|
Event
Arts & Humanities Series 2011-12
Vashon Allied Arts is pleased to announce the 2011-2012 Arts & Humanities Series, a five-event Sunday evening series. Designed to spark the imagination and enhance understanding and appreciation of our cultural landscape, this program is sponsored by Humanities Washington.
November 13, Portland filmmaker Joanna Priestley presents Art in Motion. Priestley has directed, produced and animated films about human rights, prisons and aging, inventive expressions of her deeply held beliefs.
Hailed as "the queen of independent animation," she will offer an overview on the field of animation as an art form. Priestly will share her work and the creative and technical processes involved. She has had retrospective exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Center for Contemporary Art (Warsaw, Poland), REDCAT (Los Angeles) and others. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
January 8, 2012, Painter writer, teacher and art historian Kesler Woodward and wildlife photographer, lecturer and writer Paul Bannick present The Nature of Seeing. They draw inspiration from the natural world, but each sees nature differently and interprets it in his own unique style and medium. The two artists in conversation will discuss the differences and similarities in how they view nature and demonstrate, through example, the results of their creative efforts.
Woodward served as curator of visual arts at the Alaska State Museum and artistic director of the Visual Arts Center of Alaska. An emeritus professor of art at University of Alaska Fairbanks, he chaired the Art Department and taught for two decades before retiring in 2000 to paint.
Bannick specializes in natural history with a focus on birds and habitat. His first book, The Owl and the Woodpecker, is one of the most popular bird books in the country.
His traveling exhibit that explores habits of owls and woodpeckers and ways their life histories are intertwined was seen at the Burke Museum. Bannick has appeared on numerous NPR programs including Travels with Rick Steves and BirdNote. His work has appeared in Audubon, Sunset, Birds and Blooms, Pacific Northwest Magazine, Seattle Times, Smithsonian's Guide to North American Birds and more.
February 12, Poet Heather McHugh presents The Art of Numbers. The Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at University of Washington, and 2009 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, will talk about individual instances of what John Donne's era called "the art of numbers"(or poetry itself. With an inimitable sense of humor and playfulness, McHugh's own work brings an original perspective to bear on such classic themes as love and mortality.
March 4, 2012 Master metalsmith Robert Ebendorf presents Jewelry Art: Lost and Found. Known internationally as the father of the found-object jewelry movement, Ebendorf finds ingenious uses for discarded and often incongruous materials in jewelry making. A leader and teacher in the studio jewelry movement for more than 30 years, he will discuss his groundbreaking approach to jewelry making, which questions the very nature of adornment, and share his visually transformative work.
Ebendorf is represented in collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Smithsonian Institution among others. He currently serves as the Belk Distinguished Professor in the Art at East Carolina University in Greensville, North Carolina.
March 18, Linda Hartzell and Kurt Beattie present Live Theatre and the Cultural Forces That Shape It. Good friends and cohorts Linda Hartzell, artistic director of Seattle Children's Theatre (SCT) and Kurt Beattie, artistic director for ACT Theatre will talk about cultural forces that have shaped our region's theatrical institutions and the value of theatre as an art form to understanding contemporary life.
For twenty-five years, under Linda Hartzell's watch, SCT has grown from a small troupe that produced shows at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo to the nation's second largest professional children's theatre companyannually performing for an audience of more than 120,000 children and their families. The organization serves nearly 13,000 area students through its innovative educational programs and outreach activities. Hartzell has earned a national reputation for nurturing and premiering the work of playwrights for young audiences.
Actor/director Kurt Beattie, a familiar presence on Seattle stages for more than three decades, brought his extensive experience and visionary approach to ACT (A Contemporary Theatre)in 2003. The only local theatre in Seattle dedicated to producing contemporary work with promising playwrights and local performing artists, Beattie presides over a flourishing "interactive community where artists and the public witness, contemplate and engage in dialogue on today's thought-provoking issues, ideas and art."
|
|
 |
LocationBlue Heron Art Center (View)
19704 Vashon Hwy SW
Vashon Island, WA 98070
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
|
Contact
|
