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-
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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.
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