Gallery Show

Last year, Jan Harris and Tracie Huskamp organized and invited me to join an art challenge. They named the challenge "Nature Gathered" and each month we had a different nature theme to use as our inspiration. Our pieces are now being displayed at a gallery in Vancouver, WA. I am so pumped!! My first time in a GALLERY!!! Holy Cow --- I can hardly believe its true.

The promo post card

Here is the press release:

FIFTH ANNUAL NATIONAL FIBER ARTS FESTIVAL
A Perennial favorite comes to Sixth Street Gallery

Vancouver, WA, July 22, 2009 — Opening August 5, Sixth Street Gallery presents the Fifth Annual Fiber Arts Festival. Also showing is Nature Gathered, a show of twelve artists from across the country. The show runs August 5 - 30, 2009. Opening reception is during the First Friday artwalk on August 7 from 5 – 9:00pm and coincides with the second annual Art in the Heart Festival.

This year’s Fiber Arts Festival once again shows the vast diversity of the beloved art and craft medium. From weaving to stitching, from wall art to sculpture, from traditional to contemporary, this show has a little bit of everything. Twenty artists from across the country show work that ranges from playful to somber but is always beautiful.

In July 2008, a group of twelve mixed-media artists from across the United States, entered into a year-long art challenge to celebrate their love for all things in nature. Each month, the group chose a different nature-based subject to interpret and create in a variety of mediums, limited only in creating art that fit on, or within, an 8" by 8" canvas. Finished pieces use photography, paint, fabric, metal and fibers to represent the artists' vision of subjects as diverse as birds, seasons and the heavens. Each piece is a unique glimpse into the world of nature. For additional information, please view their blog at http://naturegathered.blogspot.com.

Sixth Street Gallery is an all-volunteer, cooperative gallery located in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Since 2004, Sixth Street has been a venue for performance, spoken word, and visual arts as well as providing art education classes for all ages. For more information, please visit http://www.sixthstreetgallery.com/.

Jan and crew just completed hanging our show -- is it fabulous or what????

The postcard sent by the Gallery for promotion

Huge congratulations to all who participated and a special thank you to Jan and Tracie who made it happen.