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Calendar of art walks and events through June 23

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Third Thursday

Belltown Art Walk, 6pm until closing. Visit http://belltownartwalk.com/

Edmonds Art Walk, 5pm-8pm. Visit www.manyaveeselects.com/artwalk/artwalk.htm

Tacoma Art Walk. Tacoma’s galleries, Museum of Glass, Tacoma Art Museum, and the Washington State History Museum are open from 5pm-8pm. All three museums are free. Call 253.272.4258 or www.artwalktacoma.com/

Upper Queen Anne Art Walk, 6pm-8pm. E-mail info@bouncingwall.com.

Third Friday

Port Orchard Art Walk from 4-7pm. May through October

June 19

Stonington Gallery, 125 S. Jackson Street, hosts the book release and signing party for Duane Pasco’s autobiographical art book, Life As Art, published by University of Washington Press. A master carver and scholar of the Native art and languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Duane Pasco has been a central contributor to the renaissance of formline artwork over the past fifty years. A reception starts at 6pm, and the lecture an book signing are at 7pm.

June 20

Art+Sci Salon: Art, Ecology, and Community at the Tacoma Art Museum from 6-8pm.
View Creating the New Northwest with a focus on art, ecology, and the community. Art+Se ci is a collaboration with University of Puget Sound. It is a new venture to bring scientists, artists, and interdisciplinary thinkers together through conversations and the emergent collaborations.

June 22-23

Vashon Island Allied Arts Garden Tour will feature art related to the garden, 10am-5pm. Visit www.vashonalliedarts.org.

Late 1800’s illustrations at Fine Impressions Gallery this month

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One of the hallmarks of the impressionist artists was their use of images from everyday life, about all classes of people. This was new at the time, and it gave other artists inspiration to do the same thing. The new series currently showing of 1876 and 1880 illustrations from the Art Journal is a good example of this. The 1880 stipple engraving you see here is “Gamesters,” an image of two ordinary young boys playing cards. This, and many more illustrations from the period, may be seen at the Fine Impressions Gallery, 8300 5th Avenue NE in Seattle.

Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection on view at the Tacoma Art Museum from June 15 through October 6

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From June 15 through October 6, Tacoma Art Museum will share more than 100 works from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan collection, in “Creating the New Northwest: Selections from the Herb and Lucy Pruzan Collection.” The exhibition includes works in all media by some of our most beloved regional artists, such as William Cumming, Gaylen Hansen, Paul Havas, William Ivey, Fay Jones, James Martin, Alden Mason, Ginny Ruffner, Preston Singletary, Akio Takamori, and more.

2nd Amendment: A Visual Dialogue opens at Bherd June 14

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Join artists in a visual dialogue with the community that questions, examines, celebrates, criticizes, and queries the right to bear arms in a show opening at the Bherd Gallery, 312 N. 85th. Street in Seattle, on June 14 from 6-9pm. This exhibit will include artists who are gun collectors and artists who are anti-firearm activists and those who hold opinions that range between the two extremes. Featured artists include: Rodrigo Valenzuela, Greg Lundgren, Kate Protage, Adream de Valdivia, Frank Germano, Rick Klu, Tatiana Kalderash, Crystal Barbre, Stanley Porkoski, Sam Wood, Dan Voelker and Miguel Edwards. Shown: Adream de Valdivia, Fathers Funerary Mantle.

Permanent Collection and First Light on view through September 22 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

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Opening June 14 and on view through September 22 at the all-new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art is “Selections from the Permanent Collection” in the John and Lillian Lovelace Gallery. Also showing is a regional group exhibit called “First Light” in the Rachel Feferman Gallery. Located just off the Seattle/Bainbridge Island ferry terminal at the corner of Highway 305 and the main street of Bainbridge, Winslow Way, the new art museum will be a welcoming landmark and a prominent community resource for quality arts education and lifelong learning, hosting gallery tours, artist talks, school group visits, panel discussions, videos, printed and digital documentation of art, and hands-on art activities. Admission to the museum will be free through sponsorships and donations.

Shown: Max Grover, Red Car Trip at Dusk Photo Credit: Nick Felkey.

Buster Simpson opens at the Frye June 15

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“BUSTER SIMPSON // SURVEYOR” opens June 15 at the Frye Art Museum. The first-ever survey of work by a Seattle artist renowned as a pioneer of site-specific, process-driven, environmental art and for his groundbreaking contribution to dialogues about civic responsibility, ecology, and the role of public art.

Flora Plastica at Schack Art Center

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“Flora Plastica,” last shown at the Tacoma Art Museum, has been reinvented and has reappeared at this year’s “Art of the Garden” on view through August 1 at Schack Art Center in Everett at 2921 Hoyt Avenue. Also included are four new sculptures, Burst. Cascade, Encircle & Ripple. Shown: Flora Plastica by Barbara De Pirro.

Liang Wei at Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery tonight

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“Roads Leading Home,” an exhibit of new landscape paintings by Chinese artist Liang Wei, opens in a reception tonight from 6-8pm at the Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery, 800 Bellevue Way NE. Now living back in China, he was an artist in residence in Shenzhen and exhibited throughout the country including Beijing, Chengdu and Shenzhen. Highly educated and well respected in his career as a painter there, his works respond to the influences of the Western World and American painters. His paintings are in demand in China and in the USA.

Calendar of art walks and events through June 16

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Second Thursday

Blitz, Capitol Hill’s Art Walk from 5-8pm. More information and maps: www.blitzcapitolhill.com

West Seattle Art Walk, 6pm-9pm, Visit www.westseattleartwalk.blogspot.com.

Second Friday

Greenwood-Phinney Art Up Art Walk, 6pm-9pm, along Greenwood Ave. North from 67th-87th St. Visit http://artupgreenwood-phinneyblogspot.com/

Kirkland Art Walk 6-9pm

Third Saturday

Everett Art Walk, 4pm-7pm. Visit www.everettartwalk.org.

LaConner Art Walk, 4pm-8pm. www.laconnerchamber.com/

June 14

The all-new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art opens.

Gage Academy of Art students celebrate a year filled with artistic discovery and intensive study at the 21st annual Best of Gage Student Exhibition, Awards & Sale on Friday, June 14 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Join the celebration as students, artists and art enthusiasts alike peruse more than 200 works representing diverse media, subjects, and individual styles. The 2013 Best of Gage features wine and hors d’oeuvres, and music by local folk group Tinker’s Dram. The event is open to the public, free of charge. Gage Academy of Art is located at 1501 10^th AVE E, Seattle, WA, 98102.

June 14-16

55^th Edmonds Arts Festival, one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest arts celebrations. Plan to attend for a free, fun filled Father’s Day Weekend in Edmonds. Fri.,11am-9pm, Sat., 10am-8pm., Sun. 10am-6pm. Visit www.edmondsartsfestival.org for more information.

Meeker Days Festival, Downtown Puyallup, the largest street festival in Pierce

County. Visit www.puyallupmainstreet.com.

June 14

See N Sip: Art and Winetasting. Silent auction of artist made drinking vessels.

Visit www.schack.org.

June 15

Museum of Northwest Art Annual Art Auction in LaConner. Preview: June 14. The museum’s largest annual fundraiser – for seasoned and novice art collectors – Over 300 works by emerging through master artists. Visit www.museumofnwart.org for more information.

Landscape illusions are the central concern at Prographica

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“The Landscape: Evoked” featuring works by Marsha Burns, Kimberly Clark, Tamblyn Gawley, Jim Holl, Dale Lindman, and Robert Perlman opens June 8 from 2-4pm at Prographica/fine works on paper, 3419 E. Denny Way in Seattle. On view through July 13, the show is the second of two back-to-back exhibitions in which landscape is the central concern. The artists are working at the non-objective end of the continuum, and since specific references to subject matter are absent, they must rely on other formal cues to create an illusion of space that will be “convincing.” Also, the gallery is hosting a reading of poetry by Carlos Lara and John Duvernoy on Wednesday evening June 12 at 7:00 pm. Shown: Robert Perlman, Number 6.