Andrew Morrison, a People’s Choice Award winner at The Arts of the Terrace show, represents American Indian people across the nation in his blunt and realistic paintings and drawings.
A show of Morrison’s work is presented by the Mountlake Terrace Arts Commission and runs through July 31 at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave W.
Morrison is an American Indian; his father is Haida from Hydaburg, Alaska, and his mother is Apache from the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. The native name given to him on his father’s side is “One’ staa.” The native name given to him on his mother’s side is “Nundun’ a’ ditha.”
Morrison has worked with Seattle’s American Indian community painting murals, selling work and teaching young people. In 2002, he was given a full academic scholarship to study art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he plans to pursue a master’s degree. For more information, visit Morrison’s Web site at www.onestaa.com.
Fashionista femme fatales: Artist Shano says she lives vicariously through her daring divas, who she paints as impudent, vivacious and alluring women portrayed as powerful, sexy and audacious.
Her work can be seen through July at Islander’s Restaurant, 848 N. Sunrise Blvd., Camano Island. The show is presented by Seagrass Gallery.
Although she’s best known for her femme fatales presented in an explosion of color, Shano, who goes by one name, displays an assortment of work in the pop art genre. Her work can be seen in fashion magazines, logos of major corporations, art book compilations and artwork for product manufacturing.
Splash into art: ArtistConnect, a group of 150 Edmonds-area artists, will present ARTSplash, starting Thursday and running through July 20 at the Artworks Building, 201 Second Ave. S., in downtown Edmonds.
ARTSplash will highlight 50 of the group’s artists and include live art demonstrations and a special “miniatures” section, a popular feature from past shows.
Peace, joy and reflection: That’s what Jennifer Lommers tries to evoke in viewers who see her vibrant acrylic paintings of landscapes and flowers and in her simple subjects done in bright colors with lively shapes and lines.
The Edmonds Arts Commission is presenting an exhibit of Lommers’ work through July 30 at Edmonds Library, 650 Main St.
Lommers says she pays attention to the “whole space of the canvas” when she paints Pacific Northwest landscapes and flowers. A resident of the Skagit Valley, she has grown to appreciate the open spaces and patterns of rural farms and fields.
Eastern influences: Miwako Kimura, director of the Hanatsunagi-kai Quilt Club in Japan, is bringing a slice of Japanese culture to the Northwest in a never-before-seen exhibit of works produced by a group of quilters from her native land.
The exhibit will show quilts inspired by the Edo Period of Japan (1603-1868) and will include the art of Sashiko, represented by works from Kazuko Yoshiura and her students. This is the first time these quilts will be exhibited in the United States.
The exhibit starts with a reception to meet the artists at 11 a.m. Wednesday at La Conner Quilt &Textile Museum, 703 S. Second St., La Conner. The exhibit runs through July 20.
Visitors also can attend these workshops:
Using Japanese Kimono Fabrics, 2 to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday: Kimura will share her techniques on how to make a variety of beautiful and functional items using kimono fabric. Cost is $5 and includes admission to the museum.
Sashiko Stitching, a beginners class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 19 and an advanced class from 2 to 5 p.m. July 19. Yoshiura will teach the basics of sashiko. Cost for each class is $30 and includes fabric and other materials, as well as admission to the museum.
Giddyap art lovers: The fifth annual Spirit of the Northwest Art Show will feature a large selection of distinctive work by six Whidbey Island artists showing off 2-D and 3-D art from contemporary abstracts to impressionism to realistic pieces in oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, mixed media and works made from carved wood.
The show kicks off with a reception from 5 to 8 tonight at Coupeville Recreation Hall, 901 NW Alexander St., Coupeville. Hours for the show are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Proceeds from the show benefit Whidbey General Hospital Foundation.
Featured artists are James Moore, an oil painter of landscapes, seascapes and marine scenes; Gerry Roberts, recognized for his portrayals of American Indians and regionally known for his whimsical series “The Wild Horses of Whidbey”; Bart Rulon, known internationally for his paintings, photography and author of books on a variety of subjects of interest to naturalists and artists; Joe Albert, a master woodcarver widely known for his Northwest coastal-style Indian carvings; Karen Schroeder, an impressionist landscape artist who works in soft pastels and oil bar, and emerging watercolor artist Randy Emmons.
There will be book signings of recent books featuring the works of Rulon and Roberts, who also will have available a limited number of “Artists of the West,” a new full-color coffee table book featuring his work along with that of 80 notable Western artists.
Summer’s in full swing: At Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, the summer show features 60 new pieces from the gallery artists, including Alfred Currier, Anne Schreivogl, Larry Heald and John Simon. The show runs through July 31.
“Play the Story”: The new exhibit at Henry Art Gallery features three new film installations by Matthew Buckingham, each centered on a specific historical figure: Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century woman of letters; Louis Le Prince, a Frenchman who invented a prototypical motion picture projector in the last decades of the 19th century; and Charlotte Wolff, an early 20th-century feminist activist exiled from Nazi Germany.
The show opens Saturday and runs through Sept. 21 at the gallery on the University of Washington campus at 15th Avenue NE and NE 41st Street, Seattle.
In his films, photographs and slide installations, Buckingham explores history while turning a critical eye toward the ways past events and characters come to be represented today.
“Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible”: An exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum features the ornamented pages from the first handwritten Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press more than 500 years ago.
The Saint John’s Bible will be on view Saturday through Sept. 7.
Commissioned by St. John’s Abbey and St. John’s University in Minnesota, The Saint John’s Bible is a contemporary work created in the tradition of handwritten medieval manuscripts.
Donald Jackson, scribe to Queen Elizabeth II, serves as artistic director of the project. Since 2000, artists and scribes primarily based in Wales have used goose-feather quills, vellum sheets created from calfskin, and hand-ground paints from precious minerals and metals, such as lapis lazuli, vermilion, malachite, silver, copper and 24-karat gold, to write and illuminate the pages.
The Saint John’s Bible embraces the medieval materials and processes used in creating handwritten Bibles, but the text is based on the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, a modern English translation. It highlights the interplay between sacred text and inspired imagery.
For more information, see www.TacomaArtMuseum.org or call 253-272-4258.
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