This weekend is your final chance to visit the Edmonds Center for the Arts to view the unique collection of works by artist-mothers and enjoy the insights of their children.
The fourth annual Art of Our Mothers featured 29 jury-selected artists in a one-of-a-kind exhibit celebrating the art and the life of the mother-artist.
Each of the selected works is accompanied by a statement from one or more of the artist’s children, and their sentiments express emotions as varied as the art itself. The son of Edmonds resident Denise Cole, is grateful for his experience having an artist-mother (and father). “It’s good having artist parents because it really does open your eyes to the world in a whole new way,” especially since, he said, his mother “isn’t the usual stereo-typical ‘artsie-fartsie’ kind of artist.”
Another child asked, “What lurks in the mind of our artist? Love, creativity, smarts, fierce protection and family loyalty.” Each of the children expressed pride in their mothers as artists, “knowing that your own mother is capable of creating such a wide variety of magnificence kind of shocks me from time to time … inspiring me to my own incredible achievements.”
Five artists were recognized by the jury and selected to exhibit their art in the mezzanine of the stunning Edmonds Center for the Arts: Ann Blanch of Edmonds, Sue Cole of Seattle, Nancy Bafus-Thompson of Edmonds, Lynn Scott of Edmonds and Joy Olney of Bellingham. The show’s Sponsors Awards, selected by representatives from John L. Scott Edmonds and First American Title Insurance Company, were presented to Donna Lindeman Porter of Kirkland and Denise Heekin of Edmonds.
The exhibit opened at the Edmonds Center for the Arts on Friday, May 11 and will remain in place through May 20. This is the first visual arts exhibit at the new Edmonds’ performing arts center, with proceeds from the event going to the Edmonds Center for the Arts.
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