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You heard it here! News about BAC artistsBeverly Shaw Starkovich Juried into National Organization Congratulations to Beverly, a new member of the National Association of Women Artists. Founded in 1889, NAWA is the oldest women's art association in the country, maintaining a permanent collection at Rutgers University, and sponsoring an ongoing series of exhibitions More information here. Beverly is also a longstanding memeber of the Women Painters of Washington. Diane Walker in Print and Online The Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado has selected DIANE WALKER's portfolio for publication in its third annual Portfolio Showcase. The exhibit will be online for two years (at this address), and will also be published as a book (containing all 15 winners -- out of a field of 250) this coming fall.
International Award for Deb Casso! BAC artist DEB CASSO reports that one of her photographs, Lone Lily Pad, won first prize in the Plant Portraits category of the 2009 International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. Along with other winning images, it will be on display May 23 - September, 2009 at Kew Gardens in London. The exhibition will then go on to additional locations in England later in the year.
The Arts Council of Snohomish County named MERRILEE MOORE as 2009 artist of the year. Merrilee (that wise person) writes, Most of the time the message is…be happy, enjoy what you have, share with others and lighten up! Don’t take things too seriously and most of all…life ain’t perfect, very interesting, but not at all perfect. More about the Arts Council of Snohomish County and Merrilee Moore here.
Applause for Barbara Zander BARBARA ZANDER won the Judge's Choice award for her Art/Not Paper Towels at the 20th Annual Functional Art Show at the Art/Not Terminal Gallery in Seattle. These silk towels are complete with hemstitched perforations. Two of her mixed media pieces will be shown at the 20/20 Vision: 20 Artists for 20 Years Invitational Show at The Gallery at the Shoreline Center. The show runs May 11-June 28, 2009. Great Big Congrats to Jeannie Grisham JEANNIE GRISHAM won the Past President Award ($500! Go, Jeannie!) at the 2009 Annual Open Exhibition and Sale of the Northwest Watercolor Society. BAC Names Jonathan Hallet as 2009 Amy Award Winner
Bainbridge Arts and Crafts has named photographer Jonathan Hallet as the Bainbridge Arts and Crafts recipient for the 2009 Amy Award. The Amy Award is a cash award of $3,000, given each year to an emerging artist from Bainbridge Island, under the age of 35, whose work demonstrates a “sense of quality, creativity, exploration, and dedication.” Bainbridge Arts and Crafts alternates with Bainbridge Performing Arts in selecting the award-winners. The Amy Award is administered by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council. As a student at Bainbridge High School, Jonathan participated in BAC’s 2006 and 2007 Mixed Nuts shows, and in BAC’s annual high school show in 2007. Jonathan’s high school work showed a deep connection to nature, in observations of animals, plants, and in images of dramatic light and clouds. BAC’s jurors selected Jonathan to receive the 2007 $1000 Rosalyn Gale Powell Scholarship. In June, 2008, BAC invited Jonathan back, not as a student but as an adult artist, for our Botanical Photography show. His new work was more sophisticated, and showed that he had become much more skilled in observing Nature, and also of creating the formal structure of a work of art. His work in January of this year, for BAC’s The Night Sky, showed that he was continuing to experiment, and had learned more ways to order his vision of the world through the process of making art. The Amy Award is funded by an endowment established by David and Caren Anderson in memory of their late daughter. Amy was involved in the visual and performing arts and the award is a fitting tribute to her life. Image: Jonathan Hallet, Bus Shadows on the Desert, 2008. Photograph.
Mary McInnis Wins Award MARY J. MCINNIS won an Honorable Mention award for her painting, Punkin, at the Allied Arts of Ocean Shores 40th Annual Juried Art Show in Ocean Shores WA. Mary J. McInnis, Punkin. Pastel. Carole Barrer in National Exhibition CAROLE BARRER'S work was accepted into the Arizona Aqueous National Watermedia Exhibition showing the month of March 2009 in Arizona. She is also having a solo show at La Familia in Pioneer Square, Seattle. Carole Barrer, Filtration, 2008. Acrylic.
Garth Edwards Has New Public Art Bainbridge Island artist GARTH EDWARDS has installed a beautiful piece of public art at White Bluffs Elementary School in Richland, WA.
YAY, Jennifer! NICHE magazine, the trade publication for retailers of American and Canadian craft, has announced the winners of its 2009 NICHE Awards competition, professional division. JENNIFER UMPHRESS won the award for Lampworked Glass for her Coral Octopus, pictured at the right. Jurors selected 149 finalists out of more than 1,000 entries in 34 categories. The award celebrates excellence and innovation in American and Canadian craft.
Seth Rolland in the New York Times The New York Times calls them "Bookends That Blossom," and features Seth Rolland's work (and a great photo) in the February 5, 2009 issue, page D3. Of course it's very good that the Times found Seth, but BAC wonders . . . what took them so long? Collective Visions Gallery 2009 Statewide Juried Exhibition This year's jury accepted 131 entries from a state-wide field of over 1000. Special congratulations to KAY WALSH, whose black and white photograph, "Kirby-Mayfield" won first prize in the Photographic Arts category. The award includes . . . drumroll . . . a $1000 prize. BAC artists Caroline Cooley Browne, Brian Kemkes, and Peter Manning were also in the exhibition.
Congratulations, Mary McInnis! Mary J. McInnis, of Port Orchard WA, won Best of Show with her pastel painting, Skokomish River, in the Peninsula Art League’s Winter Member Show at the Kimball Gallery in Gig Harbor WA. The show runs through February 2nd, 2009. IMAGE:Mary McInnis, Skokomish River, 2008. Pastel. Photo courtesy of the artist. Kimberly Morris at Smithsonian Congratulations to Kimberly Morris, whose work has been accepted for the 2009 Smithsonian Craft Show! Her work will be on display April 23-26. Kim's hand-dyed, hand-woven rugs are in BAC's current show, Function and Form: Art that Works, December 5-29 . More about the 27th Annual Craft Show. See Kim's work for the show here.
Greg Kono makes Day of the Dead Kites in Oaxaca, Mexico
In collaboration with celebrated Oaxacan museums, Seattle's Drachen Foundation organized a celebration of arts, kites, and culture in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the Day of the Dead 2008, collaborating with the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca (IAGO), the hand papermaking facility at Elta and the Center of the Arts in San Agustin (CASA). Greg Kono joined artists and kite makers from around the world who came to exhibit and teach about their craft. In addition, in a cultural exchange, classes and lectures were given on Mexican culture in the Day of the Dead and the art hand papermaking traditions of Oaxaca. Guests were able to tour the papermaking facility as well as the Institute of Graphic Arts and its archives. Greg had about a dozen kites in the show and helped build over fifty kites by other artists. Images: Greg Kono, Winged Skull Kite, 2008. Group of kites from the Day of the Dead Festival, Oaxaca. Photos by Greg Kono. Tracy Lang
10 a.m. - 5 p.m., M-F; Noon - 5, Sat. Map: www.ups.edu/campusmap.xml Art Department telephone: 253.879.2806. UPDATE: Writing in the Tacoma News Tribune, November 14, 2008, about Tracy's show, Rosemary Ponnekanti says, But it’s Lang’s design that takes your breath away. She plays with chiaroscuro, with positive and negative images, in a confident, complicated way, “painting” her outlines with an impressionist torrent of lines, cuts and wedges. More here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/ae/story/537364.html Tracy is also in a Regional Group Exhibition at 108 Occidental, opening November 6. Thurs. - Sun., 12-5:30 Contact: 206.855.9458. www.occidentalgalleryseattle.com www.tracylong.net Hugh Montgomery A bed that Hugh designed was included in a special issue of Finewoodworking Magazine that was published in October. The focus of the issue is on contemporary furniture designs. In March 2009, the Taunton Press will include the work featured in the magazine in a book entitled Design Book 8. Diane Walker Photographer Diane Walker had SIX images accepted for the Puyallup Fair International Show this year, and one of them won a Judges' Choice award. Diane also has an image appearing in the latest issue of Shutterbug Magazine (this will be her third appearance in their pages). Go, Diane! Shane Miller Shane won Best of Mixed Media for her metal boxes at the 2008 Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Festival, now in its fortieth year. This year there were 130 artists. Congratulations, Shane! Steven Maslach Bainbridge Island glass artist Steven Maslach is featured in an exhibition at The Society for Contemporary Craft, in Pittsburgh. 5 Contemporary Masters (June 27-September 13, 2008) focuses on contemporary craft artists who have expanded the world of contemporary art.
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Artist of the Year!
SETH ROLLAND was a finalist this year in the Traditionally Joined Wood category for his Chaise Credenza, left. And speaking of Seth . . . 
Bainbridge Island artist Tracy Lang is best-known for her large-scale prints, although BAC currently has beautiful watercolors, too. Right now Tracy has TWO shows overlapping.
Her show, Juxtaposition, runs at UPS's Kittredge Gallery until November 19. 