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Blue Heron Gallery
Gallery Opening
Friday, Feb 3, 6 pm
Music by Richard Person and Jim Hobson
Vashon Allied Arts hosts a trio of artists
VAA’s February Gallery exhibition will showcase works of
three regional artists, from intricate feather basketry and
larger than life oil still lifes to vibrant, textural abstracts.
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Jewelry trunk show at VAA
Sunday, Feb 5, 1 to 4 pm
Blue Heron Gallery
Complimentary champagne and chocolate
Shop guilt free gemstones this weekend
Just in time for Valentine’s Day give a gift with heart from
Vashon-based Zavida Gemstones-rings, bracelets, earrings,
necklaces and pendants in silver and gold with precious stones
and natural gemstones-during a one day trunk show 1 to 4 p.m.,
Sunday, Jan. 5, at Blue Heron Gallery. Offering handmade jewelry
from around the world, Zavida’s socially conscious philosophy
(all about giving back) developed by Lee Gelb and Shelley
Milano, combine their strong corporate backgrounds with art and
philanthropy.
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Tangletown Trio
Saturday, Feb 11, 7:30 pm
Vashon Allied Arts
Tickets: $15/$18, VAA, Vashon Bookshop, Heron’s Nest and
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Includes complimentary champagne & dessert
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Panache
Classically-trained,
mezzo-soprano/composer Sarah Mattox, violinist/violist Jo
Nardolillo and pianist Judith Cohen comprise Seattle’s
Tangletown Trio. The all-women trio will perform a
Valentine’s concert for VAA’s Panache Jazz Series with songs
of George and Ira Gershwin (“Embraceable You”), Cole Porter
(“Who Said Gay Paree?”), Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer
(“Moon River”) and Irving Gordon (Nat King Cole’s famous
“Unforgettable”).
Bring your friend, your lover or yourself, and don’t miss
this evening of beautiful music and women, champagne and
chocolate.
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VAA 2011-2012 Arts & Humanities Series
VAA's Arts & Humanities Series, a five-event Sunday 7 pm series,
takes place at Blue Heron Art Center, Nov-March. The Series is
designed to spark the imagination and enhance understanding and
appreciation of our cultural landscape. Series tickets, $75 VAA
members and seniors, $85 general, will be available soon for the
upcoming Series. This program is organized by Islanders Gerry and
Mike Feinstein and is sponsored by Humanities Washington.
Dates for 2011-12 are: Jan.
8, Kesler Woodward & Paul Bannick, The Nature of Seeing; Feb. 12,
Heather MHugh, The Art of Numbers; March 4, Robert Ebendorf, Jewelry
Art: Lost and Found; March 18, Linda Hartzell & Kurt Beattie, Live
Theatre, Cultural Forces that Shape it. In addition, Art Historian Rebecca Albiani
will offer a Tuesday morning lecture series at 11:30 am, Oct. 25
and Nov. 8.
Gauguin-Art & Myth
Tuesday, Jan 17, 11:30 am
Blue Heron Art Center
Tickets: $14/$17 Blue Heron,
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Art History Talks Encore!
Thanks to overwhelming support by Island art patrons for Art
Historian Rebecca Albiani’s Mini-Series presentations, VAA added
an encore January Art History Talks event centered on late 19th
Century painter Paul Gauguin. The talk ties into Seattle Art
Museum’s Gauguin exhibition, which opens Feb. 9.
Albiani, in her charmingly irreverent approach to art history,
admits that Gauguin is not her favorite artist personality. “A
man who left his Danish wife and five children to do his
tortured artist thing, he was really quite a despicable
character,” she says. “His art however was important in the
Symbolism movement as he moved away from visual impressionism
and more into myth, poetry and dream. In a way, he invented the
myth of the artist seeking paradise.”
Albiani will show Gauguin’s work before and after Tahiti and
share more about his artistic influences as well as juicy
tidbits about his colorful life.
