Rob Schouten Gallery presents Fine Art in the Season of Light Annual Holiday Exhibition November 2 - December 31 This year our two month Fine Art in the Season of Light holiday exhibition features an outstanding selection of works from our gallery artists. Included are fine paintings, bronze sculptures, colorful glass, and elegant jewelry. You’ll find unique ceramics, witty assemblages, fine woodwork, and fiber arts. We have a nice selection of artful gifts for budgets large and small. Purchased works…
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In November, Museo will welcome Whidbey artists Laura Hudson and Jean Whitesavage to the gallery. Both artists create from an intuitive place, patiently crafting their individual medium until an oft-elusive sense of balance is achieved. In Laura Hudson’s first show at Museo, she debuts figurative paintings that playfully juggle universal dichotomies through pattern, color and mark making. Laura’s work is exciting – dancing between representational and abstract, but also grounded in deeply relatable themes. Longtime Museo artist Jean Whitesavage brings…
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Grand Opening of the ‘Clinton Arts District;’ hot food, cider and holiday caroling. Clinton, the little town on south Whidbey Island, just off the ferry from Mukilteo, is experiencing a vibrant new arts movement. What started as a single gallery/studio opened 6 years ago by artist Louie Rochon, has grown to include 4 art galleries and working studios. This growth has attracted new businesses to the commercial center. Rochon says: “There wasn’t much here when I opened my gallery. Most folks knew…
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small wonders opens December 2nd and runs through December 31st. Featuring the art of three like-minded, fiercely curious women sharing in the discovery of wonder through simple observation of small things and/or quiet moments - revisiting our loving and happenstance relationship with nature from a youthful, spirited perspective. Acrylic painter and Langley artist, Myra Platt, relishes in playing detective, with her playful seasonal studies of snow, trees, bugs, birds and fungi. Print maker and Greenbank artist, Britt McKenzie likes playing…
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Whidbey Art Gallery December Happenings Whidbey Art Gallery on Second St in Langley is brimming with answers to all your shopping needs. We will have our popular Art Under $100 all month. The first room you enter will have several walls and pedestals featuring pieces from pottery, ceramics and jewelry to paintings and photographs. One entire hallway is lined with cards suitable for framing. Some small original pieces can be found there as well. You won’t want to miss this…
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$30
Sir John Falstaff—a lazy, gluttonous, boastful, selfish, lying, debauched old knight—is universally beloved as one of William Shakespeare’s greatest creations. But how did Falstaff get to be Falstaff? What was he like as a young man? How did he become a knight? How did he meet young Prince Hal? And most importantly, was he ever truly in love? Find out in this hilarious prequel to the Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, commissioned by the highly respected Oregon Shakespeare Festival and premiering…
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Free – $30
Whidbey’s Saratoga Orchestra and music director Anna Edwards invites you to celebrate the season with Holiday Favorites and more on Saturday December 16, 2:00pm at Coupeville High School Commons. The program will feature a telling of the timeless classic, Peter and the Wolf by Serge Prokofiev with Karl Olsen serving as narrator as well as three “sing-along” choruses from Handel’s Messiah. Those wishing to be part of an ad hoc choir may arrive at 1pm for a brush up rehearsal.…
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$60
Total cost of workshop: $60 Important Note: You will only be constructing the heART journal itself in this workshop. Please see Rachel’s 2-Day workshop February 29 – March 1 to create the journal and the art that blooms within. heART journals are the home for all of the things you have been stuffing in drawers and shoeboxes. The photos stuck on your phone, the quotes and poems that make you feel things, the lyrics, the ticket stubs, the feathers, the postcards,…
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$200
Total cost of Workshop: $200 (includes $25 registration) Basic knit/purl and cast on/off knowledge needed – if not sure how to do this, book separate time with me private lessons before the course begins ***This is not a Knitting 101 course*** Pattern: Basic top/down raglan pullover sweater, from Good Night Day – Kingston Sweater Skills Learned: Casting on, knitting in the round, changing colors, knit, purl, increases, decreases, changing needle sizes, separating sleeves, picking up stitches, casting off, weaving in ends, blocking…
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$850
Deposit: $270 (includes $25 registration) Balance: $580 (due 60 days ahead of workshop) Total cost of Workshop: $850 Join Marjolaine in a 5-day class to create her signature light weight seamless jacket, vest or tunic. You also have the option to make a bolero, a shorter jacket. Her fascination for the limitless possibilities of making nuno felt seamless garments led her to playful creations. Clothing should be fun to wear! During this workshop you will explore the technique of nuno…
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$885
Deposit: $270 (includes $25 registration) Balance: $615 (includes $60 materials, due 60 days ahead of workshop) Total cost of Workshop: $885 Learn to paint and print with natural dyes. This workshop will concentrate on the direct application of mordants and natural dyes using various tools and techniques, including mono printing, stamping, screen printing, and hand painting on cellulose and protein fibers. Emphasis will be on developing unique color combinations and expressive personal marks. Prior to dyeing we will apply mordants…
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$895
Deposit: $270 (includes $25 registration) Balance: $625 (includes $70 materials, due 60 days ahead of workshop) Total cost of Workshop: $895 In this workshop we will be delving into the relationship between color and light. As David Hornung says in his text Colour, “The relationship between color and light is one of the most powerful aspects of two-dimensional art. Light itself has a mysterious psychological effect. To see light appear to emanate from within a group of colors is an…
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$1225
Deposit: $390 (includes $25 registration) Balance: $835 (includes $0 materials, due 60 days ahead of workshop) Total cost of Workshop: $1225 Artists have used self portraiture for hundreds of years to tell their story and leave their mark behind in the cultural landscape. It is a journey that can begin with a simple click of the camera. Join Leanne Trivett S. for this journey to tell the remarkable story of you, because every photo we take has a part of…
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$875
Deposit: $280 (includes $25 registration) Balance: $595 (due 60 days ahead of workshop) Total cost of Workshop: $875 Have you ever wanted to make your artwork move? Aaron Kramer has been creating automata for 30 years. He blends a creative engineering mindset with a sustainable approach to artmaking. His mechanisms are simple and straightforward while the effects are often sublime. This course will combine several of his favorite things; creating work from found and manipulated objects, storytelling with machines and…
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