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

Catch this uniquely crafted performance by public artist and phonographer, Perri Lynch.  RADIUS features live improvisation and raw field recordings to explore  the beats, harmonies, rhythms, and tones of sustainable practice.  Drawing inspiration from the ten principles of One Planet Communities, sounds are reduced, reused, repaired and recycled, framing new perspectives on  built environments and the natural world in a global context.

Bertha Knight Landes Room
Seattle City Hall
600 Fourth Ave.
Seattle, WA

Theatre designer Carey Wong will present a public slide lecture entitled "Visions in the Dark."  His talk will feature visuals from recently designed sets, as well as a sampling of three-dimensional scale models showing the development of these designs.  Mr.

Bellingham Public Library
Central Branch
210 Central Avenue
Bellingham, Washington

The Balkan region (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Serbia and Croatia) holds a rich tapestry of cultures and religions.  It is a place where ancients tread and left buried archeological treasures behind.  It is a place where East meets West; where people express their joys, sorrows, longings and loves through music; where daily lives were embroidered with life cycle and seasonal rituals; where people lived close to the land and women sang throughout the day to lighten their heavy work load.

Centrum at Fort Warden in Port Townsend

Gallery walk through. The artist will talk about an installation based on audio, video, and drawings gathered during travel in Thailand and Laos in February 2005.

Spokane Falls Community College Art Gallery Fine Arts
Building, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. - MS 3011 - Spokane, WA
99224-5288
For information call (509) 533-3035

Seattle poets Rebecca Hoogs and Catherine Wing read their work.

Rebecca Hoogs, an Artist Trust Fellowship recipient, has had poems appear in journals including Poetry, Filter, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, The Journal, and others. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony. A chapbook of poetry, Grenade, was published by GreenTower Press in 2005. Rebecca lives in Seattle where she is the Director of Education for Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Room 154 of the Chan Shun Pavillion, Walla Walla College. 100 S.W. 4th Street, College Place, WA