In the Exhibit Gallery Jan 13 - Feb 26: PULP
CALLS to ARTISTS: Showcase Gallery,
March juried show Spirit of Place, & Printmaker’s Hand II
The Peoples Choice for Small Expressions is:
Barbara Kanter of Quilcene for her ink & graphite drawing “Interior“
Didn't Do Anything by Chris Crites
Pulp: Out of Pulp, Comes Paper.
And out of paper, comes art.
Join Northwind Arts Center during January for a celebration of paper art opening January 13 and running through February 26, 2012.
This show, curated by award-winning former Leader arts and entertainment editor Kathie Meyer, highlights the many shapes and forms paper can take when put in the hands of artists.
“Paper is not just something to slap paint or draw upon,” said Meyer. “It can be transformed into countless shapes through origami, book art and other forms of sculpture. With the Port Townsend Paper Mill a constant presence in our lives, this show should be especially relevant to the local community.”
“Pulp” features several local and regional artists including Chris Crites, Lois James, Barbara J Mills, Harold Nelson, Karen Page, Rebecca Riverstone, Janthina Du Savage, Carl Youngmann.
Northwind Reading Series
On Thursday, January 12, Northwind Reading Series features Gayle Kaune and Gary Thompson. The readings start at 7 p.m. in the Northwind Arts Center.
Gayle Kaune is published widely in literary journals. Her poems have won several Washington Poets’ Association Awards, the Ben Hur Lampman Prize and been nominated for a Pushcart prize. Her chapbook, Concentric Circles, was selected by Gary Thompson to win the Flume Press award. Her book, Still Life in the Physical World,is available from Blue Begonia Press. Of her newest book, All the Birds Awake, from Tebot Bach Press, Peggy Shumaker has said, “these vivid poems show us ways to live and ways to face the end of living.” Gary Lemons calls her latest collection, “unbearably wise. . . with a holy reverence for the beauty and terrors of everyday life.” She lives in Port Townsend with her husband and a big white dog.
Gary Thompson’s latest book of poems, To the Archaeologist Who Finds Us, published by Turning Point in 2008, joins three previous collections: Hold Fast, As for Living, and On John Muir’s Trail. He taught in the Creative Writing Program at CSU, Chico for more than twenty-five years. He and his wife, Linda, have lived in the Northwest for twelve years. Four years ago they moved to San Juan Island, bringing their old trawler, Keats, home to the waters they had come to love.
On Sunday, January 22, Northwind Reading Series features the Madrona Writers. The readings start at 7 p.m. in the Northwind Arts Center.
With the support of Centrum’s artists-in-residence program, this group of fourteen will be meeting Jan. 20-23 for their seventh annual retreat at Fort Worden. The reading will feature poets and prose writers from California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington, including Dianne Butler, Toni Van Deusen, Michael Hanner, Karen Seashore, Carl Youngmann, David Thornbrugh, Diana Taylor, Richard Widerkhur, Don Roberts, Ellie Mathews, Gayle Kaune, Janet Cox, Jenifer Lawrence and Tom Aslin.
Everyone is welcome to the evening reading a Northwind! Call Diana Taylor with questions, 206-228-9082.
For more information contact Bill Mawhinney 360-437-9081.
Northwind Arts Alliance is a non-profit community based art center featuring art, poetry readings, arts to elders, and special events, and is made possible with the help of over 100 volunteers.
