In Smokey Point this weekend there’ll occur a fine synergy of art, music and flowers at a brand-new show called Art at The Plant Farm.
The show runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at, you guessed it, The Plant Farm at Smokey Point, 15022 Twin Lakes Ave., Marysville. It’s just west of I-5 and south of 172nd Street NE at I-5 exit 206.
The show will include a variety of art by members of Arlington Arts Council, Stanwood Camano Art Guild and the Greater Marysville Art Guild. Visitors can enjoy live music, beautiful plants and art and walk around inviting grounds. And The Plant Farm has about 40,000 square feet of greenhouse, so the show will go on rain or shine.
The schedule for the live music is: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, The Stilly River Band; 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Paul Nyenhuis; 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, One Ton of Ducks; 10 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Amber Darland and 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Larry La Verne.
Food options will include Supreme Bean with a full espresso bar, Frozen Explosion beverages and chocolates, Kettle Enterprises and the Apple Dumpling Gang with gyros, fajitas, ice cream and root-beer floats.
“Magic Brush of Hong-Duan Yang”: A new exhibit at Solovei Gallery features work from artist Hong-Duan Yang, who keeps alive the traditional artwork of China through his paintings. The exhibit runs through Sept. 27 at Solovei, 2804 Grand Ave., Everett.
Traditional Chinese ink and color artwork is a style that evokes a disciplined and meticulous appeal, the mastery of which means careful maneuvering of every movement of the liquid-filled calligraphy brush on rice paper.
Born in Fujian, China, Yang lives with his wife in Seattle and teaches classes and gives public talks and demonstrations on his artwork. He specializes in flowers, birds, landscape and calligraphy.
Woody matters: David Leak is displaying his warm collection of woodworks through September at Islander Restaurant, 848 N. Sunrise Blvd., Camano Island.
Leak, a professional custom furniture maker for the past 23 years, has a way of combining his degrees in art and molecular biology, his sensitivity to the medium and his ability to cure his own wood to create one-of-a kind pieces. Leak uses local materials when he can and began his exploration into veneer weaving more than 14 years ago, mostly out of a desire to use what was considered unusable material.
“My philosophy involves finding the right resource for the job, or in lots of cases, the right job for the resource,” Leak has said.
Emerging artist: Tami Cole is an emerging local artist who began painting in 2003 and has since branched out into acrylic, pastel and mixed media. She’s the featured artist through September at Meyer’s Cafe, 1700 W. Marine View Drive, Everett.
Cole has also branched out into the gallery scene, showing her work at the Blue Horse Gallery in Bellingham, Daniel Smith’s in Bellevue, The Snohomish County Art’s Council Gallery, Wise Designz Framing and Fine Arts Gallery and Lowell Art Works Gallery.
Shifting shapes: Artist Carla Dimitriou has put together her new series of wonderfully crafted encaustic paintings into a show called “Shape Shifted.” The show opens Monday and runs through Oct. 31 at Baas Art Gallery and Framing, 2703 E. Madison St., Seattle. A meet-the-artist reception is planned for 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the gallery.
Olympic achievement: Wyland, the U.S. Olympic Team’s official artist, presents a one-man show, for one day only, today at Wyland Galleries NW, 1211 First Ave., Seattle.
Wyland, who goes by just one name, achieved his goal of painting 100 monumental marine life murals around the world with the completion of “Hands Across the Ocean,” a series of murals, more than a mile long, in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
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