‘Summer Heat’ teems with erotic art

“Summer’s Heat” is where erotic art work is totally exposed.

That’s what the curator promises for visitors to this second annual show of erotic art.

“The erotic art world is very important to me because it breeds exposure, acceptance and tolerance and I am all about advocacy in the sex-positive world,” said Shana, who goes by just her first name.

Shana said her show will have erotic art selections in sculpture, photography, painting, print making and illustration, and will give visitors a look at stuff that is “of a sacred nature but still has commonality all the same. … It is just sex after all, isn’t it?”

“Summer’s Heat” opens with a 5 p.m. reception Saturday at Lowell Art Works, 5205 S. Second Ave., Everett. This two-day show can be seen again from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Visitors must be over 21.

Playing with clay: The Arts of Snohomish Gallery is presenting its “All Clay Show” where clay creations that are functional and decorative will be on display.

“All Clay” features many Northwest clay artists. Some of the pieces are inspired by colonial American potters, the colors and textures of nature and pure imagination.

The show kicks off with a reception at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery, 105 Cedar Ave., Snohomish. RSVP is requested at 360-568-8648. The show runs through Aug. 31.

“Sanctuary”: For those who have ever wondered what those different looking geese are on the tide flats near Brackett’s Landing North in Edmonds, they are Pacific black brant geese, who sport a black head with a partial white ring around the neck, a shorter bill and the shortest tail of any goose.

Tom Sawtell is in his fourth season photographing these beautiful birds. His photos, along with scenes from the Edmonds Marine Sanctuary at Brackett’s Park North and the Shell Creek Tidelands, will be showcased in a Sawtell exhibit called “Sanctuary.”

The exhibit runs through Sept. 14 at the Edmonds Library, 650 Main St., Edmonds. Visitors can meet the artist on the Third Thursday Artwalk from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 20.

Something fishy: “Some Things Fishy in Arlington” is a community art project and collaboration between the city of Arlington and the Arlington Arts Council with help from the entire community.

Here’s how the project works:

Community groups, businesses and individuals can order any number of four different fish — a trout, a salmon, a sturgeon and a rockfish — cut from either 4- or 8-foot pieces of plywood and then get to painting those fish.

A 4-foot fish costs $5 and 8-footers are $10. Order forms are available at City Hall, or by e-mail from shegge@arlington.wa.us or call Jean Olson at 360-435-5866.

Painted fish must be delivered between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on installation day, Oct. 24, at 20400 Smokey Point Blvd., Arlington. Fish that are completed earlier can be displayed around town before then. For more information call the city’s recreation manager, Sarah Hegge, at 360-403-3448.

Finished fish will be displayed on the I-5 corridor this winter through next spring as a way to create intrigue and attract visitors off the freeway into Arlington.

“A Passion for Painting”: The late Genevieve Tuck was involved in art virtually all her life. Her uncle, the renowned western artist Frank Tenney Johnson, was her early mentor. She studied art under Ambrose Patterson and Walter Isaacs at the University of Washington.

About 1970, Tuck switched to oils and worked outdoors to maximize color and atmosphere. Known as a plein air painter, Tuck once said the value of painting outside is capturing “the fleeting, changeable nature of light that makes it necessary to paint rapidly.”

Tuck was named Artist of the Year in 1995 by the Arts Council of Snohomish County. She died at age 100 in August of 2008.

Tuck’s paintings will be on display through Sept. 11 at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds.

“Artists Run Amok” will present “Island Light,” an art exhibit and sale featuring the paintings of Lynn Flaaten, Mark Lucero, Judy Mello, Kelley Mohs, James Moore and Susan Winkler, along with the blown-glass pieces of Gary Berner and stone sculpture by Wayne Flaaten.

The exhibit begins with an artists’ reception from 5 to 8 tonight at Penn Cove Pottery, 26184 Highway 20, Coupeville.

Acoustics and art: Today’s the day to celebrate Friday during First Fridays at Greenbank Farm, where visitors can view the new oil paintings by Seattle artist Jacob Kohn, eat refreshments and listen to acoustic guitar played by Whidbey Island musician Quinn Fitzpatrick.

It all begins at 5 tonight at Schouten Gallery, 765 Wonn Road, Greenbank.

Kohn’s work is being featured along with Whidbey metal artist Jon Paul Dowdell.

In the mood: Impressionist painter Layne Cook put her travels through southeast Asia on canvas after observing that throughout Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Bali, the hot climate drove most human activities outside.

Cook observed people working, shopping, socializing, eating, drinking and commuting on motorbikes, bicycles and oxcarts. This open access of the people and their culture gave Cook the basis for her paintings and drawings, which are on view in a collection called “Mood of Mekong,” at the Open Door Gallery + Coffee, 5603 Bayview Road, Langley.

Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424, goffredo@heraldnet.com.