2016 MoNA Art Auction

The Museum of Northwest Art is dedicated to the art of this region. The idea of a

special Northwest “vision” and the museum that emerged from it owes its genesis to

the artists who came of age in the cultural isolation of the late 30’s and 40’s. Never a

school, neither wholly consistent, nor totally inclusive, it nevertheless succeeded in

creating a fresh language and new imagery that established a regional identity for the

first time. But time and art move on – like the rivers of the Northwest, which are narrow

at their source and broad as they sweep down into the valleys; art defies limitation,

ignores restraints, moves on in an endless flow, redefining itself, absorbing new

influences, facing new challenges. The Museum of Northwest Art reflects this flow.

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CONTENTSWelcome.......................................................

2016 Trustees Award Recipients.....

Summer & Fall Exhibitions...................

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Dinner Menu................................................

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EVENT PROGRAMLIVE & SILENT AUCTION

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Guest Registration ............................... 5:00 pm Welcome Drink Hors d’oeuvres Silent Auctions Open

Silent Section 1 Closes ..................... 6:00 pm

Silent Section 2 Closes ...................... 6:15 pm



Seated Dinner ........................................... 7:00 pm

Golden Raffle Drawing .......................... 7:15 pm

Live Auction ................................................. 7:30 pm

GOLDEN TICKETWin your choice of a Live Auction item!Purchase a Golden Ticket for $100 for a chance to win any item in the Live Auction! Only 100 tickets are available! Look for the ticket sellers throughout the Silent Auctions on Saturday night.

Drawing for the Golden Ticket is held at 7:15pm in the Wa Walton Event Center.

Must be present to win, must be 18 years or older to purchase ticket.

Welcome to MoNA’s 35th anniversary celebration and our 24th Auction Gala. Whether this is your first time celebrating the arts with us, or you are a long-time returning patron, we are excited to share this amazing evening with you.

The Auction Gala is part of MoNA’s year-long celebration of our 35th Anniversary. We celebrate tonight with original works of art created by more than 200 artists. Our ability to deliver MoNA’s mission depends on each of you. Each dollar we raise tonight enables us to connect people with the art, diverse cultures, and environments of the Northwest.

We encourage you to join us in investing in MoNA’s future. This evening, your Fund-the-Future contributions are matched by a generous gift of $40,000. This is a fun way to double your commitment to arts education, exhibitions, and children’s programs. So let the party begin. We have a legacy to live up to, and so many reasons to be excited about our future together. Thank you for joining us to revel in the best art in the Northwest.

Here’s to a wonderful and fun-filled evening!

Gary Molyneaux PresidentBoard of Trustees

Christopher ShaininExecutive Director

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WELCOME FRIENDS!

This year marks the Museum of Northwest Art’s 24th Art Auction . . . a celebration of you, Northwest art and artists, and the MoNA community. Not only is the auction an opportunity to showcase artists from our region, it is also an opportunity for collectors, both new and seasoned, to make decisions on works of art that will enhance their collection and give them pleasure for years to come. In addition, there are countless sponsors, donors, and volunteers who support the auction, and the funds they help raise support museum educational programs, exhibitions, and permanent collection stewardship.

This year, we are presenting the auction at a new venue: The Wa Walton Event Center at the Swinomish Casino & Lodge. We are excited about this venue as it provides ample space to welcome additional guests and explore new possibilities. Ryan Elizabeth Feddersen, a celebrated Seattle artist, has worked with us to create an environment that reflects the spirit of this unique region.

We are grateful to the many, many people who have significantly contributed to the auction. First, and most important, are the artists. They have been so very generous in sharing the results of their talents and creative energy; without them, there would not be an auction. When you see artists throughout the evening, please join us in thanking them. Many collectors have graciously donated works of art from their collections; a thank you is extended to them. This year we invited Michelle Bufano, Executive Director of Chihuly Garden and Glass, to jury artworks into the auction and she has done a terrific job in selecting the pieces. We sincerely thank her for the many hours she spent poring through images and advising the auction team. Finally, we extend a heartfelt thank you to the many sponsors and donors who provided support early on during auction planning. We would not be as successful without you.

There are a large number of volunteers who have helped in many, many ways--from planning, to installation, to managing the bidding, to packing the art—and the gifts of their time and talents make the auction a success. In addition to the volunteers, the museum staff spent an enormous number of hours working on the auction. They are professional and dedicated, and they are a pleasure to work with. Thank you for all that you do for MoNA.

We hope you enjoy your time at the 24th Annual MoNA Art Auction!

2016 TRUSTEE AWARD RECIPIENTSUSAN PARKEThe Board of Trustees of the Museum of Northwest Art is proud

to name Susan Parke as the recipient of the 2016 Trustees

Award. Susan served as MoNA’s Executive Director from 1990 to

2007, beginning her tenure while the museum was still located

in La Conner’s Gaches Mansion. She was instrumental in both

the acquisition and subsequent move to the current location on

First Street. During her time at MoNA, Susan provided outstanding leadership to the exhibitions and

educational programs, and saw that the museum’s permanent collection reached a significant level

within the region. She provided a strong foundation throughout the seventeen years of her leadership,

and MoNA has built upon this foundation. Since her retirement, Susan has continued to be a key

supporter of MoNA by contributing her time and knowledge to cultivate artists, collectors, and friends

to who have joined her in furthering the museum’s mission. In addition to her transformative role at the

museum, Susan’s knowledge, passion, and guidance continue to lead the arts in this region to higher

levels. It is this working beyond the walls of a museum building that clearly demonstrates a strong

commitment to “art for all.” She is truly an outstanding arts advocate, and we are all grateful for her

many, many contributions.

Cheers,

Clara Duff Lorne Render Co-Chair Co-Chair Trustee Trustee

2016 FALL ExhibitionMatched Makers:Northwest Artist CouplesOctober 1, 2016 - January 1, 2017

NorthwestImpressions:

Lilli Matthews and Art from the Permanent Collection

July 2 – September 11, 2016

Lilli MathewsBefore the Bulldozers

encaustic on panel23 x 27 inches

Courtesy of the Mathews Family

2016 SUMMER Exhibitions

MoNA at 35July 2 – September 11, 2016

Viola Patterson,Boats and Sea,

oil on canvas, 19 x 25 inches

Gift of Joan Wahlman

Voyager:A Series by Steve Jensen

July 2 – September 11, 2016

Steve JensenNordic Boat on Wheels,

2015, recycled glass, boat resin, welded steel,

17 x 26 x 8 inches,

Courtesy of the artist

Samantha Scherer,Mostly Impossible I,From the series Mad,Hopeless, and Possible:

detail, 2009,

Watercolor on paper,16 x 29 inches each,Courtesy of the artist andG. Gibson Gallery

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RYAN! FEDDERSEN GUEST ARTISTRyan Elizabeth Feddersen, (b.1984) Ryan creates interactive and immersive works that invite the viewer to engage intellectually and creatively. Her work investigates ways of creating content through the intrinsic or connotative properties of materials paired with imagery and action. She draws on the indigenous traditions of performance, communal / experiential practice, and civic functionality. Ryan views art as a way that we orient ourselves within culture and society. Through this lens, she creates work that invites the audience personally investigate their relationship to contemporary American culture. Ryan has created several large-

scale interactive installations including pieces for the Tacoma Art Museum, Spokane Arts, Bumbershoot, and the Henry Gala. Recent exhibitions include, Not Vanishing, Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art 1977-2015, Museum of Northwest Art; Disconnected Towers, Seattle Presents Gallery; and Terrain: Plateau Native Art & Poetry, Missoula Art Museum.

IAN LINDSAY AUCTIONEERIan Lindsay is an auctioneer, actor, and drama teacher. He is honored to assist a wide range of nonprofit organizations from around Puget Sound and beyond. Ian’s theatrical work provides grounding for his auctioneering style. A former member of the Seattle Arts Commission, Ian works to promote the fiscal health of the arts in the Puget Sound region and beyond. Ian is proud alum

of Seattle University’s Philosophy and Drama programs.

MICHELLE BUFANO JURORAs Executive Director of Chihuly Garden and Glass Michelle Bufano oversees the overall direction and operation of the exhibition. She brings more than 20 years of experience working in nonprofit organizations and has held leadership positions at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Museum of Glass and the Tacoma Art Museum during times of major growth and expansion. Prior to joining the exhibition, Bufano served as Executive Director and Education Director, respectively, at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Bufano has been a consultant to nonprofit arts organizations and has served as an adjunct professor on these

topics in the Museum Studies program at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds an M.A. in education from George Washington University.

JOHN BRASETH READERJohn Braseth is owner and director of the Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery. Established in 1961, Woodside / Braseth is the oldest and one of the most respected galleries in the Pacific Northwest. Throughout its 56-year history, the gallery has enjoyed warm, long-standing relationships with art collectors, museums, and artists. They are widely acclaimed not only for the high quality of the objects they sell, but also for their expertise in all areas of contemporary art ranging from Northwest to nationally- and internationally-recognized artists. Known for distinctive exhibitions, Gordon Woodside / John Braseth Gallery has

served as consultant and counselor to many in the acquisition of art.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO OURSPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

In-Kind Donors

Marge Bickel

Glenn & Teddie Bordner

Jeanine Borree

Michael Brown & Michelle McEachern

Sarah & Bob Christensen

Chihuly Studios

Destia DuPen-Hermes & Rodney Hermes

Earthenworks Gallery

Dan Eskenazi

Forth Corner Framesand Gallery

How It Works

Kirsten Gallery

John & Claire Koenig

Mary Lindenberger

Ian Lindsay

Margaret Miller Havas

Ann Morris

Joseph Pepia

John Sisko

Skagit County Historical Museum

Smith & Vallee Gallery & Woodworks

Stanwood House

Elizabeth Tapper

Cheryl Telford

Harley & Liz Theaker

Dan & Barbara Tuttle

Tim & Nancy Vogel

Town of La Conner

Patsy Carter Welton& Ben Welton

Artist Sponsors

Marge Bickel

Terry & John Bursett

Ann & Donald Caldwell


Ron & Kathy Glowen

Karl Holzmuller & Sherry Chavers

Gary & Mary Molyneaux

Lorne & Judith Render

Lynn Ries & Rod Proctor

Christopher Shainin & Hope Wechkin

Liz & Harley Theaker

Tri-Dee Arts

Fund-the-Future Patrons

Nalani Askov

Erik & Jenny Benson

Marge Bickel

Jack & Connie Bloxom

Glenn & Teddie Bordner

Bruce Bradburn & Meg Holgate

John & Terry Bursett

Donald & Ann Caldwell


Barbara & Mik Endrody

David & Catherine Hall

Karl Holzmuller & Sherry Chavers

Karen E. Homitz, DDS, PLLC

Rita Hornbeck & Tom Bowman

Makiko Ichiura

Marilyn Miller

Libby Mills & A.J. Kuntze

Gary & Mary Molyneaux

Lynn Ries & Rod Proctor

Christopher Shainin & Hope Wechkin

Peter & Norma Shainin

Charles Stavig

Marlene West

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STAFFChristopher Shainin, Executive DirectorKathleen Moles, CuratorChloé Dye Sherpe, Associate Curator Odette Allen-Berg, ArchivistIliana E. Lopez, ConservatorLiz Theaker, Development Director Christy Lyman, Development Associate & Marketing ManagerJasmine Valandani, Education Director Aimee Rudge, Education Assistant TessaRose Petersen, Finance ManagerKeshema May, Store ManagerKirsten Chandler, Sales Associates Stephanie Lark, Sales AssociatesDenise Powell, Sales AssociatesRoy Elvis Villaseñor, Sales Associates

BOARD OF TRUSTEESOFFICERSGary Molyneaux, PresidentKarl Holzmuller, Past President Lynn Ries, Vice PresidentTerry Bursett, SecretaryPhilip A. Franzel, Treasurer

TRUSTEESEarlene BeckesBruce BradburnSarah ChristensenShelly CrockerClara Duff C. J. EbertChris Elliott Ron GlowenDavid Hall Betsy HumphreySteve KleinGretchen McCauley Lorne RenderMeghan Dunlap Rice

AUCTION COMMITTEESarah ChristensenClara DuffChloé Dye SherpeC. J. EbertDavid HallIan LindsayChristy LymanEve McCauleySarah NelsonLorne RenderChristopher ShaininChuck StavigLiz TheakerKaren Gosetti

HONORARY TRUSTEESWallie FunkJudi MullikinAllen OsbergJohn OsbergPhilip SerkaChuck Stavig

Richard Albrecht

Genevieve Baker

Jim Bishop

Betty Black

Kathlyn Black

Terri Bomgardner

Ann Bowman

Paul Bradford

Michael Brown

Tim Bruce

Paulette Bufano

Ann Caldwell

Barbara Call

Barbara Carney

Susan Christensen

Dorothy Collins

Marjorie Cooley

Sally Cram

Phyllis Dunlap

Louise Kikuchi

Lou Ann Knutzen

Kate Kondrak

Sue Krienen

Bev Larson

Jean Leib

Stephen Lindstrom

Bruce Lisser

Helen Mattox

Phil McCracken

Alice Meyer

Susan Meyer

Maude Misner

Mary Moody

Diane Morton

Judi Mullikin

Maren Nelson

Leslie Nordtvedt

Beverlee (Babo) Olanie

THANK YOU TO OUR PAST TRUSTEESWe are pleased to recognize all Past Board Members for their significant

contributions to MoNA’s growth and development. They have created an

institutional legacy for current and future generations.

Sharene Elander

Sunnie Empie

Nancy Erickson

Janet Foster

Wallie Funk

Bradford Furlong

Jeannie Gravenkemper

Kay Hancock

Mit Harlan

Greg Hatch

Marshall Hatch

Gerry Henriot

Arthur W. Henry

Patricia Hoover

Frank Hull

Richard Humphrey

Jerry Jackson

Elliott Johnson

Leslie Johnson Stay

Mari Juntunen

Grace Park

Jessica Pavish

Dave Peterson

Wayne Reinholt

Alexa Robbins

Matthew Robertson

Marnie Roozen

Phil Serka

Patricia Smith

Chuck Stavig

Jacqueline Stegner

Wanda Stein

Madelyn Thomas

Anthony Turpin

Nancy Vogel

Jerry Willins

Brian Wolfe

Stedem Wood

Susan Wood

Valla Youngquist

HOW THE AUCTION WORKSThis year, on Friday, June 17th, a reception and preview of the works of art being offered at the auction will be held at the Wa Walton Event Center at the Swinomish Casino & Lodge. On Saturday evening, June 18th, the Silent and Live auctions will happen at that same venue. Absentee bidding is being offered for those who can’t attend; please contact Christy at (360) 466-4446 x112 to secure an Absentee bidder number. Please note: A 10% premium is added to auction purchases to support the museum.

BID NUMBERS When you register to attend the auction, you will be assigned a bid number. You will receive your bid packet (including bidding card) when you check in to Registration the night of the auction. If you registered with a guest within the same household, you and your guest will share the same bid number. If you would like to arrange for separate bid numbers, please contact Christy at (360) 466-4446 x112.

SILENT AUCTIONAll items have bid sheets attached or nearby. Enter a bid by writing your bid number next to the bid amount you desire. Please press hard, as you are making three copies. You may skip ahead to the bid amount you want to pay, and you may skip the pre-printed increments to any higher amount. The next bidder must bid higher than you to be successful.

Each item has a Guaranteed Purchase option at the bottom of its bid sheet. Guaranteed Purchase means you are willing to pay a premium price to guarantee you will own that item. Simply write your bid number by the predetermined sale price to close the item to further bidding.

You may bid on any item in the silent auction until the auctioneer announces that section is closed. Announcements will be made prior to each closing. An auction official will circle the top bid number and amount, after which no further bids are allowed. Designation by the silent auction official of the bid you have written as the top bid is a legal contract to purchase that silent auction item.

LIVE AUCTIONTo bid on an item, please hold your card high with the number facing the auctioneer. Designated spotters can also accept your bid. The highest bid acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be deemed a legal contract with that bidder to purchase the item. The auctioneer reserves the right to settle any and all disputes, complaints, misunderstandings, errors, and sales at his/her discretion. The auctioneer’s decision will be final.

FUND-THE-FUTUREFund-the-Future is an opportunity to support MoNA’s educational programs, exhibitions, and permanent collection stewardship by making a 100% tax-deductible monetary donation. Fund-the-Future will take place half way through the Live Auction.

The auctioneer will invite you to hold up your bid card and pledge $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 in support of MoNA. Please hold your card in the air, facing the auctioneer, until you hear your bid number read aloud. You are welcome to raise your card as many times as you like, and at multiple levels. The amount(s) you pledged will be included with your other auction purchases during checkout.

CHECKOUT Cash, personal checks, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are accepted as payment for purchases. Please make your check payable to Museum of Northwest Art. Payment in full is expected the evening of the auction.

Bidders who elect at registration to be served under the Express pay system do not have to stand in line to pay for their purchases. Simply register your credit card with cashier, and your receipt will be ready at the end of the evening.

TAX DEDUCTIBILITY The Museum of Northwest Art is a registered 501 c 3 not-for-profit organization (tax ID# 91-1181221). Purchases made at a benefit auction in the State of Washington are exempt from Washington State Sales Tax. If the amount you pay for an item exceeds the stated fair market value as listed in the auction catalog, the excess amount may be tax deductible as a charitable donation. Please consult with your tax advisor for further information. Fund-the-Future donations are 100% tax-deductible.

PICKING UP YOUR ITEMSItems may be removed from the premises only by showing a paid receipt obtained from the cashier. Purchased items can be picked up from a museum representative at the designated Art Packaging area.

The successful bidder is responsible for claiming all items, including certificates, the night of the auction, at the packaging location, unless otherwise indicated. Items not removed from the auction premises immediately following the auction may be picked up at the Museum of Northwest Art from noon-5pm on Sunday or during the week following the auction at MoNA during normal office hours. You may arrange for delivery service in the Puget Sound area by notifying a museum representative or by calling (360) 466-4446 x104.

GENERAL RULESTop silent auction bidders can pay for their items at the cashier stations, which opens for regular service when the auction begins at 5 pm. It is not necessary to pay for each item after its purchase, and you are encouraged to pay for all your purchases at one time.

Each auction item will be designated to one purchaser only.

Some auction items, such as restaurant gift cards and experience packages, may include conditions, restrictions, and expiration dates on services. Restaurant and other service gift certificates do not include tax, gratuity, or alcoholic beverages. Unless otherwise noted, all items and services must be claimed and used within one year.

Dates for all trips and similar events must be mutually arranged by the buyer with donor, unless otherwise noted. All reservations should be made at least one month in advance. No refunds will be issued for canceled, lost, or unused tickets and/or accommodations.

The Museum of Northwest Art attempts to describe and catalog all items correctly. All items are sold as is. The Museum of Northwest Art neither warrants nor represents, and shall in no event be responsible for the correctness of the descriptions, genuineness, authorship, provenance, or condition of the property. No statement contained in this catalog or made orally at the sale or elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty, representation, or assumption of liability.

The Museum of Northwest Art reserves the right to add or withdraw, without notice, items to or from the auction.

All purchases are final; there are no exchanges or refunds.

Each person issued a bid number (bidder) assumes all risks and hazards related to the auction and items obtained at the auction. Each bidder agrees to hold harmless from any liability arising there from the Museum of Northwest Art, its elected and appointed officials, members and employees, the auctioneer(s), the auction company and its agents and employees, the event organizers, sponsors, and/or volunteers connected with the auction.

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REMEMBERING RICHARD CAMPBELLIn April 2016, MoNA lost a true friend. His name was Richard Campbell, and he was highly committed to the Docent Association and supported the museum in many ways. Richard had a way of bringing joy and humor to everything he did. For many of the annual docent picnics, he defied the gloomy weather by showing up in a Hawaiian shirt and straw hat. For the 2015 summer picnic, he spent hours in front of a grill preparing his wonderful baked salmon. It was the best. When asked to volunteer for the annual art auction, Richard wasted no time in transforming the mundane task of “cardboard cutting” into a team sport that included custom-designed t-shirts, camaraderie, and plenty of laughter.

Richard was always ready for a good time, great food, and a drink. For me, he was a dear friend. As the scheduling chair for the Docent Association, I knew him as a very dedicated docent; always willing to step in last minute to replace a fellow docent, always calling to see how the scheduling was going, always ready to sign up for open days. It has been humbling to see tributes about Richard pour in from around the country—a reminder that everywhere he and wife Patty went, they left a lasting impact on those around them. We join Patty in fond remembrance of Richard’s big, generous spirit. He will be deeply missed.

Consa TaylorMoNA Docent Association

Mona Docent picnic summer 2015

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DINNER MENU:

PASSED APPETIZERS:Tuscan Bruschetta, Assorted Mini Quiches, Chicken Satay

SALAD:Mixed Green Salad with Dried Cranberries, Candied Pecans,

Feta Cheese tossed with Balsamic Vinaigrette

ENTREE:Baked Salmon with Citrus Beurre Blanc and Garlic Rosemary Chicken

Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Tricolored Carrots Rolls & Butter

DESSERT:Chocolate Cake with fresh Raspberries

*VEGETARIAN OPTION:Portabella Mushroom with Polenta

WINE • BEER • SODAWine generously underwritten by Chateau Ste Michelle

2016LIVE AUCTION & DINNERDinner at 7:00pm • Live Auction Begins at 7:30pm

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Tyree CallahanSalish Atlas #84, 2015

oil on panel, 21 x 25 inches

Courtesy of Smith & Vallee, Edison, WA

$575

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Tyree Callahan Is a self-taught, Bellingham-based artist working in a variety of mediums from a studio in Old Town at the Waterfront Artist Studios. He would love to meet you and talk about art. He frames his work using old-growth, salvaged fir chalk railing from an old school in Seattle.

Maxine MartellTaurus

cut/painted canvas, charcoal,conté crayon, 18 x 14 inches

$750

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Maxine Martell Has an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of Washington. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, Western Washington University, and the Centrum Foundation. Awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Florence Biennale in Italy; a Purchase Award from Pratt Graphic Art Center, New York, and a nomination for a Neddy Artist Fellowship. Currently, her work can be seen at the Seattle/Tacoma International Airport and in the collections of Kobe Art Museum in Japan, and Nordstrom stores across the US. Washington State Collections include Microsoft, Museum of Arts & Culture, Museum of Northwest Art, the Henry Gallery and private collections.

Carole d’InvernoWarrior Tales, 2014

vinyl paint on art board, 30 x 20 inches

Courtesy of Studio E Gallery, Seattle, WA

$1200

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Carole d’Inverno has had numerous solo and group shows in the United States and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. Most recently she has shown at SUNY Monroe College, Rochester NY; PENN State University, Altoona, and studio e-Gallery, Seattle, WA. She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including at La Playa (Summer Lake, OR), Willapa Bay Air, (Willapa, WA), the Vermont Studio Center, (Johnson, VT), and the BAU Institute (Otranto, Italy). Her work is in the public collections of Seattle Group Health, Seattle Swedish Hospital, the Seattle University, and in private collections across the US

and Europe.

04Anne Hirondelle

RE: Volve

stoneware, paint,9 x 10 x 9.5 inches

$1600

Anne Hirondelle has been recognized nationally for her ceramic vessels and sculptures. Her work is in many different private and public collections, including The White House Collection at the William Jefferson Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas; The Museum of Arts and Design in New York; The Tacoma Art Museum; and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. She has garnered awards for her work, including the Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in 2009. The University of Washington Press published Anne Hirondelle: Ceramic Art, in February of 2012. A Washington State native, Hirondelle is originally from

Vancouver.

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Whiting Tennis was born in Hampton, Virginia. He works and lives in Seattle. He studied with Jacob Lawrence and received a BFA from the University of Washington. He is known for painting, sculpture, and works on paper. His works have been exhibited in local and national galler-ies and museums. His work is in collections that include Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Vulcan Northwest, and Sprint in Overland, Kansas.

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Paul HavasSkagit Barn

oil on canvas,8 x 48 inches

Courtesy of Woodside/Braseth Gallery,Seattle, WA

$2400

06Paul Havas, (1941 – 2012),received a BFA from Syracuse U in 1962 and MA from UW in 1965. He taught at UW, Idaho State U, and Stanford. He was included in the Skagit Valley Artists exhibit at SAM in 1974, and his work is in the permanent collections of MoNA, SAM, Whatcom Museum and TAM. Gayle Clemens of the Seattle Times wrote ͞He was passionate about geology, mountain climbing, hiking, and fly-fishing - activities that immersed him in hissurroundings. An intimate, immersive quality infuses his paintings even while counterbalanced by a certain reserve.We are, in fact, made gently aware of our vantage point and the very act of observing. The dualities of observation and abstraction, intimacy, and distance, often led critics to discover poetry and metaphor in Havas’ work.

Whiting TennisPigeon, 2016

collage, 14 x 11 inches

Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA; Derek Eller Gallery, New York City, NY

$1800

Steve Jensen is a Seattle-based artist who earned his MFA from Cornish. He comes from a long tradition of Norwegian fishermen and boat builders: the chisels he uses to carve his works have been passed from his grandfather to his father, to him. Jensen believes that the craftsmanship of his work speaks to the universality and timelessness of carving. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships, and commissions nationwide, and his work is in public and private collections, including the City of Seattle, U of Alaska, MoNA, and Morris Graves Museum. He writes about his Voyager series: ͞For me, the image of the boat is meant to symbolize a voyage or journey – perhaps it’s the voyage to the other side or the

journey into the unknown.͞

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Susan BennerstromVanity , 2018

oil on panel, 24 x 20 x 2 inches

Courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

$3500

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Susan Bennerstrom work in oils and pastels have been exhibited in solo shows in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York, Laguna Beach, and Ireland, and she is represented by Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, and Sue Greenwood Art in Laguna Beach. She has received many awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Award, two Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowships (Ireland), a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum), and three Artist Trust GAP Awards. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections, including the Whatcom Museum, Western Washington University, the U of WA Medical Center, the Washington State Art Consortium, Microsoft, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and the Empress Zoe Hotel

in Istanbul.

Steve JensenLittle Viking, 2015

recycled glass, boat resin, steel found on beach, 8.5 x 17.5 x 10 inches

Courtesy of Abmeyer and Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA

$3500


09 John Franklin KoenigP. T. II

monotype, 30 x 23 inches

Donated by Claire & John Koenig

$2000

John Franklin Koenig (1924-2008) was a prolific and multifaceted artist. His primary media were painting and collage, though he also worked with ceramics, glass, and photography. As a child he was fascinated with the collections at the Seattle Asian Art Museum and as an adult he made numerous trips to Japan, absorbing the culture and aesthetics and reflecting them back in this work. As an expatiate artist and gallery owner living in Paris during the 1950s to 1980s, he also was influenced by European modernist painting, attracted first to collage then to abstract painting.

Kris Ekstrand Molesworth Architecture, 2016

charcoal, mixed mediaon archival paper,

51 x 35 inches

Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery,Edison, WA

$1600

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Kris Ekstrand Molesworth paintings and monotypes stem from her interest in the estuarine landscapes of the Skagit flats where fertile farmland meets the saltwater tidelands. Her work has been exhibited in one-person shows at Moses Lake Museum, Skagit Valley College, Smith and Vallee Gallery (Edison) and Museo Gallery (Langley) as well as invitational exhibitions throughout

the Northwest.

Georgia GerberSaw Whets, 2016

bronze, 6 x 12 x 5 inches

$1600

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Christine SharpeCoastal, 2013


Courtesy of Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

$1275

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13Becky Fletcher

Boonville Spring, 2015


Courtesy of Smith & Vallee and Gallery, Edison WA; Gallery

$950

Georgia Gerber grew up in the rural Pennsylvania tending farm animals and riding horses. She studied art and bronze casting at Bucknell University then came west for her MFA at the University of Washington. She has lived on South Whidbey Island since 1983, where she operates her studio, foundry, and sculpture garden. Georgia has more than 80 permanent public installations throughout the country, including Rachel the Pig at Pike Place Market, the Cows, Frogs, and Turtles at University Village, and the ͞Animals in Pools͞ in downtown Portland, OR. She also creates smaller scale, limited edition sculpture for private collections.

Christine Sharpe moved to Seattle in 1978 from Chicago to complete her Master’s Degree and teach at the University of Washington. Sharp began painting in oils in 2010 after studying with renowned master Ned Mueller. She enjoys plein air painting for inspiration but prefers to paint her carefully designed oils in a larger format in her studio in Kirkland. Sharp is a juried member of the Oil Painters of America. Her work is widely collected by corporations and private collectors. Sharp has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions. Sharp has contributed articles to Artist Magazine and is the founder of the annual Kirkland

Artist Studio Tour.

After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston, Becky migrated to northern California in 1977 and began a career in painted and stained glass. She continued this work on commission while relocating to Portland and then to Skagit Valley. Since 2005, she’s been painting in oils, grateful to be working to make present on the canvas; to represent some vital element of what she sees amidst the feast of form and color that is the North Cascades and the Skagit Valley, her home since 1986.


Dederick WardShuksan, 1997

oil on canvas, 18.5 x 21.5 inches

Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA; Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

$1500

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Karen Mahardy Long Rolling Wave

glass, 6.5 x 36 x 10 inches

$1500

15Karen Mahardy is interested in a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification ofattention. In her work, she explores capturing the essence and energy of a specific place, experience, or relationship. She does this by focusing on the point where the work she is creating is in a state of becoming and contains action as if the movement were frozen in time. Karen was the recipient of the 2012 Bullseye Glass EMERGE Best Newcomer and Academic awards. She completed her MFA in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2013 and exhibited at Bullseye Gallery at SOFA Chicago 2013.

Dederick Ward turned to full-time painting in 1989 after a lengthy academic career as a professor of Geoscience Information in Colorado and Illinois; his studio is in Anacortes. Ward’s oil paintings are of western land-forms, waters, and atmosphere, and often include aspects of geologic time and evolution. His works are in private and corporate collections in the US, Germany, and Australia, and have been included in regional group shows MoNA, Whatcom Museum, Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, and Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, with solo shows at Friesen Gallery, Seattle, and Blue Horse Gallery, Bellingham.

Jacqueline BarnettCeremonial Dance


Courtesy of Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA

$2000

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Kent LovelaceChene, 2014

oil on copper, 16 x 18 inches

Courtesy of Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA; Seaside

Gallery, La Conner, WA

$2800

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Kent Lovelace was born on the East Coast and raised in the West near San Francisco. He received his MFA at the University of Washington and has made Seattle and Whidbey Island his home since. In 1979, Kent founded the fine art gallery and print publishing workshop Stone Press Editions. The Seattle gallery featured the printmakers of North America, Japan, and Europe. The print shop collaborated with both regional and nationally recognized artists to create hand-printed original editions. Kent worked with Jacob Lawrence, Robert Bateman, Dale Chihuly, Paul Horiuchi, and Norie Sato, among others. The artwork was created for the Smithsonian, the NAACP, the Seattle Art Museum, Mill Pond Press, Pilchuck and other clients. As the business grew he continued to develop his own art, creating original lithographs and watercolors. His primary focus has

been painting since 2001.

Jacqueline Barnett is a recognized abstract artist represented by IMA Gallery of Seattle (previously with Francine Seders Gallery and Foster/White Gallery). Her dynamic work — ranging from large oil paintings to monotypes to 3-dimensional forms — emerges from abstract expressionism and organic metaphor. Her numerous solo and group exhibitions highlight a generative career of enduring creative impact. Barnett graduated from Vassar College in 1955 and studied with Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliveira at Stanford University’s Department of Art from 1970-1983. She had a solo exhibit at MoNA in 2016 entitled

Apassionata and curated by Francine Seders.


Alfredo ArreguinScarlets, 2015


$4200

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Richard GilkeyApple Blossom

oil on masonite, 30.5 x 24.5 inches

Donated by Patsy Carter Weltonand Ben Welton

$6500

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Richard Gilkey was born in Bellingham, WA and his family held historic roots in the Skagit Valley. His paintings reflect the natural beauty and colors of the Pacific Northwest landscape. Mark Tobey and Morris Graves were Richard Gilkey’s mentors. He developed a distinctive style in keeping with his intellectual curiosity. It sought scientific rather than philosophical, material versus metaphysical, answers to the basic workings of the universe. In the years preceding his death in 1997, he returned to painting abstractions, using black and white to represent the

ancient Chinese philosophy of yin and yang.

Alfredo Arreguin has a BA and MFA from UW (1967, 1969), and has a long and distinguished list of accomplishments. They include the Palm of the People Award (1970, 11th International Festival of Painting, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1980), and an OHTLI Award (1995), the highest recognition from the Mexican government for promoting Mexican culture abroad. In 1988, Arreguin won the competition to design the poster for the Centennial Celebration for the State of Washington. His work has been shown nationally and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American Art,the National Portrait Gallery, and Tacoma Art Museum, among others. In 2000, Arreguin was given a DistinguishedAlumnus Award from the UW Multicultural Alumni Partnership.

R. Allen JensenBard Bob the Eye of the Beholder

(selfie group)

mixed media collage, 48 x 42 inches

Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery,Edison, WA

$7500

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Gene JaressCloud Series - Light


$3000

21Gene Jaress has been a working artist for more than 50 years. After attending Cornish School of the Arts, he studied environmental design, painting, printmaking, and jewelry, and became a master jeweler. Right now he is painting oil in an expressionist style. He believes in the importance of preparing his work for what the untrained and sometimes trained eye does not see, but senses; a feeling of quality, craftsmanship, and skill. Consequently, as a master craftsman, he masters the medium he works in to produce an excellent work

of art from the support to its frame.

R. Allen Jensen makes work that defies description. Regina Hackett wrote, ͞Jensen has been making his deformed scarecrows, ruined collages, deft drawings and ornately framed assemblages for more than 40 years. His paintings are scores for a disaster, giving mourning a shape and sealing it into art.͞ As a faculty member at WWU, Jensen has influenced and inspired scores of artists over the years. Known for his performances while making his art, Jensen has shown most recently at Edison Eye and Smith & Vallee

Gallery, Edison.


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Lanny BergnerSplash

stainless steel mesh, glass frit, wire, 8 x 29 x 21 inches

Courtesy of Snyderman Works Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

$2600

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Arunas OslapasAutumn, 2014

metal quilt, anodized aluminum frame, 42 x42 inches

$2000

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Lanny Bergner is an internationally known mixed-media sculptor/installation, fiber and sculptural basketry artist. He received his BFA in sculpture from the University of Washington in 1981 and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art in 1983. His work is in numerous museum collections including the Seattle Art Museum; Museum of Art and Design, NY, NY; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; and The Central Museum of Textile, Łódź, Poland.

Arunas Oslapas as been a professor of industrial design at Western Washington University since 1991 torturing his students with solving the world’s problems. In order to maintain his academic sanity, he spends his summers weaving metal baskets and quilting metal. For color inspiration, he raids his wife’s fabric stash (she is a fabulous fabric quilter) and keeps her prized swatches hidden in his studio. When things get too cold and rainy they pack up the family and head south of the border to dry out

Clayton JamesUp The Cascade River

oil on board, 13.5 x 19 inches

Donated by Sarah & Bob Christensen

$1750

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Clayton James is an NW master artist who has worked in clay, bronze, and painting for more than 60 years. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department, Rhode Island School of Design, was introduced to the Skagit Valley by Morris Graves in 1945 and settled here in 1953. After 30 years of making sculpture, James returned to painting, outof the studio. He lives in La Conner and is always a favorite in the MoNA Art Auction. James was married to the late Barbara Straker

James, MoNA’s Curator Emeritus.

Frank RenlieSkykomish, 2015

acrylic on canvas,21.5 x 27.5 inches

Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery,

Port Townsend, WA

$1050

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Frank Renlie graduated from the Burnley School of Art in 1962 and was self-supporting as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer until recently turning his attention to full-time painting. He works in oils, acrylics, and gouache, and his subject matter is from memory or is conceptualized for a whimsical twist. His work has been shown at SAM, BAM, Frye Art Museum, Museum of History and Industry, The Best of the NW, and Bellevue Arts Fair. Renlie lives and paints in Lake Forest

Park and Camano Island.


Kathleen FaulknerFallow Field, 2014

oil pastel, 19 x 25 inches

Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA;Simon Mace Gallery,Port Townsend, WA

$900

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Kevin PaulMoon Mask, 2005

12 x 12 x 2.5 inches

Donated by Jeanine Borree

$900

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Kathleen Faulkner is a jewelry artist and painter living in Anacortes, WA. Her formal training was at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She is represented by Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, Smith Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA and Simon Mace Gallery in Port Townsend, WA.͞

Kevin Paul was born in 1960 and is an enrolled tribal member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community. He is a resident of Swinomish and LaConner, Washington. Kevin is a master carver of contemporary and traditional Native American carvings. Using red and yellow cedar, alder and pine, he carves in these styles: Coast Salish, Gitksan, Tlingit, Haida, and Kwakiutl.

Lori GoldbergThe Journey, 2016

acrylic on canvas,24 x 36 inches

$1800

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Thomas WoodOrion over Mt. Baker, 2015

oil on linen on panel,16.5 x 26 inches


$2000

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Lori Goldberg is a Vancouver artist whose paintings have been exhibited in Canada and in Europe. Collectors of her work include the Canada Art Bank, The City of Vancouver Art Collection and the Interstate Bank, San Francisco. Among her commissions are over 100 original paintings for Intrawest Resorts displayed in Whistler BC; Mont. Tremblant, PQ; Kauai, Hawaii; and Palm Desert, California. Goldberg attended Langara College Fine Arts, Ontario University of Art and Design and Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her mentors include prominent Canadian artists Gordon Rayner and Dennis Burton and British painter, Alan Davies. She currently exhibits with Artforte Gallery in Seattle and teaches at

Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

For four decades Thomas Wood has worked as an artist in the Pacific Northwest, finding the cultural and natural surroundings to be a great source of inspiration for imaginative landscapes and mythological images. He sketches and paints out of doors while camping in Cascade Forests or sailing on Puget Sound. At home in Bellingham, in his backyard studio, he continues painting and prints etchings. Subjects are drawn from the Northwest landscape, from his

garden, from mythology, and dreams.


30Christopher MathieMind & Brain Are Not The Same, 2013

mixed media, acrylic, charcoal,48 x 48 inches

Courtesy of White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR; Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA

$4200Christopher Mathie is a vibrant regional painter well known for his dynamic abstractions that reference coastal landscapes. His warm style is a result of trusting personal artistic mark making, allowing pure color, texture, line and form to be distilled into essential elements. Mathie’s paintings are filled with energetic movement, fluid emotion, and bold confident brushwork and convey a realm that exists somewhere between reality and imagination. The Washington-state artist is widely recognized in the Pacific Northwest with over two decades of exhibition history. His paintings are included in private and corporate collections nationally and internationally.

31Robert McCauleyThere’s a Feeling I Get When I Look to the West, 2016

oil on canvas on board,36 x 24 inches


$5500

Robert McCauley Holds an AA degree from SVC, BA from WWU, and an MFA from WSU. He was Professor and Chairman of the Rockford University Dept of Art and Art History for 35 years. He has exhibited internationally, nationally, and regionally, and been represented by galleries from coast to coast. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, four Illinois Arts Council fellowships, and two RU research grants to study First Nations art on Vancouver Island. Recent commissions include the U.S. State Dept for the U.S. Embassy in Romania, the Fine Arts poster for Bumbershoot, and had a painting added to the collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art.͞

Rik AllenProvidence, 2009

blown glass, silver, stainless steel, 29 x 11 x 11 inches

Courtesy of Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

$9000

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Rick Allen received his BA from Franklin Pierce College, New Hampshire. He has assisted various artists such as Dan Clayman, Jim Watkins, and Michael Scheiner. Allen relocated to the West coast in 1995, and worked with William Morris for 13 years. He has also been the cold shop coordinator at Pilchuck for many years. His glass and metal working studio is in Sedro-Woolley. Providence was featured in Allen’s 2013 solo exhibit, Rik Allen: Seeker, at the

Museum of Northwest Art

KéKé CribbsManu, 2015

reverse fired enamels on glass, glass beads, thin shell concrete, painted wood, copper, 28” x 9” x 6” inches

Courtesy of Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

$12,000

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KéKé Cribbs has been working in glass and mixed me-dia since 1980 and has lived on Whidbey Island since 1983. She has been a student and teacher at Pilchuck Glass School, Penland Crafts School, and Pratt Fine Art Center. Her skills include sandblasting, engraving and painting with vitreous enamels on glass, all of which she has used in her sculptural and 2-D works. Her work is internationally collected and in many fine museum collections including the L.A. County Museum, CA, Corning Museum of Glass, NY, Racine Art Museum, WI, and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan.


34Richard Marquis Land Speed Record Car, 2013

blown glass, wood, brass, 3.5 x 13 x 4.75 inches

Courtesy of Schantz Galleries Contemporary Art, Stockbridge, MA

$5500Richard Marquis has been working with glass since before the Beatles broke up. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his B.A. and M.A. As a student in 1969, he traveled to Murano, where he was one of the first American studio glass artists to work in the Venini factory. He is represented in many public collections worldwide, and he has received numerous grants and awards, including three Fulbright Fellowships and four grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has traveled extensively, and he has conducted workshops around the world.

35Philip LevineLet’s Go


Courtesy of Matzke Fine Art, Camano Island, WA

$4000Philip Levine, Education: U of Colorado, MFA Sculpture UW. New School for Social Research, NY, NY. Taught, UW, Coos Bay CC. Pacific Lutheran U. King County Arts Commission Board. Received Washington State Governor’s Award for Cultural Enrichment. Created over 50 public and private commissions. Exhibit 2009 at MoNA.

Eve McCauleyWings and a Prayer, 2016


$3000

36Eve McCauley is a Northwest artist living in La Conner, Washington. She is known for her study of Northwest birds, and strives to capture the mood of their natural habitat. McCauley’s medium of choice is oil on canvas. She is a graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. McCauley was the Featured Emerging Artist at the La Conner Art’s Alive 2011. 2013 she received 1st place People’s Choice Award at the La Conner Art’s Alive Open Show. McCauley exhibited at MoNA in Surge 2015.

Bezalel-LevyHarbor, Lopez Island

mixed media, acrylic on rice paper, mounted on linen,23 x 64 inches

$2500

37Chaim Bezalel and Yonnah Ben Levy are married to each other and have been collaborating for over 25 years in addition to doing their own work in painting, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media. Their paintings are in many public and private collections. They reside in Ashkelon, Israel for half of the year and the remainder in Stanwood, WA. Yonnah has also taught art for 50 years.


Anna SkibskaRainbow, 2016

glass, 13 x 20 x 8 inches

$1900

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Maggie WilderRed Sauce II


Courtesy of Gallery Cygnus, La Conner, WA

$1500

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Maggie Wilder is an animist who, by listening to specific places, explores how wilderness and cultivation coexist, both psychologically and in the landscape. She was educated at UW, The Evergreen State College and alongside certain rivers. She paints a daily practice. Wilder produced and directed the 2010 film In the Hall of Light: the Work & Life of Robert Sund.͟

Ed KamudaForgotten Town

oil on wood panel,14 x 16 inches


$1600

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Michael CloughOne Divided by Two, 2015

oil on incised canvas,23.5 x 31 inches

$1800

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Ed Kamuda is a self-taught painter, well-known in the region for more than 30 years. His paintings blend Expressionism with a Folk aesthetic, as he pares down elements of the natural world to essential, almost primitive forms. Kamuda’s simplified yet nuanced color palette, his basic compositions, and the rich texture of his paintings invite comparisons to the work of Paul Klee, Joan Miró, and

Guy Anderson

Michael Clough paints as a means to seek a sense of the unknowable. Clough has paintings in MoNA’s permanent collection and his work was included in MoNA’s Fishtown and

the Skagit River group show in 2010.

Anna Skibska studied at the Academy of Art in Wroclaw, Poland, in the Department of Painting. Her signature technique, known as Anna Skibska Technique was developed in the first half of the 90s. She moved to the USA in the late 90s, and has since resided and created in Seattle, Washington. In 2001, she had a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. In 2004, the flameworking studio in Pratt Fine Arts Center was officially named the Anna Skibska Flameworking Studio. In his 2013 book, Spark the Creative Flame, P. Stankard devoted a chapter, “Sparkle of the soul,” to Skibska’s achievements and her technique. In 2014, she was awarded the Honeycomb Award in Poland.


Terry LenessReap What You Sow, 2015



$3000

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Philip McCrackenuntilted, 1989

oil, 25 x 20 inches

Donated by Tim and Nancy Vogel

$2400

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Philip McCracken was featured in a major retrospective and book, 600 Moons, at MoNA in 2004. He lives on Guemes Island and received a BA from the U. of Washington in 1953. Primarily a sculptor in wood or bronze, he works with many mediums. McCracken’s work is major museums in the U.S., including Smithsonian Institution and Chicago Art Institute. Solo exhibitions have been in New York at the Willard Gallery and the Kennedy Galleries. In 1964 McCracken was the first to be honored as WA State Artist of the Year, and in 1994 he was awarded the WA State Governor’s Art Award. He is in numerous private and public collections

Terry Leness received a BA in Art History from Harvard in 1981 and began painting full time in 2008. Her work explores the territory of contrasting bright light with shadow, and her buildings, trailers, and eccentric landscapes are alive with saturated color and hidden meaning. Leness currently resides in Seattle and is represented by Linda Hodges Gallery

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Fulgencio LazoPuentos de Familia

(Family Bridges), 2016

acrylic on canvas, 31 x 39 inches

$3200Fulgencio Lazo (b. 1966, Oaxaca, Mexico) studied under Maestro Shinzaburo Takeda at the Fine Arts School in Oaxaca, Mexico, graduating in 1989. Trained as a printmaker, Lazo works predominately with acrylics on canvas in his studios in Seattle and Oaxaca, Mexico. He has had over 50 solo shows throughout the US, Mexico, Japan and France, and has numerous pieces in public collections. He enjoys making installations for Day of the Dead at many Seattle area museums, schools and community centers. Puentes de Familia was made especially to support MoNa and its efforts to reach a diverse audience

Everett DuPenReclining Lady


Donated by Destia DuPen Hermes

$2500

Everett DuPen (1912-2005), began his formal art studies at USC in 1932, later transferring to Yale, graduating in 1937. In addition to studying Architecture at Harvard, he spent a year studying the masters at the American Academy of Art in Rome. Later in his career he took leaves to study bronze casting in Florence, Italy and art in India, Nepal and Egypt. His sculpture can be found in many public parks and buildings as well as in museums and private collections. Among them are the DuPen Fountain at the Seattle Center and the fountain at the Joel Pritchard Building

at the State Capitol


Jay SteensmaWar Time Man (ECO)

oil on craft paper, 40 x 20 inches

Donated by Dan Eskenazi

$2500

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Jay Steensma (1941- 1994) was born in Moscow, Idaho and moved to Seattle in 1959 to study art at the University of Washington. He studied with Walter F. Issacs, Spencer Moseley and George Tsutakawa. His first show was at Francine Seders Gallery in 1976. Steensma has been the feature of retrospective exhibits at the Henry Art Gallery and Center on Contemporary Art. His work is included in MoNA’s permanent collection.

Demetra TheofanousMorning Lightflameworked glass, and Pate de Verre,11.5 x 10.5 x 3 inches

$2500

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Demetra Theofanous began her journey in glass by learning to create glass beads, and has developed her techniques on the torch through years of experimentation. She also took a casting class by pate de verre masters, the Higuchis, and often combines cast and flameworked elements in her work. Demetra weaves with glass, to connect viewers with the story of the natural world. She has been internationally recognized for her woven glass and flora sculptures, and is included in numerous private collections, as well as in the permanent collection of the Racine Art Museum. Her awards include: a 2010 GLANC Scholarship, a 2014 NICHE Award, and a 2014 Juror’s Award from the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. She has exhibited internationally including: San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, National Liberty Museum, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, Louisiana’s Al-exandria Museum of Art, and in the Crocker Art Museum’s prestigious 2012 Crocker-Kingsley Biennial. She maintains a private studio in San Francisco, teaches nationally, and is President of the Glass Alliance of Northern California.

ManfredLindenberger

Primeval Dream 2, 2007

watercolor, 10.5 x 16 inches

Donated byMary Lindenberger

$1500

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Manfred Lindenberger (1914-2008), began to paint at age ten, inspired by the art he saw in museums he visited in his hometown of Berlin, Germany. After immigrating to the United States at age 23, Lindenberger became a lifelong resident of the NW. Early studies at Cornish with Windsor Utley encouraged Lindenberger to develop his own unique style, which informed his landscape and figurative works. In the 1980s, he began painting with acrylics and his work became focused on the bustle and energy of crowd scenes: abstract, colorful, and rhythmic. Lindenberger’s work is in public and private collections throughout the NW and beyond, including Swedish

Hospital, Seattle, and MoNA.

48Adrianne Smits

untitled, 2013

watercolor on paper,16 x 21 inches

Courtesy of Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA

$1600

Adrianne Smits ͞writes “my approach to art practice derives both from the 19th century romantic landscape tradition and my training as a field ecologist. Any theme I pursue in a series of work stems originally from outdoor observational painting. In larger compositions I interpret and emphasize visual details from my encounters withnature in order to communicate the complexity of natural systems beyond their cursory picturesque value. I live and work in Seattle, drawing inspiration from landscapes throughout the pacific northwest.͞ Smits had a solo show at MoNA in 2015 entitled Immersion

Redux: Buiten (Outside). “


Mary MolyneauxChinese Bee No. 1

mixed media collage,23.5 x 16 inches

$1200

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Mary Molyneaux has been a practicing artist for over thirty years working in a variety of media including 2- and 3-D forms. Molyneaux was born in Kansas and grew up in suburban Kansas City, Missouri. She received her bachelors’ degree at Central Missouri State University. Further study was completed at the University of Tennessee, Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, and Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle. Her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Molyneaux’s art is in private, corporate and public collections in the US as well England, Italy, and the Bahamas.

Peregrine O’GormleyBirthday

bronze limited edition2/23, 5”x 5.5”x 3.25”

Courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

$1500

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Peregrine O’Gormley was born 1977, in a pick-up truck on Route-66. He grew up on 40 acres in the secluded valley in the mountains of central New Mexico. There his eyes were continually focused on the details of the fossils, plants, and animals surrounding him. Regularly climbing the 50 ft. ponderosa tree near his family home from age five on granted him a strong sense of connection, being present, and the importance of thoughtful movement. His father passed on to him a deep reverence and appreciation for the natural world, tempered by serious concern for its well-being.

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102$575CharlesSpitzackClock Tower, 2015woodblock print,28 x 22 inches Courtesy of Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA

103$300 Janet MorganCanyon Sunriseacrylic, ink,26 x 18 inches Courtesy of ArtwoodGallery, Bellingham, WA

$300

Preston SingletaryBox Drum Designserigraph, 28 x 23 inches Courtesy of Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

101$200

Spider WeberFishermanoil, 10 x 20 inches

105$700

Gary GiovaneOsprey’s Catch, 2016acrylic on cedar, red oak frame, 18.75 x 18.25 inches Courtesy of The Artist’s Remarque, La Conner, WA; Artwood Gallery, Bellingham, WA

104$450

Dee DoyleAdirondack Chair in the Gardenacrylic on black gesso, 20 x 20 inches Courtesy of Lightcatcher Museum Store, Bellingham, WA

106$200

108$250CurtMcCauleyI’m Walking;Yes Indeedmixed media,15 x 12 inches

107$500 ChristieHouston IndividualCollective, 2016collage,18 x 14 inches Courtesy of The Muse, Conway, WA

111$600Mia SchulteLight Touchpastel, ink,11 x 11 inches Courtesy of WomenPainters of Washington Gallery, Seattle, WA;Art House Designs,Olympia, WA

Li TurnerWind & Weedsmonotype, 4 x 6 inches Courtesy of Gallery 110, Seattle, WA

109$150

110$350ElizabethHamlinHe Loves Me Notwatercolor,20 x 16 Courtesy of Karla Matzke Gallery, Camano Island, WA

112$200

Tim FowlerThe Columbia from the Cook’s, 2013oil on wood,14 x 16 inches

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114$200Aimee RudgeTrees on Edgeacrylic on canvas,24 x 12 inches

115$300Anne Martin McCool Moon Offering, 2015acrylic on canvas,12 x 6 inches Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA; Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island, WA

Duane SimshauserSound Scenemixed media, 24 x 30 inches Courtesy of Cattails & Dragonflies Gallery, La Conner, WA

113$875

Margaret Carpenter ArnettShaped by the Wind and Timewatercolor, pastel, 20 x 25 inches

117$500

Smith & Vallee Woodworks Maple Live Edge Coffee Tablelocally harvested maple,18 x 29.5 inches Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

116$595

118$400Maralyne PowellUnforseen, 2015photograph,22 x 26 inches

David HallView from the Studio, 2015watercolor, 14 x 27 inches

119$350

Nicolette HarringtonCanoe Journeysolar plate

123$500

Forrest GoldadeTulip Trucklwatercolor, 19.5 x 23.5 inches Courtesy of Parklane Gallery, Kirkland, WA

122$450

Pien EllisWaiting for a Breezeacrylic, 12 x 16 inches Courtesy of River Gallery, La Conner, WA

121$400

Graham SchoddaChinook Rising, 2016mixed media, 17 x 18 inches Courtesy of Smith & ValleeGallery, Edison, WA

124$350

Carrie L. LarsonThat Seductive Distance, 2009paper, thread, watercolor, copper wire, 22 x 32 inches

120$400


130$200Lloyd HoustonVisible Structure, 2015mixed media, 19 x 16 inches Courtesy of The Muse, Conway, WA

129$350Margot B. MyersRiparian, 2012drypoint, etching,22 x 12 x 3 inches

128$400Bradley TaylorRadi-yumswoodblock print,28 x 18.5 inches

Stephen HunterThanks, Raoul, 2006oil, 17.5 x 24 inches Courtesy of River Gallery,Mount Vernon, WA

126$400

Makiko IchiuraBlack and White Dish, 2002locally clay, 2.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 inches

127$410

125$300AimeeBeckwithLa Conner Landscapephotograph,18 x 24 inches

Opal CockeDiascle Las Muertas Bouguetfiber, 22x20 inches

131$300

Karen HackenbergHitchhikers Guide to the Garbage Gyregouache on paper, 8 x 10 inches Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA; Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

133$600

Dan BrownThree Kingsspray paint, acrylic, 22 x 27 inches Courtesy of Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA paper, thread, watercolor, copper wire, 22 x 32 inches

132$400

134$550Art HansenDecember 1983printers proofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper

135$550Art HansenAsparagus and Watering CanPrinters ProofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper


Ann DuffyClean as a Whistle, 2012oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches Courtesy of i.e. Gallery, Edison, WA

201$650

Karen DedericksonMondayink, acrylic, polychromo pencil on Xuan paper, 12 x 12 inches Courtesy of Alki Arts, Seattle, WA; Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA

203$325

204$550Andrew ValleeUntitled, 2015walnut, 7 x 5.5 x 2.5 inches Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

205$750Emily SilverTides: Narragansett 3watercolor on paper archivally mounted on panel,22 x 22 inches

202$800Brian CypherAtman, 2014acrylic on panel,10 x 8 inches Courtesy of Studio E Gallery, Seattle, WA; i.e. Gallery, Edison, WA

206$500MarleneMcCauleyKing Fisher, 2015oil on canvas,15.5 x 13.5 inches Courtesy of Pardee Collection,Iowa City, IA

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Andrea LawsonCoolness, 2014oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches Courtesy of The Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA

207$900

211$175Kathy HuckleberryFall Leaves Vaseceramic, 13.5 x 5 inches

208$600GalenGarwoodDragon Bone Series, 1989monotype,25.5 x 18.75 inches Donated by Claire & John Koenig

Jeanne LevasseurGlimpse of Blue, 2013oil, 12 x 12 inches

210$1000

209$600Mike BathumWoodscape withRainbow Troutacrylic on printers paper,27.5 x 21.5 inches Courtesy of Jansen Art Center, Lynwood, WA

Helga JaquesSeattle After the Viaduct, 2016acrylic, 29.5 x 23.5 inches

212$550

David NicholsGlobal Warming, 2015oil, 30 x 30 inches Courtesy of Seaside Gallery, La Conner WA

213$1200

Roger SmallHand in Handmixed media, 24 x 36 inches Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

215$2800

217$375Esther McLatchyResiliencewatercolor, 26 x 21 inches Courtesy ofRiver Gallery,Mount Vernon, WA

Mira KamadaWhite Orchid, 2011oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches Courtesy of Scott MiloGallery, Anacortes, WA

214$1500

Johanna MarquisThe First Leapwatercolor, found objects,13 x 15 inches

216$1500

Donna WatsonTimeless Offeringcold wax, oil, collage, 18 x 18 inches Courtesy of Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island, WA; SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA

218$325


Berkeley ParksChain of Thought, 2016hand torn paper,18 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches

219$350

220$375CathyStevensJohn Shaeffer, 1987silver gelatin photograph15 x 13 inches

Everett DuPenFrogbronze, 2 x 7 x 8 inches Donated by Destia DuPen Hermes

222$600

F. L. (Rick) DeckerSpirit Salmon II 4/5, 2001serigraph, etched glass, 9.75 x 11.5 inches

224$200

Tom BeckwithLa Conner Townscapeink drawing, 18 x 24 inches

221$300

Cheri O’Brien A Little Windowpanegouache on paper, 17 x 21 inches Courtesy of Jeffrey Moose Gallery, Seattle, WA

223$600

Joan CrossLong View of Irelandacrylic, 20 x 30 inches

225$400

Rita HornbeckGarden Fantasyacrylic, 20 x 20 inches Courtesy of River Gallery,La Conner, WA

226$300

Mark BistraninRiver Bend Study, 2016oil, 15 x 17 inches Courtesy of Seaside Gallery, La Conner, WA

228$450

Victor SandblomBaudelaireoil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery,Port Townsend, WA; i. e. Gallery, Edison, WA

230$1050

227$200Frank RenlieThe Dofferpen and ink,16.5 x 12.5 inches Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

CynthiaRichardsonAlong the Dike, 2016acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA; River Gallery,Mount Vernon, WA

229$600


Thomas WoodRolling Housesprint, 4 x 6 inches Donated By Jeanine Borree

231$300

Anna Mastronardi NovakVenezia No. 14 mixed media encaustic,12 x 12 inches Courtesy of Cassera Arts Premiers,La Conner, WA

John LoseeRosebudphotograph, 19 x 19 inches Courtesy of Seagrass Gallery, Camano Island, WA; Cattails and Dragonflies, La Conner, WA

236$195

Natalie NiblackRibbonoil on canvas, 23.5 x 30 inches

233$600

235$300

234$600Patty HallerWinter Birch, 2014casein and oil on wood panel,17 x 14 inches Courtesy ofSmith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

Thomas WoodSailboatprint, 3.5 x 3.5 inches Donated by Jeanine Borree

232$300

Dick GarveyScreen Doorphotograph, 34 x 29 inches Donated bySarah & Bob Christensen

237$350

John HoltmanEdison, 2015photograph on varnished watercolor paper, 15 x 21 inches Courtesy of Cattails and Dragonflies, La Conner, WA

238$250

Susan Bennerstromuntitledprinters proofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper

242$700

Ann Chadwick ReidAggravated Needles and Spraycut paper, 20 x 22 inches Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison WA

241$800

Kathryn AltusUnsound 6water soluble oil on canvas. metal leaf, 12 x 12 inches Courtesy of Lisa Harris Gal-lery, Seattle, WA

239$700

240$400Terry StatonTeeter Birdchlorite, 10.5 x 4 x 4 Donated by Marge Bickel


Cris Bruch untiledprinters proofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper

243$750

Sandy ByersBy the Bay Cafedry pastel, 17 x 20 inches Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA; Brackenwood, Langley, WA

245$695

244$400LockwoodDennisLockwood Denniswoodcut Donated by Elizabeth Tapper

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Anne SchreivoglProseacrylic on canvas,31 x 25 inches Courtesy of Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA; Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

301$1800

Jessica PavishVintage Venetian Bead Necklacehand knotted, glass, brass filigree

306$95

Ed SchmidWater Lily/Lotus Flowerglass

303

Jane Frances LloydConcentration and Insightgouache on paper,17 x 17 inches

305$1100

304$225YonnahBen LevyOwl Boxhigh fired ceramic, 11 x 8 x 8 inches

Chaim BezalelDriftwood Pattern Plattergas fired ceramic,14 x 14 x 4 inches

302$250

Suzanne KersikofskiHumming Right Alongwatercolor,21.25 x 27 inches

307$350

Bobbie MuellerLast Lightwatercolor, 17 x 21 inchesCattails and Dragonflies,La Conner, WA

308$500

Monika CassidyAmber Pendantbaltic amber, 2.5 x 2.5 cm

312$210

Bobbye MillerWildflower Meadow, 2016watercolor, 15 x 19 inches

309$400

Cheryl TelfordLines from Homer, 2006mixed media,18 x 18 x 2.5 inches Courtesy of MontserratContemporary Art Gallery,New York, NY

310$500

311$800Patty DetzerFaun, 2009clay, glaze, mosaic,14 x 6 x 8 inches Courtesy of Gallery Cygnus, La Conner, WA


Vincent HoriuchiCollage Art PinA, B, C, and Dhand painted rice paper, antique book pages, recycled linoleum, 2.75 x 1.75 inchesGallery, Kirkland, WA; Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

313$40 each

Jan TervonenIn the Groove No. 8, 2015watercolor, mylar, 25 x 31 inches Courtesy of artEAST Gallery, Issaquah WA

Jane FleshmanSurvivor, 2015beaded neck piece, 6 inches Courtesy of Dragon Fire Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR

318$300

317$600

Jane PenmanSeptarian Nodule, 2016stone, silver,3.25 x 1.75 inches Courtesy of Earthenworks Gallery, La Conner, WA

314$650

315$200Roger CockeAsh Vase, 2015ceramic,9.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inches Courtesy of Camano Island Pottery, Camano Island, WA

Jan HoyHexfired clay, iron oxide finish,5.5 x 10 x 7.5 inches Courtesy of Museo Gallery, Langley, WA; Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA

316$900

Carol WeissSummer Patiowatercolor, 16 x 20 inches

319$550

Jennifer YatesVine Earringslost wax cast, sterling silver, 3 x 2 cm

320$190

Vicki DodgeCherry Quartz & CopperMulti-strand Necklacejewelry, 18 x 6 inches Courtesy of Seagrass Gallery, Camano Island, WA; Schack Art Center, Everett, WA

324$150

Dion Pickering Zwirneruntitledmixed media on paper,27 x 24.5 inches Courtesy of Lisa HarrisGallery, Seattle, WA

321$950

Becky FletcherRain Pooloil on canvas, 12 x 36 inches Donated by Cheryl Telford

322$600

Preston SingletaryKiller Whaleserigraph Courtesy of Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

323$300


Suze WoolfRainbow Ford, 2013watercolor on paper,13.25 x 20.75 inches

330$350

Debbie AldrichQuartz and Crystal Necklacecrystallized quartz, crystal, glass Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gal-lery, Edison, WA; Black Tusk Gal-lery, Whistler, Canada

326$125

Heidi EpsteinSpring Flowering, 2015watercolor, graphite,16.75 x 14 inches Courtesy of i.e. Gallery, Edison, WA

328$695

325$550J. Graham RossRed Crow, 2016mixed media,acrylic on board18 x 11 x 2 inches Courtesy of Chocolate Flower Farm, Langley, WA

Peggy W. HuntDemi-Blossom Necklacechartreuse, recycled bicycle inner tube, czech glass, hematite, nylon, stainless steel, dual length

327$154

329$600Louis AndersonEarly Spring, 2011watercolor, sumi,36 x 28 inches

Shea BajajSubmarine #2porcelain, pigment, resin, Donated by Joseph L. Pepia

331$600

Rose Mary TateAlmost Thereoil pastel, 21 x 28 inches

333$500

Alvin AdkinsWhale Braceletsilver Donated by Jeanine Borree

334$700

Anna McKeeTule, 2015stone lithography, wood relief, 16 x 20 inches

335$500

332$600Leon WhiteThat’s a Nice Oneceramic,18 x 12 x 10 inches

336$845Gerald JohnsonTorque, 2016walnut fir,30 x 8 x 8 inches Courtesy ofRiver Gallery,La Conner, WA


338$200Gerry FribergWings III, 2015watercolor, gouache,13 x 10 inches Courtesy of Kirsten Gallery, Seattle, WA

Kari Janeuntitledmixed media, 15 x 12 inches

340$150

337$650Lisa Snow LadySteep Street, 2012acrylic on canvas,20 x 16 inches Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA; Lisa Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA

Elizabeth SandvigThe Peaceable Kingdom, 2015relief print, 26 x 20 inches Courtesy of Tammy Spears Gallery, Seattle, WA; Francine SedersGallery, Seattle, WA

339$850

Robert AdamsonSplash Bowl, 2016glass, 1 x 13.5 inches

341$200

Michael Spafforduntitled(Leda and the Swan Series)printers proofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper

342$600

Alfred CurrierQuiet Time, 2016oil on panel, 17 x 15 inches Courtesy of Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA; Seaside Gallery, La Conner, WA

343$800

Signature Appraisal ServicesRoadshow-Style Fine Art Appraisal345

$250 Anna SkibskaN. R., 2016rubber tubing, metal mesh, metallic clasp,1.5 x 6 x 6.5 inches

346$260

348$450Art HansenDaisyprinters proofDonated byElizabeth Tapper

Theodora Jonssonblown with Richard MarquisMudflat Reliquaryblown glass and vitreous enamels, 8” x 9” x 5”Courtesy of Gallery Cygnus, La Conner WA

344$2250

347$550Brent Rogersuntitledprinters proof Donated by Elizabeth Tapper


Annette TammAutumn Fling, 2016glass, 7.5 x 13.5 x 13.5 inches Courtesy of Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island, WA

349$1475



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Michael StarkIrish Swans - Limerick Irelandpen & ink, prisma color,18 x 24 inches

402$900

Karen KosogladWhite Building Discovery Parkacrylic on board,24 x 36 inches Courtesy of Lisa HarrisGallery, Seattle, WA

404$2800

Charles Laurens HealdSea Cliffs at Sundown, 1999oil on wood panel, 21 x 25 inches Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery,Anacortes, WA Donated by Larry and Dana Heald

403$1500

Don DeLevaThe Things I Wanted to Say, 2015acrylic, graphite, gold leaf on wood panel, 18 x 24 inches

405 $1100

Susan Cohen ThompsonBlue Moon, 2016oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches Courtesy of Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island, WA

406$1400

Louise KikuchiMoon Filling the Night, 2013sumi and colors on paper,19.5 x 19.5 inches Courtesy of Azuma Gallery,Seattle, WA

401$1400

Jeanine BorreeChance Riveroil on canvas, 39.5 x 48 inches Donated by Cheryl Telford

407$1000

Keiko HaraVerse Space ∙ MA and KI - Springoil on linen, 16 x 26 inches Courtesy of Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL

409$3800

Todd HortonGuardians of Clayton Jamesoil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

410$1800

M. Keith SorensonPlowed Fields, 2014oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches Courtesy of Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA

408$1000

Gesine JanzenTiber River Tracks, 2013wood block print, 25 x 33 inches

411$750

David ScherrerRidgeline, 2015color archival photograph,20 x 24 x 3 inches

412$800


Irena JablonskiReading in the Blue Robe, 2016oil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches Courtesy of Parklane Gallery, Kirkland, WAGallery, Edison, WA

414$1500

Patrick AndersonPicket Range Vignette, 2001pastel on paper,22 x 29.5 inches

416$500

David EisenhourBarnacle Trio, 2015bronze, 3.5 x 13 x 8 inches Courtesy of Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA; Smith & Vallee Gallery, WA

415$1950

Lisa McShaneQuinaultoil on Linen on Panel,20 x 30 inchesCourtesy of Smith & ValleyGallery, Edison WA

413$800

417$1550LavoneNewell-ReimFlight, 2015acrylic, 42 x 32 inches Courtesy of River Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA

418$950BarbaraSilverman-SummersYukariacrylic on wood panel, 24 x 32 inches Courtesy of Cassera Arts Premiers Gallery, La Conner, WA

Michelle BearThreat and Sanctuaryacrylic on canvas, 32 x 30 inches Courtesy of Gallery Cygnus, La Conner, WA

419$800

Peter BelknapDulang, Dulangmixed media on canvas,49 x 37 x 2.5 inches Courtesy of Smith & Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA

421$1800

Hooshang KhorasaniIn The News, 2012acrylic mixed media on canvas, 12 x 36 inches Courtesy of Signature Gallery, Tallahassee, FL; Legacy Fine Art, Hot Springs, AZ

422$2700

Cathy SchoenbergAttraction, 2015oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches Courtesy of Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA

423$600

Jazz MorganJellyfish Disappearing over Birdoil on canvas, 28 x 22 inches Courtesy of Cassera Arts Premiers Gallery, La Conner, WA

424$1200

420$450DassyShellenbergerTopology #2, 2012acrylic, acrylic glazes on board, 35.5 x 24 inches


Allen MoeSkagit River near Beaver Slough, 2012cast cement, graphite,18 x 18 inchesSeattle, WA

426$800

Lynn ZimmermanEbb and Flow, 2015oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches Courtesy of River Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA; Jansen Art Center, Lynnwood, WA

428$1400

Cynthia CamlinGrotto Crush 2watercolor on paper,29 x 21 x 2 inches Courtesy of Punch Gallery,Seattle, WA

425$800

430$3900Janet LaurelHot Purplesumi, acrylic,51 x 28 inches Courtesy of Cassera Arts Premiers Gallery, La Conner, WA

Elton BennettThe Driftwood Fire, 1961serigraph, 23.5 x 29.5 inches Donated byDan & Barbara Tuttle

427$1300

Perry Scott WoodfinDay Dreamerwatercolor, 20 x 27.5 inches

429$800

Thu NguyenMidnight Conversation, 2010oil on panel, 20 x 16 inches

431$1000

Luke TornatzkyMoored at Club, 2014oil, 31 x 40 inches Courtesy of Roby KingGallery, Bainbridge Island, WA

433$3600

Monica GewurzSunset Soulmixed media on panel, 24 x 36 inches Courtesy of Ukama Gallery, Vancouver Canada

434$950

Judith Gebhard SmithThe Game Changerpastel, walnut ink on sandpaper on board, 24 x 30 x 2 inches

435$1900

Jane AlynnRemains, 2012photograph, gelatin silver print, 21 x 17 inches

432$750

436$1500Kathleen FaulknerLong Live this Treewoodblock print,57 x 47 inches Donated by Glenn & Teddie Bordner


Kathryn A. GlowenEsteemed Midnight Goose(with word balls)acrylic on bird panel with mixed me-dia assemblage, 24 x 24 x 2.5 inches Courtesy of SAM Gallery, Seattle, WA

438$1500

Joseph Francis RenoSelf Portrait (as Denny)oil, 12 x 10 inches Courtesy of Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham, WA

440$1000

James Arrabitountitled (tulip box)photograph, 21.5 x 26 inches

437$800

439$1200Margy LavellePromised Landoil on canvas,36 x 26 inches Courtesy of i.e. Gallery, Edison, WA

Melissa BallengerBig Bangkiln formed glass,3 x 20 inches

441$500

William InghamSnow Ridges, 2010prismacolor on paper,35 x 29 inches Courtesy of McQuesten Fine Arts, Seattle, WA

442$1250

Ann MorrisStudio Luncheon & Signed Copy of Sculpture WoodsPrivate event for 10, includes Tour of Sculpture Woods Gallery, Studio Visit, and catered lunch with Ann Morris.

446$1000

David Harrisonuntitledprinters proof Donated by Elizabeth Tapper

447$450

444$250Wine TastingTasting of eight wines for up to ten people. Michael Brown has more than 30 years of wine experience traveling the world as a wine importer. Taste wines from around the world as he leads you in a fun tasting experience. Use within one year.

Suzanna Z MantisFor the Power of Eaglessoft ground, pen & ink, varnish, digital photograph, 34 x 27 inches Courtesy of R. Allen Jensen Gallery & Studio, Stanwood, WA

443$895

Art HansenTwo Leeksprinters proofDonated by Elizabeth Tapper

448$450

445$250Chihuly Garden & Glass:Art & Food ExcursionYou and three friends will enjoy all this exhibition has to offer! In the Exhibition Hall, Glasshouse, and Garden you’ll view a presentation of Chihu-ly’s significant series of work including the sus-pended Glasshouse Sculpture. Stroll through the Garden day or night and enjoy the installations juxtaposed with the natural environment. Enjoy the dishes in the Collection Café as you’re sur-rounded by Chihuly’s personal collections. Two exhibition catalogs are yours to keep as memen-tos of this experience.


Marne JensenHorizon 4, 2015acrylic, resin,24 x 20 inches Courtesy of Parklane Gallery, Kirkland, WA

450$650

ChristineWardenburg SkinnerEdison Sloughcharcoal, 18.5 x 18.5 inches

452$400

Joe Max EmmingerLump by Moonlight, 2015acrylic on paper, 30 x 44 inches Courtesy of Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA

451$1800

Anne WatersRegalacrylic on canvas, 12 x 36 inches

454$550

Art HansenTwo Rosesprinters proof Donated by Elizabeth Tapper

449$450

453$1200Lyle SilverAfter the Fire c. 1961watercolor on paper, 23 x 16 inches Donated byDan Eskenazi

2016 MoNA Auction Artist Biographies

Robert Adamson (341) has pursued a love of hand blown glass for more than 35 years, turning his vision of glass making into a highly successful studio and training ground for young artists. Founding the nationally known art glass company, Glass Eye Stu-dio in 1978, he presented over 120 products annually until 2000. He maintains a glass facility on Whidbey Island, producing a line of art glass for the American craft market, and exploring sculptural directions in contemporary art glass.

Alvin Adkins (334) was born in 1959 in Prince Ru-pert, British Columbia, Canada. He is one of the most celebrated Northwest Coast jewelry carvers and is a member of the Haida nation. He studied under Freda Diesing, a very well respected female artist. Adkins has exhibited at the Museum of Northern BC and was commissioned by the Vancouver Opera in 2013 to carve an 18K gold bracelet that would be his largest bracelet. Adkins is represented by various galleries in North America, Including the Douglas Reynolds Gallery in Vancouver and Stonington Gal-lery in Seattle.

Debbie Aldrich (326) studied costume and fash-ion design and worked in the fashion industry in the Washington, D.C. area. Aldrich makes one-of-a-kind pieces that often feature turquoise, semi-precious beads, crystals, ͞Doc Bead͞ glass, and trade beads. She has shown her jewelry extensively, including at Anne Martin McCool Gallery, Black Tusk Gallery, and Wyman Park in La Conner.

Kathryn Altus (239) paintings are based on early memories of growing up in Washington State. She has exhibited her work nationally and is represented by the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle. Altus is an Art-ist’s Trust grant recipient and is in many northwest collections including Swedish Hospital, the U.S. Navy, Bailey Boushay House and the Washington State Arts Commission. For health and environ-mental reasons, she paints with water soluble oils. Kathryn Altus is self-taught

Jane Alynn (432) has pursued her passion for photography for more than thirty years. She learned from studying the work of twentieth-century mas-ters and from taking workshops with gifted teachers. Her photographs are exhibited regularly and have won awards, most recently a Women in Photogra-phy Award, and are collected in WWU and the New

Mexico History Museum, Palace of Governors Photo Archives, Pinhole Collection in Santa Fe New Mexico. Also a poet, she delights in the fusion of these sister arts, each stimulating and confirming the other. She lives in Anacortes, WA.

Louis Anderson (329) received a BFA in Paint-ing from UW and an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Anderson paints mostly in watercolor, and his style is impressionistic sumi. His favorite places to paint are his garden and at Helga Jaques͞ award-winning pond. Watching Anderson paint, and seeing his brush dance over the paper, one is reminded of the movements in ballet. A Seattle resident, his paintings have been included in Northwest art shows since the early 1960s.

Patrick Anderson (416) attended NYU and has a BA from UW. He began pastel work in the mid-1980s and started a series in the late 1990s focused on Northwest landscapes. He has shown extensively in the region and nationally, and his work is in numer-ous public and private collections, including Micro-soft, UW Libraries͞ Book Arts Collection, MoMA Li-brary Collection, and the WA State and Seattle Arts Commissions. Anderson currently shows at Wessel & Liberman, Seattle, and The Old Print Shop, New York City.

Margaret Carpenter Arnett (117) born and edu-cated in England, has been painting and exhibiting in CA and the NW since 1975; her paintings are in collections here and abroad. In addition to working primarily in watercolor, she finds working with pastel, collage, and mixed media a new and exciting way to express what she sees. Arnett likes to capture the essence and mystical nature of her subject, creat-ing a feeling of depth and tranquility. She has also worked as an art therapist for the past 28 years and has published The Art of the Inner Journey.

James Arrabito (437) was a Marine Corps com-bat photographer and graduated from Brooks Insti-tute, Santa Barbara. Arrabito has been a commer-cial photographer since 1982; he views photography as ͞catching light.͞ He divides his time between Port Townsend and Everett, and his work is included in many corporate and municipal art collections.

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Shea Bajaj (331) the creator of Modern Verve, Shea Bajaj has spent his career as a designer of spaces, architectural elements, and art. The lighting and furniture designed for Modern Verve are born of the inspiration that has fueled Shea͞s work for decades. His repertoire of experiences includes piloting air-craft, working in Micronesia on solar sources of en-ergy for remote islands, traveling to India to discover his roots, exploring the desert of his native home of Oregon and living and working in the beautiful city of Seattle that overlooks the Olympic Mountains, Puget Sound, and breathtaking Cascade Mountains.

Melissa Ballenger (441) is a fifth generation resi-dent of the Skagit Valley, with children and grand-children extending to sixth and seventh generations. She is privileged to have studied glass fusing under the tutelage of glass masters Richard LaLaonde, Robert Leatherbarrow, and Johnathan Schmuck. Melissa͞s colorful and versatile glass has joined the collections of Adrian Shrubsall of Perth Australia, Vinad Kurup of India, Less Wallace ofEngland, and Ken Sheets from Santa Rosa, CA. Her work can be seen in the Spring and Fall shows at River Gallery, La Conner and her home studio in Mt. Vernon, WA.

Mike Bathum (209) has a BA in Design from the University of Washington, and an MFA in Painting from Fort Wright College, and two master͞s degrees in Theology from Seattle University. Mike has been a public school and community college educator for more than thirty years and an exchange teacher in Auckland, New Zealand, working with Maori Poly-nesian artist and writers. He was the Marketing Co-ordinator for the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University for five years. He is the author of eight art resource books published by Simon and Schuster. Mike is the owner of Artigiano Design Stu-dio specializing in commissioned painting for clients and individual exhibitions, and banners for church-es, chapels, hospitals, and commercial properties. His work has appeared in galleries and churches throughout the Pacific Northwest, California, the East Coast, and New Zealand. Currently, he exhibits at the Museum of Northwest Art, Whatcom Muse-um, and the Jansen Art Center in Washington

Michelle Bear (419) was born in Wisconsin and grew up on the farmlands and restored prairies of Northern Illinois. She received her BFA from Rock-ford College in Illinois and has shown her work in the Midwest and Washington. Her work as an Inter-pretive Specialist with the City of Edmonds has pro-vided vast opportunities to expand her knowledge of local flora and fauna and has created a deeper sense of place.

Aimee Beckwith (125) works from her home in Shelter Bay. She has a BA in Journalism from the Uni-versity of Oregon with graduate work in Marketing Communications from the UW. She works with digital photographs creating images that she reproduces in cards, pictures, and on enlarged canvas as Rosebud Graphics. Her artworks have been displayed at the La Conner Arts Fair, Arts Alive, Shelter Bay Art Festival, MoNA͞s auction, and in local stores since moving to La Conner in 2005.

Tom Beckwith (221) has a BS from the University of Oregon, an MUP from the University of Washing-ton, and is an urban planning and design consultant. He works with ink line drawings, felt tip markers, and digital images creating drawings that he reproduces in cards, pictures, and on enlarged canvas for Rose-bud Graphics – his daughter͞s enterprise. His artworks have been displayed at the La Conner Arts Fair, Arts Alive, Shelter Bay Art Festival, and MoNA͞s auction.

Peter Belknap (421) has a BA in Bronze Casting and Painting from Portland State U. He has exhibited for more than 40 years, showing in Vancouver, B.C., Seattle, Bellevue, MoNA, PAM, and Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland. His work is in numerous pub-lic and private collections in the US, Mexico, Jamaica, Canada, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. His current work on canvas is layers upon layers of mixed media in an evocative archetypal tradition. He lives in the Skagit Valley.

Yonnah Ben-Levy (304) studied ceramics at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC with Hara, whom she later discovered was a zen master. She also re-ceived a Masters in Art for Teachers at the Univer-sity of Washington. She has worked professionally in painting, sculpture, and ceramics as well as teaching for 50 years. She sometimes collaborates with her husband, Chaim Bezalel.

Susan Bennerstrom (242) work in oils and pas-tels have been exhibited in solo shows in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, New York, Laguna Beach, and Ireland, and she is repre-sented by Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, and Sue Greenwood Art in Laguna Beach. She has received many awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Award, two Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowships (Ireland), a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award (Seattle Art Museum), and three Artist Trust GAP Awards. Her work is included in numerous public and private col-lections, including the Whatcom Museum, Western Washington University, the U of WA Medical Center, the Washington State Art Consortium, Microsoft, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, and the Em-press Zoe Hotel in Istanbul.

Elton Bennett (1911-1974) (427) was a lifetime resident of Grays Harbor, WA. His serigraphs depict the Pacific Northwest and give glimpses of the work-ing lives of people the artist knew and worked with all his life. He was well -known for selling his work for small sums and giving away prints he made at art fairs while demonstrating his printing method. He used a great number of screens and colors in vary-ing combinations so each finished serigraph was a unique work of art.

Chaim Bezalel (302) studied film at Northwestern University. He works in photography, painting, ceram-ics, and mixed media. He utilizes his film background to produce videos documenting his own and his wife͞s work as well as for other artists.

Mark Bistranin (228) was raised in Colorado sur-rounded by the beauty and serenity of the Rocky Mountains. In high school, he was selected to rep-resent his state in a national academic competition for art in NY, where he won the prestigious Gold Key award. Bistranin continued his studies in Fine Arts at U of Denver and Gunnison College and then spent 15 years in Montana, where he studied with various artists. He moved to Skagit Valley in the late 80s and draws inspiration from the light and reflection unique to the NW. In the spring of 2009, Bistranin was ac-cepted into the Puget Sound Group of NW Painters.

Jeanine Borree (407) writes,”The nature, solitude, and community of Camano Island greatly affect my life and my art. I love to listen to the trees, watch the wind play with the water and clouds. Birds and nests hold a special place in my affections. When I am away from the island, I miss all these things.” In memory of her mother and sister, Borree funds the Borree Fam-ily Scholarship for a Stanwood/Camano high school graduate going on to study art. The scholarship ben-efits students and parents who have demonstrated the strength of character and who have a vision of their lives in the world of art.

Daniel Brown (132) is an award winning art pub-lic school teacher. His students have earned many awards. They have created an exceptional sculpture garden and art collection at Okanogan High School. His work graces the yards and homes of the Methow Valley and beyond. Dan is delighted that his work gets to hang out with work by artists he admires, like Richard Beyer, Robert Bateman, Ric Gendron, and others. His newest passion is skate skiing and his wife and he skied 590 km in the mountains surrounding the Okanogan and Methow Valleys this winter. Life is great and he is fortunate to be able to ski, fish, hike, work, and live in the Okanogan

Cris Bruch (243) was born in Sugarcreek, Missouri in 1957 and raised in the Kansas City, Missouri area. He earned a BFA in ceramics/sculpture at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Following completion of an MFA and MA at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Bruch moved to Seattle in 1986, the city that has remained his home for over 25years. In 2001, he received a Neddy Fellowship from the Behnke Foundation in Seattle, awarded to out-standing artists working in the Northwest.During the past decade, Bruch has received an Artist Trust/ Washington State Arts Commission Artist Fellowship (2006), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award (2007), an Artist Trust GAP grant (2012 and 2006), 4Culture Individual Artist Project Grant (2011) and a Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs City-Artist Project Grant (2012).

Sandy Byers (245) retirement from the software indus-try in 2002 enabled her to pursue a full-time art career. In 2004, she entered her first competition: Pastel Journal͞s Pastel 100 Competition. She won two awards in that com-petition and continues to win awards in juried shows. Her works are collected worldwide and have been published in numerous magazines and hardbound books. Many of her land and seascape paintings are scenes from her lo-cal area (Whidbey Island, WA). Byers is also well known for her heartfelt and paintings of animals. She ispassionately dedicated to supporting animal welfare organizations.

Cynthia Camlin (425) explores environmental and geological change through abstract forms. Her work was featured in New American Painting in 2013 and the New American Painting Blog in 2014. In her Grotto Series, Crys-talline forms emerge out of pooled watercolors, the geo-metric patterns reflecting the self-organizing structures in nature. Her work is in the Microsoft Arts Collection, the King County Public Art Collection, and the Peninsula Col-lege Public Art Collection. Camlin is an associate professor of painting and drawing at Western Washington University.

Monika Cassidy (312) is originally from Wroclaw, Po-land. She currently lives in Bellingham and designs amber jewelry for her company, Ambra. Cassidy works with the finest quality of four different colors of amber that comes from the Baltic Sea. This kind of amber, unique to that re-gion, is 40 million years old.

Opal Cocke (131) found her roots in needlework through her mother, her two grandmothers and many aunties who lived by the creed ͞idle hands are the devil͞s workshop.͞ She remembers their hands and the work of their hands. Af-ter a career of teaching elementary school, Opal retired to Camano Island where she and her husband Roger live with their two cats, Obby and JAXson. ...Within the past 15 years, she has been both a student and a teacher of the quilting arts, and more recently watercolor and sketching. She loves to use bright colors, explore fun themes, and push the perceptions of traditional needlework.

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Roger Cocke (315) works out of Camano Island Pottery, a studio of his own design. His functional and sculptural ceramic works are influenced by his architectural training and extensive travels in the US, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. His work, which is pre-dominantly stoneware clay, is unglazed and glazed with multiple and colorful applications. His passion is form, texture, and color, and his pride is in the craft of clay. The scale he uses to balance spirit and function always tips towards spirit.

Joan Cross (225) has been curious about the neu-roscience of healing, including healing mental issues that trap the human spirit in boxes of rigidity, fear, in-decision, anxiety, and moods. To explore the mind as it emerges from the brain’s structure is a deep dive. Cross͞ art is inspired by the healing work of neuro-feedback.

Alfred Currier (343) received his formal education at Columbus College of Art and Design and the Amer-ican Academy of Art in Chicago, where he earned his degree in Fine Art. A painter for more than 50 years, Currier is noted for his use of brilliant color and im-pasto texture, depicting the migrant workers of Skagit Valley.Currier also paints plein air. In 2005, he was the featured artist for Bulb Art Holland, an organization that represents the bulb industry in the Netherlands. Marquand Books in association with the University of Washington published Alfred Currier: Impasto in 2003, author Ted Lindberg, former curator Vancouver Art Museum. Currier͞s work can be found at Seaside Gallery in La Conner, Howard/Mandville Gallery in Kirkland, Simon Mace Gallery in Port Townsend, and at his studio in Anacortes.

Brian Cypher (202) is a self-taught artist living and working in the Skagit Valley. Born in 1974 in Yuma, AZ, Cypher made Anacortes his home when he was 15. By 17, he had established a studio in downtown and began building his painting practice. Over the past twenty years, Cypher has been showing his artwork throughout the Northwest. During the recent few years, his work has been included in several exhibi-tions in France and New York City. In 2013, he had two solo exhibitions in New York City and Seattle. Cypher works primarily with drawing, painting, and printmaking. His works rely on an intuited abstraction that reference nature, systems, and invented forms.

FL (Rick) Decker (224) a painter, sculptor, and stained-glassmaker was born in Seattle and has lived in the Skagit Valley since 1962. In 1967, he moved to the foot of Chuckanut Drive, where he still resides and maintains a studio. His work has been collected throughout the Western US and Canada. Decker has exhibited extensively including at Whatcom Muse-um, Corning Museum of Glass, Sierra Arts Founda-

tion, and Seattle Art Museum. Decker’s work from the 1971 Moonlight Asparagus Group show in Seattle was featured in MoNA’s Fishtown and the Skagit River ex-hibition in 2010.

Karen Dedrickson (203) paints what she can’t see. Expressing herself with humble materials: ink, pa-per, and a brush. Her inspiration comes from Sumi-e, an ancient Japanese art form. Painting the life force. Showing her work in the Seattle, Kirkland and Tacoma galleries in the last 20 years. She has evolved from Im-pressionism in oil and pastel to her whimsical birds and interpretive paintings of Nature. Each brush stroke is fascinating for her to watch as it responds to the soft paper. It’s a mark that can’t be erased. Exploring and creating paintings that others can sense with their eyes is her greatest reward.

Don DeLeva (405) is a Seattle-based artist, who has been painting, showing and selling art in Wash-ington, Oregon, California, Illinois, and Iowa since 1987. He has earned an MFA from Bradley University and a BFA from the University of the Pacific. His unique style has been a part of the Seattle art scene for over 20 years. Don’s style mixes Day of the Dead imagery with technology and abstract art to create a unique vision of a world entering a changing humankind.

Lockwood Dennis (244) (1937-2012) created a large portfolio of over 500 woodcuts throughout his 45-year long career and drew inspiration from diverse artistic and cultural movements such as German Ex-pressionist prints, painters Cezanne and Matisse, Japanese woodblock prints, comic art, and WPA era industrial design. His work can be found at Davidson Gallery in Seattle.

Patty Dezter (311) received her BFA in Ceramics from the UW in 1976. Fir Island has been her home and where she raised three children for the past 31 years. Detzer still loves it and remains awed by its beauty. Collaborative projects have interested her for many years. She worked on the Garden of Oz, a half-acre fantasy park in the Hollywood Hills. Her work was included in the book The Art of Mosaic Design. Resi-dencies in public schools are something Detzer has enjoyed for the past 20 years. Most recently she was worked with her daughter Sarah in the Kulshan Creek neighborhood. Artes Latinos is the name of the group, and many hands have gone into creating four public murals.

Vicki Dodge (324) holds a Master of Arts from Cen-tral Washington University and has been creating and selling her creations in stoneware, fiber arts, oil paint, and photography for more than 30 years. She was a full-time professional potter in Roslyn, WA; taught art in the Artist-In-Residence program in a number of Eastern Washington schools; and taught pottery as

economic development for the Peace Corps in the islands of the Palau group in Micronesia.

Dee Doyle (106) teaches, exhibits, and sells her work in Skagit, Whatcom, and Island Counties. Doyle’s eclectic portfolio is an ongoing collection and reflection of work inspired by many artists, living and gone. She paints with acrylics, watercolors, encaus-tics and mixed media and teaches and demos in weekly classes and periodic workshops in the PNW. She has won numerous awards for her work in sev-eral art guilds and shows.

Ann Duffy (201) has shown her work at the Da-vidson Gallery & Pacini Lubel Gallery in Seattle, the George Billis Gallery in L.A. and the San Francisco MOMA Artist’s Gallery. Ann lives in Seattle and focus-es on cityscapes of Seattle, San Francisco, L.A., and Palm Springs.

Everett DuPen (222) (1912-2005) DuPen began his formal art studies at USC in 1932, later transferring to Yale, graduating in 1937. In addition to studying Archi-tecture at Harvard, he spent a year studying the mas-ters at the American Academy of Art in Rome. Later in his career, he took leaves to study bronze casting in Florence, Italy, and art in India, Nepal and Egypt. His sculpture can be found in many public parks and buildings as well as in museums and private collec-tions. Among them are the DuPen Fountain at the Seattle Center and the fountain at the Joel Pritchard Building at the State Capitol.

David Eisenhour (415) a practicing artist for three decades, David Eisenhour, has always begun his pieces with a study. In his words, “I immerse myself within a niche in the environment until a dialogue emerges that I can convey in 3-dimensions. I strive to bring into form the importance of our relationship with our ecosystem and the interconnectedness of everything.” In 2015, he had a large installation at the Museum of Northwest Art as part of the Neo-Natural-ists show, a major solo show at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in 2014 that pulled in over a hundred pieces from collections near and far, and has shown throughout the region for the last twenty years.

Pien Ellis (121) was born in the Netherlands, Ellis re-ceived her art education at the Rijks Academy of Fine Art, Amsterdam. Her largest work, a bronze sculpture, stands at the entrance to the Singer Museum in the Netherlands. Resuming work after raising a family, Ellis began painting in watercolors and oils. She has received many awards and is a multiple winner of the Annual Foss Maritime Calendar Competition. The outdoors, gardening, and, above all, painting are her loves. She resides in La Conner.

Joe Max Emminger (451) is a painter who draws from his life and experiences in Seattle. His work is in the collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, the Muse-um of Northwest Art, Nordstrom, Microsoft, and many private homes. Joe Max will be having a show at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle in July 2016.

Heidi Epstein (328) has worked both as an educator and an architectural interior designer in the Northwest for forty plus years. During this time, she has kept a personal visual art dialogue going, resulting in a long-standing body of work. Her works are on paper and include Intaglio printing techniques as well as water-color, pencil, and oil pastel. Her work has been shown locally at The Edison Eye in Edison, Lucia Douglas Gallery in Bellingham, Gallery Cygnus in La Conner, and Anchor Art Space in Anacortes. Her education in-cludes a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and a Mas-ter’s degree in painting and art education from Califor-nia College of Art in Oakland, California.

Kathleen Faulkner (436) writes, “I am a jewelry art-ist and painter living in Anacortes, WA. My formal train-ing was at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She is represented by Facere Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA and Simon Mace Gallery in Pt Townsend, WA.”

Jane Fleshman (318) is a bead artist from La Con-ner whose award-winning bead embroidery has been exhibited in juried shows and galleries in the NW and SW. Locally, Fleshman’s art has been included in Art’s Alive!, the MoNA Store, Gallery by the Bay, Stanwood, and AAUW Art for Education Show. Her work is exhib-ited at Dragonfire Gallery, Cannon Beach; Artizen Gal-lery, McCall, ID; Sorella Gallery, Springdale, UT; at Zion National Park, and Grey Wolf Gallery, Scottsdale.

Becky Fletcher (322) writes, “After graduating from the Art Institute of Boston I migrated to northern Cali-fornia where in 1977 I began a career in painted and stained glass. I continued this work on commission while relocating to Portland and then here to Skagit. Now since 2005 I’ve been painting in oils, ever grate-ful to be working to make present on the canvas, to represent, some vital element of what I see amidst the feast of form and color that is the North Cascades and this Valley, my home since 1986.”

Tim Fowler (112) born 1958, self-taught. 1st show at MIA Gallery 1987, many shows since including Garde Rail Gallery, AVAM Museum in Baltimore. Most recent-ly in group shows at Lisa Harris Gallery, Linda Hodges Gallery, and Studio E in Seattle

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Gerry Friberg (338) has a BA in Art Education from WWU and has taken workshops with Al Currier and Joel Brock, among others. Her work has been in ju-ried shows and exhibited at Anacortes Art Gallery, Waterworks, Kirsten Gallery, and Chuckanut Bay Gal-lery. Friberg received Best of Show and Juror’s Award at the NW WA Fair. In 2002, one of her paintings was selected for reproduction on the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival poster, and also was a poster in the West Coast Paper Show (1st Prize). Friberg’s work is noted for a stylized realistic effect that appears in borders and in frames within frames.

Dick Garvey (237) after graduating from the Brooks Institute of Photography in CA, I wanted to get back to seeing. So I practiced, explored, and tried things. I knew photography should be honest and learned that light describes everything, no need to use tricks and gimmicks. I learned that if you do it right, you can take a subject that people often walk right past and present it in such a way that stops them in their tracks. Light is the most stimulating element in life. Garvey has shown at Western States Museum, Santa Barba-ra, CA; Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA; Equiv-alents Gallery, Seattle, WA; Silver Image Gallery, Se-attle, WA; and Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA.

Galen Garwood (208) was born in 1944 and spent most of his young life growing up on St Simon’s Is-land, Georgia, and Charleston South Carolina. In 1966, after one year of art at the university of Georgia, he moved to Fairbanks, AK, where he majored in visual art. He moved to Seattle, WA in 1971 and began ex-hibiting his paintings at Foster-White Gallery in 1973. Over the course of the last four decades, he has ex-hibited his paintings in the United States and Europe. His creative contributions have also been expressed in writing, poetry, multi-media and film.

Monica Gewurz (434) Born in Lima, Peru, Monica Gewurz immigrated to Canada in 1976 where she obtained her Bachelor of Science and Masters in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. She obtained her Fine Art Certificate from Emily Carr University in 2014. She is currently enrolled in the Ad-vanced Study Certificate-Planning at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver, Canada.

Gary Giovane (104) has been studying art since the ‘70s. A graduate of Penn State University (B.S.) & Memphis State (M.A.T.), Gary has been an archeolo-gist, a cook, and a high school science & math teach-er. Gary worked on the Fishtown, Ozette, & Indian Island archeological projects before teaching for 23 years in Neah Bay and for 7 years in La Conner. He currently lives and works in La Conner, along with his wife, Leigh.

Kathryn A. Glowen (438) has had five solo mu-seum shows and has artwork in numerous public and private collections. In 2012, Glowen was included in two curated shows “Journey into a Secret Garden” Onishi Gallery, NYC and “Gwangju Biennial” Gwangju Korea. Her collages are often made of vintage paper ephemera, textural substances from nature and found objects in meticulous arrangements. Kathryn lives on a farm in Arlington, WA, with her artist and writer hus-band Ron and many critters.

Forrest Goldale (122) graduated from Western Washington State College in Bellingham, Washing-ton with a double major in Art and English in 1972. His major emphasis was Lithography. Since then he has pursued mostly watercolor painting although he en-joys working in all medium including oil, acrylic, and some sculpture. He currently resides in Bellevue. For-rest retired from the Dex yellow pages sales organiza-tion after 30 plus years in outside sales as a consultant, and manager. While traveling the state with Dex he al-ways painted. Currently retired he has more freedom to do Plein air studies in and around the region. Forrest paints in the realist- impressionist style. Find his work at Parklane Gallery in Kirkland Washington or at for-restgoldade.com.

Karen Hackenberg (133) grew up in the Northeast, earned her BFA degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and migrated to the Pacific Northwest in 1992. She has exhibited extensively in the Northwest and nationally, most recently in a solo exhibition at BIMA, the “Neo Naturalists” exhibition at MoNA, and in the ocean-themed exhibition Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserv-ing at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, DC. Her green sensibility has been prized by many private collectors and has earned a place in numerous permanent public collec-tions including the Washington State Public Art Collec-tion, the New York State Museum, and the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art. She was awarded an Artist Trust GAP grant to turn her Watershed series into a limited-edition bound book by Paper Hammer, Tieton, WA.

David Hall (119) is a professional architect working out of his award-winning STUDIOEDISON in Edison. Beyond his professional pursuits, he is also a water-colorist and photographer who often combines hiking and fly-fishing with painting and photography. He cur-rently serves on MoNA’s Board.

Patty Haller (234) is an oil painter from Seattle, and a former forester and financial analyst. She completed Gage Academy’s Landscape Atelier, and courses in Northern Renaissance Art History through the Univer-sity of Oxford. Patty’s work was recently chosen by the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC to represent

Olympic National Park. She is in the permanent col-lections of the Anacortes Arts Festival organization and several medical centers throughout Western Washington. She has a spacious studio in Seattle’s Magnuson Park, a former US Naval Airbase facility. She completely enjoys showing her work at Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA.

Elizabeth Hamlin (110) National Juried Shows: Northwest Watercolor Society, Watercolor West, California Watercolor Association, Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Exhibition, Florida watercolor Society, Publications Splash 8 Splash 14. Signature memberships: Northwest Watercolor Society Califor-nia Watercolor Association Florida watercolor Society.

Art Hansen (134, 135, 348, 448, 449) Born in Seattle, Washington, Hansen remembers visiting his grandparents’ north end beach house as a boy; his grandfather founded Vashon’s first bank. And while the landscapes may change, Hansen’s constant love affair with elements of nature and his innate ability to create his visual imagery endures. Known for his wa-tercolors, he honors everyday things in our lives--- an exquisite red poppy, asparagus spears rising from the soil, one of his beloved barns or that awe-inspiring sunset over the Olympics become visual poems un-der his well-practiced brush.

Keiko Hara (409) was born in North Korea to Japa-nese parents then moved with her family to Japan. In 1971, she moved to the United States and was grant-ed a US resident as an artist in 1983. Hara received an MFA in printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MA in printmaking from University of Wisconsin and BFA in painting from Mississippi State University for Women. She has taught art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, University of Wisconsin͞River Falls and Carthage College in Wisconsin. Selected grants in-clude The Pollock͞Krasner Foundation, Artist Trust, and Invitational Public Art Grant (King County). Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums locally, nationally, and internationally.

Nicolette Harrington (123) received her M.S. in Art Education Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; and B.A. in Education, Development, and the Arts-Interdisciplinary Concentration Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA.

David Harrison (447) was born in 1957 in Portland, Oregon, and is a lifelong resident of the Pacific North-west. He attended The School of Visual Concepts, Seattle, Washington from 1976-1977. Harrison stud-ied painting, drawing, design and illustration under Joe Ireland, Nancy Johnson, Bill Johnson, Dick Brown and Cherry Brown. He has also traveled throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, and Mexico for on-location work and independent study in muse-

ums and galleries. Viewers can see his works at the Seattle Art Museum Gallery and Fine Impressions Gal-lery in Seattle.

Charles Laurens Heald (403) was included in the Skagit Valley Artists exhibit at Seattle Art Mu-seum in 1974, and its reprise at MoNA in 1992. He received his BFA and MFA at UW and has been ex-hibiting his work regionally and nationally since the mid-1960s. He taught briefly at WWU and was co-director of Fidalgo Art Institute in La Conner with the late sculptor, Lawrence Beck. Heald had a retro-spective exhibition in 1983 at U of Puget Sound, and after living in the Coastal Range of Northern Califor-nia for 30 years has moved back to Skagit Bay with his wife, Dana, and daughter, Sierra.

John Holtman (238) writes, “I am a local photog-rapher who has spent the last several years melding old and new techniques. I use modern cameras with vintage and antique lenses creating unique images. I then use my own printing process which gradually creates the image over several days, finished with a gloss varnish. My photos are mostly from Skagit Val-ley and nearby locations, with subjects ranging from landscape to live action.

Vincent Horiuchi (313A, B, C, D) after my fa-ther, the collage artist Paul Horiuchi, passed in 2009 he left behind boxes of his hand-painted rice pa-pers. Known for his vibrant sense of color, these torn, wrinkled papers became his trademark. Using his original papers, combined with text from his col-lection of Japanese rice paper books I make these pins trying to use his spirit and love of color to create something textural, durable, and wearable. Each pin is unique.

Rita Hornbeck (226) prefers acrylics as her me-dium, as they allow her to be open to change as a work progresses. Hornbeck has exhibited her work in shows and workshops in California, Arizona, Ten-nessee, and the Pacific NW for more than 30 years.

Todd Horton (410) lives and paints full time in Edison. His paintings are directly responsive to the local play of light and rain viewed through coffee in-fused joy.

Christie Houston (107) writes, “I am a self-taught artist who has been lucky to work with great men-tors. My work is in private and public collections, in-cluding Skagit Valley Hospital and Cascade Skagit Health Alliance; my studio is just outside of La Con-ner. This year’s assemblage explores the integration of the new digital devices that we are choosing to wear and integrate into our lives. From lace to the chip the human android evolution continues.”

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Lloyd Houston (130) makes objects and images in mixed media. Houston includes a funky mix of im-ages, writing, and sculpture that combines imagina-tion, grit, comedy, and tragedy in the finished work, which is a reflection of his mind at that moment.

Jan Hoy (316) lives on Whidbey Island. She is a sculptor who works in water-based clay to create abstract organic forms. Many of these forms are cast into bronze while others become final art as fired clay. Hoy has had a long career in the arts, starting with a BA in Fine Art from UW. She then began a career as a textile designer and art instructor at several WA universities. In 2004, Hoy turned to three-dimensional work and has immersed herself in this field. Hoy’s sculpture was featured in the MoNA exhibit, Reso-nances, Contemporary Echoes Modern in 2010.

Kathy Huckleberry (211) lives on Samish Island in Skagit County Washington with her husband Mike. Kathy is an emerging artist who is now finding time to pursue her artistic interests after scaling back from a full-time career as a Database Specialist. Kathy combines a lifelong love of nature with the arts, es-pecially ceramics and glass. She is passionate about translating the essence of these natural scenes into a style uniquely her own. Her pieces are influenced by the 19th and 20th-century artists who distilled com-positions into simpler shapes and colors, focusing on key elements to create a harmonious image. Her pieces combine handmade tile with applied three-di-mensional sculptural elements to convey depth and visual interest.

Peggy Hunt (327) has always loved using her hands to create, has a very early memory of learning to thread a needle and making tiny doll clothes. Her skill and enjoyment of doing precise, meticulous work and her love of animals led to a career as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. While in school she learned to weave, and unexpectedly found herself immersed in the next endeavor – fiber art. For over 20 years Peggy has been utilizing fiber art techniques to cre-ate unique pieces of wearable art. Perpetually look-ing for new materials and sources for inspiration, she recently encountered recycled rubber in the form of bicycle inner tubes, and a new realm of possibilities began making jewelry from bike tubes

Steven Hunter (126) has been a scholar, teacher, writer, consultant, and artist. Since 2013 and arrival in Skagit County, he has reviewed art for The Cascadia Weekly (Bellingham) and The Anacortes American. His paintings in oil and acrylic and his photographs have been shown at Arts at the Port, Anacortes; the River Gallery, Mount Vernon; Schack Art Center, Ev-erett; Confluence Gallery, Twisp; Jansen Gallery, Lyn-den, and many other venues.

Makiko Ichiura (127) was born in Tokyo and studied Chinese Art History at U of London. She has lived and worked in London, NY, and LA before moving to Skagit County where she began work in clay and has since exhibited at various shows in Seattle and locally, and is in MoNA’s permanent collection.

William Ingham (442) is widely collected in the Northwest, takes natural forms and explores their rela-tionship with abstract shapes. With a painting currently on exhibit at the Portland Art Museum, and paintings in many downtown lobbies, such as the 1101 Madi-son Medical Tower, the Polyclinic, Virginia Mason, the Rainier Club, and many other private collections. Ing-ham was awarded a retrospective show at the Colby College Art Museum. “Snow Ridges” captures snow and ice in a lyrical timeless embrace.

Irena Jablonski (414) has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has had representation in galleries in California, Arizona and France. Her work has been published in International Artist magazine, Oil Painters of America, TAG Gallery, and the California Art Institute, among others. She was an artist behind the screen in the Michael Rissi directed movie “Anna-bel Lee,” and was the featured artist for Buenaventura Gallery Presents on CAPSTV Channel 6 in Ventura.

Kari Jane (340) no biographical information avail-able at the time of printing.

Gesine Janzen (411) was born in Newton, Kansas in 1967. She is an Associate Professor, Head of Printmak-ing at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. Her current work is focused on rivers as a metaphor for the passage of time and the elusive qualities of memory. She uses the printing process of layering multiple col-ors, forms, and veils of ink to reflect the physical quali-ties of flowing water, and to mimic the act of recollec-tion. Her work is shown widely in the US and abroad. Janzen exhibited at MoNA in 2015 as a part of Artist’s Eye exhibit.

Helga Jaques (212) is a native of Austria. She stud-ied Graphic Arts in Switzerland and continued her art vocation after immigrating to the US in 1965. For the last 20 years, Jaques has painted mostly in watercolor on rice paper. Due to a special process, her paintings need no glass for protection. Over the years, she has participated in numerous juried shows and has won many awards. Her work hangs in private and public collections nationwide and abroad.

Marne Jensen (450) has spent most of her life in-volved in some facet of artistic expression. She has a Bachelor of Science degree with a minor in fine art followed by graduate studies and has participated in a variety of workshops with several nationally rec-ognized artists. She is a published author and former

owner of a successful business consulting firm in the Seattle area. She was also a faculty member of the City University of Seattle and was for several years on the faculty of the Sedona Arts Center in Sedona, AZ. Her main focus is abstract acrylic and collage, and her award-winning art has been shown in a variety of jur-ied and invitational shows, both locally and in Arizona. Her paintings can be seen in many private collections throughout the U.S. She is represented by Parklane Gallery in Kirkland, WA. Marne loves working with lay-ers in her work and tries to entice the viewer to look closer and to examine what lies beneath the surface. She is intrigued by interesting combinations of shape, color, and texture. For her, the journey is more impor-tant than the destination, and she pushes the edges in order to express some inner part of her own reality. She believes that art is a journey of self-discovery as well as a creative journey.

Gerald Johnson (336) writes, “Since 1973 my in-terest in boating and NW Native American Art has taken me from Olympia to Prince Rupert aboard a va-riety of vessels and most recently the Seabear, a 50’ wooden trawler. Five years ago I took totemic acrylic painting lessons from Master Artist Bob Patterson, who encouraged me to try carving and is always available with his 40 years of experience studying na-tive art and history. My most recent teacher has been Chris Pye, a Master from the UK and carver to Queen Elizabeth. My thanks to all that have paved the way, especially Chief Henry Speck Jr., Master Carver and a special friend.”

Mira Kamada (214) has evolved from traditional oil painting, including landscape and still life, to tex-tured, abstract forms and conceptual work in a va-riety of media. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Painting/Studio Arts from Marshall University, receiving the Arthur Carpenter Graduate Award for Excellence in Art. After graduating Kamada taught public school art classes and painting workshops for adults, moving into graphic design mid-career. She has lived, worked, and exhibited on both US coasts from New York to California, as well as the PNW and Canada. Her work is represented in both public and private collections and has appeared in feature films. Kamada works from her studio in Bellingham, WA.

Suzanne Kersikofski (307) has been painting wa-tercolors for the past three years. Aside from the oc-casional class, she is self-taught. She draws inspira-tion from the natural beauty that surrounds her. She takes delight in watching water birds from her win-dow, as well as the many hummingbirds that visit her feeders year-round. Kersikofski loves rich color and takes care to put detail in her work. It brings her great joy to sit at her art table, paintbrush in hand and cre-ate something beautiful.

Hooshang Khorasani (422) is an internationally exhibited artist with working studios in Ruston, LA, and Orange County, CA. His background includes a BFA in painting, plus 12 years as an award-winning graphic designer/illustrator. He has been self-employed in America and Spain since 1984. His paintings are dis-played in private collections across Europe and the U.S. as well as in corporate collections; are included in permanent museum collections; have been pub-lished by several publishers, and have been shown in numerous galleries.

Louise Kikuchi (401) has a Ph.D. in French from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has painted all her life, in the various places she has lived, including Hawaii, California, France, Japan, Texas and Washington. Recently, she has become interested in the simple life form of the moss and is especially taken by its quiet persistence. Kikuchi writes, “While driving, I saw on the right side of the highway, a low-lying area, full of reeds. In the late afternoon, the slanting rays of the sun revealed the tall leaves of the reeds and the shiny surface of the water. While the car was speeding along, the watery landscape looked timeless.”

Karen Kosoglad (404) writes, “I work from life be-cause I like the interplay between abstraction and figuration. There are a dynamic presence and rela-tionship from the live model that is necessary for the dialogue between me and a painting. I’m interested in the gestural moments in everyday life and the balance between weight, rhythm, shape, and color. The color comes from a combination of the color I see and that I find will carry the final image. There is an elusive truth that I’m trying to capture in relation to the actual form and the balance of the abstract form.”

Carrie Larson (120) studied under Keiko Hara and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, Studio Art em-phasis, in 1993 from Whitman College, graduating cum laude. Since then she has practiced her calling from the Grays Harbor area of Washington. Larson’s work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, and she has been supported by the gift of time and space at two residency programs, Hypatia-in-the-Woods and Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. Earlier this year she took part in a 2-person show at Lower Columbia Col-lege Art Gallery.

Janet Laurel (430) occupies the crossroads be-tween East and West, ancient and modern, poetry and painting, even business and art. Born and raised in Ev-erett her love of nature is refined by her study of Asian and philosophy and art. She studied Calligraphy and Sumi painting with noted artist George Tsutakawa. The ancient technique of Sumi became her favorite form of artistic expression. Her work has been shown around the globe, including London and Italy and locally at the Seattle Art Museum.9 0 9 1

Margy Lavelle (439) started drawing as a child and completed her first oil painting at the age of 15. She at-tended the UW Art School, graduating in 1976 with a BFA in painting. Lavelle had the good fortune to study with Bob Jones, Alden Mason, Norman Lundin, and an independent year with Jacob Lawrence and eventually Elaine de Kooning through the Centrum Program. She now lives in Skagit Valley where the ever-changing light and open vistas have inspired a return to working from nature. Her most current series is of barns and silos in the landscape, simple shapes in space. Lavelle has ex-hibited in Seattle, the Skagit Valley, and the Upper Mid-west on and off over the years.

Andrea K. Lawson (207) born in Hollywood, Califor-nia, Andrea K. Lawson received her MFA from Parsons New School Design, NY. Inspired by nature and dance, her vibrant paintings, and prints, have been exhibited nationally and in Europe. Solo exhibitions in Washington include Max Grover Gallery, Northwind Arts Center and Gallery 110, Seattle. She is represented by The Island Gallery, Bainbridge. Andrea is the recipient of the King County Arts Commission, Art Port Townsend and Hel-ena Rubenstein awards and a finalist for Sno-Isle Librar-ies Public Art. Collections include The Cape Museum of Fine Art, MA, Jefferson Museum of Art/History, WA, Ronnebaecksholm Arts/ Culture Center, Denmark.

Jeanne Levasseur (210) having lived most of her life in the PNW, including obtaining a Studio Arts degree from Western Washington University, Levasseur is in-spired by and her work focuses on what she loves the most, the incredible beauty of the world. Rather than represent each setting with a faithful accuracy to the original physical source, her paintings strive to capture and evoke a sense of spirit and emotional intimacy us-ing shape, color, light, and space. Her art stands as an embodiment of inward states of mind and being and serves as the receptacle of reminiscence. Longing, loneliness, and promise.

Jane Frances Lloyd (305) approaches her work from a design perspective, having received her degree from U of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts and her work as a designer. Jane returned to painting and sculpture these last two decades experimenting with Gestalt principles of perception, proximity, closure and the interaction of color. Influenced by Japanese and Native Art and the Russian Constructivists, her work is marked by saturated color, geometric forms and the abandonment of identifiable subject matter.

John Losee (236) is a master of light and color - all moods of color - from subtle to overt; from soft to edgy. Each of John’s images is a seminar of composition, col-or, and balance,from his tack-sharp “Kitchen Table” se-ries, to his blazing florals and carefully-balanced land-scapes.

Susanna Z. Mantis (443) known as Z, has been a Practicing Aroma Therapist, Yoga Teacher, and Coun-selor for over 30 years. She has been doing photo-based, dry pigment, and collage paintings for approxi-mately 127 days, 10 hours and thirty-three minutes. It began when she connected with Georgia O’Keeffe and her work. Z’s lifelong passion for the healing “arts” has taken on a visual form. Initially, the work looks easy; even decorative. That it may be, but it is also danger-ous.

Johanna Marquis (216) born and schooled in Wisconsin, Johanna Nitzke Marquis turned in her barn boots for hiking boots. She headed to Pacific beaches and forest trails to meet her muse. Her pro-pensity towards the political sciences and art making was cultivated at The Evergreen State College. She became the first director of public art in Washington State and later a Seattle gallerist. Her political, per-sonal, and professional epiphanies are retold through her constructed paintings. She lives on a dead-end road on an island in the Salish Sea, where she re-mains sustained by her gardens, art studio, and yel-low Labradors.

Anna Mastronardi Novak (235) creates work in oil, wax-based color pencil, mixed media, and mixed media encaustic, and has exhibited nationally in gal-leries and museums for over 25 years. Her work is fea-tured in corporate collections. She is an integral part of the arts community, participating in fundraisers for PONCHO, Museum of Northwest Art, and Whatcom Museum. She received her training at Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA), Praxis School of Art and Design (WA), Highline College (WA), and Lakeland College (OH).

Curt McCauley (108) has always been fascinated by the natural world and art. He has always doodled, sketched, engraved, carved, crafted furniture, homes and other things that involved using his hands. In mid-life, he began training in the Korean martial art of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan. Through this study, he developed an interest in Asian written characters and brush art. This led to further artistic experimen-tation. He truly enjoys trying to capture the essence of plants and animals. He focuses his current works on the natural world and using a blend of Asian and other techniques.

Marlene McCauley (206) a native of La Conner, has recently moved from the Chicago area back to Skagit Valley. A nationally known self-taught artist, Marlene’s work has always focused on nature. Eastern birds are now being replaced by Western birds in her small oil-on-canvas paintings. Marlene has exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions, includ-ing New York City, Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, and Houston. She exhibited a solo sculpture installa-tion at the Chicago Navy Pier’s New Art Forms, and her

paintings at SOFA MIAMI ’96: International Art Expo. She received a prestigious Illinois Arts Council Fel-lowship and has been interviewed by PBS television.

Anne Martin McCool (115) traces her painting roots to the landscape, a theme prevalent in most of her work. Her constant inspiration has been the Pacific NW, with its abundant water, gray skies, and tall reeds. She travels to other places as well for in-spiration. McCool is a favorite NW artist and owner of Anne Martin McCool Gallery, Anacortes. McCool notes, “I rely on intuition for the subject matter and trust in my long experience as a painter. There are always surprises and new things to discover.”

Anna McKee (335) was born in 1959 in Aiken, South Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from The Ever-green State College in 1981 and her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture and Certificate of Urban Design from the University of Washington in 1992. McKee has exhibited widely in galleries and muse-ums throughout the United States, including shows at MoNA, Whatcom Museum, SAM Gallery, Kirk-land Arts Center, and many university galleries. Her awards include a 4Culture Individual Artist Grant, National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program to travel to Antarctica, and an Artist Trust Grant for Artists Projects Award. McKee exhibited at MoNA in Accreted Terrane and Surge.

Esther McLatchy (217) is fascinated with nature especially Northwest views that can include farm-land, mountains, and salt water. McLatchy attributes her strong passion for nature from her Montana ori-gins where she began her career painting with oils. She has never seen an old country building that is not worthy of a painting. McLatchy is a signature member of Northwest Watercolor Society, Women Painters of Washington, and North Coast Painters. She is an award-winning Skagit Valley artist who has exhibited in many juried regional and invitational shows and galleries. McLatchy’s most visible piece of public art is Mount Vernon’s sky-high landmark Tulip Stack.

Lisa McShane (413) captures the sweeping land-scapes of the American West; the coulees, eroded hills and roads of Eastern Washington and the lakes, rivers and seas of Western Washington. Her deeply layered and glazed oil paintings capture a profound love of light and the wide open land. McShane re-cently moved her studio from downtown Belling-ham to a forest on Samish Island, next to a large heron rookery and surrounded by eagles, hawks, and views of the water and sky. McShane’s paintings have been exhibited in the US Embassy in Yemen and in the Washington State Governor’s Mansion.

Roberta (Bobbye) Miller (309) has an MA in Landscape Architecture from UW. She has worked as an environmental planner, teacher, and artist. Her paintings primarily reflect the natural and the built environment. Miller has participated in group and solo shows throughout the Puget Sound re-gion and is a member of the Stanwood-Camano Art Guild and the Roaming Artists group.

Allen Moe (426) is a Guemes Island sculptor, painter, and ceramicist well known for his hand͞coiled, stone͞burnished clay pots covered with animal hides, bones, or fish skin. All of his work, in various mediums, relates to the natural world. Moe writes, “My work celebrates the specific details of the world around us. I hope that presenting bits of the environment out of their normal context might cause us to pause and really look at something that might otherwise go unnoticed...I’m not focusing on death; I’m trying to hold on to the beauty of life.

Janet Morgan (103) works in acrylic, watercolor, pastel, collage, and printmaking media, both real-istically and abstractly. She has lived in the South, Mid-West, Texas, Philippines, and the NW and has traveled throughout the West, the Artic, and to the Tropics. These experiences, as well as many years of backpacking and climbing the Cascades, have pro-vided endless subject matter for her nature inspired art. Her aim is always to express her appreciation for nature’s beauty, power, variety, and complexity. Morgan has shown in numerous galleries over the past 50 years and has won awards in many shows.

Jazz Morgan (424) writes, “From the beginning, there’s always been something unique about her work, a special quickness about even the earliest studies. I say she’s the universe’s urge to remind us that it’s all alive out there. Jazz has ordered her life to make sure that the work gets done. This is an art-ist through whom extraordinary forces are flowing. Artists are supposed to show us things we keep for-getting, and inspire hope in us and she does.” -Tom Milligan, Public Broadcasting System New York State Ann Morris (446) has created both larger than life figurative bronzes and smaller scale works. Her sculpture was featured in a MoNA exhibit in 2001. Her bones and boats act as metaphors for the cy-cles of life. Her current boats, Crossings, are made of natural materials and float in the air. She main-tains her studio within her Sculpture Woods on Lummi Island. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including Hallie Ford Museum of Art, MoNA, Whatcom Museum and Big Rock Gar-den, Bellingham.

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Bobbie Mueller (308) took painting, design, and drawing classes in high school and college, later studying watercolor with various Northwest artists. Mueller taught classes for continuing education programs with Everett and Skagit Community Col-leges. Her work has been seen in a variety of NW galleries, invitationals and juried shows, including the 2013 NWWS Waterworks juried show and the 2015 NWWS International Open Exhibit. Currently, Mueller has work in Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle.

Margot B. Myers (129) writes, “The incredible, ordered power in natural systems and organisms is the thing that informs my work. I respond to the great beauty and delicacy that I see in the sky, the water and in the earth. I invent landscapes that of-ten use moving liquids, eroding patterns and grow-ing forms to express the awe that I experience in life and observation. Often, my images assume visual characteristics of forms or phenomenon that I had not originally intended when I began working. I em-brace this evolution and overlap because it reinforces my understanding of a world that is endlessly com-plex and interconnected. I want my work to increase consciousness of and a connection to the fleeting, intense and sometimes frightful beauty that exists around us.”

Thu Nguyen (431) creates realistic paintings with a sense of conceptual appeal. Inspired by the work of Andrew Wyeth. Nguyen earned a BFA in painting at California State University, Long Beach and has since received multiple grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Her work is represented in many public and private collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Mexico.

Natalie Niblack (233) writes, “This work begins with my love for the iconography of saints in Renais-sance and Baroque painting, and the intricate archi-tecture of drapery, inviting me to get lost between one fold and another. There is also my connection to Skagit Valley and the Skagit river, which is 10 feet from my back door. Moving water is a constant presence in my life and imagery, as are the looming clouds and a confusion of branches. What I like about this com-bination of elements is when viewing complex forms like these, the viewer will often see what I never in-tended. The spaces and folds are dependent on the eye and mind of the viewer, who appears to organize them into what is familiar, fearful or desired. I love the gray area, the dialogue between the artwork and the eye. For any viewer, including myself, they act as mir-rors.”

David Nichols (213) now retired, Superior Court Judge, Dave Nichols paints in oils and watercolor and exhibits throughout the Northwest working from his

studio in Bellingham. He is one of the associated art-ists in the La Conner Seaside Gallery and is a signa-ture member of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters.

Cheri O’Brien (223) seemingly casual aesthetic shifts emphasis from outrageous and funky to ten-der and charming. Ms. O’Brien shows and is collected throughout Washington and New Mexico. She is also known for her fantastic art commissions created with fused painted glass.

Berkeley Parks (219) is a mixed͞media artist from Seattle. She has studied at Pilchuck and Pratt in Se-attle and was the recipient of a residency in Taunuss-tein, Germany. Parks finds beauty in everyday objects. Her work has been in many exhibitions, including solo shows at 911 Media Arts Center, ArtsWest, and Art Books & Press Gallery, Seattle.

Jessica Pavish (306) is an arts advocate who adores the creation of jewelry for wearable art.

Jane Penman (314) is a La Conner metalsmith and lapidary artist, originally from Seattle and profession-ally a kitchen designer on the Eastside. She studied with Marilynn Nicholson at the Taos School of Metal-smithing and Lapidary Design and Andy Cooperman at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Fran-cisco. Penman is an Artist Trust EDGE Graduate and members of Skagit Artists Together and Seattle Metals Guild. Stones she cuts and polishes naturally are used with silver to create Stone Art Jewelry.

Maralyne Powell (118) found her love of photogra-phy when she received a camera for her 18th birthday. Many years and cameras later she continues to love this art form.

Ann Chadwick Reid (241) In 2008 Ann retired from 36 years of teaching art in community colleges across Washington State to spend full time in her studio on Samish Island working and observing the shifting en-vironment of the northwest. Using the historic craft of cut paper silhouette her work reflects species inter-dependency and how land use choices can lead to loss of plant and animal diversity, limited agricultural economies and displacement of communities. Her work was included in the exhibit Here and There: Top-ographic Conversations with Morris Graves at the Mor-ris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA.

Frank Renlie (227) graduated from the Burnley School of Art in 1962 and was self-supporting as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer until recently turning his attention to full-time painting. He works in oils, acrylics, and gouache, and his subject matter is from memory or is conceptualized for a whimsical

twist. His work has been shown at SAM, BAM, Frye Art Museum, Museum of History and Industry, The Best of the NW, and Bellevue Arts Fair. Renlie lives and paints in Lake Forest Park and Camano Island.

Joseph Francis. Reno (440) was born in Seattle, worked in the mailroom at the Museum of Mod-ern Art, and took night classes at the Art Students League, NYC. His work, from his early realism to the wild expressionism of his current paintings, has been widely exhibited and collected. Reno’s works on paper were featured in a 2007 retrospective cu-rated by Matthew Kangas at Kirkland Arts Center. He has lived and worked in Seattle’s Ballard neighbor-hood for more than 50 years.

Cynthia Richardson (299) AIA, is an artist and ar-chitect living in Anacortes. Surrounded by the beau-ty of the Skagit Valley and the San Juan Islands, she enjoys painting landscapes that invite viewers into the picture, where each person can imagine them-selves in that special place. Light and color bring a scene to life. Cynthia’s honors include Honorable Mention from the Artist’s Magazine and Schack Art Center; juried shows at the Anacortes Arts Festival (2012, 2014, 2015) and Edmonds Arts Festival. Six of her paintings are in the permanent art collections of Skagit Valley Hospital and Island Hospital.

Brent Rogers (347) was born and raised in Se-attle, WA where he worked as a production glass-blower and designer at the Glass Eye Studio before relocating to Chicago in 2011. He has been an ac-tive member of Studio 5416 in Ballard, WA since it opened in April 2010. Brent educated himself in glass and illustration concepts at the Pratt Fine Art Center and Pilchuck Glass School and as an intern at Benjamin Moore Incorporated.

J. Graham Ross (325) is a painter; her work has a depth, a thickness of energy, and lives somewhere inside the worlds of figurative abstract painting, folk art, and sculpture. Her work is an ongoing conversa-tion between texture and form and spirit and color. For the last decade, she has been painting the spirit and energy of crows.

Aimee Rudge (114) has lived in many parts of the United States and expresses the diversity and beauty of each place through her art. She is inspired by nature’s colors and shapes and tries to put that feeling into each piece she paints.

Victor Sandblom (230) writes, “I was raised in the Northwest, spent my formative years as an artist in Paris and now paint in the Northwest. I paint what I feel I see.”

Elizabeth Sandvig (339) is a prominent painter and printmaker. Born in Seattle, she grew up in Wash-ington, D.C. and Mexico City, and graduated from Po-mona College and Harvard. Sandvig has shown in Eu-rope, Mexico City, NYC, and Washington, D.C., and has also exhibited extensively in the NW, including SAM, Henry Art Gallery, TAM, BAM, and Whatcom Museum. Her work is in numerous collections, including SAM, Swedish Hospital, Boeing, and Microsoft. In 2007, Sand-vig received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. She exhibits regularly at Francine Seders Gallery.

David Scherrer (412) first produced photographs un-der a house on stilts at age 10. His first exhibit, Turkish street scenes, was shown during high school in Ankara. He studied photography at WWU with Robert Embrey, and in Carmel and Yosemite with Ansel Adams, Arnold Newman, and Bret Weston. In 1978, Scherrer was a graduate student at U of Oregon and studied film and photography with Hal Haberstate. He has taught pho-tography throughout the NW. He was recently awarded a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship and was an Artist-in-Residence in County Mayo, Ireland in 2007. Scherrer lives and works in Bellingham.

Ed Schmid (303) owns and operates Glass Mountain Studios in Bellingham, where they encompass many different facets of glassmaking, including glassblow-ing, torchwork, sculpting, and mixed media. Working collaboratively since 1993, both received MFAs in 1990: Schmid from Ohio State U, Enos from San Jose State University.

Graham Schodda (124) born and raised in Australia where he received his Bachelor’s Degree from Rusden, now Deacon University in Melbourne. His primary fo-cus was the art of human movement. After a number of years as a high school teacher and an extended stint traveling to expand his knowledge of the art world, he transitioned into commercial art where he focused on branding and logo design. In 1994, he started Odyssey Art Works, a design and sculpture studio in Denver, CO; with business partner and fellow world traveler, Steve Pearson. Their studio primarily focused on metal sculp-ture and one-of-a-kind furniture using repurposed ma-terials for corporate and residential locations. Odyssey still remains as a “go-to” resource for eclectic metal in the Rocky Mountain region. You can see some of their work here. Now living in Bellingham, WA, Graham works from his home studio, where he has carefully curated a treasure trove of salvaged objects—both vin-tage and modern—patiently waiting for their next form to emerge.

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Cathy Schoenberg (423) “A working artist in the Skagit Valley since 1981, Cathy Schoenberg has been exhibiting her paintings in many venues both local and elsewhere. Her work has been used for posters of Arts Alive in La Conner, Anacortes Arts Festival, Mona Style, and recently completed 6 pieces for the Mount Vernon Arts Commission Art in the Alley Project in downtown Mount Vernon. Cur-rently living on Guemes Island, and maintaining a studio in Anacortes, she shows at Waterworks Gal-lery in Friday Harbor, McCool Gallery in Anacortes, and Cottons in La Conner. A mural by Schoenberg commissioned by the Anacortes Arts Festival can be seen along the Tommy Thompson Trail in Ana-cortes.”

Anne Schreivogl (301) was selected “Best of the West” by Southwest Art Magazine and her work is collected by the Seattle Aquarium, Island Hospital, Anacortes Public Library, among others. Her formal education was at WWU and Gage Academy. She actively juries and judges Northwest art shows, and additionally enjoys teaching Exploring Creativity: In Art and Life workshops. She was a featured poster artist for the Port Townsend Film Festival (2014), Anacortes Arts Festival (2006), and Anacortes Jazz Festivals (2005 and 2004). In August, she will be a featured artist for the Anacortes Arts Festival. Sch-reivogl’s work can be found at Howard/Mandville Gallery in Kirkland, Simon Mace in Port Townsend, and at her studio in Anacortes.

Mia Schulte (111) was born in Turkey and lived in many countries, in Europe and the Middle East. Her careers have ranged from corporate work in Washington, D.C. to Art Teacher to full-time artist. She moved to WA State 11 years ago and current-ly resides in Olympia, WA. Inspired by the natural beauty of the state, she incorporates many of the landscapes in her abstract compositions. She was selected as one of the featured artists for an exhi-bition at South Puget Sound Community College entitled: “Drawn to Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Visions”. Her work has been shown at the Wash-ington Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle De-sign Center, and galleries and exhibitions in Seat-tle, Bellingham, Edmonds, and Olympia. She was recently selected by Artist Trust to participate in the Edge Program. In addition, she was juried into Women Painters of Washington, an organization of professional painters from the state of Washington. She currently exhibits her work in Seattle, WA, Can-non Beach, OR, and Olympia, WA. Represented by: Primary Elements Gallery, Cannon Beach, Oregon, Women Painters of Washington Gallery, Seattle, WA, ArtHouse Designs Gallery, Olympia, WA

Dassy Shellenberger (420) received a BA in Stu-dio Art from Smith College and a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts. Shellenberger writes, “NOT knowing in advance the destination of an artwork is how I work. When fortunate, I reach a conclusion that fits my inner sense of balance. I look for “pattern” in randomness. Layering paint and glazes, I listen as the parts “talk” to me and to each other. Artists I study, among them Rauch, Hockney, Gorky, and Kandinsky, have a visual bravery that takes my breath away!”

Emily Silver (205) received her MFA in painting from San Francisco Art Institute (2007). Her solo shows in-clude Springs Preserve (Las Vegas, 2010), The Painting Center (NYC, 2003), and Piante Gallery in Eureka, CA (2015). She co-organized ‘Here and There: Topographi-cal Conversations with Morris Graves” at the Morris Graves Museum of Art. She’s been honored with Cado-gan Fellowship from San Francisco Foundation (2006), a Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship (2005), and resi-dent fellowship at Vermont Studio Center (2003), Playa (2014), and Virginia City, NV (2015). Her BA in Visual De-sign is from Stanford. Currently teaching at College of the Redwoods (Eureka, CA) she spends as much time as possible in the desert.

Barbara Silverman-Summers (418) studied art in New York City and received a Master’s in Fine Art from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, Paris, New Mexico and regionally in Wash-ington State. Barbara’s artwork is in numerous private collections and Skagit Valley Hospital has purchased several paintings for their permanent collection. Her paintings are bold, expressive and provocative, and her strong, lively brush strokes are dramatic.

Duane Simshauser (113) is a mixed-media artist of-ten described as “bold and mystical.” Richly textured and colored, his award-winning work is widely col-lected and housed in public collections including the City of Ventura (CA) Municipal Art Collection. Simshaus-er earned a BA from EWU, an MA in Education from California Lutheran U and continued his Fine Art stud-ies at Ventura College under Gerd Koch. His work has won awards since 1959. He is represented by Cattails & Dragonflies and The Artist’s Remarque, La Conner, and The Wine Shop at Smokey Point and Seagrass Gallery, Camano Island.

Preston Singletary (101, 323) writes, “When I began working with glass in 1982, I had no idea that I’d be so connected to the material in the way that I am. It was only when I began to experiment with using designs from my Tlingit cultural heritage that my work began to take on a new purpose and Direction. [...] My work con-tinues to evolve and connect my personal cultural per-spective to current modern art movements, and I have

received much attention for striving to keep the work fresh and relevant. I have been honored that my suc-cess has inspired other artists from underrepresented indigenous cultures to use glass and other non-tradi-tional materials in their work, and hope that I can con-tinue to encourage more innovation in this area as my career progresses.

Anna Skibska (346)Anna Skibska studied at the Academy of Art in Wro-claw, Poland, in the Department of Painting. Her sig-nature technique, known as Anna Skibska Technique was developed in the first half of the 90s. She moved to the USA in the late 90s, and has since resided and created in Seattle, Washington. In 2001, she had a solo exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum. In 2004, the flameworking studio in Pratt Fine Arts Center was of-ficially named the Anna Skibska Flameworking Studio. In his 2013 book, Spark the Creative Flame, P. Stankard devoted a chapter, “Sparkle of the soul,” to Skibska’s achievements and her technique. In 2014, she was awarded the Honeycomb Award in Poland.

Roger Small (215) studied under Sydney Eaton and received his Associate of Arts degree from Skagit Val-ley College in 1973. He paints Skagit Landscapes and the Padilla Bay region in mixed media and also de-veloped his own signature style of painting oils with a large palette knife. He builds smaller statue like sculp-tures and mid to large sculptures also. In 2013, Small was commissioned by an anonymous donor to build a multi-image sculpture for McIntyre Hall at Skagit Val-ley College. The Sculpture titled “Performers” is over nine feet tall and weighs one thousand pounds. It is one of his most prized creations. His work can be seen at Cassera Arts Premiers Gallery in La Conner, WA and Smith & Vallee Gallery in Edison, WA.

Judith Gebhard Smith (435) received her under-graduate degree in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and her graduate degree in Art as Applied to Medicine from the University of Toronto. She began her professional life in 1965 as a medical illustrator for McGill University. Subsequently, she enjoyed almost twenty years exploring all aspects of printmaking. Eventually, health concerns caused her to abandon this medium and she turned to neon sculpture com-bined with found objects. Following a five-year flirta-tion with electricity, Smith discovered the excitement of using pastels in various ways. Currently, Smith uses primarily black and white pastel to celebrate her ab-stract black bird imagery.

Smith & Vallee Woodworks (116) provides com-plete design, build, and installation services with a fo-cus on solid craftsmanship and the natural beauty of the wood, with 40 years of combined woodworking ex-perience. Smith & Vallee Woodworks has been building furniture for nearly twenty years. The furniture created

at Smith & Vallee has sold in prestigious craft galleries and museums throughout the Northwest. More than fifty pieces were displayed at the Whatcom Museum in the Tree Project exhibition in 2002. Smith & Vallee works di-rectly with clients to custom build pieces to suit individual needs and styles. You can find unique pieces displayed in the gallery in Edison, WA.

Lisa Snow Lady (337) paintings reflect the everyday places and ordinary things that surround her. Through harmonious color, simple shapes and forms, she works out her reoccurring themes of interiors, streets scenes, and gardens, often inspired by walks around neighbor-hoods and visits to nearby parks. The architecture pro-vides a backdrop for the play of sunlight and shadow. Studies in Art History provided her with many influenc-es including Johannes Vermeer, Pierre Bonnard, and Richard Diebenkorn, as well as the writings of Madeline L’Engle on making the ordinary sacred.

Keith Sorenson (408) writes, “I’ve lived in Anacortes for 22 years, and been retired from architectural practice for 12. I’ve always painted some, but retirement has let me focus completely on it. I enjoy watercolors and oils, mostly landscapes. I’d prefer to paint outdoors, but my studio is also a place of contentment.”

Michael Spafford (342) was born in Palm Springs, CA, in 1935. His inspirations include art history, philosophy, and classics. After receiving his MA in Art History at Har-vard, Spafford spent three years in Mexico City, where he painted and exhibited. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 1967-69, and is Emeritus Professor of Art, UW. Represented by the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle, he often uses mythology as a basis for the con-tent of his paintings, drawings, and woodcuts.

Charles Spitzack (102) the majority of Spitzack’s work revolves itself in the form of a print. Dedicated to dis-solving barriers in commitment to the communal whole, Spitzack has found printmaking to be an excellent way to express these ideas in both subject matter and process. Having pledged himself to a life of mystery at the age of nine, he wonders how long he will be able to hold on before becoming a Jehovah’s Witness.

Michael Stark (402) has been a professional artist for nearly 50 years. As an internationally recognized pen and ink artist, Stark has traveled to China, Russia, Japan, Ke-nya, Ireland, as well as other countries. He is now working on a series of drawings of the Balkan countries. He first learned his pen and ink drawing skills as a ......medical il-lustrator for L.A.’s Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Research department. Stark has shown his drawings at Seattle’s Kirsten, Stonington and Penaca Galleries, as well as the Frye Art Museum. Stark was named Anacortes Patron of the Arts and received the Walter A Brodniak Cultural Ed-ucation Award for his years of support of art education.

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Terry Staton (240) no biographical information was available at the time of printing.

Cathy Stevens (220) “In her striking portrait work, Cathy Stevens documents the people of the Skagit Valley, the generations of farming families who have kept agriculture here alive, and the strong sense of character and community that binds Skagitonians from all walks of life.” “Her sensitive black and white portraits of artists in their studios have been exhibited in many group art shows.”

Annette Tamm (349) has been practicing glass art for more than 40 years and has studied with many luminaries bother here and abroad. Her creations have been included in many juried shows and range from stained glass windows and lamps to fused floral forms, dimensional landscapes, outer space impres-sions, and pate de verre leaf sculptures. She is a jur-ied member of Northwest Designer Craftsmen in ad-dition to membership in Skagit Artists Together. Her latest commission of eight stained glass transoms may be viewed at the Celtic Arts Foundation in Mount Vernon, WA.

Rose Mary Tate (333) has exhibited in many ju-ried shows including the Annual Regional Exhibition of Southwest American Art, Oklahoma Art Center, Artists of Hawaii, and Honolulu Academy of Arts. Tate was also invited to exhibit slides of her work at the International Women’s Arts Festival Slide Exhibition, International Women’s Year, at the Ford Foundation Auditorium in NYC. The show then traveled to univer-sities around the country. She has work in corporate collections, including Queen Kapiolani Hotel (Hono-lulu) and Skagit Valley Hospital. Collectors in Greece, Japan, New Hebrides, Singapore, and Canada have her works, as well as collectors in the US.

Bradley Taylor (128) is a Seattle-based artist known for his large narrative woodblock prints. He holds degrees in Fine Art from Snow College and Cornish College of the Arts. He’s shown at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Gallery, the Bemis building, and the SAM rental/sales gallery. He has collaborated on a body of work with artist and col-league Lauren Iida. When not working on his own art, Bradley runs the Book Arts and Print Arts Resource Labs at Cornish College of the Arts as well as work as a Master Printer for other artists in the Seattle area.

Cheryl Telford (310) resides in La Conner WA and been an artist for 25 years. She credits her work and inspiration to her two mentors internationally known artists Peggy Zehring and Kaz Tanahashi. Her goal is to create a mark that exhibits life–ambiguous, ges-tural, startling; often depicted through calligraphic abstraction.

Jan Tervonen (317) is an abstract artist who comes from a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michi-gan surrounded by the beauty of Lake Superior. She grew up in a Finnish-American family and was taught the values of simplicity, organization, and a good pun. Mostly self-taught, she has developed a minimalistic style with a wry sense of humor.

Susan Cohen Thompson (406) in 2015, Thompson illustrated the book, “Speaking with Na-ture, Awakening to the Deep Wisdom of the Earth.” Her ceramics have won the Status Ceramics Award and the Artisan Tile Northwest Award. Her paintings are on the covers of five books on Earth Wisdom and appear in Green Art, Trees, Leaves, and Roots. Thompson’s paintings are in exhibitions throughout the region including Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Scott Milo Gallery, and Smith & Vallee Gallery. A series of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Skagit Valley Hospital. Thompson Art Studio Is on the Camano Island Studio Tour.

Luke Tornatzky (433) exploration of light and color is still in full swing after a lifetime of advancing the ideas of realist painting. Tornatzky is an active member of OPA (Oil Painters of America) and is now represented by Roby King Gallery in Windsor.

Li Turner (109) has worked as a painter and a print-maker for 40 years. Her monotypes and paintings are held in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Portland Contemporary Arts Gallery, and the U of W. Her work has been shown in such diverse venues as China, Bulgaria, Denmark, and Scotland. In this hand-colored monotype: “Wind & Weeds”, Turner attempts to create the essence of the movement, color, and fun she encounters each time she ventures into what seems like our perpet-ual rainy season. Her next solo exhibition will be in September of 2016 at Gallery 110 in Seattle.

Andrew Vallee (204) grew up in New Hope, PA, near the home and studios of renowned furni-ture maker George Nakashima. He was influenced by Nakashima’s teachings at a young age with his boyhood friend and grandson of Nakashima, Misha Amagasu. After graduating from Western Washing-ton University in Bellingham, Andrew Vallee, and Wes Smith apprenticed under noted furniture mak-er Alan Rosen of Lummi Island and began Smith & Vallee Woodworks, Inc. in 1997 to design and build custom cabinetry and furniture from sustainably harvested and salvaged woods. In 2002, they had a major exhibition at Bellingham’s Whatcom Museum of History & Art, called “The Tree Project,” that fea-tured their furniture and holistic woodworking pro-cess.

Donna Watson (218) is a mixed media collage painter. She explores the passage of time and what remains, using Zen tenets. She has signature memberships in American and National Watercolor Societies. Donna has extensive experience as a workshop instructor and juror all over the U.S. and Canada. Her work has been widely published in several magazines including The Artist Magazine. Her work has also been published in several books including Masters Collage: Major Works by Lead-ing Artists and 100 Artists of the Northwest.

Spider Weber (105) currently teaches art to 250 elementary students and a smattering of middle and high school students at the La Conner School District. She began her art career with painting and drawing at the age of four. Later she studied under a German artist, Gertrude Kogler and after that she continued her fine and applied art studies at U of W and at U of O. A brief stint living in Southern Germany and visiting museums in France and Italy was squeezed in. Then came an M.Ed from WWU and the art teaching ca-reer commenced. Her favorite things to paint are the Skagit Valley and children playing on a Puget Sound beach.

Carol Weiss (319) is a Bellingham artist who has been juried into many national and international shows winning numerous awards. One person shows include a solo exhibit at the Frye Museum in Seattle. She is a signature member of the American Water-color Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the Northwest Watercolor Society. Most recently she was honored to be juried into the 2014 Shenzhen In-ternational Exhibition in Shenzhen, China. Leon White (332) writes, “In creating my favorite birds, Owls, Crows, and Ravens in ceramic with add-ed mix mediums in a stylized representation, often with a bit of whimsy and a play on words. This is a continuous series which is delightful with endless possibilities.”

Thomas Wood (231, 232) For four decades Thomas Wood has worked as an artist in the Pacific Northwest, finding the cultural and natural surround-ings to be a great source of inspiration for imaginative landscapes and mythological images. He sketches and paints out of doors while camping in Cascade Forests or sailing on Puget Sound. At home in Bell-ingham, in his backyard studio, he continues paint-ing and prints etchings. Subjects are drawn from the Northwest landscape, from his garden, from mythol-ogy, and dreams.

Perry Scott Woodfin (429) was born in Seattle in 1942. He has a BFA degree from Washington State University. His art is inspired by the beauty of North-west landscape and ordinary things that exhibit the history of use. He holds many awards, including the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Award, both the T. Bailey Award and the Juror’s Award from the Anacortes Arts Juried Show, and Best of Show and Special Award at Art Port Townsend.

Suze Woolf (330) is a Seattle-based watercolorist and book artist who was artist-in-residence for North Cascades National Park in 2013, one of now five na-tional park residencies. Her landscapes and burned forests have been exhibited regionally and nationally. Her work was displayed in “Accreted Terrane” at MoNA in 2015.

Jennifer Yates (320) is an artist and educator liv-ing in Western Washington. She currently teaches a full-time fine arts course and shows her work in galler-ies around the country. Jennifer has been actively pur-suing the arts and education, teaching privately and publicly through schools and businesses in numerous states on the west coast. She received her BFA in stu-dio arts and BS in art education from the University of Wisconsin-Stout where she also was an artist in resi-dence.

Lynn Zimmerman (428) paintings are inspired by the natural landscape her camera is a constant com-panion. Growing up on a ranch in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia she spent many hours outdoors on horseback. She had the good fortune to be educated in design and illustration when everything was ‘hands on’. She worked in freelance design and photojournal-ism and later founded a drawing and painting school Bellingham ART, which is in its 16th year. She was awarded the 25th Mayor’s Art Award for her contribu-tion to the community. Painting is a passion, landscape a constant, every changing model of beauty.

Dion Zwirner (321) has created a new body of work that began with the concept of a window - a word that conceals more than it reveals. The word window origi-nally came from the Old Norse word vindauga, vindr meaning wind and auga meaning eye. It has been used in language for over 800 years. When one thinks of a window one might think of an external view. In these works Zwirner has turned inward, once again translating seen and felt experiences into patterns and painted gestures. The artist wants to separate natural elements from their remembered surroundings so in-tuition will replace logic. Working with the phases and cycles of nature she attempts to frame time as a win-dow frames a view.

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Front Cover: Rik Allen, Providence, 2009

Back Cover: Christopher Mathie, Mind & Brain Are Not The Same

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2016 MoNA Art Auction

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