Sun, May 6, 3pm, 2018
Award-winning author and Winthrop local launches his new book, Three Sides Water on May 1, published by Ooligan Press. The vibrant and timeless setting of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula is deserving of not one, but three stories defined by both place and period. Across the dramatic landscape of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Peninsula, Donahue’s characters take… [Read More]
Sat, May 5, 6-10pm
The 7th Annual Trashion Show is a fabulous runway show with Upcycled Recycled outfits ranging from Street-Style to Country Couture transformed from everyday trash. Filled with surprise after surprise the event showcases models and designers who strut their stuff on the runway to the driving beats of DJ Bullfrog. The judging panel awards cash prizes… [Read More]
Arts Education Spotlight
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director Using sketching and acrylic painting techniques fourth grade students at Methow Valley Elementary School created still life compositions through a Methow Arts Artist-in-Residence program. Teaching artist Deirdre Cassidy showed students a diversity of examples throughout art history and taught them about the nature of the content in still life compositions.… [Read More]
Winter 2018
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director In March, Methow Valley Elementary 5th grade students explored the “Who We Are” unit of the International Baccalaureate (IB) framework through a collage residency with Methow Arts teaching artist Annie Venable. The concept was originally developed by 5th grade teachers Jennifer Duguay and Catie Barber working with teaching artist Hana… [Read More]
Mar 1, 5-8pm; Exhibit: Mar 1-Mar 31, 2018
During the month of March, Traver Gallery in Seattle is featuring eighteen new paintings by Tori Karpenko. This body of work picks up where the artist left off from his last show – ‘The Lookout’ – and takes the viewer deeper in to the North Cascades wilderness. With a slightly more lucid take on unique… [Read More]
Spring 2018
Winthrop Gallery artists Teri Pieper and Tamera Abate work in encaustic art. What, you might ask, is “encaustic” art? Encaustic is a wax-based paint composed of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment which is kept molten on a heated palette, applied to a wood surface, and then reheated to fuse the paint to the panel. The… [Read More]
Spring 2018
Methow Photo Arts Sherry Malotte is a photographer and artist who finds magic in working with animals, nature, abstract imagery and architecture. She often mixes media by adding pastels, pencil, wax or paint to her prints but there is always a photographic element. Sherry employs slow shutter speed and movement techniques to make bold, colorful,… [Read More]
Winter 2018
by Ashley Lodato Education Director, Methow Arts Alliance When do you get to see the Methow Valley Elementary School art room filled with eagles, cougars, rattlesnakes, herons, and black widows? Second graders know the answer to this–when Trish Rouse visits the school, that’s when. Rouse, a Mazama-based artist and teaching artist, has been leading papier-mâché residencies for… [Read More]