The Fall/Winter print edition of Oly Arts magazine is published! Copies of the printed version are available free of charge throughout the area – find out where you can pick up a copy and see a list of articles in this issue.
It’s improbable — or maybe even downright impossible — that anyone could take in the abundance of plays, performances and exhibitions happening in Olympia and environs. That’s an excellent problem to have, as far as the Arts Aficionado is concerned, but if you’d like help narrowing down the options, Molly Gilmore is at your service.
Since her youth, local artist Kaia Selene has been driven to make art. Creativity has helped her to survive. In this Art Walk show at Lantern Records, there will be an array of wall art, miniature art, wearables, plus tea and treats. Selene has appeared as various personas and will be making her grand solo debut performance at this show as Miss Pink Pearls.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #14 — September 30, 2026
Downtown’s the Place for Arts Walk and ‘Our Town’
— Cover artist finds the bright spots
— McClure’s latest honors Northwest ‘Home’
— Harlequin stages Wilder classic
“The Detention Lottery,” a one night only Saturday, Oct. 3 production at First United Methodist Church of Olympia, begins with ICE agents “arresting” people right out of the audience. Written by Margaret O’Donnell of Seattle, a retired immigration attorney, this Olympia production is a fundraiser for local nonprofits that work with immigrant families.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #13 — September 23, 2026
Salute Dolly, see fresh-baked theater and dance for a cause
— Goodbye, Dolly
— Plays made in a day
— Funk for Freedom
The art shared in the show “From Hwagae Market to Pike Place Market” at South Sound Community College through October 16 is from fourteen artists selected from the Korean American Artists Association of Washington, which makes for a very mixed response to the theme aesthetically, with styles ranging from surreal painterly studies, still life and folk art in style, to collage, wire work, and installations.
Many area residents and visitors have loved participating in the South Sound Studio Tour, seeing local artists’ creations up close and personal, talking with the artists about their art, and in many instances watching the magic of turning blank sheets of paper or canvas, hunks of clay or found materials into works of art. Now the Studio Tour is looking for volunteers to serve on the board, specifically, to fill the Outreach Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator roles.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #12 — September 16, 2026
Grand Stories, Van Tuinen Retrospective and Last Chance for ‘Kiss’
— StoryOly Grand Slam
— 57 years of art
— ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’
Audio artist Rob Patrick, long-time program director of the Olympia Film Society, has been awarded a fellowship by the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts). It has enabled Patrick to complete an experimental audio documentary. If Your Heart Hurts, Rub a Little Dirt On It: MGM and the Beginning of Everything is a free-form sound portrait of movie-making in the Hollywood studios during the 1930’s, and of some of the women who became stars during that decade.
The Fall/Winter print edition of Oly Arts magazine is published! Copies of the printed version are available free of charge throughout the area – find out where you can pick up a copy and see a list of articles in this issue.
It’s improbable — or maybe even downright impossible — that anyone could take in the abundance of plays, performances and exhibitions happening in Olympia and environs. That’s an excellent problem to have, as far as the Arts Aficionado is concerned, but if you’d like help narrowing down the options, Molly Gilmore is at your service.
Since her youth, local artist Kaia Selene has been driven to make art. Creativity has helped her to survive. In this Art Walk show at Lantern Records, there will be an array of wall art, miniature art, wearables, plus tea and treats. Selene has appeared as various personas and will be making her grand solo debut performance at this show as Miss Pink Pearls.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #14 — September 30, 2026
“The Detention Lottery,” a one night only Saturday, Oct. 3 production at First United Methodist Church of Olympia, begins with ICE agents “arresting” people right out of the audience. Written by Margaret O’Donnell of Seattle, a retired immigration attorney, this Olympia production is a fundraiser for local nonprofits that work with immigrant families.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #13 — September 23, 2026
The art shared in the show “From Hwagae Market to Pike Place Market” at South Sound Community College through October 16 is from fourteen artists selected from the Korean American Artists Association of Washington, which makes for a very mixed response to the theme aesthetically, with styles ranging from surreal painterly studies, still life and folk art in style, to collage, wire work, and installations.
Many area residents and visitors have loved participating in the South Sound Studio Tour, seeing local artists’ creations up close and personal, talking with the artists about their art, and in many instances watching the magic of turning blank sheets of paper or canvas, hunks of clay or found materials into works of art. Now the Studio Tour is looking for volunteers to serve on the board, specifically, to fill the Outreach Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator roles.
Molly Gilmore “Arts Aficionado” #12 — September 16, 2026
Audio artist Rob Patrick, long-time program director of the Olympia Film Society, has been awarded a fellowship by the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts). It has enabled Patrick to complete an experimental audio documentary. If Your Heart Hurts, Rub a Little Dirt On It: MGM and the Beginning of Everything is a free-form sound portrait of movie-making in the Hollywood studios during the 1930’s, and of some of the women who became stars during that decade.