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Joe Rudko's work was featured in Luxe Luxe Interiors and Design magazine.

"Seattle artist Joe Rudko’s studio is filled with pieces of other people’s stories. Located in the SoDo neighborhood above a bakery in a 1910-era building, the space holds thousands of family photographs donated by the boxful by people he knows who have cleaned out an attic or storage space. Some have even been mailed to him by strangers. The images are the raw material for his graphic, colorful works. He jokingly compares himself to a recycling center, noting that he “rarely throws anything away.”

You can read the full review here: https://luxesource.com/joe-rudko-seattle-artist/

Jeffry Mitchell’s work is included “Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years” opening August 20 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University.

“Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years commemorates the museum’s first five decades as seen through the permanent collection. Simple in premise, the museum’s repository of artworks and materials of visual culture are cared for and made accessible for our community’s benefit. This is your collection to enjoy, to study, and to learn from. Without exception, every donation, transfer, and purchase over the museum’s first fifty years was made with the public in mind. The exhibition traces how this significant cultural resource was formed, how it has developed over the decades, and points to nascent but important collecting directions.”

Your Collection: Celebrating 50 Years
August 20 - December 13, 2024
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU
1535 NE Wilson Road
Pullman, WA
99164

For more information visit: https://museum.wsu.edu/exhibit/2024-your-collection-celebrating-50-year…

Iván Carmona and James Lavadour both have work included in Color Outside the Lines, opening August 20 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University.

“An ongoing debate in the field of art history centers around the dominance of form versus color. From ancient Greece to modern times, artists and critics have weighed which element holds greater significance. In his book Chromophobia (2000), artist and writer David Batchelor argues that color is often linked with groups that have traditionally faced discrimination within mainstream society, including women, people of color, and queer communities. This exhibition aims to explore whether such groups can reclaim color as a tool for challenging established norms. 

Color Outside the Lines from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation examines the ways artists have used color to question institutions, beliefs, and expectations. Some of the artists included here celebrate and amplify colors intrinsic to their cultures, showcasing beauty once dismissed or rendered invisible. Artists like Faith Ringgold and Christopher Myers, for instance, create works inspired by African quilts and stories; these pieces emphasize the vivid contrasts in color often prevalent in African textiles.”

Color Outside the Lines
August 20 - December 7, 2024
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU
1855 SW Broadway
Portland, OR 97201

For more information: https://sites.google.com/pdx.edu/jsma-at-psu/color-outside-the-lines?au…

Georgina Reskala is included in a group exhibition featuring the work by 2023-2024 Kala Fellowship artists at Kala Art Institute, July 19, 2024 — September 20, 2024.

"Kala Gallery is excited to present the exhibition Where the Tree Grows featuring new works by 2023-2024 Kala Fellowship and Media Residency artists: Chia Amisola, Alison Chen, Philip Crawford, Amy Elkins, John Yoyogi Fortes, Charles Lee, Shantré Pinkney, Helia Pouyanfar, Georgina Reskala and rhiannon skye tafoya.

Artists in Where the Tree Grows examine their cultural roots, family lineage, and ancestral connections. Through family archives, rituals, and technology, they investigate the transient nature of diasporic passages and migration, illuminating and reclaiming shared and lost narratives. Many search for notions of selfhood, self care and communal healing reflecting on intergenerational trauma and systemic oppression.

Together these projects invite us to revisit our own connections to the communities and technologies that shape and have the potential to empower us. Art is a powerful catalyst to revisit historical, personal and communal narratives and to create further dialogue, community healing, and support for a more equitable future."

For more information: https://www.kala.org/exhibition/where-the-tree-grows/

Gallery Location:
Kala Gallery, 2990 San Pablo, Berkeley, CA 94702
Hours: Tue - Fri: 12-5pm

Marjorie Dial’s work is included in Robert Chapman Turner: Artist, Teacher, Explorer now on view at the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC through September 7, 2024

Robert Turner arrived at Black Mountain in 1949 to establish the first studio pottery program at the College. He worked with student architect Paul Williams to design the Potshop and stayed until 1951 as a teacher and potter. There he formed lifelong friendships and was part of the lively mix of art and ideas. This exhibition includes work by Karen Karnes, Daniel Rhodes, M.C. Richards, Peter Voulkos, Marguerite Wildenhain as well as Turner's students and colleagues at Alfred University, Penland, and contemporary ceramic artists whose work fits within the larger context of Turner’s legacy and impact.

For more information: https://www.blackmountaincollege.org/robert-chapman-turner-artist-teach…

A review for Jenene Nagy's beautiful exhibition "The Weight" at Helzer Gallery was featured in Variable West.

"Jenene Nagy’s exhibition, The Weight, at the Helzer’s Gallery on Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus is a welcome dialogue of artistic concept inextricably connected to a profound commitment to artistic making. The word “weight” is commonly related to the measure of relative mass and implies a burden, but also can suggest importance and a quantifier of depth of concept. Materials inevitably weigh on art, affecting both the physicality and the conceptual underpinnings of work. Nagy’s treatment of her materials acutely carries the weight of this exhibition. "

Read the full review here: https://variablewest.com/2024/07/04/the-weight-of-lightness-jenene-nagy…

Ellen George is a 2024 recipient of the SOLA Award.

Founded in 2016 by Seattle artist Ginny Ruffner and funded by her friends’ generous contributions, the SOLA (Support Old Lady Artist) Awards are five unrestricted awards of $5,000 given annually to Washington State female-identified visual artists, age 60 or over, who have dedicated 25 years or more to creating art. These awards recognize artistic excellence, professional accomplishment, and longstanding dedication to the visual arts.

You can learn more about the award and the recipients here: https://artisttrust.org/2024-th-sola-awards-recipients/

Congratulations, Ellen!

Georgina Reskala will be in conversation with artist Lisa Kokin on Thursday, August 22, 2024, at 11:30am at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, CA. Georgina's work is currently on included in the California Jewish Open on view at the museum through October 20, 2024.

"In this in-gallery talk, artists Lisa Kokin and Georgina Reskala, whose works are featured in the California Jewish Open, discuss their artwork and creative processes. Kokin, known for her fiber-based art and commentary on social justice, and Reskala, whose work deals with ideas of memory, history, and the power of narrative, will explore their artistic practice and how their Jewish heritage influences their art.
Join us to explore how these two artists engage in storytelling through diverse materials and techniques, humor, and empathy."

For more information: https://www.thecjm.org/programs/1359

Jeffry Mitchell's work is included in Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture now on view at the Seattle Art Museum through September 2, 2024.

"Poke in the Eye celebrates the aesthetic practices that emerged across the West Coast in the 1960s and ’70s. Reacting against the sleekness, formality, and coldness of East Coast movements like Pop Art and minimalism, artists on the West Coast—particularly in Seattle and the Bay Area—began creating artwork that was intentionally offbeat. These artists used traditional craft techniques and bold color, centered figuration and narrative, and often employed an irreverent sense of humor. Poke in the Eye draws primarily on SAM’s collection to present an inclusive view of this countercultural style that continues to reverberate today.

Poke in the Eye is the first major exhibition curated entirely for SAM by Carrie Dedon, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Working within the museum’s collection, Dedon brings together compelling examples of these works that together shed fresh light on art movements distinct to the West Coast and its artistic community. Poke in the Eye incorporates works by renowned Northwest artists including Patti Warashina, Fay Jones, and Howard Kottler, whose innovative and playfully garish creations provided the foundations of this alternative movement, as well as more recent artworks by Jeffry Mitchell and Woody De Othello, whose contemporary sculptures have revived a global interest in craft and ceramic art."

For more information visit the Seattle Art Museum website: https://seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/pokeintheeye

Blake Andrews interviews Prudence Roberts about the photographer and curator ,Terry Toedtemeier's, work, approach, and legacy for Oregon Artswatch.

"Terry Toedtemeier (1947-2008) was an Oregon-based photographer and curator. His work is the subject of two shows this spring: Terry Toedtemeier: Photographer at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon (open through August 11th) and Arches (and apertures) at PDX Contemporary Art in Portland (open through June 1st).

Prudence Roberts is a curator, writer, and art historian based in Portland, Oregon. She and Toedtemeier met while working at the Portland Art Museum and married in 1995. Blake Andrews is a photographer based in Eugene."

You can read the full interview here: https://www.orartswatch.org/terry-toedtemeiers-many-forms/