How Much Arliss Newcomb Enjoyed Art City – May/June 2009
Driving directions to Art City are easy you say? Ha! They go something like this: Take the California St. exit off of the 101 freeway. Drive east to Main St. then go north on Main to Olive, turn east on Olive and go two blocks, now go left on Dubber St., only the sign says […]
The Last Flower & Garden Show – March/Apr 2009
Moving the NWSSA booth down to the main sales floor was a huge success for attendance, interest and sculpture sales (17). Of the five days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday were elbow room only! We were lucky to get a corner booth to catch people from two sides. Our hand carving demo booth was in the […]
Joan Rudd Takes Art to the Seattle Streets – March/Apr 2009
A recent project I did this past summer through Path with Art, an organization which works with people in transitional housing, returned me to teaching after some time off. While the exhibit was vandalized before the scheduled month was out, it did last two weeks, and the participants were alright with letting go of their […]
By Gathering, We better ourselves and Our Art – March/Apr 2009
Pick up a newspaper; listen to the news whether on radio or TV. Another year has passed, and OH! What a year for our country. Words describing the economy seem to only start with letters at the front of the alphabet, words like abyss, bankruptcy and corruption. Well, I won’t go on, it all seems […]
Gus Schairer – Artist Spotlight
SNW: Tell us about yourself and how you became an artist. GS: I’ve loved art since I was a small boy wallowing in sloppy finger paints, temperas, and squeezy clay at Seattle’s John Muir grade School and later at Cornish Art School. Then, in one of my first issues of Popular Mechanics, I saw an […]
President’s Message – March/Apr 2009
It has been a busy month; The Flower & Garden Show brought our sculptures together, made a few sales and raised much interest with the hands-on table. Veteran and new members shared their time. I was in on a meeting for Gerda Lattey’s Basalt Workshop—This Sounds Great! Also Camp Brotherhood looks great, an […]