French-American artist Philippe Mazaud will be giving a slide presentation, discussing aspects of his work and answering questions on Tuesday, May 5th at 4:00pm at The Evergreen State College. All are welcome to this free event which is courtesy of Artist Trust's Meet the Artist program.

Concentrating on large-format B&W photography for well over a decade, Philippe's work has more recently also involved painting as well as the use of lightboxes and panels. Mazaud is a recent recipient of a Fellowship from Artist Trust.

The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway
Olympia WA
Lecture Hall I

Join artist Robert Yoder, currently showing in Finds Refined, in a workshop focusing on the simplicity of collage.  Create extraordinary images using common magazine clippings and other papers.  Designed for adult artists, teachers, college and high school art students, Clock hours available for teachers.  For info or to register: 360/416-7724 or mary.iverson@skagit.edu.

Skagit Valley College
Hodson Hall, Room 209
Mt Vernon, WA

DASS invites you to view our creative process at an open rehearsal featuring excerpts from our upcoming project Fighting Water. Experience Artistic Director, Daniel Wilkins choreographically and dramatically leading the DASS Dancers in preparation for a work that dives into the emotions of a future where an urgent society driven by convenience leaves clean water only for the few.

Check out our new performing space in Seattle's Central District and celebrate Daniel's birthday by watching him in his element!

Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
104 17th Ave S
Seattle, WA 98144 

Personal Regions: Unusual Places & Stories about People Who Inhabit Them

Center for Arts & History

Lewis-Clark State College 

415 Main Street

Cynthia Toops will review the last 20 years of her jewelry in a 45 minute slide presentation.  She will bring a selection of work for show-and-tell and answer any questions about techniques used in her polymer clay and felt work.

Richmond Beach Public Library
19601 21st Ave NW
Shoreline, WA. 98177

206-546-3522

Composer Byron Au Yong and artist Randy Moss speak about their collaboration Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas Sound~Light Installation currently running at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery through November 21, 2008.

Free Admission.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery
www.jackstraw.org/programs/mediagallery/gallery_current.shtml
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle WA  98105  USA
Phone 1 (206) 634-0919
Email jsp@jackstraw.org

Julie Alexander, a 2006 Artist Trust Fellowship recipient, will present and discuss a selection of her current work. She will show drawings, watercolors, an oil on canvas and a slide show of paintings. Julie's paintings and drawings are organic grids. They are layered accumulations of horizontal and vertical lines which present an embodied approach to landscape.

Bellingham Library
210 Central Avenue
Bellingham, WA 98225

Blake Haygood is an artist, curator and co-director of Platform Gallery and has lived in Seattle since 1992. His current paintings and prints involve machinery parts of undeterminable scale floating in space without a horizon and in constant states of decomposition and regeneration. “I think of my art as a way of telling stories. Referencing a combination of organic and mechanical imagery filtered through my imperfect memory, I've imagined a vocabulary of forms to populate a fictional world and to build a kind of contemporary mythology,” says the artist.

Evergreen State College, Lecture Hall 1
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, Washington 98505

Contact:

Gallery Director, Ann Friedman
Phone: 360/867-5425

Ryan Horvath artist lecture discussing Artist Trust Fellowship and his series: trans-passage.

Eastern Washington University
Art Auditorium
Spokane, WA