogl, the featured poster artist for the festival.
* Digital Art Moments, 512 Commercial Ave., featuring “The Spirit of Madagascar” by Joan Silling.
* Adrift, 510 Commercial Ave., featuring etchings and engravings by Margot Sanborn Meyer.
* Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., featuring landscape pastels by Susan Ogilvie, oils by Dederick Ward, Indian carvings by Kevin Paul, oils by Denise Cole and exploratory abstracts by Renate Trapkowski.
* Star Bar, 416 Commercial Ave., featuring regional artists.
* Johnny Picasso’s, 1005 Fourth St., featuring regional artists.
* Gallery at the Depot, 611 R Ave., a sampling of 150 works of jewelry, fiber art, metal, wood and mixed media by Northwest Designer Craftsmen.
* Bowman Gallery, 801 Fifth St., featuring the work of Carroll Meek and Saul Spiro.
“Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004”: Kim is exhibiting his oils and other works through Sept. 17 at the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, 15th Ave. NE and NE 41st Street, Seattle.
This exhibition, the first museum survey by the artist, explores four bodies of monochrome painting.
Color in its various aspects -as fact, as signifier and as metaphor – continues to dominate Kim’s work. “Threshold” includes small canvases whose colors pinpoint particular events and places in his childhood.
“Chihuly in Tacoma”: A six-day event celebrating the career of Tacoma native Dale Chihuly is scheduled for Tuesday through Aug. 13.
A number of special events and activities are scheduled at the Museum of Glass, the Tacoma Art Museum, the William Traver Gallery and other downtown venues during the week.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, Chihuly and his team will work with a rotation of talented and accomplished artists in the Museum of Glass Hot Shop, 1801 Dock St. in Tacoma, as part of the Museum’s Visiting Artist Summer Series. The 2006 summer series marks the third year of collaboration with the acclaimed Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, which was co-founded by Chihuly, Anne Gould Hauberg and John Hauberg.
“Dovinity: The Dove is God”: An exhibit by Ramon Deslauriers runs from Saturday through Sept. 7 at the Art/Not Terminal Gallery, 2045 Westlake Ave., Seattle.
The gallery will host an opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday.
Deslauriers has produced a series of fantastical black-and-white digital collage paintings that unveil a fictitious religion through iconic portraits of the Dove’s disciples and apostates.
In the Subterranean Room, visitors can view a show titled “The Infinite Path of Seeing.” Susan Roller, a mixed media artist and painter, and Bruce Scott, a pastel painter, share their visions joining the primordial and the everyday and asking the question “Who are we and how did we get here?” Each explores what lies beyond human perceptions. The hours for this exhibit are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 1 to 6 p.m. Saturdays and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
LEFT: ‘Raven Steals Fire for Her Children,” Mary Jo Oxrieder, Bayview Cash Store
BELOW: “Medicine Song,” Windwalker Taibi, Bayview Cash Store
ABOVE: “Freeborn Station Engine 90 crew – Bryant Station,” Victor Loverro, “A Hot Summer Nite”
RRIGHT: “Anchovies on Clay,” Allen Moe, Anacortes Arts Festival
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