The Blue Horse Gallery in downtown Bellingham is hosting a Public Hanging: Photography 2010 exhibit through the entire month of June! What does this mean for you? Anyone can have a photograph in the show; $35 gets you in. Check out their announcement for more details: Blue Horse Gallery.
Deadline: May 25th, 2010
Submit submit submit! Showcase your talent!
The deadline is fast approaching for 2010’s Scanning Electron Microscope Competition. All entries are due one week from today, April 29th @ 5pm.
All participants will be included in the SEM exhibit, hosted by the Viking Union Gallery May 3-14th, where viewers will vote on the images; as well as a showing at the University Scholars Poster Session where the winners will be announced! Selected images are also included in a calendar released the following year available in the AS Bookstore.
Be a part of this fantastic opportunity! Enter in the competition, or just come out and vote for your favorites at the opening reception, May 6th from 6-8pm in the VU Gallery!
For more information: Student SEM Competition Website
This quarter, head over to the Western Gallery to check out their latest exhibit “Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment”. This multi-media exhibition is “exploring how artists are responding to the natural, diverse Pacific Northwest in the context of a rapidly changing environment and gathering crisis of degradation” including work by Cynthia Camlin and John Grade.
Now through May 29th!
WWU Photography Alumnus Kelli Waugh has her photographic series “Roads to Home” on display at the Black Drop Coffeehouse (300 W Champion Street). Check out her exhibit before it closes, April 30!
Check out Kelli’s website for a preview: http://kwaugh.dphoto.com
The 2010 Labyrinth exhibit opened yesterday at the VU Gallery, running from April 5-23. This year’s theme is Intersections of Identity, and it features the artwork 18 Western students and alumni.
Labyrinth Opening Reception and Release Party, Thursday April 8th 6-8pm
More information check out the Facebook event: Labyrinth 2010 Reception & Reading
Join the Procession!
Gather in front of the Lightcatcher building (250 Flora Street) and participate in the procession of John Grade’s large-scale sculptures and witness as they dissolve into Bellingham Bay.
The procession will be heading behind Old City Hall and then down Center Avenue ending next to the Georgia Pacific building by Roeder Avenue. You can either join in the procession or choose a place to watch along the route (the steps in Maritime Heritage Park will be a great viewing location).
First Friday Artwalk is tomorrow, April 2nd! Among many openings, the reception for the 9th annual ReArt Bellingham exhibition will be hosted by Allied Arts (1418 Cornwall Ave.) from 6-10pm. To catch even more ReArt, check out the Seattle exhibition as well, hosted on Seattle’s First Thursday at Blowing Sands Gallery (5805 14th Ave NW in Ballard).
Look for more information here.
The Trash Fashion Show that accompanies ReArt each year will take place in Seattle on April 17th and in Bellingham on April 30th in WWU’s very own Multi-Purpose Room. Check the link above for more details!
Check out Winter 2010’s Art 390 class’ commission for Macy’s in downtown Seattle: “Edifice Complex”! It was on display on the corner of 3rd & Stewart for the entire month of March and will soon be moving down to the metro to become part of Macy’s permanent collection.
Seattle Times Press Release
WWU Press Release
Some artists featured in the show:
A collection of silver gelatin photographs by Kelli Waugh will be on view February 1-28 at Book Fare Cafe in Village Books, Fairhaven.
Opening reception: Friday, February 5 from 6-8pm at Book Fare Cafe.
More about the artist:
kwaugh.dphoto.com
