carbon based economy Civic affairs in Duwamish territory Crisis management is the conflict of the myth of individual consciousness with the need for social justice, manifested in blame, shame and guilt projected onto our natural processes.
contemporary art Classic feminist work in "Girlfriends of the Guerilla Girls" includes Re:Seeding Gaia and GG posters August 1 through September 21, 2019 114 Third Ave South, Seattle, Washington Public Receptions: Thursday, August 1, 6-9PM& Thursday, September 5, 6-9PM
collagraph Layers of Ancient Texts: mixed media printmaking for a new landscape language Opening today in downtown Seattle, I'm showing 10 prints at Columbia Tower in "Fresh Pressed" WPW Gallery, 701 5th Avenue, Suite 310, Seattle 98104
climate change The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis--intellectual resources Some resources to support Surge and The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis are updated in this post which includes my bibliography/sources, link to a Soundcloud podcast of a museum arts panel discussion on November 17.
Planet Art Texts for Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis Heading photo: installation process with the assistance of Rachel Long. Installation view: The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis, 2018
Planet Art The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis [update] Encased in ice are secrets, minerals: mica, iron, phosphorus fossilized bodies of ferns and microbes, megafauna, mysteries of life, the living planet. We read these as charts, maps and stories to guide us
Planet Art Inspiring and thoughtful Korean moments– Between and Within: A Tenuous Beauty What excited me was a recent series, *Fossilization*, where Koh lays down the texture of stone with its cracks and scraped ridges, then renders the coot or cormorant with a shadow, suggesting the way a fossil might appear.
printmaking Sandow Birk in Seattle at Prographica Gallery There is a terrific exhibition up until Saturday 2.24 at Prographica Gallery in Pioneer Square (same doors as Davidson Gallery on Occidental. Sandow Birk is a Los Angeles artist who works large and small using art historical drawing and printmaking techniques to comment
printmaking Thunder and Lightning Press Fall events In studio workshop: Introduction to digital photograph manipulation for printmaking: chine collé and polyester lithograph applications $65, includes materials; one day October 22, 12:30-3:30pm Alice Dubiel Open Studio,
climate change Survival skills: Climate is Changing Late August 2017 Summer has been dry and hot in the Pacific northwest: we have had 55 consecutive days without rain, and the land is dry. The overly wet springs,
Adding to Archives I spent the greater part of the previous two weeks preparing posts for listings in the calendar of The Feminist Art Project at Rutgers and materials for the Miriam Shapiro Archive. Now they are appearing and soon will be updated with images. What a
Social Justice/Natural Processes: Margaret Sanger and The Book of Shadows The Book of Shadows: social justice/natural processes acrylic, watercolor and mixed media on wood, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 2017 Here is a new work hot off the drafting table featuring Margaret Sanger. It is being offered in Ballard this week, Thursday
*imagine empathy* Disappointed in the cold heart of Seattle’s mayor regarding homeless people, last summer I made a sign “imagine empathy.” There has been much heartache and disappointment since Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray declared a crisis in homelessness in fall 2015. Never in my city
Museum of Northwest Art The Lay of the Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes The Lay of The Land: A Tale of Skagit Marshes, installation view, Museum of Northwest Art, Surge, September 17-25, 2016 acrylic and mixed media on paper, wood, glass, water (from
Current exhibitions and new work I am preparing a new installation from the series, The Lay of the Land for the Surge Festival, Museum of Northwest Art, 121 South First Street, La Conner WA 98257 (360) 466-4446 Saturday, September 17, 2016 - 10:00am to Sunday, September 25, 2016
New work: The Book of Shadows: audi, pontus/ audi, tellus (means "hear o sea, hear o earth") 62 x 91 cm, acrylic mixed media on Hanji with wild herbs/grasses includes images of crinoid fossils The title is from Sequentia's cd, Vox Iberica 2, Codex Las Huelgas This particular piece has a
Another view of The Lay of The Land I'm proposing another project. Here are some images which inform my approach: Watershrine: We All Live in the Watershed 1990, mixed media, 8 x 13 x 5 feet Flowing Salmon Shrine for Carkeek Park, Seattle WA 1997, mixed media installed approx. 12’ x 12’
Thunder and Lightning Press open studio & classes Planet Art is the studio of Alice Dubiel. At Thunder and Lightning Press, a low toxicity studio, Barbara Bruch and Alice create print editions and offer workshops. Our press is a Glen Alps press designed especially for collagraph but etching and relief techniques can
[working title] How we approach perception: MashUP at VAG A vibrant and shifting approach to recent art history, the subtitle of MashUp is The Birth of Modern Culture. While it can be argued that art cultures previous to the 20th C showed disparate collecting tendencies and assembling/arranging of tableau to represent distinct
Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art was on view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum October 31, 2015 through March 13, 2016. Though limited to six of the most prominent contemporary Korean artists working today, it revealed the brave and direct approach to art making I've associated with work in
Arts enshrined and fallowing in DC A recent visit to Washington DC celebrated the last 42 years of honoring women artists, even as increasing property values excised art studios and centers to the Maryland suburbs of our nation's capital. [discussion to follow]
Thunder and Lightning Press: upcoming workshop, open house Current activities at Planet Art and the Press Digital Imaging Basic Portfolio: getting the jump on jpeg! Alice Dubiel offers a workshop for artists April 2 2-4 $45. Planet Art studio. contact: alicedubiel@planetart.us In discussing digital submissions for catalogs, brochures, databases or
fossils 2 exhibitions and a concert: this week on Planet Art The Book of Shadows: trilobites: kootenia burgessensis (a detail of which heads this blog at present) is part of a digital exhibition on display as part of CoCA’s 35th
The Slave Trade was Free Trade in Tacoma It looks as if the words of Frederick Douglass will grace the walls of The Gallery at Tacoma Community College next month. The exhibition, Sugar & Spice, will be the occasion, a group exhibition Feb. 16 - March 18, 2016. I hope to be
Museum of Northwest Art The Lay of the Land: Visualizing Resilience This performance is of a work I'm in the process of creating for the Surge Festival (September 26-27) at the Museum of Northwest Art. Here's a link to the event… http://www.monamuseum.org/event/surge As I mentioned before, it's an aleatoric work
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