SEARCH

Fremont Studios is hosting the 2006 Thread Fashion & Lifestyle Show this Sunday.

Thread brings a selection of over 50 independent fashion & accessory designers from around the country to the savvy and style-conscience men and women of the Northwest in their Seattle debut. You can buy direct from the designers!

Fremont Studios is located at 155 N. 35th St. Seattle WA 98103 (206) 838-9080

Amy Rice will be the featured November artist at Bluebottle Art Gallery. Her paintings are all created on 100 year old shingles made from Northwest cedar trees. The imagery on each shingle is indicitive of the era in which the shingles were made, ie: sheep, rabbits, farmers, etc. Her techniques include stencils and spray paint. Each painting is unique and beautifully crafted.

The opening reception is Saturday, November 4th from 6-8 pm.

(images shown are from Amy’s website)

The Oregon Convention Center in Portland is home to the Stumptown Comics Festival this year. Stumptown is growing rapidly, due to all the awesome participants and their loyal fans. Like every other comic-con, this one has attracted a number of crafts vendors, as well as small publishers, including first timers at Stumptown, Fantagraphics Books. If you can afford the tank of gas, and don’t have any Halloween parties to haunt this weekend, it’s totally worth the drive. Notables include Colleen Coover, Bwana Spoons, Top Shelf Productions, Oni Press, Karin Yamagiwa Madan and Suzanne Kaufman, Tim Swope and many more.

The University Bookstore hosted a comics event last night with Harvey Pekar, David Lasky, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Jesse Reklaw. They spoke of sequential art, what cartooning means and thoughts on web comics. Apparently the debonair David Lasky stole the show with his amusing antics. Here are some photos from the event:

NW Film Forum and Cinema K are proud to present the Gumby 50th Anniversary Celebration from Friday, October 20th through Thursday, October 26th.
For 50 years, Gumby has been the small green clay conduit to the mind-boggling skill and creative spirit of pioneering animator Art Clokey. This 50th Anniversary celebration of Clokey’s work features a walk through the decades with beloved animated characters Gumby, Pokey, the Blockheads, Groobee, and Davey and Goliath as well as other early, rarely seen works by Clokey, including GUMBASIA, arguably the first music video, television commercials from the 1950s, and the magnificent 1977art film MANDALA. This program will amuse audiences of all ages and offer awe-inspiring revelations to anyone passionate about the art and history of animation.

Join them on Opening Night, October 20, 8 pm and meet Gumby, Joe Clokey, Al Eggleston (Gumby’s original art diector) and Bill Webb (Art Clokey’s best friend and lifelong collaborator!)

I’ve been busy but finally got to Fantagraphic’s blog for the first time in a month.  They were so nice to kick us some love we just have to do the same. 

Check out the article called Last Weekend about our lovely evening early this month that included the Kickstart Kuties artshow and then ended with karaoke with the Woodrings, Tom Dougherty and some newfound Fantagraphics peeps (Gregory Zura and his lovely wife and friends). 

This animation is a collaboration of Plexipixel’s Matt Rodriguez, Le Merde, Shawn Wolfe and Darick Chamberlain.

Want to see some beautiful animation? Here’s Jim Woodring’s Frank as animated by Fuyama Taruto.

PUSHIN’ 5 A PUSH Project organized by Nin Truong and Larry Reid examining the intersection of fine art, contemporary graphics and skateboard culture. Featuring Charles Peterson, Shawn Wolfe, Joe Newton, Andrew Pommier, Maya Hayuk, Eric Sans, Chikayoshi Satomi, Nathan Fox, Marco Hernandez, Andrio Abero, Josh Howard, Todd Lown, Jay Clarke, Mary Long, Damion Triplett, Josh & Kenta (brkn home), Bigfoot, Robert Hardgrave, Yoshi Obayashi, Jesse Edwards, Sua, George Estrada, Tim Silbaugh, Jason Sho Green, Mike Poetzel and more.

October 13 – November 4, 2006 Opening reception Friday, October 13, 6:00 – 10:00 PM

 BLVD Gallery 2316 2nd Avenue, Seattle

Manik Skateboards, in association with BLVD. Gallery, is pleased to present “Pushin’ 5,” an exhibition examining the aesthetic carnage at the unmarked intersection of fine art, contemporary graphics and skateboard culture.This show is a follow-up to the highly acclaimed “PUSH Project” exhibition, which opened in Seattle in 2003 before traveling to Los Angeles, New York and Portland, OR. Like its predecessor, the show will feature the work of highly accomplished artists working in a variety of media. This exhibition marks the fifth anniversary of the innovative Seattle-based skateboard enterprise Manik. In addition to facilitating events related to skateboarding culture throughout the region, Manik’s sophisticated approach to skateboard graphics employs an artist-in-residence program in producing their popular line of limited edition skate decks and related products. New skateboard designs by internationally recognized photographer Charles Peterson will be introduced in the “Pushin’ 5” exhibition, alongside the grunge era photographs that inspired his skateboard series. Peterson will be joined by a broad array of artists including George Estrada, Shawn Wolfe, Joe Newton, Maya Hayuk, Marco Hernandez, Iosefatu Sua, Jesse Edwards, Mary Long, Tim Silbaugh, Sam Sneke, Ries Niemi, Chikayoshi Satomi, Bigfoot, Robert Hardgrave, and Andrio Abero, among a host of others.

Over the weekend, Animal Talk, a no-kill shelter and pet store, was brutally ransacked. The perps not only stole money, an iguana and other reptiles, but let all the cats out of their cages and stomped on some poor small rodents. Missy Young, the owner of Animal Talk, is a selfless woman, never refusing any cat a place to eat or sleep. This is just a juvenile and irresponsible act of terror. If you or anyone you know has any clue what happened, please call the Seattle Police Department or Pasado’s Safe Haven at (206) 779-9102. Also, you can make a donation through PayPal here. We are encouraging people to buy all their animal food and products to help support them in this time of crisis. Animal Talk is located at 6514 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle WA 98115.