Fall Arts Walk Events 2016
Read the complete Arts Walk Program for more information about events >> Read the OLY ARTS Arts Walk Guide here >> F R I D A Y 5:00 pm Hammer of Hathor, Live Music – Olympia Food Co-Op 5:00 pm Lisa Ramsauer, Acoustic …
Read the complete Arts Walk Program for more information about events >> Read the OLY ARTS Arts Walk Guide here >> F R I D A Y 5:00 pm Hammer of Hathor, Live Music – Olympia Food Co-Op 5:00 pm Lisa Ramsauer, Acoustic …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Grey Brogdon has traveled extensively and lived abroad for more than 11 years. He says he finds joy throughout the creative process, from the discovery of found items to the fabrication, casting, building, renovation, painting, drawing and designing of original works. Brogdon majored in art at Oklahoma State University …
by Kelli Samson for OLY ARTS Olympia Family Theater (OFT) is hosting high-quality performance art this Arts Walk. Local artist Martin Lee will be in the lobby. Lee came to Olympia as a student at The Evergreen State College. Fast-forward two-plus decades, and he’s OFT’s resident chalk artist. He produces a piece to decorate the …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Kathy Gore-Fuss was born in Seattle but spent most of her childhood in the Midwest. She returned to Seattle in 1966, then attended the University of Washington and studied at Pratt Fine Arts Center. In 2004, her husband of 23 years died suddenly of a heart attack. After his …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Debra Van Tuinen will be showing new paintings and some older work at Waterstreet Café for Arts Walk. Her prints combine watercolor monotypes and solar etching plates. She’s been exhibited by Oehme Graphics at the Washington D.C., Boston, New York City and Minneapolis Print Fairs; by Goodwin Fine Art …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Nicole Gugliotti completed her MFA from the University of Florida in 2014. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Tim Salen Gallery in St. Petersburg, Florida and The Institute of Ceramic Studies at The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park in Shigaraki, Japan. Curatorial projects include “Think Warm: Miami Draws …
by Ned Hayes for OLY ARTS Harlequin Productions has recently been posting behind-the-scenes updates with the hashtag #BestCrewEver. There’s justification for these humblebrags. In 2016, the backstage crew at Harlequin, headed by technical director Marko Bujeaud, was fortunate to add the very capable Bruce Haasl as assistant technical director. Haasl is an accomplished actor who …
by Alec Clayton for OLY ARTS Evan Clayton Horback grew up in New Jersey and earned a degree in art from State University of New York. Between those two events, he spent years pursuing the monastic life in ashrams in New York and India. He spent 10 years as an arts educator on the East …
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Saint Martin’s University associate professor and dean of English Jamie Olson a Literature Translation Fellowship to support his translations of the works of contemporary Russian poet Timur Kibirov. “This is a highly competitive program,” said Jeff Crane, dean of St. Martin’s College of Arts and Sciences, …
Saint Martin’s University welcomes award-winning Portland, Oregon writer Molly Gloss to its annual Les Bailey Writers Series. She’ll meet with university students in English classrooms to discuss the craft of writing. That evening, in her public presentation, “Romancing the West: Rethinking and Rewriting the Great American Mythos,” Gloss will discuss her longtime passion for Western …