White Center 3rd Saturday Art Walk June 19th, 6 PM until 9 PM
Salvadorean Bakery (1719 SW Roxbury St): Erich Blattener – B&W Photography. Beautifully expressive photography, nice use of pattern, and contrast.
Café Rozella (9434 Delridge Way):
Full Tilt Ice Cream (9629 16th Ave Sw):
Proletariat Pizza (9622-A 16th Avenue SW): Devrim Ozkan – Paintings/monoprints. Wild and beautiful abstract-ness, full of passion and color.
Dzul Tattoo (9622-B 16th Ave SW): Dzul Family – Airbrush, original fashion, peircings, and tattoo. Take your mind on a ride in this wonderful shop!
Big Al Brewing (9832 14th Avenue SW): Cael Mulligan – Digital photography on canvas. Lovely abstract photography from a young photographer with an eye for light and design.
Dubsea Coffee (9910 8th Avenue SW): Amanda Helmick – Mixed media awesomeness!! Check out Amanda’s latest pieces that are sure to satisfy! Innovative re-purposing, recycling, sculpting.
Rat City Rummage at Burien Wild Strawberry Fest!!!
Be sure to visit the artists, watch a demonstration, and create a collage at Rat City Rummage in Burien this Saturday. Saturday, June 19, 10:00am-6:00pm Sunday, June 20, 10:00am-5:00pm New Location! Burien Town Square Park, 5th &152nd SW
www.burienstrawberryfestival.org/
Reptet at Big Al Brewing!!!
Give Dad a great treat on Sunday June 20th. Reptet, in partnership with 4Culture, will treat White Center to a rare treat!! The White Center Father's Day Jazz Celebration Concert Big Al's Brewery 9832 14th Ave SW Seattle, WA 98106 4:00PM-7:00PM All Ages & FREE!!!
White Center 3rd Saturday Art Walk May 15th, 2010 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Salvadorean Bakery (1719 SW Roxbury): Marty Gordon - collage. Thruogh his art, Marty is asing questions, inviting debate and telling stories. Looking at one of his works is akin to piiking through a window into another world, a world where art, humor, faith, tension, and candidness life together in vignesstes of surreal commentary. Dubsea Coffee (9910 8th Ave SW): Jaime Temairik - paintings and drawings. The artist reception will be Sunday, May 16th from 2 until 4. Here is a note from the artist: "Hey kids! I'll have some new paintings and drawings up mid-May to mid-July at my favorite cafe, Dubsea Coffee! How's about you and your fam join me for the opening party on Sunday afternoon, May 16th? There'll be snacks and an at activity and maybe even some boogie-ing."
Cafe Rozella (9434 Delridge Way SW): Unable to get the artists name, but please stop by...
Full Tilt Ice Cream (9629 16th Ave SW): Richard Olmstead- drawings and prints. New works. This is good stuff. See last month's flier for the artist statement.
Proletariat Pizza (9622 16th Ave SW A): Alexander King- photography.
Dzul Tattoo (9622 16th Ave SW B): Dzul Family - Airbrush and Tattoo art.
Big Al Brewing (9832 14th Ave SW): Phil Scroggs - paintings.
And, at 7:00 PM Big Al Brewing will host "Billy and the Bouncers, a DO NOT MISS local jazz combo!!
Richard Olmstead is showing this month at Full Tilt. Here is his artist statement:
Artist statement from richard olmstead:
I drink unhealthy amounts of coffee and spend too much time alone with a pencil. I find myself a great deal more concerned with the aesthetics of the physical world, than that confined by a frame or held hostage in a museum. We need look no further than these polluted pastures and seas of gray to be reminded why I’m not interested in discussion or depiction so much as in fighting for those whose voices we choose to ignore, and I’d give up any canvas in a heartbeat to draw instead upon the rubble of empires.
I’m influenced by authors and criminals, strangers and friends, by so many people in passing along my travels. I am influenced by every honest smile that was more than good salesmanship.
I’m influenced in a rather different way by rubber bullets and pepper spray. By the police who I’ve watched beat up my friends. I’m influenced by the polluted air, the tainted water, and the dwindling biodiversity. I’m influenced by the developers who are cutting down my back yard, the businessmen that systematically steal the worlds resources, the management that robs our creative energy, and the stress filled dissociative social environment they have left us with, and I think it’s about time that the fucking lines are drawn. - Richard Olmsted,
Special Menu for the Art Walk : 3 Pastelitos de Carne with soft drink : Pork filled tortilla empanada, deep fried and served with our special pickled cabbage and salsa. Garnished with tomato, radish, and cucumber. : $ 5.95
Chicken Sandwiches with soft drink : Sauteed shredded chicken served on French bread topped with lettuce, tomato, & mayo. Seasoned with a delicious tomato and onion sauce. : $ 6.75
Salvadorean Bakery: Cullen Bryan: pen, pencil, and charcoal drawings. Cullen is a senior at TEC on the Evergreen High Campus.He is a prolific and very talented artist. The current selection is comprised of the best of his depictions of professional wrestling.A must see exhibition.
Café Rozella:Carlos Espinoza:Carlos is a favorite local artist who works in many medium, but mostly sculpts.Besides Rozella, Carlos also has works at Full Tilt.For more about Carlos visitwww.carlosespinozaart.com
Full Tilt Ice Cream:Isaac Stewart and Richard Olmsted: More about these artists to come soon.
Proletariat Pizza:Mary Silva: acrylic on plywood. You must check out this beautiful and fanciful work.Eating a slice of pizza, drinking a beverage of choice, and staring at these sounds like a blissful evening to me.Or just pop in for a peep. http://marysportfolio.blogspot.com/
Dzul Tattoo:The Dzul brothers, keepin’ it real! As always, I encourage everyone to stop and check out this shop.These boys do beautiful work.Come out with a new item of clothing, or, oops, a tattoo!
Dubsea Coffee:Jameson Hubbard: Wood Block Prints.
Bird Eating Deer is the umbrella alias of the various artistic undertakings of Jameson Hubbard.Currently living in Seattle, WA, Jameson loosely attends the Gage Academy of Art.Primary interests regarding subject matter: The age-old question of man’s relationship with nature and the consequent friction; the role of animals in contemporary and past societies and the meanings applied to them; native cultures, primarily precolonial.
Join us Saturday evening from 7-9 pm to welcome Jameson Hubbard’s new work into Dubsea Coffee and meet the artist himself!His large scale wood block prints, along with drawings and paintings will grace the walls from mid-April through mid-May.Looking forward to Saturday!
White Center for the Arts: First Anniversary Celebration White Center 3rd Saturday ART WALK February 20th, 2010 6 PM until 9 PM
Featuring:
Salvadorean Bakery: Chuck Northcutt – photography on canvas,1719 SW Roxbury St Café Rozella: Carole Ellis – photography, 9434 Delridge Way SW Triangle Tavern: Chase Evans - Spoken Word and DJ sets, at 6:15 9454 Delridge Way SW Full Tilt Ice Cream: Julie Luke – Acrylic on Canvas,9629 16th Avenue SW Proletariat Pizza: Baso – photography,9622-A 16th Ave SW Dzul Tattoo: Urban and Tattoo Art, 9622-B 16th Ave SW Dream Community Gallery: Fusion Dance Crew, at 6:30 PM 9640 16th Ave SW Brian Barr – Portraits of White Center, Amanda Helmick – Mixed Media, Amanda Pickerel-Winer – paintings Big Al Brewing: Raina Anderson – photography 9832 14th Ave SW DubSea Coffee: Hye Young Kim – dyed yarn and acrylic, 9910 8th Ave SW Micheal Olson – DJ –reggae/dub plus more!
Join us for a celebration of arts and culture in White Center. Come see what's happening here, now!
The last month and a half have been very busy, and we're sorry for letting things slide. Very exciting news to share: February's White Center Third Saturday Art Walk, which is happening on February 20th from 6 PM until 9 PM, will be White Center for the Arts' one year anniversary!
Stay tuned for the artist list in the next few days!! And, we are adding a new venue.
Also, here is a letter that you should read. If you support community arts in White Center, please consider these words:
"Dear Lovers of Art in White Center,
White Center for the Arts (WCFTA) believes that the White Center community’s rich tapestry of culture and local arts should be shared with everyone. Our work to establish a permanent home for the arts in the neighborhood is off to a great start! In the past six months we:
·Established an after-school art program in the local Highline District Middle and High School
·Established the Third Saturday Art Walk, exhibiting more than 25 local artists in 9 months time.
·Are hosting Community Artists Meetings to open the lines of communication
·Established a working relationship with local, county, and state arts organizations and continue to identify and foster new partnerships within the community to create a web of services and support for artists and youth.
·Partnered with the YWCA at Greenbridge to showcase local artists in the lobby on a quarterly basis, and are working with Youth Media Institute and the Highline School District to implement non-violent extracurricular creative youth activities in the schools and in the White Center Downtown Business District.
But we have more work to do, and we are in urgent need of your support so that we can create the anchor of our vision and visiability, DREAM Community Gallery.We are asking for a small donation of $10.00 from 100 people, a $15.00 donation from 55 people, and 10 $100.00 donations.You will be supporting the entire White Center Cultural Community, helping to give visibility to local artists in all media, ages, and neighborhoods. A gift right now will assure that WCFTA can continue on our mission to be a catalyst for the coming together of the arts and cultural community of White Center.The time has come for a permanent home for the arts in White Center. Our current projects are:
·DREAM, a Community Gallery sustained by an in-house Coffee House, providing un-juried exhibition space for local artists and performers, and providing a safe gathering place, and empowering activities, for youth
·Development of our arts education programming
·Collection of oral histories and artifacts for a permanent local history collection
·Facilitating cross medium and cross cultural collaborations, and continuing to bring positive business to White Center through the Art Walk
We appreciate gifts of any amount, and in return WCFTA is working hard to promote art and culture in the daily life of White Center residents. We are to receive a $5,000 grant. We need more to open our Community Gallery by February 20th, the first anniversary of White Center for the Arts.We have scheduled two dance performances, a musician, and two artists for the evening of February 20th, and they are counting on your gift to help make this happen.When combined with the work of our dedicated volunteers, established, emerging, and students artists, the community as a whole will benefit from seeing our mission to bring art, and the celebration of culture and heritage to all of White Center and its neighbors, succeed.
To give a tax deductible donation, visit our website:
P.S. You may be fortunate enough to have an employer that will match your gift.This is a great opportunity to give maximum impact with your gift to White Center for the Arts."
Even if you don't live in White Center, but know that this is a worthy cause, please donate and know that you are supporting strong work in a beautiful community.
