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Arts & Entertainment Northwest Artists Gallery Opens at Seattle Center tions in the region. Northwest Artists Gallery provides a platform for Seattle Center to expand its public programs in the visu- al arts. It is intended to take advantage of the large num- ber of visitors to Seattle Center to highlight the incredible range of visual arts creativity and innova- tion in the Pacific Northwest. Through the pilot project with Columbia City Gallery, Seattle Center Foundation will assess the program’s process and approach. The Special ribbon cutting at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in Seattle Center Armory The new gallery comes three years after the Center touched off a controversy by closing down the North- west Craft Center, which had operated for almost 50 years. Officials say the new gallery space, an initiative of Seattle Center Founda- tion, will display works by emerging and well recog- nized Pacific Northwest artists through partnerships with visual arts organiza- partnership will run through the end of 2014. The gallery is open to the public, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesdays – Sundays, and the artwork is available for purchase. CCG is an artist-run col- lective representing diverse artists creating in a broad spectrum of media and styles including representa- tional and abstract painting, mixed media, sculpture, glass, ceramics, enamel and jewelry. Most of its mem- PHOTO CREDIT LISA LOVING N orthwest Artists Gallery officially opens this week with a special ribbon cutting at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 19, in Seattle Center Armory. The timing of the gallery’s official opening coincides with “Seattle’s Best Damn Happy Hour,” 5 p.m. – 8 p.m., this Thursday. The inaugural exhibit, in partnership with Columbia City Gallery, will feature work by their multiracial community of artists and will serve as a pilot project for future shows. Poetry Reading Northeast Portland poet Harold Johnson reads from his new book of poems, ‘Citizenship,’ Tuesday, June 24 at 7 p.m. at Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway in Portland. Johnson, a native of Yakima, Wash., writes about his childhood, race, love and more. A retired English teacher in the Portland Public Schools, Johnson’s work has appeared in dozens of literary journals and book anthologies. Find out more at www.broadwaybooks.net. bers work and live in South- east Seattle. For more information on NW Artists Gallery, visit www.seattlecenter.org, and for details on the June Happy Hour and the range of summer program offer- ings at Seattle Center, go to www.seattlecenter.com or call 206 684-7200. Take Time to Read. w w w . t h e s k a n n e r . c o m June 18, 2014 The Portland and Seattle Skanner Page 7
