ArtSpring! 2010 Registration Now Available!

Comments Off Monday, 11th January 2010 at 5:10pm

ArtSpring! 2010: Pigments of your Imagination, to be held at Seattle Center on May 4th and 5th, is gearing up to be our best yet!  Save the Date postcards, announcing this year’s theme and dates have been mailed to all Puget Sound area schools – and the Registration Form is now available for download:  ArtSpring10Reg.  Completed Registration forms may be emailed to artspring@vsaaw.org or mailed to the Main Office (see form for address.)

This year’s theme, “Pigments of Your Imagination” encourages students to imagine their own world, populated by people and animals of their own creation, and built from color, texture, sound, and movement.  Read More

No Boundaries Exhibit Showing in Seattle

Comments Off Monday, 7th December 2009 at 4:33pm

The 2009/10 No Boundaries Traveling Art Exhibit, “Transcendence“, opened in its second tour venue on December 10, 2009, at a location on Capitol Hill in Seattle.  An Opening Reception was held on that evening - attendance was lively and artists and patrons mixed in high spiritis.   The No Boundaries Exhibit will be on view to the public at this venue through January, 2010.  Please contact the gallery to schedule a viewing.

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Award Winners Announced

1 Comment Thursday, 3rd December 2009 at 1:18am
"Bristlecone Pine Tree", Cover Art Award

"Bristlecone Pine Tree", by Jessica Thompson, Cover Art Award

Creative Activities and VSA arts of WA celebrated the winning artists in the 2009/10 No Boundaries Exhibit, “Transcendence” at a Reception and Awards Ceremony at the Harrison Street Gallery in the Seattle Center House, on Thursday, November 19th.  Guests included two of the judges and many of the artists and their families.

Good food and soft classical music set a background for viewing the amazing entries in this year’s show, hanging in the Center House’s Harrison Street Gallery until November 23rd, before moving on to another venue on Capitol Hill in Seattle. This juried show produced 4 award winners and 3 honorable mentions.  Works in several different visual arts media were showcased.

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Director's Notes

Director's Notes

I caught a glimpse, yesterday, of an amazing program hiding under a bushel in Bellevue.  Luckily, if plans come to fruition, their light is about to come out shining bright.  I got a chance to spend an hour with James McClain, Administrator/Artistic Director of the Bellevue Youth Theatre (BYT) – and that’s all it took to see what a successful model of an inclusive arts community looks like.  Read More

BYT Fundraiser

The Bellevue Youth Theatre (BYT) is holding their Annual Benefit, East Side Story, on Saturday, February 6, 2010, at the Westin Bellevue. (See the entry in my Director’s Notes Blog for info on my recent visit with them!)  Event proceeds will support the BYT and the Building for Youth Capital Campaign for the development of a new home for the BYT.  Read More

Ida’s Fund

Ida Flagler Daly was the Founder of Creative Activities

Ida Flagler Daly was the Founder of Creative Activities

The Ida Flagler Daly Fund for Artists with Disabilities provides individual and organizational resource awards designed to overcome barriers to successfully participating in art – as an artist or a patron.   Read More

No Boundaries

Bristlecone Pine Tree

Bristlecone Pine Tree Jessica Thompson

No Boundaries’ 2009/10 Travelling Exhibit, “Transcendence”

Creative Activities/VSA arts of Washington is pleased to announce the opening of the No Boundaries 2009-2010 Touring Arts Exhibit: Transcendence.     No Boundaries 2009/10 Tour Schedule

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