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MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 27, 2021
Gothard Sisters releasing ‘Dragonfly’ June 4
June 4 is a new album release from the Gothard Sisters (available for pre-order right now).
Dragonfly covers themes of resilience and adventure. The Edmonds sisters Greta, Willow and Solana set out to create this album with the vision of hope and optimism The 12 new songs touch on themes of reconnecting with inner strength, courage and resilience.
This album combines fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar, djembe, bodhran, whistles and vocal harmonies with modern recording techniques and production. Songs include themes such a searching for wisdom in
Wise One, the joy of adventure in
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 8, 2021
Drie Chapek
Edmonds artist Drie Chapek has a new gallery showing at The Greg Kucera Gallery in Pioneer Square. The must-see show “Churning” will be on display until May 29. The gallery is open Tuesday-Saturday 10:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. No appointments are necessary and I highly recommend making the trip to Seattle to see this impressive collection.
Drie Chapek’s current show “Churning.”
You might have seen Drie’s work around town before. Her paintings have been shown at Walnut Street Coffee, House Wares and the Edmonds Arts Festival.
I had the wonderful opportunity to connect with Drie recently to understand the complex and beautiful paintings on display. I learned that she uses the process of painting “to witness and appreciate the variance and similarities between natural and human made things.” Drie shared, “The practice is done in an attempt to hold space in me for the knowing of humanity, its relationship to the na
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 6, 2021
Melissa Chittenden
The Board of Directors of Cascadia Art Museum has appointed Melissa Chittenden as the organization’s new executive director.
She replaces Leigh Ann Gilmer, who left the museum to take another job.
Born and raised in the Seattle area, Chittenden comes to Cascadia Art Museum with over two decades of administrative and educational leadership at University Child Development School in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. She has also worked as an international leadership and educational consultant, specializing in building and growing organizations.
She not only managed day to day operations of the $13 million non-profit, her work also encompassed marketing, strategic planning, budgeting, curriculum development, board collaborations, capital campaigns and managing multiple construction projects. Many educators and staff team members regarded her as a creative leader and mentor. Chittenden earned a master’s degree in non
PHOTOGRAPHY MAY BE AT THE PERPETUAL MERCY of scalar adjustment, but
Apprehension is among those images whose intensity remains constant no matter where it is seen. Its central feature is the magnified face of a young Asian man who grasps a telephone receiver as he might a cudgel. Deep furrows are etched into his forehead, and a lock of hair falls across his face. Two errant hairs extending beyond his eye read like fracture lines portending some future dissolution or rupture. Illuminated from an unseen source below, the man’s face is a terrain of shadow and light. His flesh becomes a histrionic play of rose and gold that recalls both the lurid eroticism of midcentury pulp illustration and the imbrication of Baroque religious painting with secular drama.