Showing posts with label shorelake arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shorelake arts. Show all posts

ShoreLake Arts Gallery is a winner in the 2023 Seattle Times Best in the PNW contest

Monday, October 16, 2023

2023 Best in the PNW
"Place to Buy a Gift"

Silver Award Winner

ShoreLake Arts Gallery is a winner in 
the 2023 Seattle Times Best in the PNW contest. 

Thank you to everyone who voted for us!
We hope to see you soon at the shop and help you find the perfect gift!

The Gallery is located on the lower lobby of Town Center LFP at the intersection of Bothell and Ballinger Way NE.


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6x6NW Art at the ShoreLake Arts Gallery

Saturday, October 14, 2023


Did you miss the 6x6NW show? 

The gallery has a selection of 6x6NW art for $36. Thank you to everyone who donated your unsold work to us.

100% of the proceeds will benefit ShoreLake Arts.

Art makes a great gift!

The ShoreLake Arts Gallery is located on the lower lobby at Town Center LFP at the intersection of Bothell and Ballinger Way in Lake Forest Park.


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Tickets on sale now for the 6x6NW art show - 150 artists and 1,000 works of art

Friday, September 15, 2023


6x6NW is back for 2023 with 150+ artists and ~1,000 works of art! Tickets for this annual art party are on sale now for just $10.

Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of creativity at ShoreLake Arts' 2023 6x6NW Art Exhibit and Sale on Saturday, September 30, 2023. 

This one-of-a-kind event features nearly 1,000 works, each 6" x 6", and each just $36. Created by 150+ artists of all ages -- and at all stages in their careers -- works at the 2023 6x6NW inspire, delight, and might be your new favorite finds.

This year's event will have some nibbles and noshes - including cupcakes from Pacific Northwest Catering Co, the Save n Sip cash bar, sponsored by Suzan Shayler of Edward Jones Investments CFP, and loads and loads of art. All ages are welcome!

So, whether you're an art lover or just looking for a fun afternoon with your friends and neighbors, join us at the 6x6NW Art Exhibit and Sale. Grab your tickets now and take pART in art.

6x6NW Art Exhibit and Sale
Saturday, September 30, 2023
4:00 - 7:00 pm
The PUB at Shoreline Community College
16101 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA 98133

Tickets $10 - *admission is free after 6:00 pm

Jack Malek, Windermere Real Estate is the lead sponsor again this year and Shoreline Community College is hosting the event. All ages are welcome!


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Call for artists for the 6x6NW community art exhibition

Tuesday, August 22, 2023


As 1970s icon David Cassidy sings, "Hello world, here's a song that we're singin' - Come on, get happy!" ShoreLake Arts is happy to announce we are currently accepting submissions for 6X6NW, a community art exhibition, and sale featuring hundreds of original works of art. Register online today.

What is 6X6NW?

6X6NW is an art exhibition and fundraiser, which features 6-inch by 6-inch works of art in all varieties of mediums from artists locally and all over the country. Proceeds from the event support ShoreLake Arts, a non-profit, local arts organization dedicated to cultivating creativity and inspiring our community through the arts. We are calling out to all artists to submit up to 10 pieces of art.

ALL 6" x 6” | ALL $36 | $6 Registration


6 x 6 = $36! This price also allows art to be more accessible and gives people a taste of what you do - let's hope they "get happy" and come back for more! Register by September 7, 2023. Artists receive a 40% commission and the other 60% goes directly toward supporting ShoreLake Arts programming and events. Artists can also choose to donate 100% of the sale to ShoreLake Arts. Donations make everyone happy.

When is the Show?

Entries will be exhibited at Shoreline Community College on September 30, 2023, 4pm-7pm and sold for $36 each. All participating artists receive a discount code for 2 free tickets to the event. More tickets can be purchased for $10 each here. There is free entry to the show between 6pm-7pm.

How can I participate?

Register online!

Drop your artwork off at our office by September 7, 2023. There are open drop-off dates listed on the website or call and make an appointment. You can also mail your artwork be sure to allow for extra mailing time.

Artists may submit up to 10 unique artworks for a single $6 registration fee.

What kind of work can I submit?

Work of any medium on any surface will be accepted (no glitter or unfixed charcoal/pastel). Yes - photographs are accepted! As long as it's 6X6.


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King Youngblood wins the ShoreLake Battle of the Bands

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

King Youngblood won the Battle of the Bands
Photo courtesy Shoreline Chamber of Commerce
ShoreLake Arts presented the 4th annual Battle of the Bands, a showcase of emerging and developing  Washington State bands.

The competition took place on August 3, 4, and 5, 2023, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Pfingst Animal Acres Park in Lake Forest Park and featured a diverse range of music styles. 

In addition to great music, the Battles featured a 21+ Beer and Wine Garden sponsored by Shoreline's Monka Brewing Co., food vendors, and a family-friendly atmosphere.

People brought lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the performances.

On the first night of competition, Thursday, there were five bands in the competition.

King Youngblood and Vanilla Abstract wowed crowd and judges and moved on to the finals with Tuesday's Refuge taking the wild card spot.

On the second night on Friday. Ruby Vision and Batbox were selected to move on to Saturday's show. Pilot Seat clinched the wild card spot.

Saturday finals - the five bands played:
  1. King Youngblood
  2. Vanilla Abstract 
  3. Ruby Vision
  4. Batbox
  5. Pilot Seat
Each band had fans in the crowd and made new fans.

But the winner was King Youngblood




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Battle of the Bands – August 3, 4, and 5 at Pfingst Animal Acres Park

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Three nights of Battle of the Bands

Don’t miss out on Battle of the Bands, sponsored by ShoreLake Arts and the City of Lake Forest Park! 

Three evenings of fun at Pfingst Animal Acres Park! Tickets are on sale through ShoreLake Arts. Battle of the Bands supports emerging and developing musicians in Washington state and encourages appreciation for the art of music in our community.

All shows begin at 6:30pm at Pfingst Animal Acres Park, 17435 Brookside Blvd NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155 and gates open at 5:30pm. A beer garden and food trucks will be on hand!

  • Semi-final Pool #1 | Thursday, August 3
  • Semi-final Pool #2 | Friday, August 4
  • Finals | Saturday, August 5
For more information on the event or to purchase tickets, head to the Battle of the Bands information page.


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Tickets available now for Battle of the Bands on August 4, 2023

Sunday, July 2, 2023

ShoreLake Battle of the Bands announces the Friday, August 4 2023 bands performing at Pfingst Animal Acres Park in Lake Forest Park, 17435 Brookside Blvd NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

The second-night bands will be Hannah Duckworth, Pilot Seat, Ruby Vision, H!t It, and Batbox.

Get your tickets now for the fourth annual Battle of the Bands competition, a showcase of emerging and developing musicians from Washington State. Everyone is welcome. 

Tickets are available from the ShoreLake Arts website: https://www.shorelakearts.org/battle-of-the-bands


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6x6NW call for artists


ShoreLake Arts is currently accepting submissions for 6X6NW, a community art exhibition featuring nearly 1,000 original works of art. 

Each work of art must be 6-inches by 6-inches and artists may enter up to 10 works of any medium (2D or 3D). 

There is a $6 fee to register. Registration is free for artists 18 years of age and under! 

Artwork must be delivered to ShoreLake Arts by September 8, 2023.

Interested in taking pART? Registration and participation is open to all — no art background is required! For information and registration visit: https://www.6x6nw.org/6x6nwhome



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FREE World Collage Day Event: Make Your Own Collage Sketchbooks

Tuesday, May 9, 2023


FREE ShoreLake Arts Gallery Event: World Collage Day 2023, Saturday, May 13, 2023 from 12pm - 2pm at the ShoreLake Arts Gallery, Town Center at Lake Forest Park (lower level lobby)

Join artist Wendy James and make your very own Collage Sketchbook

Flowers, animals, monsters, shapes, colors - fill your pages with whatever tickles your creative side! 

Wendy will help inspire and guide students through this fun, accessible collage project. Learn how to layer, make funny scenes and add some extras. 

With the skills you gain, you can create more of your own collage books at home. All supplies are provided (first come, first served) so just bring your smile and get ready to create with paper and glue! Scissors are not required for little ones. All ages and experience levels are welcome.

PLUS FREE COLLAGE KITS!

Lake Forest Park artist, Elsa Bouman, will be handing out her much anticipated FREE collage kits, while supplies last. She'll also have her collage work for sale in the gallery.

Get a preview of her work in our online shop.

About World Collage Day

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, we invited artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. 

And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honor this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”

More information here

The ShoreLake Arts Gallery is a program of ShoreLake Arts and is located inside the Town Center in Lake Forest Park on the lower level. 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155.

ShoreLake Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate creativity and inspire our community through the arts. Established in 1989.


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ShoreLake Arts Creative Space survey for local artists

Saturday, April 29, 2023


ShoreLake Arts and Artspace launch an online survey to determine space needs for artists, arts organizations, and creative businesses, a crucial step towards developing affordable artist housing and arts space in Shoreline.

ShoreLake Arts, in partnership with Artspace, the nation’s leading developer for the arts, has announced a major online survey of artists, arts organizations, and creative businesses interested in living or working in Shoreline. 

Survey results will help define the size and nature of the market for a proposed, affordable housing and creative workspace facility that includes a home for ShoreLake Arts. The survey is a crucial step in the predevelopment of this project.

Visit shorelineartistspace.org to take the survey.

Artists and creatives participating in the Arts Market Survey can express their space needs and preferences for the proposed Shoreline project. Artspace will use the survey to identify the types and number of spaces needed by artists and arts organizations in Shoreline, and the amenities and special features that are of interest to them.

The survey is the second phase of a scope of work that began in September 2021, when an Artspace team conducted a Preliminary Feasibility Study for the proposed project. 

If the survey identifies a market for an Artspace project and ShoreLake Arts decides to proceed, survey results will inform both the project concept and site selection. Survey results are a critical piece for both identifying the need and securing funding to move forward with the project. It will also inform design and programmatic decisions, such as square footage, parking, types of creative spaces to include, rents, etc. 

Artists who take the survey have the option of being among the first to be informed of project developments, including leasing opportunities.

ShoreLake Arts serves residents of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park by producing culturally rich, quality arts programs that intrigue diverse audiences of all ages, always seeking to nurture artists and art lovers alike as they explore, enjoy, and connect through art, art-making, and art education. 

Artspace is a non-profit organization that uses the tools of real estate development to create affordable, appropriate places where artists can live and work. The organization owns and operates 58 artist communities in 43 states, including 4 in the state of Washington


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Monday deadline for bands to enter Battle of the Bands

Friday, April 28, 2023


Don't miss out! ShoreLake Battle of the Bands' submission deadline is Monday, May 1. (That's Monday, Monday, Monday!)

ShoreLake Arts' Battle of the Bands returns to Lake Forest Park this August! 

Selected bands of all genres will battle it out to win recording studio time at the world-famous Robert Lang Studios, top music gear from Mackie, cash prizes and more.

This unique competition provides these up-and-coming musicians a platform for their music and a unique pathway to build their musical skills and network with industry professionals. Get your applications in today!

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Shoreline Short Short Film Festival this Saturday, April 22, 2023

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Catch some great Washington State talent at the
Shoreline Short Short Film Festival this Saturday, April 22!

Get your tickets now for Season 7 of the Shoreline Short Short Film Festival and see new works by 13 talented Washington State filmmakers.

Our panel of expert judges selected a wide range of films for the 2023 Festival, which takes place at the Shoreline Community College Theater on Saturday, April 22, 2023 -- doors open at 5:30pm. Shows start at 6:30pm. Our concessions stand features beer, wine, popcorn, and snacks!

The Best Picture (as rated by our judges) and People's Choice Award (voted on by you!) will take home cash prizes and a Sasquatch Award!

Best Picture: $1,000
People's Choice Award: $1,000​

​Each film ranges between 3 - 13 minutes. All films are unrated and may contain some adult content. Viewer discretion is advised.

The festival is organized by ShoreLake Arts.

We can't wait to see you at the theatre!

Shoreline Community College Theater



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Art Explorers: Pay What you Can Art Classes for Kids Grades 1-5

Sunday, April 9, 2023


ShoreLake Arts is set to launch enrollment for our Spring session of Saturday Pay What you Can Art Classes for Kids Grades 1-5, now called "Art Explorers."

Classes begin on Saturday, April 29.

The Art Explorers "Pay What You Can" program is presented in partnership with the City of Shoreline, and made possible by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA) and the generosity of individual donors in our community. 

To learn more about the program and register, families can visit https://www.shorelakearts.org/pwyc


Also, ShoreLake Arts still has space available in a few of our "Art Adventures" Summer Camp sessions. Our camps will be held at Shoreline Community College this summer, and are presented in partnership with the college and sponsored by Suzan Shayler, Edwards Jones, and by individual donors in our community. 

To learn more about our summer camps and register, families can visit:
https://www.shorelakearts.org/camps


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2023 Shoreline Short Short Film Festival

Friday, April 7, 2023


2023 Shoreline Short Short Film Festival
Saturday, April 22, 6:30pm


The Shoreline Short Short Film Festival (SSSFF) is back for its seventh season.

Filmmakers from all over Washington submitted “short short” films and the judges selected 13 for the Festival:
  • Milk Dreams, Directed by David Oliver
  • Dean’s Dream, Directed by Dean Dickinson
  • The Fingernail Taker, Directed by Tommy Heffernan
  • NightCap, Directed by Jeff Barehand
  • The Cookie Crumbles, Directed by Daniel Hickey
  • Hartung: Not for Sale, Directed by Patrick Troll
  • The First, Directed by Ladies in Film
  • Xuxu The Rice Bag, Directed by Zhenhua Banfill
  • Radio Caroline, Directed by Michael J Leavitt
  • Get up the Nerve, Directed by Angelo Visser
  • Invited, Directed by Ed Castañeda
  • Barbedwire, Directed by Caroline Pew
  • The Captain's Mistress, Directed by Cory Alder

SSSFF takes place on Saturday, April 22 at Shoreline Community College’s Theatre, and doors open at 5:30pm with a 6:30pm show time. All films are 3-13 minutes. 

The top filmmaker will be honored with a handmade wood Sasquatch plaque, and a $1,000 cash prize. Plus, audience members can vote for their favorite filmmaker to win the People’s Choice Award!

All films are unrated and may contain adult/mature content. Viewer discretion is advised.

Tickets are $25 for general admission, or $50 for VIP.

The Shoreline Short Short Film Festival supports emerging filmmakers in Washington State and encourages and supports filmmaking in our community and is a program of the Shoreline Film Office, Shoreline Community College, and ShoreLake Arts.

This event is generously supported by our Golden Sasquatch Sponsor, Jack Malek of Windermere. Thank you to the Shoreline Film Office, Shoreline Community College, ArtsWA, 4Culture, the City of Shoreline and the City of Lake Forest Park.



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2023 ShoreLake Arts Battle of the Bands - call for bands

Friday, March 31, 2023

2023 ShoreLake Arts Battle of the Bands
Call for Bands!

Applications Due: May 1, 2023

The 2023 ShoreLake Arts Battle of the Bands is coming back to Lake Forest Park!

Bands will battle it out to win recording studio time at the world-famous Robert Lang Studios and cash prizes. This unique competition provides these up-and-coming musicians a platform for their music and a unique pathway to build their musical skills and network with industry professionals.

Prizes:
  • 1st Place: $1,500 - Plus, one day of recording at Robert Lang Studios ($1,000 value)
  • Runner Up: $1,000
  • People's Choice: $500
Honorarium: Each band selected to take part in the competition will receive a $300 honorarium for their participation in the event.

Deadline to apply: May 1, 2023
  • $5 application fee
Application Requirements:
  • Music must be original (no covers allowed)
  • All genres of music are accepted.
  • Bands must be working in Washington State
  • Bands must have the proper license to all copyrighted music, video, and images included in the duration of their involvement.
  • Competition is restricted to bands (not solo musicians)
  • All entries are final and may not be withdrawn from the event once submitted.
  • By submitting an entry to the ShoreLake Battle of the Bands, you attest that all information provided is accurate and complete, that you have the authority to submit said entry for consideration, and that you have read, understand, and agree to all terms of entry.
  • You must not have won a previous ShoreLake Battle of the Bands competition.
Notifications will be sent out by June 9, 2023. Tickets for the live, open-air concerts will be available online in June.

More information here including application forms

Event details
  • Where: Pfingst Animal Acres Park 17435 Brookside Blvd NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
  • When:
    • Semi-Final Pool #1: Thursday, August 3
    • Semi-Final Pool #2: Friday, August 4
    • Final: Saturday, August 5

ShoreLake Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate creativity and inspire our community through the arts. Established in 1989.


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Still an opportunity to get tickets for Bloom! - ShoreLake Arts Gala on Saturday

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Bloom! Cultivating Creativity
ShoreLake Arts' annual Gala

Saturday, March 25, 5:30 pm
Nile Golf and Country Club

Come party with ShoreLake Arts!

There's still a few days to get your tickets for Bloom! Cultivating Creativity, our annual Gala for the Arts, on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at the Nile Golf Club to celebrate and support arts programming in our communities.

An evening of art, awards, fun games, community and a Live Auction.

Auction items include:
  • Seahawks Season Tickets for Two
  • Caribbean Vacation and 100,000 Alaska Airline Miles
  • A Cultural Cornucopia - tickets to some of the best events around town
  • Garden Design+

More Gala information

We look forward to seeing you on March 25!



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ShoreLake Arts' Annual Gala for the Arts Saturday, March 25, 2023 at Nile

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

 

Please join us at


Bloom! cultivating creativity 


ShoreLake Arts' Annual Gala for the Arts


Saturday, March 25, 2023 | Nile Shrine Golf Club 



Last year ShoreLake Arts served more than 34,000 people through public events, like Battle of the Bands and the Lantern Festival, the Gallery and our arts education classes. This is possible because of YOUR support and we are grateful. We hope you'll join us on Saturday, March 25, 2023 for our special celebration supporting arts events and education in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. 80% of every ticket goes right back into funding programs in our shared community.

The deadline to reserve tickets and tables is March 18!

Since 1989 ShoreLake Arts has presented quality arts programming in North King County. This year's kicked off with a bang, with 1,500 people attending the Lantern Festival in celebration of the Lunar New Year and more than 110 kids are currently enrolled in our youth arts classes. We've planned more than 20 public arts programs and dozens of arts camps and classes for students of all ages for 2023. Your support makes this possible!

We invite you to join us on Saturday, March 25 for a legendary evening of fun, friends, and good cheer—and some bloomin' good auction items.

We also honor the following individuals and organizations who are making our community a better, more artful place to live, learn, and play:

Esther Wu: Heart Award

Herb Bryce: Community Impact

Highland Terrace PTA: Community Partner

Xin Xin: Artist Spotlight

And, we will have fun, fun, fun!


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1500 Shoreline and Lake Forest Park residents join to celebrate the Lunar New Year with a Lantern Festival

Sunday, January 29, 2023

It was a delightful family event
Photo by Mike Remarcke
What an incredible turnout from the community!

The kids were intent on their artwork
Photo by Mike Remarcke
Over 1500 enthusiastic audience members enjoyed the Lantern festival at North City Elementary that started at noon Saturday, January 28, 2023 with kids making lanterns.

Many arrived early to beat the lines for the food trucks
Photo by Sahana Shivanand
Food trucks Seoul Bowl, and Momocha Kathmandu served delicious food. Jeanie Rak performed soulful music.

Lions danced to the beat of a drum
Photo by Mike Remarcke
Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon and Lion Dance Association brought an entire pride of lions for the pleasure of the crowd.

Photo by Mike Remarcke
The Lantern Festival has been part of the Chinese New Year celebrations since the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 221AD). It is said that the holiday evolved from an ancient Chinese belief that celestial spirits could be seen flying about in the light of the first full moon of the lunar calendar. 

The children don't look entirely sure about the lion's intentions
Photo by Mike Remarcke
People used torches and eventually lanterns to aid them in spotting the spirits. The lanterns come in all shapes and sizes. Some are created in the form of animals, insects, flowers, people or even machines and buildings. Others depict scenes from popular stories teaching filial piety and traditional values. A favorite subject is the zodiac animal of the year - this year, the rabbit.

Photo by Mike Remarcke
ShoreLake Arts is proud to present this event with major support from our sponsors and community partners: 
  • IPA - International Performing Arts, 
  • North City Water District, 
  • ICHS - International Community Health Services, 
  • Shoreline Rotary, 
  • Ridgecrest Neighborhood Association, 
  • North City Neighborhood Association, 
  • Environmental Rotary Club of Puget Sound, 
  • Jack Malek Windermere Real Estate, 
  • Pilgrim Media Services LLC, 
  • Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
  • City of Shoreline, 
  • City of Lake Forest Park, 
  • 4Culture, 
  • Arts WA and 
  • Shoreline Public Schools
Sahana Shivanand from ShoreLake Arts takes a selfie with the forest tour group
Judy MacCully created Forest Walks in the North City Park, adjacent to the festival site.

ShoreLake Arts says "Thank you to all the volunteers, planning committee, ShoreLake Arts Board Members, city officials, food trucks, sound crew, arts advocates, community members, donors, sponsors, staff, and many more for making this event so much fun! 

"We’ll be back next year!"



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ShoreLake Arts Lantern Festival Saturday January 28

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Photo courtesy ShoreLake Arts
Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, January 22, 2023 as the  Year of the Rabbit, but festivities continue for over a week.

ShoreLake Arts’ Lantern Festival is one week away on Saturday, January 28 and here are lucky number 6 things to look forward to:
  1. Lanterns and crafts. Make your own paper lantern celebrating the year of the rabbit. Make a personalized traditional Chinese bookmark and try Calligraphy.
  2. Music from Jeannie Rak.
  3. Taste the dumplings from Kathmandu MomoCha Food truck.
  4. Take a guided forest walk though the North City Neighborhood Park.
  5. The Neighborhood Associations of North City and Ridgecrest will be there to answer your community questions.
  6. Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon and Lion Dance Association.
Find more information at https://www.shorelakearts.org/lantern

Lantern Festival
January 28 at from 12:00 - 3:30pm
North City Elementary School Campus
816 NE 190th St, Shoreline, WA 98155
Rain or Shine
Free Family Friendly.
Everyone is welcome.
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ShoreLake Arts Gallery mounts new show

Saturday, January 14, 2023

ShoreLake Arts Gallery Presents
Caryn Vainio and Ian Shearer
January 4 - February 18, 2023
Town Center at Lake Forest Park
Intersection of Bothell and Ballinger Way NE

ShoreLake Arts Gallery is exhibiting a selection of works by painters Caryn Vainio and Ian Shearer. See these works and the creations of other local artists during gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, Noon to 5pm. Located in the Town Center at Lake Forest Park. You can also view and purchase art in the online shop!

The ShoreLake Arts Gallery is not-for-profit and features changing art exhibits on the walls every six weeks, as well as jewelry, ceramics, glass, paper goods and more by over 100 local artists.

About the artists:

Squak Mountain - Caryn Vainio
Caryn Vainio
is a mixed media painter and printmaker focusing on Pacific Northwest landscapes and lives near the foothills of the Cascade mountains. The evergreen display of nature through each season inspires her work. Her work has been purchased by private collectors and has been purchased for inclusion by the City of Seatac in their public art collection. Although she has no formal art school training, she's engaged in art of many forms all of her life and has intertwined it with her long professional career as a designer.

Caryn Vainio
Artist Statement


I'm a mixed media painter and printmaker creating energetic, bold paintings that interpret my sense of the Pacific Northwest landscape. I'm drawn to the comforting closeness of the PNW's mountain trails and the complexity of its coastlines and islands, and I find inspiration over and over even in the same favorite places.

As a former scientist I employ the idea of wavelengths: my work focuses on conveying the wavelengths of the landscape that are hidden from the eyes but deeply felt. I believe painting is at its purest form when it conveys these hidden, personal wavelengths. My acrylic mixed media paintings start with rough, invented compositions inspired by my frequent time in the local Cascade foothills; I build intuitively from there with energetic and active layering and mark-making. In contrast, my watercolor and ink paintings start with compositions inspired by a more expansive, cinematic, and distant view of the mountains and waterways of the Pacific Northwest coastline.

With landscape as the initial foundation, the thread throughout all of my work is that of interference and disruption, particularly the disruption of the real and the organic by the unreal, the artificial, and the inorganic. These themes surface from my long career working in future-forward tech industries like games and virtual reality and how I see them layered over our physical reality, for better and for worse.

https://www.instagram.com/carynvainio_art/
https://www.facebook.com/carynvainioart

Welcome to Post Alley
Ian Shearer
Ian Shearer is an artist based in Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of The Academy of Art University of San Francisco. In 2018, Ian survived a massive stroke. Through intense therapy he was able to regain use of the right side of his body, however, his painting style and abilities were greatly changed. These changes have led him to "start over" as an artist. Currently, Ian's work focuses on urban landscapes. Using the city as a lens to explore themes of isolation, subjective reality, sensory experience, and memory; often finding beauty in the everyday moments of urban life. These moments intrigue him, especially as ordinary moments become extraordinary in the wake of disability. Through his work, Ian is currently exploring the changes in his visual language and working on developing a dialogue of post-stroke experience. Adding another voice to a condition that affects hundreds of thousands and documenting the recovery process through mark-making. More of Ian's work can be found at ianshearerstudio.com

Boys Night - Ian Shearer
Artist Statement

How does one see when their brain has changed? I paint so others can see what I see.

As a gay man, my life falls outside the parameters of the straight and conventional. As a recent stroke survivor, my life as an outsider is even more pronounced.

Through intense therapy, I've regained the use of the right side of my body, but my painting style and abilities have greatly changed. After a long and isolating recovery, learning a new way to see has led me to appreciate the poetic murmurings of the ordinary.

My practice is informed by a necessity to create a new pattern language for myself as I navigate post-stroke experiences of aphasia and multiple sensory processing disorders. I paint ordinary moments and places as a reminder of the profound beauty that exists in the banal, as Bruegel's and Vermeer's paintings documented their societies in historical and emotional ways. Not just the physical planes of Seattle and the U.S. are changing, but society is too. My landscapes capture both the ordinary and extra-ordinary. Painting is not so much a way to make sense of the world around me as it is a way to share the exquisiteness of the overlooked. Our exalted quotidian.

Due to light sensitivity, I mostly paint the city at night. Urban landscapes reveal our subconscious yearnings. I show the streets as if traversed by a "caneur" or a detective - those figures who catalog the isolation of the human condition, the shifting faces of identity, the lost or rewarded memory, and desire.

I soak my preliminary sketches with water and let the paint drip and splatter, guiding the painting's eventualities in a recreation of my sensory discordance. Values are intentionally muddled and obscured, an echo of how our brains purposely select some criteria in favor of others in order to perceive and interpret. Structures melt away; a person's arm is translucent. Objects are half-drawn or barely suggested. A wet warp of perspective inviting you to my disorientation.

In my most recent body of work, I have begun adding small bits of text from my medical records. Sometimes as lettering in signage or disguised among the varied paint textures, often flipped and scrambled mirroring the effects of aphasia. The small type is intentionally hidden in the piece, underscoring the reality of invisible disability - unnoticeable at first, but always there beneath the surface.

I want the viewer to have the impression of walking into a moment; an image to give forth to a witness full of feeling. I paint my ghostly figures as representational resonances of the thoughts and memories we all share, despite the different ways we see our respective worlds. It is the profound isolation of subjective reality that unites us all.

https://www.instagram.com/ianshearerartist/?hl=en

The ShoreLake Arts Gallery is a program of ShoreLake Arts and is located inside the Town Center in Lake Forest Park on the lower level. 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155.

ShoreLake Arts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to cultivate creativity and inspire our community through the arts. Established in 1989.



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