Seattle Art Blog - News, Discussion, and Events

Jul 26, 2008 If you're planning on attending this granddaddy of Puget Sound arts festivals, Madeline Mckenzie has an article in the Seattle Times to help guide you through it.

Regina Hackett has written about the fair in the Seattle P.I. and says, "It's off to a strong start"

Jul 24, 2008 Several times in the last couple of years mischievous spammers have inundated the site with four-letter words, etc. when the comment function was turned on. For that reason, I've had to turn that function off. It's now turned back on , so you are encouraged to leave comments. 

Jul 17, 2008 From 10am-4pm businesses in the upper and lower village at Port Ludlow will sponsor the Port Ludlow Art Walk.

Jul 17, 2008 For one week in July (the 7th through 13th), artists from all over Puget Sound  traveled to Stanwood and Camano Island to paint outdoors (”en plein air”) during the first-ever "Stanwood - Camano Island Plein Air Invitational." An artist reception and exhibit/sale of the paintings they created will be held on July 17th during the Third Thursday Art Walk in downtown Stanwood from 5-8pm at the following Stanwood locations: Gallery by the Bay, Snow Goose Bookstore,  Let’s Frame It, Rustic Impressions and Stanwood Grill.

Jul 14, 2008 In a press release today the Pratt Fine Arts Center announced the award of a coveted $15,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The award is to support the Pratt Master Artist Program. Funding is awarded on the basis of the quality of artists and artworks represented in a program, the arts organization applying, and the services the project provides.  The NEA also considers the potential for the project to strengthen, expand, and diversify audiences and communities through the arts.

Jul 10, 2008 The Everett Herald urges all to go see the student photography exhibit at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery, 105 Cedar in Snohomish. The exhibit closes July 31.

Tim Appelo says, "Deborah Butterfield's horses make her metal very precious."  Read what else he has to say about this Greg Kucera Gallery exhibit by going to the Seattle P.I. website.

Regina Hackett says, "Each of Patricia Hagen's watercolors at Punch Gallery is a perfect little moment." Read more in the Seattle P.I.

Regina Hackett interviews Robert Rauschenberg's son, Christopher, an alumnus of Reed College and a founding member of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland. Robert Rauschenberg, who died May 12, is represented locally by Greg Kucera. You can read her interview in the Seattle P. I. by clicking on the bolded link.

Regina reviews the Carlos Vega and Eric Elliott exhibit at the Harris Gallery and calls them "must see."

Another piece reviews Patte Loper's landscape work at the Platform Gallery.

Sheila Farr, writing for the Seattle  Times, says, "Su-Mei Tse's  multimedia installation lives up to demanding setting of Seattle Asian Art Museum."

Gayle Clemons, writing for the Seattle Times, explores new installations at the Bellevue Arts Museum and Suyama Space. She says, "Mandy Greer's installations at the Bellevue Arts Museum are sensual and fanciful, laden with sumptuous decoration, color, texture and mythology, the installation by Carolyn Healy and John Phillips at Suyama Space is coolly geometric and cerebral, using a minimum of visual adornment." Shown is Mandy Greer's  Small But Mighty Wandering Pearl.

Jul 6, 2008 Steven Vroom, founder and chief media star of Art Radio Seattle, is podcasting the latest in national and international art news from the studios of 911 Media Arts Center. An added bonus is Steven's weekly weather report -- intermittently rainy  from South Lake Union?  Steven, we haven't seen rain all day up here in the North End. By the way, Steven just emailed to me links to the video he took of the Oliver Herring visual arts performance at the Seattle Public Library. Go here to check it out. Ciao!!