Images from Thursday night’s walk to document, give some lucky attendees a link to send their friends and, hopefully, inspire you to enjoy the December walk, also. The first images are from Seattle University’s The Spectator photographer Candace Shenkel’s visit to Vermillion. Information on the Vermillion show currently underway, below. The second set of images are courtesy CHS contributor Staton DuBois.
People in Your Neighborhood
November 5 – November 21, 2010
Opening Reception and Party
Friday, November 5, 6-9pm.
The Blitz! Capitol Hill Arts Walk has become a mainstay for artists and venues like ours but we also get a chance to interact daily with plenty of artists who have studios within just a few feet of our front door. 11th Ave alone is home to an underground city block full of music recording studios while the fine artists tend to reside in the upper floors. Endless-seeming twisting and turning hallways lead to relatively non-descript doorways behind which creativity abounds.
We’re dragging illustrators, painters and sculptors out of their studios and into the crisp, fall air for November. Greg Boudreau stencils large subject matter onto reclaimed wood and had a successful run at Grey Gallery and Lounge. Marissa Cole can be found many nights a week at Vermillion sipping a Guinness, working on watercolors. Kevin Furiya calls his work “painterly realism”. Rafael Gallardo is an artist, educator and man of many talents. Jonathan Junker is one-third of Graypants studios and a photographer in his own right. Mark Mueller is a huge Vermillion supporter and a wealth of historic information. We think he’s a little underrated. Mike Regan has been organizing a Tuesday night drawing session at Trapeze studios for years and is curating a selection of what is produced, as well as some of his own work. Rebekah Slavin is a self-proclaimed “painter by daily habit” and is tucked away in the same hallway as Greg Boudreau. Mark VonRosenstiel is a painter and muralist but has started doing sculpture and has invented a very neat “drawing machine”. Cait Willis is well-known in artistic circles as a painter and all around great gal, as well as a co-organizer/curator of Ghost Gallery.
