2015 TRICITY ARTISTS OPEN STUDIO TOUR
FACT SHEET
Date:
November 14 & 15, 2015
Time:
11 a.m. – 5 p.m. each day
Location: 11 Studios throughout the Tri-Cities area.
*The public is invited to the twelfth annual Tri-City Artists Open Studio
Tour, Saturday & Sunday, November 14 & 15, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
*The event features 11 artists in their respective studios, showcasing their
work. Artists include:
-Linda Andrews works in fused glass and bronze, creating items from
sculpture to wall pieces to jewelry…from functional to “beautiful to
behold”. Her national award winning work has been shown and collected
internationally for almost 3 decades. Fine “threads” of glass are the
component of almost everything she makes. Some pieces are made
entirely of these threads, while others use them as design components. A
visit to her beautiful Red Mountain studio is truly a treat…and there is a
lot to see!
-Philip Harding is an artist with degrees in Architecture and Art
History. He draws on this background as he creates abstract drawings,
paintings and prints that incorporate a combination of organic and
geometric patterns in space. Most recently he has been experimenting
with new techniques to permit fine drafting with colored pencils to be
used with acrylic paints on specially prepared canvases. He has also
been working with thin LED lights to back light translucent prints thus
creating effects normally associated with computer screens. Philip will
have several prototypes on display at the tour.
-Kathryn Kaye is a contemporary abstract artist, currently working with
acrylic collage on canvas. Most paintings represent a landscape. The
observer often finds an image they will connect with, or the image will
remind them of an experience they had. She does not plan her paintings;
they seem to emerge as the work progresses. The papers are hand-made,
and purchased from various countries, including Japan, Taiwan, and
China. They are dyed with acrylic, ink, or watercolor paint, and the
papers are attached to the canvas with gloss medium, creating a hard,
glossy surface. Kathryn will also exhibit a few floral and encaustic
paintings. She enjoys using a variety of materials.
-Consuelo Soto Murphy works in acrylic with a colorful palette and an
expressive style. Her subjects range from Agricultural landscapes to
local landmarks, like the Zillah Teapot Gas Station and Multnomah
Falls. Consuelo shows throughout Washington and sells internationally.
She was Washington Association of Bilingual Educators Artist of the Year
for 2015.
-Jan Nilsson works from diverse art training and deep roots in textiles.
She has been concentrating on painting for about 10 years. From her
studio above the Yakima River, her ink paintings are enhanced by the
moody chemistry of the serendipitous dance of water and ink. The torn
letters, fabric scraps or cancelled checks that make it into Jan’s painted
mixed media constructions reflect past memories or historical scenarios.
-April Ottey is a jewelry artist who works with objects from the natural
world as well as metals. She started her career as a photographer but
was drawn to the tactile nature of metalsmithing. With metalsmithing
she is able to create work that combines textures, shapes and layers
along with river rocks and other found objects. She focuses on the
process of change as natural and manmade objects coalesce. She works
out of her studio and teaches metalsmithing classes as well. Her work
has been exhibited throughout the Northwest.
-Kasia Gorski Schmoll has been painting for a number of years, but
recently discovered oil painting and it is her medium of choice these
days. Although she doesn’t limit herself to it, she prefers landscape
work. In simple terms, she enjoys bringing the outdoors inside and
wants to share that with her viewers.
-Katherine Sylvan will be offering her dyed and surface-designed silks
in apparel, various styles of silk scarves, and smaller stocking-stuffer
items such as lavender sachets, necklaces made from vintage kimono
fragments, and note cards. Also for sale will be award-winning
interlacement silk wall hangings reflecting the themes of aerial views of
agriculture in Eastern Washington and the Midwest.
-Suzi Vitulli is an award winning and published watercolorist whose
style is expressionistic and impressionistic with a feminine touch, but
she’s working on it. She says she is captivated by the watercolor’s bright
colors, movement, textures, and transparency. Her goal is to bring people
into her paintings, let them look around and feel something wonderful
and hopefully stay awhile.
-Chris Walling began her watercolor career by taking watercolor classes
in Richland Community School. She’s also taken workshops from Don
Getz, Betty Carr, Jan Kunz, Carl Dalio, Carla O’Conner, Donna Watson,
Stan Miller and others. From her “home” in watercolor, she’s moving into
mixed media, where she can express her vision more richly. She’s
recently branched out even further with her “Art Reimagined” series,
where a new artwork is created using part of an old painting as its base.
Part of the challenge of Art Reimagined is that the new work grows out of
what new shapes and forms she sees in the old work—and she never
knows where the painting is going to take her. Her Tri-Cities series of
prints consists of six or more prints of Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland.
They have been popular in the Tri-City area.
-David Wyatt returns to the tour with more award-winning aerial
photography at the Richland Airport hangar. Tri-ART for Giving honored
David with a Juror’s Choice for his aerial Cable Bridge Sepia and a
People’s Choice award for a dramatic aerial landscape of Wallula Gap.
Another new piece - Ancient Flood Rhythmites - was selected for the
Allied Arts annual juried show. Wyatt’s aerial work is in new shows at
the Hanford REACH Interpretive Center and the Washington State
Convention Center.
These local artists have their work displayed throughout the country, as
well as internationally. The tour provides the opportunity for the
community to see and meet the artists personally.
For more information or a tour map visit their website at
www.TriCityArtistsOpenStudioTour.org. There is no charge for the tour.
For more information call 554-0148.