Dear (Contact First Name),

 Camano Arts Association (CAA) represents many talented artists from the vibrant arts community in Camano Island and Stanwood. We hope this newsletter will provide an interesting source of information about our artists and what they are doing and about art events in our area and beyond.

Four CAA artists, Susan Cohen Thompson, Marguerite Goff, Liz Hamlin and Kathy Hastings, will be showing work at Scott Milo Gallery in Anacortes in Between - A Shared Experience, a group exhibition of 10 artists associated with Camano Island. 

Kathy Hastings

 

In 2007, after showing together in the CAA Studio Tour, Kathy Hastings and Marguerite Goff began a conversation about art, life and community. They decided to extend the conversation and a few weeks later   each invited several thoughtful, creative friends to a dinner party.

Marguerite Goff

Many gatherings followed as the ten women, all loosely connected with Camano Island, continued their intermittent dinners and get-togethers. Powerful bonds have been forged inspiring strong work by each of these " L adies of the Island " (as they came to call themselves). Food, laughter and conversation continue as they continue to explore links between process and imagination, between daily living and creating art, between love and loss, between art and community.

Marie-Claire Dole will be showing 4 pastel paintings at the Garden Club in La Conner with Skagit Artists Together during La Conner's Arts Alive weekend (the Nov 6th-8th weekend).  In addition, she will also be showing her new collection of jewelry at the Maple Hall the same weekend.

Dotti Burton will be showing her work at the Tsuga Fine Art & Framing Gallery in the heart of Historic Downtown Bothell, October 27 - November 27th and at the Schack Art Center Holiday Art Exhibit. This is in the Main Gallery, Nov. 19 - Dec 24th.

Global Warming, Dotti Burton

206-714-3647

Matzke Fine Art Gallery and Sculpture Park

presents  

Honey, I Shrunk The Art

 

 

The annual art exhibit, "Honey, I Shrunk the Art," was invented by Karla Matzke and Jack Gunter in 1990 as a holiday-priced collection of great artists working small. All the genius was still captured in these diminutive works of art, but the space required to display it and the price was much smaller. The artists, from Betty Frost, to William Morris, to Hiroshi Yamano and Lino Tagliopietra, Patria Resseguie, Kevin Pettelle, Gerald Tsutakawa, and even works by Jack Gunter and Karla Matzke, themselves, created magical tiny examples of their finest work. Greatness was captured in a 4" x 6" painting or a tabletop maquette. Now in its twenty-fifth year, "Honey, I Shrunk the Art" offers great art by great minds at a shrunken price.

Dangerous Art

Creative Painting Classes

A Brush of Artists?

Art and Healing

"After almost thirty years as an art therapist with a background in nursing, I published a book, The Art of the Inner Journey, about a particular aspect of art as healing using guided imagery, which features the drawings and stories of eleven women and two men whose drawings were of significant help to them in different circumstances of their lives. Most of them were non-artists! The images that came up for them during guided imagery were sometimes a surprise, and working with them a transformational process. This book can be categorized as inspirational or as self-help and can be used by group leaders or individuals."

Christiane Northrop said about her work:

"The power in Margaret's work comes in part from her ability to help participants access information about themselves crucial to their well-being, which is not generally accessible to the intellect. I have witnessed Margaret's work with a group of physicians in which she was able to help participants break through the denial and control which is so much a part of physician training. Her work is gentle compassionate and a very important tool in healing."

Margaret leads art therapy support groups for cancer patients at Merle Cancer Center, Anacortes Skagit Valley Cancer Care Center.

For more information click here: Margaret Carpenter