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July 3 through July 27 - Collage/Assemblage
A K Anderson
Northwind Arts Alliance presents a juried show, Collage and Assemblage, opening at noon on Friday, July 3. The show will run through Monday, July 27. On Saturday, July 4 there will be a reception from 5:30 to 8 PM during Art Walk. An Art Talk will be held at 7 PM (note: change in time) on Friday, July 10 featuring the curator, Mary Lynn Maloney.
Mary Lynn Maloney is a mixed collage and assemblage artist as well as a designer and writer for the crafts industry. She is the author of three books: Favors with Flair, Memory Art and Decorating Boxes. She has a background in graphics design and a degree in Arts and Humanities. Her love of travel, history, the arts and all things quirky have greatly influenced her eye for design. Her artwork can be seen locally at Port Townsend Gallery.
Susan Hazard
“After many years as a graphic designer, I fled the computer screen and got back to creating art with my hands. My project designs and articles are regularly published in craft magazines, and I achieved my 15 minutes of fame while making three appearances on The Carol Duvall Show, a popular crafting TV program which now airs on the DIY network.”
Assemblage can be viewed as collage pushed into a distinctly 3-dimensional spatial construction. Both collage and assemblage are very free (and freeing!) art forms. Artists are not limited to one approach or material and may use whatever is on hand as part of their composition. Collage gives artists the ability to paint not with pigments, but rather with the stuff of everyday life.”
Award winners for the show include:
Best of Show - Love’s Hinderance by A. K. Anderson
Harold Nelson
Linda jarvis
Merit Awards - Tinker’s Bride by Susan Hazard, The Open Window by Linda Jarvis, Visual Imput with Conventional Sweet Spot by Harold Nelson.
The show will be held at the Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend, Washington. Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday from noon to 5 PM. The gallery is closed Tuesday and Wednesdays. For more information call Northwind at (360) 379-1086 or go to www.northwindarts.org.
Northwind Reading Series
July 2 - An Evening of Memoir - Bender & Stahura
On Thursday, July 2, Northwind Reading Series features “An Evening of Memoir” with Sheila Bender and Barbara Stahura. The readings start at 7 PM at Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson.
Sheila Bender’s memoir, A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, will be published September, 2009 by Imago Press in Tucson. It chronicles experiences in the months after her 25-year-old son’s sudden death in a snowboarding accident. Abigail Thomas has written of the manuscript: “Maybe it’s because of her extraordinary gifts as a poet that when Sheila Bender’s beloved son died in a skiing accident, she did not shut down. Instead, she opened her heart and mind to take in what memory and life still offered. With this beautiful book Sheila Bender offers a way through unimaginable loss. I love this book. Sheila Bender broke my heart and put it back together again.”
Barbara Stahura’s collection of essays, What I Thought I Knew, shares the sometimes painful, sometimes humorous, but always poignant events on the path to her own awakening. She writes of the early death of her father and his later reappearance in her life, learning to ride a bicycle at age 38, liberating herself from Corporate America in her 40s to become a freelance writer, finding love at 50 only to nearly lose her new husband, Ken, to a traumatic brain injury, and her encounter with a rattlesnake that helped her to better understand the lingering fear that hides in one’s heart after a trauma.
What I Thought I Knew has received critical acclaim. Tama Kieves, author of This Time I Dance!, says, “Great writers are not only masters of language, but masters of soul. Barbara Stahura is one of those rare and precious voices that make you not only kneel before the altar of language, but kneel before the altar of being alive and human.”
July 9 - Tidepools Winners Read
On Thursday, July 9, Northwind Reading Series showcases Tidepools 2009, the annual art and literary magazine produced by students of Peninsula College. The group reading starts at 7 PM in the Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St.
Works appearing in Tidepools, currently in its 45th year, are submitted via a juried contest that is open to aspiring writers and artists of the North Olympic Peninsula community, whether amateur or professional.
Janet Lucas, Tidepools faculty advisor, will be master of ceremonies for the evening’s group reading and art exhibition, which is free and open to the public. Donations are gladly accepted to support Northwind, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting the arts to our community.
July 15 - Port Townsend Writers’ Conference
Kate Lebo
On Wednesday, July 15, Northwind Reading Series presents a special evening featuring the work of poets participating in the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. The group reading starts at 7 PM in the Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St.
The Port Townsend Writers’ Conference has been since 1973 at the center of the thriving Pacific Northwest literary scene. With a focus on community and rigorous attention to craft, the Conference offers morning workshops, afternoon workshops, residencies, guided freewrites, and a vibrant readings and lecture series presented by vital, contemporary writers. This downtown reading is a partnership event between the Writers’ Conference and the Northwind Arts Center, and follows a standing-room only reading in 2008 that Jordan Hartt, Centrum’s director of programs, described as “one of the highlights of the year.”
The readings are free and open to the public, with donations gladly accepted to support Northwind, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting arts to our community.
Art Workshops
July 13 - Mary Lynn Maloney - Decorated Boxes
Mary Lynn Maloney
Northwind Arts Alliance presents Decorated Boxes by Mary Lynn Maloney on Monday, July 13 from 10 to 4 PM at the Jefferson County Fairground’s Art Building, Port Townsend, Washington. Cost: $65 (Volunteers - $50)
Mary Lynn Maloney is a mixed-media collage and assemblage artist, as well as a designer and writer for the craft industry. She is the author of three books: “Favors with Flair,” “Memory Art,” and “Decorate Boxes.” She has a background in graphic design and a degree in arts and humanities. Her love of travel, history, the arts, and all things quirky have greatly influenced her eye for design. Her artwork can be seen locally in Port Townsend at Port Townsend Gallery on Water Street.
Materials List: Scissors and any small items you’d like to incorporate into the design, such as personal keepsakes or natural materials like stones, twigs, driftwood, or beach glass.
For more information, contact Susan Hazard at 360-379-0859 or Susan.Hazard@cablespeed.com or call Northwind Arts Center at (360) 379-1086.
July 14 - Kate Snow - Color Play with Polymer Clay
Northwind Arts Alliance presents Kate Snow in Color Play with Polymer Clay on Tuesday, July 14 from 10 to 4 PM at Jefferson County Fairgrounds Art Building, Port Townsend. Cost: $65 (Volunteers $50) Material Fee of $10 payable to the instructor
snow-registration-form.pdf
Kate Snow
Explore five different approaches to color with this intriguing and playful medium. From canework and Skinner blends to using inlay, mica powders, and acrylic paints, we will experiment with a variety of techniques to be used for buttons, jewelry or your own sculptures.
This workshop is appropriate for all levels from beginners to experienced.
Painter and printmaker Kathleen Snow discovered polymer clay in 1999 and hasn’t been able to put it down since. She has studied polymer techniques with Nan Roche, Cynthia Toops and Victoria Hughes. “Polymer is an incredibly versatile media: it can be anything”, Snow says.
For more information, contact Colleen MaCaffrey at (360) 385-0941 or oldcolleen@gmail.com or call Northwind Arts Center at 379-1086.
July 18 & 19 - Jeff Eichen - Artful Digital Photography
Northwind presents Artful Digital Photography by Jeff Eichen on Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19 from 10 to 4 PM at the at the Quimper Grange, Port Townsend. Cost: $130 (Volunteers $100)
eichen-workshop-registration-form.pdf
Jeff Eichen
Jeff Eichen will present a 2-day workshop for the beginner/intermediate digital photographer. He is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and will be using his skills to teach the ease of transferring and modifying, digital photographs. Jeff will also explore Photography as ART and Printmaking.
Jeff studied with Ansel Adams at age 17 and later with Brett Weston and Bernard Freemesser at the University of Oregon. In 2006, Jeff attended an Adobe Photoshop Master class in Vancouver, BC with Ben Wilmore. In addition to his other achievements, Jeff was hired in 2001 in a large digital studio in Los Angeles to make museum quality Giclee prints for artists and galleries.
For more information, contact Colleen McCaffrey at (360) 385-0941 or oldcolleen@gmail.com. You may call Northwind Arts Center at (360) 379-1086.
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August 24, 25 & 26 - Ron Ranson Watercolor
Northwind presents Ron Ranson Watercolor on August 24, 25 & 26 from 10 to 3:00 PM
at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Quimper Art Building, Port Townsend, Washington.
Cost: $330 (Volunteers $280)
Ron Ranson
Ron’s watercolors are impressionistic and representational. Using his signature hake brush, his aim is to produce strong and colorful paintings with economy of stroke and a limited palette. He not only does several demos each day, but works with each student on a one to one basis. Strong design principles are emphasized, and his English sense of humor keeps the class laughing.
Ron is a seemingly tireless water colorist, with a worldwide reputation, having written 25 books on painting and made many instructional videos. You can see his work on his website at www.ronranson.com.
For more information, contact David Turner at (360) 379-6926 or davidt@waypt.com or call Northwind Arts Center at (360) 379-1086 or www.northwindarts.com.
The 2009 Workshop Schedule
More information about scheduled workshops appear on the website page titled Art Workshops.
Call for Artists
June 28 & 29 - Deadline for Entries - Collage Assemblage
Port Townsend’s Northwind Arts Alliance announces it’s next juried show, “Collage/Assemblage” which opens on July 3 and runs to July 27. The juror, Mary Lynn Maloney, is a mixed media/collage artist as well as a designer and writer for the craft industry. If you are at least 16 years of age and a resident of Washington, please consider bringing your original artwork to Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St., on June 28 from 5 to 6 PM or June 29 from 3 to 5 PM. More information or a prospectus can be found at www.northwindarts.org, Northwind Arts Center, or by e-mail to jbest@cablespeed.com.
collage assemblage prospectus.pdf
August 10 - Deadline for Entries - Art Port Townsend - Annual Exhibition
During the 11th annual Festival of the Arts sponsored by Northwind Arts Alliance and the Port Townsend Arts Commission, a juried show titled Expressions Northwest will be held. Deadline date is August 10 for those who wish to enter the exhibition. Curator will be Jess Van Nostrand who is both an independent curator and Exhibitions Curator for Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. The show will open on Friday, October 2, with an awards ceremony and reception at 7 PM. Van Nostrand, curator, will lead a discussion on “The Creative Voice” Saturday, October 3, at 1 PM. Click below for a prospectus of the show.
art-pt-townsend-prospectus.pdf