Join us Saturday, July 11th from 2pm to 3pm for an Artist Conversation with Susan Christian and friends, a relaxed afternoon discussion in the gallery surrounding the current exhibition Slow Work. FREE to attend Childhood’s End Gallery 222 4th Ave W Olympia, WA 98501 childhoods-end-gallery.com info@childhoods-end-gallery.com *Seating is limited
Susan Christian has lived in Olympia for 54 years and she has been central to the arts community here. Irritated that there were few places for artists to show art, in 2011 she started Salon Refu Gallery downtown. There she showed many local artists, held poetry readings, book readings, and artist talks. It was a joyous hub of the local arts community. Speaking of her own work, Christian says she very intentionally doesn’t paint pictures of things, nor suggestions of things either. She describes her work as someone “touching the surface.” She points out that art needs to be visible and, not one for complacency, she was “not going to let people go to sleep.”