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Conference: BREAKING THE SURFACE - Potter's Council's Northwest Regional Workshop
The weekend of September 22nd & 23rd

Join us for two incredible inspiring days filled with techniques such as china painitng, sprigging, carving, and sgraffito. Learn or fine tune your skills of pit and saggar firing right on the beach. This workshop is meant to teach and inspire. You'll be able to take your work to a new level after attending demos and presentations by professional ceramic artists such as Jim Leedy, Halldor Hjalmarson, Joe Brecha, Paul Lewing, Gretchen Mottet, Ken Turner and Beverly Saito.


ROBYN NICHOLS
Friday, Aug 3rd & Saturday, Aug 4th, from 5-9pm both days

Join us for two special evenings with internationally acclaimed silversmith, Robyn Nichols as she shares her award winning jewelry and tableware. A founding member of the Society of American Silversmiths, her work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and her private and corporate commissions have commemorated occasions for clients such as Hallmark Cards, H & R Block, Pepsi Cola Bottling, Coors, and the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. The Friday and Saturday night events are free and open to the public and the exhibition runs for one week only.

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Diane Ainsworth: New Paintings
Runs through July 22



NEWEL HUNTER
Tales of dark & light New Paintings
Runs through May 18th



photo by Michael Gesinger

STARK
Exposition of nudity in painting, photography & sculpture.

Free & Open to the Public
Runs through April 6, 2007



Ann Piper “Jess Tells Me Her Terrible Secret” charcoal, acrylic on paper 30" x 42"

Counterproof: Group Drawing Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday January 5, 2007 from 5-9 p.m.

"Drawing" is not a technique: it is a process of looking, of trying to understand. Artists use drawing like speech: it is intuitive, spontaneous and plastic. The artists in this exhibit use the traditional media of drawing to explore unconventional ideas and images.




This is a rare opportunity for new collectors to discover and buy paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, and other unique work from over 40 celebrated artists, all priced less than $300.

Participating artists include: Martha Worthley, Ann Morris, Stephen Yates, Diane Ainsworth, Carolyn Watts, David Eisenhour, Beverly Saito, Margie McDonald, Max Grover, Deedra Ludwig, Seth Rolland, Jim Sajovic, Pamela Hastings, Caroline Douglas, Amy Cheng, John Ferry, Bernal Koehrsen, Stacie Chappell, Sarah Hall, and many others.

PEGGY SMITH-VENTURI : Sculpture
Runs through November 30

Caroline Douglas: Ceramic Sculpture
Runs through October 14

Paintings from T H E a r t mine Studio Program - Deedra Ludwig
Runs through October 14

Stacie Chappell Spaces in Between: new paintings
Runs through September 16

GUMBY and Art Clokey
Runs through August 26.
Art Clokey's claymation character, Gumby, is 50 years old this year. Since his early days on the Howdy Doodey Show, Gumby has become a well-loved American icon, providing a rich medium for the growth of animation, and inspiring Eddie Murphy to don an over-sized Gumby costume on Saturday Night Live.

On the West Coast, this half-century of creativity is being celebrated at The Art Mine. The exhibition will showcase original props, prototypes, and a look behind the scenes with vintage Gumby photographs, scripts and storyboards. It is Art Clokey who led the way in claymation, breaking ground for the classic short film, "Clay" and more recently, Wallace and Gromit.

Gumby can rightfully claim to be a grandparent of Pixar Animation and the current Disney film, "Cars." Art Clokey, who is now in his 80s, will attend the July 15 celebration which includes a special film program at the Rose Theatre in Port Townsend, Washington at 1 p.m.

The film, a 90-minute documentary made for the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, starts with the abstract short film "Gumbasia" (1955) and incorporates a selection of episodes from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Art Clokey and his family will be in attendance.


Artist Talk: June
Diane Ainsworth, artist (Port Townsend, WA)
Meet one of Port Townsend’s most celebrated artists. Perceptual to the core and highly prolific, Diane Ainsworth’s paintings of her surroundings are often so painterly that they break loose of their realistic and impressionistic origins and emerge abstract.


Artist Talk: May
Sarah Hall, artist (Portland, Oregon)
A graduate of Oregon College of Art & Craft and recipient of the Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship Award. Sarah Hall will give a presentation of her work including her intricately carved figures, the most recent of which depict sleeping pregnant women, incorporate Asian, Moorish and Celtic designs. Hall’s exhibition record includes representation in the Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University; Zoller Gallery, PA; Rhode Island School of Design; Nancy Sachs Gallery, St. Louis; and the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in Portland; among others.


Anne Katrine Senstad's portraits from her book "The Norwegians" at The Art Mine Gallery

The Art Mine's inaugural exhibition, Square One, contains work by artists from NY, the Midwest and the Northwest. Included in the show are Anne Katrine Senstad's portraits from her book The Norwegians. The exhibition is up through June 30, 2006.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian artist who lives in New York and Oslo. She has exhibited internationally including the Architectural Museum in Sao Paulo, Transient, NYC, Snyder Fine Art, NYC, and Galleri JMS, Oslo, Norway. She has received grants from the Norwegian Council for cultural affairs and the Norwegian Photography Foundation for the arts. In 2000 Norwegian broadcasting corp. made a documentary on Senstad as a Norwegian artist and photographer living in New York. The film was aired in 8 European countries and viewed as an important informative document for young aspiring Scandinavian artists and photographers. Senstad's work appears in private, corporate and gallery collections such as Snyder Fine Art, NYC, the Polaroid collection, MA, The Royal Norwegian Consulate, NYC and Stichting Noorderlicht, the Netherlands.