Art Kites by Pat Moriarity, Alfredo Arreguin and Cappy Thompson

  

ART TAKES FLIGHT!
An Artist Trust Celebration in Mighty Tieton
Saturday, June 16, 2007
VIEW KITES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE OR VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT!

On June 16, 2007, Art Took Flight! This unique collaboration between Artist Trust, the Drachen Foundation and Mighty Tieton brought together over 300 artists and art lovers from Eastern and Western Washington in the beautiful Yakima Valley town of Tieton. It was an art-filled day with many highlights including:

• Art Installations and exhibits by Diego Samper, Susan Robb, PUNCH Gallery, Trimpin and Hector Acebes;
• Kite-making demonstrations by intrepid team from Drachen Foundation;
• Unique poster printing in the book arts studio by Carla Schultz and book-binding demonstrations by the Marquand Books team;
• An Artist Trust Artists’ Moving Forward: Resources for Artists Workshop;
• A truly unique improvisational musical composition with Trimpin, Paul Rucker and Libby Kopcynski.

The risk to put art in the sky paid off for Artist Trust. With ticket sales, art sales and generous pledges from the audience, we exceeded our expectations! But more than that we were able to promote Artist Trust's artists and services to the arts community in Eastern Washington. The benefits of this will continue to reverberate as we share our mission and values of supporting art at its source to the entire state of Washington!

More on Art Takes Flight...

Tieton: Art Takes Flight is a unique collaboration between Artist Trust, Drachen Foundation and the Mighty Tieton to support the artists of Eastern and Central Washington and all Washington State with a not-to-be-missed summer event. Highlights include 60 custom-made art kites designed by noted Washington artists such as Julie Speidel, Harold Balazs, Fay Jones, Ronald Tan and Jim Woodring, to name but a few, as well as an aural sculpture by renowned artist Trimpin.

Co-presenters included Drachen Foundation and Mighty Tieton.  Artist Trust also welcomed our newest sponsor for lights and sound, The Capitol Theatre!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
please note this event is family friendly, kids 12 and under are free!

12pm–4pm: Public Events - FREE  
Tour of Mighty Tieton
Art installation by Diego Samper
Exhibition of photographs by Hector Acebes 
Book Art demonstrations by Carla Schultz
Exhibit of  work by Claudia Cohen
Letterpress Exhibition
Moving Forward: Resources for Artists Workshop 
Tour of local collectors, the Wyles', folk art collection
Kite-flying demonstrations 

4pm–9pm: Art Takes Flight - $75/person or $750/table of 10 
Dinner and hosted beverages 
Trimpin plays his "Fire Organ" with sopranist Libby Kopczynski
Musical Entertainment
Silent "Dutch" auction of original artist work on custom made art kites by 33 artists 

Silent "Dutch" auction of 60 kites 
4-7pm: purchase any kite for $1,500
7-8pm: purchase any remaining kite for $1,000
8-9pm: purchase the remaining kites for $750

How the "Dutch" auction works:
• Use your pencil to write your name on the bid form next to the kite you want. FIRST BIDDER WINS THE PIECE!
• The price will go down as the night continues, reducing your chances of winning.
• Proceed to pick up and pay for your work.

DIRECTIONS AND SUGGESTED ACCOMMODATIONS!
and be sure to take advantage of our discount rate of $89 at the
Oxford Suites in Yakima.  Just mention Artist Trust.

Contributing Artists, preview of Art Kites online May 20:
Leo Adams - Alfredo Arreguin - Harold Balazs - Marsha Burns -
Eduardo Calderón - Joan CawleyCrane - Jaq Chartier - Diem Chau -
Cat Clifford - Brian Fisher - Justin Gibbens - Kate Greiner - Stefan Gruber -
Blake Haygood - Steve Jensen - Fay Jones - Kim Kopp - Rich Lehl -
Pat Moriarity - Allan Packer - Dorothy Rissman - Diego Samper - Norie Sato -
Catherine Skinner - Julie Speidel - Donna Stack - Roland Tan -
Cappy Thompson - Trimpin - Dan Webb - Randy Wood - Jim Woodring - Claude Zervas

Sincere thanks to our co-chairs Sharon Campbell and Ed Marquand for their terrific ideas and enthusiastic support as well as Ali Fujino, Scott Skinner and Renea Wilson at the Drachen Foundation for their hard work and vision.

Make it an arts-filled weekend!

• Eduardo Calderón presents Faces of Tradition: Portraits of Mexican Artists in the Yakima Valley at the Yakima Valley Museum.
• Sunday June 17th at noon, an unveiling and dedication of "Abundance" built by Michael and Chad Gray at the corner of Second Street and Yakima Ave. Funding for this project was made possible by Artist Trust and the Yakima Giving Circle.