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“Through This Valley:” Clayton James, Ed Kamuda, Ruth Pumphrey and Christine Wardenburg Skinner. i.e.gallery, Fri-Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment: 360-488-3458. This exhibit focuses on four artists of the Skagit Valley, Christine Wardenburg-Skinner, Ruth Pumphrey, Clayton James and Ed Kamuda. Most exhibits at i.e. are conceived of and scheduled six months to a year ahead of time. We had been planning a showing of some of Ed’s plein air paintings for about nine months. Kamuda looked to So...
The Museum of Northwest Art’s 28th Annual Art Auction – and for the first time online – kicks off next Wednesday, Sept. 9. Silent auction bidding starts Sept. 10 and the live auction and online program are Sept. 12. This year’s theme is “Fund the Future for the Future.” The funds raised “support future exhibitions, preserve the Permanent Collection and help to continue transformative art education programs” the Museum’s auction webpage states. To register and view the online auction catalog go to http://www.monam...
Thanks to new guidelines from Governor Jay Inslee, La Conner’s three museums will soon be back in business. Hours and visitors will be limited when the Museum of Northwest Art museum opens Friday, Sept. 4. “Since we can only operate at 25 percent of capacity, our docents will need to monitor the number of visitors in the galleries,” said MoNA Executive Director Joanna Sikes. “When one group leaves, another can enter.” While there is no need to make an appointment beforehand, Sikes said some patience may be required as MoNA staff work to make s...
As an alternative to the canceled Seattle Art Fair this year, the Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, 2020 (SDAF) brings art to the public in a blend of online and physical art displays. Margy Lavelle and Ries Niemi, from the Skagit Valley, are two of the 47 artists participating as Northwest artists and galleries team up. Lavelle will provide her work online and display it in the windows of her Edison gallery, i.e., while Niemi’s work will be on display at his outdoor site on a date not yet determined. The show serves as an alternative to Paul A...
The best things in life truly are free. Just ask members of the La Conner Arts Commission. Commissioners at their video-conferenced meeting last Thursday reviewed the proposed donation to the Town of a striking four-panel, 20-foot mural sporting a sweeping panoramic view of La Conner. The family of the mural’s creator, master artist Bob Patterson, is making the panels available to the Town, Mayor Ramon Hayes said. “It’s every bit a masterpiece, that’s for sure,” said Hayes, at the 30-minute Zoomed session. Hayes envisions Maple Hall as the lo...
Local fiber artists used to work on their projects over coffee every Friday at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Arts Museum. Now they check in from as far away as Hawaii and New Mexico. When the Museum closed on March 18, the group shifted to Zoom. “We still talk and show off what we’re making,” said Executive Director Amy Green. “It’s like a modern-day quilting bee.” Virtual Fiber Friday is just one example of how La Conner museums have engaged patrons in spite of being shuttered. Podcasts, virtual art classes, YouTube videos and social...
A major West Coast music industry leader had his first jam session in La Conner. Only it was one that gave little hint Frank Handy would later rise to a top executive position with Los Angeles-based Position Music, an independent record label and management firm that has built a multinational presence over the past two decades. Handy’s uncle, La Conner native Neil Bretvick, now a Seattle area accountant and himself a music aficionado, tells the story best. “He destroyed my vinyl copy of Jam...
By: Meg Holgate Before coaxing each piece of waxed and resin-coated paper into place, Kandis Susol begins her day with a meditation. In the small studio space allocated to her practice on Orcas Island, Susol brings concentration, tranquility and mindfulness, central tenets of Zen Buddhism, to her work. The artist’s exhibition, “Embrace,” now at FORUM Arts, asks the viewer to engage in the quiet observations of the slow and deliberate flow of life. These contemplations are clearly imbued in her sculpted panels, formed from a gently chore...
