Tomorrow is the first Wednesday of the year and the first Wednesday of the month, meaning it’s Wallingford Art Walk, and the organizers have a special treat to lure you out. They’ve recruited local artists to create a collector’s set of art work for the backs of the brand new maps of participating businesses.
Collect ’em all! Along with Art Walk fridge magnets, they’ll be available at some participating businesses, but especially at the “starting point” for the Art Walk, Wallingford Center on Wednesday from 6 – 8 pm. Grab your map and thank the organizers.
Suzanna Wheeler has been tasked with making sure Art Walk offers not just beauty, but song. A growing number of businesses have agreed to host musicians during the event:
- Wallingford Center: 6:30 – 7:30pm Andrew Vait (acoustic)
- Not a Number: 6:45 – 7:45pm Mike Lengel (acoustic)
- Babalu: 7:00 – 8:00pm Thomas Starks (acoustic)
- SeaMonster: 7:30 – 8:30pm The Warburg Effect (4 piece jazz band)
- Al’s Tavern: 7:30pm Dean Johnson (honey-dipped ditties)
- Rain: 8:00-9:00pm Kevin Burkett Project (5/6 piece jazz band)
And finally, here’s the line-up of artists who will be showing their work, as provided by Tara Shuttleworth, Art Walk co-chair:
Selena’s
Nalisha Rangel: Since moving to the Pacific Northwest she has been experimenting with heavy earth tones and multiple layers of paint. Dance also inspires many of her compositions and guides her brushstrokes across the surface in an attempt to capture a sense of movement.
Blue Star
Kaarin Keil: A native Seattleite who has combined her love of water and travel with her passion for photography. During her college years she worked as a photo editor for the school paper and also did a photo internship for local legend Art Wolfe.
Matt Ballard: “Recent changes in my life and awareness have brought me to my current work with perception. My curiosity, appreciation and respect of animals has inspired me to create a series of paintings of animal silhouettes surrounded by a plane of swirling colors representing one plane of perception, being emotion and growth.”
Oom Yung Doe
Aimee Rush: Infused with heart energy, Aimee’s art and design work delight the soul and resonate with the vibrations of love. Aimee Rush is a Seattle native who has been creating art for most of her life. Inspired by the beauty of this area, she has developed a style she calls “abstract organic.”
Grizzled Wizard
Starheadboy: Starheadboy flows his vibrant art through pure stream of conscious and relies on raw instinct, unlimited imagination and constant inspiration to create his work.
Rain Sushi
Page Eaton: “I consider my style young, bold and modern. Inspired by many famous pop-artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, I’m currently focusing on portraiture.”
Al’s Tavern
Rooboy’s Reverie: “My name is Tanneroo and I like hard hats. I got into the hard hat decorating business totaly by accident. It started with the hard hat I wear at work. It looked so blah and normal so I went to the art store and found paint pens. A few hours later I had a pretty cool looking hat. A fews days at work is all it took. I had several people asking if I could draw on their hard hats too. Now, two years later i’ve done about 50 hard hats and have moved into drawing on bicycle and paragliding helmets. I’m always coming up with cool ideas for my hats so keep an eye on my website at WWW.Artwanted.com/Rooboy”
Wallingford Center 1st Floor Corridor
Bald Man Watching: is a visual art project which the artist plans to continue for the rest of his life. Bald Man Watching has undertaken this project to learn through practice and experiment in different artist processes. Bald Man Watching tries to recycle all possible materials involved in the creative exploration. To see more of Bald Man Watching’s work, Visit: flickr.com/baldmanwatching
Wallingford House
Our Artists this month will be Michael Morgan, Sereasa Wittman, Tim Jezik, John Schwinn, Aaron Crosetto, Suzanne Sanchez, Christy Lytle (All club members of the Wallingford House.) A few members will be playing the piano.
Refreshments: Cranberry cider, cookies and coffee.
Fuel Coffee
Our January artist is L Renee Odette.
Wally Pets
Ryan Henry Ward: He is one of the leaders of the underground art scene, and works continually to bring not only his art to the forefront of public awareness, but also that of other prolific artists.
May Thai Restaurant
Banyan Tree Boutique: I will be selling scarves, bags and shoes from Southeast Asia.
Boulangerie Bakery
Siolo Thompson: She wants each image to have a story book feel to it that draws the viewer into a different world and often uses animals, robots and magical elements in her work in an effort to explore the relationship we have to nature, technology and the sublime.
Caffé Appassionato
Jody Jodersma: “The techniques I use are largely self developed, incorporating homemade play dough, paper mache, and found objects. I am most excited when I can use on organic item to replace another and have the viewers not recognize the orginal source.”
Bargain Fair Thrift Store
Carina Booyens: Since discovering the amazing reflective qualities of sparkly paint Carina has become captivated with iridescence and shifting luminescence within a painting. The constant surprises of how the paintings become more than just her creation, it becomes its own being.
Julia’s Restaurant
Kassi Morrow: “My studies were focused on drawing and oil painting, primarily portraits. My most influential instructor and mentor was landscape artist Stuart Burton. I also studied with the accomplished portrait artist Neil Shigley.”
Seattle Mosaic Arts
Up on our Gallery Wall in January will be glass-on-glass vintage windows made by a variety of artists during a workshop taught by mosaicist extraordinaire and Wallingford resident, Kelley Knickerbocker.
Kabul: Dana Jonas
“Her connection with her subjects is uncanny. She can see into the soul of an individual and with that find the true beauty in every person put in front of her lens.”
Changes
Jeremy Gregory: Since his graduation from the Art Institute of Seattle he has created graphics for all types of applications, from skateboard graphics, CD covers, and Murals, to Comic Strips (currently True Grit for City Arts Tacoma Magazine).
SeaMontser Lounge
Maggie Schneider: Maggie’s artwork is a playful yet thoughtful perspective of life in a city. Her artistic philosophy combines making art that is both physically and intellectually accessible with a conscious effort to use post-consumer waste as viable materials.
Museum Quality Framing
Hillary Gore: “Although the idea of feminist art has been used for quite some time in contemporary art, I feel that title limits the viewer’s perception of the work. Our modern cultural ideals continue to deny valid, raw emotion, as it does not fall into social constructs of ‘polite society.’ I do not identify myself as a “feminist artist,” but rather a social revolutionary focusing on my personal female experience.”
Irwin’s Coffee Shop: Susan Waite
Stu Stu Studio: Annie Huntley “Dotted Line Jewels”
Just want to add us to the list! We are kicking off a donation drive in collaboration with Heroes for the Homeless tonight during the Art Walk. Bring new or gently worn gloves and socks to make this cold winter a little more bearable for Seattle’s homeless population. Donation drive 5th – 23rd.