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Gallery - Prospectus for “Small Expressions VII”, Dec 2008

Northwind Arts — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:53:42 +0000

In December, Northwind Gallery will feature the seventh annual “Small EXPRESSIONS” show, a juried collection of small format artworks. Just in time for Christmas, this show will include many affordable works appropriate for gifts during the holiday season. This year the juror is Pat Austin whose career includes work as a painter, printmaker, writer on the arts, poet, lecturer in the humanities, juror, solo exhibitor and twenty-five years of teaching. She holds degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Washington and Alaska in addition to taking thirty-plus master art and writing workshops. Austin’s awards include a State Arts Council Grant, three municipal art commissions, and a sabbatical year touring European museums. Austin helped found Print Arts Northwest and currently is a member of Port Townsend’s Corvidae Press.

Please see below a copy of the Small Expressions 2008 Prospectus which includes a calendar of events and information about how to submit your entries.

A printable pdf will be posted soon.

Connecting the Arts and Community

small EXPRESSIONS VII — A Juried Show of VII Small Format Art-
December 5, 2008
to December 29, 2008

The show opens at noon on Friday, December 5 and runs through December 29. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, December 6 from 5:30 to 8 pm during Artwalk.

A Coffee Talk will be held on Friday, December 12 at 7 PM with juror Pat Austin.

Juror

Pat Austin’s career includes work as a painter, printmaker, writer on the arts, poet, lecturer in the Humanities, juror, solo exhibitor, and 25 years of teaching. She holds degrees from the Universities of Michigan, Washington, and Alaska in addition to taking 30-plus master art and writing workshops. Austin’s awards include a State

Arts Council Grant, three municipal art commissions, a sabbatical year touring European museums. Austin helped found Print Arts Northwest and currently is a member of Port Townsend’s Corvidae Press.

NORTHWIND ART CENTER hours:
Thursday through Monday - noon to 5 pm

Calendar

Delivery of artwork

November 30 – 5 to 6 pm and
December 1 – 2 to 5 pm

Pick up unaccepted artwork

December 2 – 3 to 5 pm and
December 3 – 10 to noon

Show opens
December 5 – noon

Opening Reception and Art Walk
December 6 – 5:30 to 8 pm

Coffee Talk by juror Pat Austin
December 12 – 7 pm

Show closes
December 29

Pick up artwork
December 29 – 5 to 6 pm or
December 30 – 10 to noon

Artists having all submissions accepted will be notified by phone.

If you are not called, please pick up your art work on;

Tues., December 2 — 3 to 5 pm or
Wed., December 3 — 10 to noon

Eligibility
Artist must be 16 years of age or older and resident of Washington. Entries must be original, entirely the work of theentrant, executed within the last three years, and without the supervision of an instructor. Open to all media.

Conditions
Entries will be juried from the original works of art. 2 and 3 dimensional works are accepted. No work shall exceed 15” in longest dimension (including frame for two-dimensional work). All two-dimensional works on paper must have
glass or plexiglass. Work must be sturdily framed and ready to hang, including wire.
Presentation will be a factor in selection. Work over 40 lbs. is to be installed by the artist.

Entries
A maximum of 5 entries may be submitted.
Fees: $20 for first entry, $5 for each additional
entry; NAA Donors $15 for first entry, $5 for each
additional entry.

All fees are non-refundable.

Checks made payable to: Northwind Arts Alliance
2409 Jefferson Street
Port Townsend, WA 98368

A donation of 40% will be deducted from the sales price by the Northwind Arts Alliance. The gallery will pay Washington state sales tax.

Agreement

Submission of the artwork, shall constitute an agreement on the part of the artist to comply with the conditions set forth in this prospectus, including the following: I hereby release and discharge the officers, employees and volunteers of Northwind Arts Alliance and Northwind Arts Center gallery from any and all claims occasioned by damage or loss of said artwork while in possession of Northwind Arts Center. No work
accepted for this exhibition may be withdrawn prior to the close of the exhibition. Permission to reproduce the artwork for publicity purposes, and for educational purposes is granted. All decisions of the Exhibition Chair are final.

Please sign your name below:

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NORTHWIND ARTS ALLIANCE
is a nonprofit volunteer group that is dedicated to promoting the arts in Jefferson County by presenting artistic programs and providing a venue for displaying the work of regional artists. Currently the Alliance sponsors Kaleidoscope (a youth arts summer camp), Arts to Elders, Children’s Festival of Art, Art Port Townsend and The Northwind
Arts Center. The Art Center supports juried and invitational art shows, workshops and educational programs, poetry and drama readings, and special seminars. Northwind Alliance’s long term vision is to also support ventures in other arts, including
theater, dance, writing, and music.

Please cut out & attach labels to the Artist back of each entry.

Entry 1
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Price $

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Entry 2
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Entry 3
Artist name
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Entry 4
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Entry 5
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Delivery of Artwork

Delivery of artworks to Northwinds Arts Center:
2409 Jefferson Street, Port Townsend on:

November 30 – 5 to 6 pm and
December 1 – 2 to 5 pm

Information

Kate Snow
phone 360 385 2942
email kjs@olympus.net

Jay Haskins
phone 360 385 6389
email jhkapotso@olympus.net

www.northwindarts.org

Event - Art Port Townsend 2008 Award Winners

Northwind Arts — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:49:16 +0000

It's Mine by Naoko Morisawa

“Expressions Northwest”, the juried art show, always an integral part of Art Port Townsend, opened with fanfare! A special reception, held at Northwind Arts Center on Friday, October 3rd, honored the award winners chosen by Barbara Shaiman, director of Seattle Art Museum’s SAM Gallery.

Best in Show: “It’s Mine” a wood mosaic created by Naoko Morisawa.

Special Award winners include the following:

The Boy King of Pop, mixed media by Troy Gua

Haunting Branches in an Oak Orchard, infrared photo by Beverly Hanson

California Burning, print by Mark Abrahamson

Rain, encaustic by Martha Pfanschmidt

Merit Award winners are:

Wave, acrylic on canvas by Stephen Yates

“Chance”, mixed media - image to come.

Iraq Remembered, ink, colored pencil by Geralynn Rackoski

Self Portraits with Masks, oil on canvas by Kathy Liao

Untitled III, acrylic by Brett Rude

Plaid Abstract, felt by Janice Speck

NW Front Street, oil by Kevin Farrell

Best of Show $590 :
Naoko Morisawa “It’s Mine”, Lynwood, WA

Special Awards $400:
Mark Abrahamson “California Burning #14”, Stanwood, WA
Troy Gua “The Boy King of Pop”, Seattle, WA
Beverly Hanson “Haunting Branches in an Oak Orchard”,
Bremerton, WA
Martha Pfanschmidt “Rain”, Port Townsend, WA

People’s Choice Award $400
to be decided

Merit Awards :
Jana Brubaker “Girl Laughing”, Palouse, WA
Kevin Farrell “NW Front Avenue”, Portland, OR
Kathy Liao “Self Portrait with Masks”, Seattle, WA
Geralyn Rackowski “Iraq Remembered”, Port Townsend, WA
Brett Rude “Untitled #3”, Eatonville, WA
Loran Scruggs “Chance”, Port Townsend, WA
Janice Speck “Plaid Abstract”, Port Townsend, WA
Francis Sullivan “Standing Stone”, Victoria B.C.
Stephen Yates “Wave”, Port Townsend, WA

Donors for Merit Awards
Intiman Theatre, HK Holbein, Inc., ACT Theatre, Jack
Richeson & Co Inc., Cheap Joe’ Art Stuff, Stu-Art Supplies,
Golden Artist Colors, Daler Rowney, Gamblin Artist Colors
Co., Winsor & Newton; ColArt Americas, Inc., Royal Brush
Manufacturing Inc., Admiral Theatre, The Canson Fine
Paper Award, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Centrum

: Girl Laughing, oil by Jana Brubaker

: Standing Stone, photograph by Francis Sullivan

Poetry - Miller, Paola, Kitchen - Oct 16 2008

Northwind Arts — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:59:38 +0000

Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola, Professors in Western Washington University’s Creative Writing Program, Sheila Bender, Publisher of Writing It Real and Judith Kitchen, Assistant Program Director at PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop, all work in the memoir and personal essay genres. Each will present from work they have published about writing, a piece intended to describe the process to those who study writing. Following the 25-30 minutes of reading, Judith will toss out questions to start a lively discussion among presenters and audience.
Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Her newest collection of essays, Blessing of the Animals, is forthcoming from Eastern Washington University Press in 2009. Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in such journals as Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, Georgia Review, and Witness. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

Suzanne Paola has written two books of nonfiction, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World and Body Toxic, a New York Times notable book, as well as four books of poetry. She coauthored Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction with Brenda Miller. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Orion, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently working on a new book of nonfiction dealing with the subject of adoption, contracted with W.W. Norton.
Sheila Bender has written nine books on writing, including Writing Personal Poetry from Writer’s Digest Books, Writing and Publishing Personal Essays from Silver Threads and Perfect Phrases for College Application Essays from McGraw-Hill. She publishes Writing It Real, an online instructional magazine for those who write from personal experience and directs the yearly Writing It Real in Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. She continues to be a visiting adjunct faculty member at Pima College in Tucson.

Judith Kitchen has edited three anthologies of short nonfiction pieces (In Short, In Brief, and Short Takes) for W. W. Norton. In addition, she is the author of two books of essays, one novel, a book of poetry, and a book of criticism. She regularly reviews poetry (twice yearly) for The Georgia Review and her articles about writing have appeared in The Seneca Review, Fourth Genre, American Book Review, etc. With former U. S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, she has recently completed editing an anthology, The Poets Guide to the Birds, forthcoming from Anhinga Press in time for Christmas.

Event - Art Port Townsend 2008 Studio Tour

Northwind — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:58:00 +0000

THE ART PORT TOWNSEND STUDIO TOUR

The 10th Annual Art Port Townsend Studio Tour will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 11 and 12, from 10 AM - 4 PM. There is no charge for this extensive tour which provides an opportunity to visit local artists in their studios, observe demonstrations, and discuss the creative process.

Port Townsend Foundry

This year, 41 artists in the Port Townsend vicinity are participating. Artists working in oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastels, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, woodworking, fabric, glass and a variety of mixed media will be included in the tour. Maps and information are available at Northwind Arts Center or www.artporttownsend.org and www.northwindarts.org.

ART STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW SHOW

Kathy Francis

New for the Tenth Annual Art Port Townsend is a Art Studio Tour Preview Show. For the first time, Art Studio Tour goers can preview the artwork of the participating artists before the free tour on October 11 and 12. Forty-one art studios are featured on the tour this year, demonstrating a wide variety of work. The Art Studio Preview Show is at The Courtyard Gallery, 940 Washington Street (uphill from the Haller Fountain) with an opening during Art Walk, Saturday, October 4 from 5 - 8 PM. The gallery will be open for the Preview Show every day through October 12 from 1- 5 PM.

The complete (2 MB) brochure can be downloaded here.

The larger map (0.5 MB) can be downloaded here.

The second/smaller map (0.28 MB) can be downloaded here.

STUDIO TOUR ARTISTS

Michael Berman

George Chechopoulos

11 - Kate Dwyer
12 - David Eisenhour
13 - Frank Eliel
14 - Kathy Francis
15 - Max Grover
16 - Elisabeth Haight
17 - Michael Hale
18 - True Heart
19 - Phoebe Huffman
20 - Charles Iffland
21 - Marjorie Illman
Larissa Spafford
22 - Jim Jacobson
23 - Tom Jay & Sara Mall Johani
24 - David Lesser
25 - Walter Massey
26 - Dennis McDaniel
27 - Elizabeth Merrill
28 - Arliss Newcomb
29 - Sandra Offutt
30 - Jeryl Parker
31 - Rayetta & Jerry Perrett
32 - Martha Pfanschmidt
Martha Pfanschmidt
33 - Port Townsend Foundry
34 - Port Townsend School of Woodworking
35 - Deanna Pumplin
36 - Gunter Reimnitz
37 - Seth Rolland
38 - Henner Schroder
39 - Larissa Spafford
40 - Janice Speck
41 - Mark Stevenson

Studio Tour Information:

Susan Hazard

(360) 379-0859

Corvidae Press - D Pumplin

60 Vancouver Lane, Port Townsend WA 98368-9675

susan.hazard@cablespeed.com