SDA WA - MEMBERS NEWS

2024

SDA Northwest Textile Artists exhibiting in Port Townsend

Art quilts, textile sculptures, collages, hand-felted wool masks, jewelry and garments are among the 70+ pieces on exhibit in “Burst of Color,” a Peninsula Fiber Artists show open Jan. 5-Feb. 11, noon-5 p.m., Thursdays-Mondays, at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St., Port Townsend.

The juried show was created by 36 artists from King, Kitsap, Jefferson and Clallam counties. All are available for purchase.

Visitors can meet the artists Saturday on Jan. 13 when a panel of artists will describe their techniques and media.

Peninsula Fiber Artists maintains a 24/7 walk-by exhibit at 675 Tyler St. in uptown Port Townsend. The January-February show is “The Big Chill,” curated by Sequim felt artist Armstrong. The March-April exhibit will be “Funky Ladies,” curated by Port Angeles silk painter Evette Allerdings.

Exhibiting SDA members in “Burst of Color” are:

Port Angeles

Evette Allerdings

Port Townsend

Leslie Dickinson

Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry

Cynthia LeRouge

Debra E. Olson

Joyce Wilkerson

Chimacum

Erica Iseminger

Port Ludlow

Jeri Auty

SDA artists exhibiting at Whatcom Museum

The Whatcom Museum presents its fourth biennial juried art exhibition, Bellingham National. Grace Kook-Anderson, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, is the guest juror and has selected finalists from among more than 1,000 submitted artworks for a three-month show in the Lightcatcher building. Visual artists from across the United States – both long-established and up & coming – vied for a chance to exhibit their works at the Whatcom Museum and to be considered for one of three Juror’s Choice Awards. Those works span the visual arts, from video, painting, and sculpture to textile and glass, and all reflect the exhibition’s theme of healing and repair.

Over the course of the exhibition, museum visitors can vote for an artwork to receive a People’s Choice Award, to be announced in late February.

November 11, 2023 – February 25, 2024. Lightcatcher Building, Wednesday – Sunday, noon – 5pm
250 Flora Street, Bellingham, WA 98225

SDA WA participants: Julie Sevilla Drake, Gabriela Nirino.

Barbara De Pirro at Paper Made exhibition

“Tearing, cutting, binding, stitching, rolling, the artists in Paper Made manipulate paper to create diverse works that challenge our preconceptions of paper as solely a substrate for the drawn or printed image. Selected from a juried exhibition by Fiber Art Now, a magazine for fiber artists, the work of the featured artists is meticulously crafted and visually compelling. Using various papers with distinct characteristics—thin, thick, handmade, machine-made—the artists demonstrate that a story does not need to be “written” on paper, that paper itself can tell a story.  

Barbara De Pirro’s Blossom is tied to nature; circles of painted paper each revealing textured worlds that accumulate and open out into a floral form.

For most of us, our relationship to paper is purely a utilitarian one. From the time we get up in the morning to the time we go to sleep, we are touching paper in some form or another. The works in this exhibition give us an opportunity to think about how paper can transcend function and generate personal, thoughtful, creative visual narratives. “  Words by Michelle Samour, curator

Ongoing until March 9. Wednesday-Sunday, 10-4. Brattleboro’s historic Union Station at the foot of Main Street in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont.