Celebrate Nuevo (no, not Cinco) de Mayo from 5-9 p.m. on May 9 at the Kingston Art Gallery’s second Saturday Gallery Night. There will be hot salsa, cool art, artists, poets and music. From 5:30-6 p.m. local poets will read from their recently published Crab Creek Review. Copies are available at the Gallery. Long time Kingston artists, Betty Claire, potter, and Marilyn Liden Bode, printmaker, are featured artists at the gallery night. Their show runs from May 6 through June 7.
Claire is expressing a long-held love of simple form in some of her large pieces. She incorporates the use of our beloved Madrona branches as handles of teapots and serving platters and one “ceremonial bowl.” Madrona is scavenged from windfalls in the forest. There also are bowls and mugs used in daily rituals of eating and serving.
Bode’s hand pulled original prints come from plates made in a variety of processes, and reflect her life story and connection to nature and the human experience. She is honored that her print, “We are the Reason Our Ancestors Existed” is on the cover of the Crab Creek Review.
For over twenty years Liden Bode Printmaker studio and Claire’s Earthdance Pottery studio have been producing local art and are within two blocks of the gallery on West Kingston Road.
Continuing community events of the Gallery held next door in Cleo’s Learning Center for the Arts are “Mug Up!” every first Thursday of the month and a drawing session every second Tuesday. Join us from 10 a.m.-noon on May 7 with your mug and creative spirit for conversation and coffee. Come and draw with us from 10 a.m.-noon on May 12. Bring your favorite drawing supplies.
We welcome six new artists to our Kingston Art Gallery cooperative.
By Marilyn Liden Bode
They are painter Mary Carlton, potter Mara Sparks, jeweler Nancy Saunders, painter Willo Huard, and photographers Dick Badger and Deanna Jacobsen. Come see their work and meet them on May 9. The importance of fine art in our community continues to be recognized and to grow.
Seen anything of the SLUG inFESTation yet? Some have been sighted at a certain site in downtown Kingston.
