You’ve heard of good karma.
Now comes Garden Karma, a garden party tonight that celebrates art, artists and the garden angels who help keep Everett’s Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens in tiptop condition.
The free event, 7-9 tonight, is in the Evergreen Arboretum located in Legion Park in north Everett, and the public is invited, said Wendy Becker of the Everett Parks Department. The parks department and the volunteers from Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens are hosts for the event.
The garden party will feature entertainment with an East Indian theme, including music and dance, and will introduce the public to the newest outdoor sculpture located in the arboretum.
Six new works have been installed in the jewellike gardens, part of a rotating public art display that features the works of Northwest artists.
Organizers got to thinking about all the good things that people do for the Parks Department and the Arboretum – good karma – Becker said, and the idea of Garden Karma was born.
Tents and lanterns will add atmosphere and performers include the Garden Gypsies, belly dancing; Shakti, who will perform the candle dance; drumming by tabla player Bill Moyer; and the Leela Kathak Dancers, who perform classic dances of northern India, Becker said.
The Mehndi Henna artists will apply temporary and traditional henna tattoos.
Refreshments will be served and a silent auction of garden art is planned.
Party guests can check out the six new sculptures that have been installed in the arboretum as part of the garden’s rotating art displays.
The sculptures, which are all for sale by the artists, join the arboretum’s permanent art display.
The new works, which were installed this summer and will remain on view until next May, include James Lapp’s soaring stainless steel sculpture titled “Neves” and Renee Kleeman’s bronze bust of a neoclassical woman. Leon White’s “Night Watchman” is a granite sculpture of an owl, and Ivan Neaigus has created “Eye of the Needle” in granite.
Pat McVay’s “Slugger” is a large-scale baseball bat and ball carved from cedar, and Chris Pauly’s “Garden Gate” is a whimsical fantasy of plants and animals in metal.
For more information on Garden Karma, call 425-257-8300.
Saturday art walk: Arts of Snohomish Art Gallery hosts the Second Saturday Art &Antique Art Walk 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in the historic downtown area, featuring new works by 36 local and regional artists.
See free demonstrations in painting, sculpting, two-dimensional recycled art and more. Other activities include visiting downtown Snohomish art galleries and, for the first time this month, a working art studio.
Saturday’s featured artists at Arts of Snohomish gallery, which is located in the historic Carnegie Library, are Brian Taylor, cyber art; Stephen Lestat, two- and three-dimensional mixed media; and Sue Hungerford, ceramics.
Arts of Snohomish is an artists’ cooperative open daily; 360-568-8648, www.artsofsnohomish.org.
“Gogh All Night”: This the final weekend to see the Van Gogh exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum. “Van Gogh to Mondrian,” an exhibit of 75 major works from 19th- and 20th-century masters, including Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Piet Mondrian. It closes on Sunday.
SAM is pulling an all-nighter starting at 9 a.m. Saturday and continuing nonstop until 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The event includes entertainment. Wear your pajamas and receive a 15-percent discount on museum store items.
Advance tickets ($15 for adults; $12 for students and seniors; free to members and youth ages six and under) are on sale at Ticketmaster, 206-292-ARTS, www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets are half priced for admission after 9 p.m. Saturday until 9 a.m. Sunday.
“Eye of the Needle,” Ivan Neaigus.
“Slugger,” Pat McVay
“Neves,” James Lapp
Untitled bust, Renee Kleeman.
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