“Which Way to the Barn” is a trick question and the title of a winning piece of art.
Artist Helen Lueken’s painting of a trio of confused looking cows, which she titled “Which Way to the Barn,” won as this year’s poster art for the Arlington Arts Council’s annual Art in the Barn event.
Which way to the barn is also a trick question because the irony of Art in the Barn is that there no longer is a barn.
The annual art festival continues at the Yantis family farm in Oso. And though the barn became a casualty of heavy snow and collapsed in the winter of 2008, the art show continues in the spot where the barn once stood.
This is the seventh year for Art in the Barn, which was founded inside the Yantis hay barn. After the barn fell down, Monica Yantis, an artist, said the classic line, “The show must go on.”
And so it has.
This fine arts and crafts show is hosted by the Yantis family for the Arlington Arts Council. The yard is picturesquely landscaped by Brian Yantis, and shaded by fruit trees in the North Fork valley of the Stillaguamish River.
It’s there that artists set out their creations to be admired and possibly purchased.
From photography to paintings, the show also includes felted hats, pottery, glass work, jewelry, basket weaving and woodwork.
Many of the artists are members of the Arlington Arts Council, a group dedicated to providing quality art experiences to the Arlington community.
Some of the highlights of the show will include photographer Kent Baker, who will show a range of images of the west, from the canyons of Utah, to the mountain tops of California and Washington.
Fran Kaufman mixes it up using photography in a variety of mixed media.
Other artistic standouts include painters who portray the northwest in a variety of styles and techniques including Rocky Barrick, Kathy Critchfield, Shirley Harwell, Norman Kearsley, Carey Sorenson and Monica Yantis.
Among the crafts there will be felt hats by Erika Bruss and Kristina Hebert, turned wood bowls by Lucinda Van Valkenburg, glass work by Bev Schatz and pottery by Laura Kuhl.
“Art in the Barn” will run from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at 20412 Highway 530, about 12 miles northeast of Arlington near Oso.
Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424; goffredo@heraldnet.com.
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