Join us throughout the summer for demonstrations that bring customers and artists together. Come meet your favorite artists and watch the evolution of creativity as art happens before your eyes.

SCHEDULE

July 2 - 11am-2pm LEON LOWMAN

July 16th - 11am-2pm MANDY MAIN

July 26th - 11am-2pm WENDY GIVENS

July 26th LORI LATHAM

July 26th - 11am-3pm THERESA ANDREAS-O’LEARY

Aug 2nd - 11am- 2pm BRENDA BOYLAN

My approach to creativity stems from an investigational curiosity.  I embrace my art making like a child without boundaries, while pushing and pulling color with theoretical playfulness. The joy of stretching rules allows new ideas to flourish while color, composition, and intention are held tight. My process allows immense freedom while artistic principles hold me in line. What if?  Why not? How fun!

August 5th - 11am-2pm MARIE WETZEL

Marie is an artist whose love of the diverse natural environment of the Pacific Northwest greatly inspires and influences her ceramic work. Wild salmon, birds, trees, and mountains are common motifs used on her functional pottery for everyday use and on decorative Raku pottery.

Marie will demonstrate how she underglazes these iconic designs on unfired clay vessels.

August 20 - 11am-2pm LEON LOWMAN

Leon Lowman’s art resonates with the excitement he feels about life. Influenced by the bold outdoors of the Pacific Northwest and the bright tropical colors of his youth, his vibrant compositions show the contrast of strong sunlight, open spaces, the freedom of ocean breezes and the joyous and spirited island lifestyle of the Caribbean.

Leon finds great satisfaction in the challenge of creating abstract compositions that make sense to his artist’s eye. Painting allows him the freedom to borrow from his past, experiment in a meaningful context, and paint in a way that reflects the way he feels about the world today.

August 23rd CARRIE KAUFMAN

Not unlike a patchwork quilt, my work is constructed of small forms that build on each other to become a complex image.

It’s easy to take life too seriously. Creating mixed media collage brings balance to my life and whimsy to my world. I love color and texture, and I strive to make the walls of our everyday lives sing with pleasure and delight.

August 27th SHIRLEY SAKATANI

Shirley Sakatani’s paintings are highlighted with bold strokes and many layers. A graduate of California State University with a bachelor’s degree in fine art, Shirley has been funneling life’s twists and turns into her art, using her love for colors, movement and composition to create large paintings of florals, abstract koi, and scenes from her unique Southern California childhood and her parents time in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps during WWII.