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Ellen Corke

Visual Arts: Jewelry

Ellen's style is rather eclectic which gives her the freedom to choose beads and findings that are unusual but pair well together ending up in a variety of styles. She likes to work mostly with silver and bronze metal clay. This gives her the opportunity to create her own clasps and embellishments. It also gives Ellen the opportunity to utilize all the natural stones and materials found in nature around her home on Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island. This includes seaside pebbles, oyster shells, and other seascape forms which she uses to create her silver metal clay pieces and incorporate these natural found treasures into her designs. Ellen forms her own molds for some of the metal clay pieces such as her silver oyster shells and textures. She forms some of her necklaces and bracelets fusing fine silver and incorporate metal clay clasps and various types of gems, freshwater pearls, and crystals.

Karen Cornell

Visual Arts: Painting, Printmaking

Karen Cornell is a painter and printmaker who has lived and worked in the Seattle area since 2004. She received her MFA in Painting from California College of the Arts. Her work is comprised of paintings on paper, panel and monotype collage. Distinct processes — some spontaneous and quick, others meditative and slow — complement one another and result in a varied body of work. Color is key to her work and her means of entering each piece. Movement and connection is found through the painting process and between pieces. The paintings and monotype collages use quilt-like modular arrangements and compositional space as the common thread between processes. Nature has always influenced her work. When living in urban areas she sought out sacred places in nature to nurture her soul and artwork. Living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the natural world--water, trees, plants, and the distinct seasons--have shown up in her work, abstracted, like a concentrated seed of some deeper consciousness ready to break through. karenjcornell.com

KeKe Cribbs

Reverse fired vitreous enamels on glass and glass mosaics

KeKe Cribbs was born in Colorado in 1951. She lived in Ireland, France, Corsica and New Mexico before making her home on Whidbey Island after attending Pilchuck Glass School in 1984. She has since taught at Pilchuck Glass School and the Penland School of Crafts, and in 1986 she started a Glass program at the Swain School of Design which later became SMU in South Dartmouth, MA. She has also taught workshops at TIGA in Toyama, Japan, and was invited to participate in the Stourbridge Glass Festival in 2019. KeKe is a glass artist known for reverse painting vitreous enamels on glass and glass mosaics; she uses other complimentary materials including ceramics, metal and fibers in her mixed media artworks which may be two or three dimensional. Some of the sculptures include a series of glass mosaic Boats with glass sails, and also standing figures. The wall pieces are often narrative with mythical and fairytale like images, but some of the newer work has a more abstracted, meditative and mandala like quality as she explores the relationship of light reflection within a given space. Her work had been collected internationally and includes the Sheldon and Myrna Paley Glass Pavilion, Lowe Museum, Miami, FL, the Corning Glass Museum, NY, the L.A. County Museum, CA, the Racine Art Museum, WI, the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, and the Tacoma Art Museum and Tacoma Glass Museum, WA., the L.A. County Museum, CA, the Racine Art Museum, WI, and the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan.

Ethan Currier

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Ethan Currier is a self taught artist and sculptor who has been creating sculptures out of stone since 2001. After spending his childhood and young adult years living on boats and traveling around the world Ethan learned early on to work with his hands using basic materials to create out of necessity; an ability which has since informed his art. In 2008 Ethan began spending time in the Pacific Northwest and it wasn’t long before he made the decision to relocate his studio and his life to Bainbridge Island, WA. Since then he has further developed his studio and made a name for himself as a local artist with projects such as the Stone Sculpture Garden at Winslow Wharf and a public art installation created in 2013 on Blakely Rock which was visible to ferry commuters and Puget Sound boaters. In addition to having sculptures in private collections and public spaces throughout Bainbridge Island Ethan now has placed sculpture in collections in more than twenty states and seven countries. Ethan’s most recent venture is the creation of Small World Art Gallery in downtown Winslow, opening in February of 2019.

Matthew X Curry

Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Sculpture

Matthew X Curry studied at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture in NYC. His architectural training informs all areas of his 20+ year, multi-faceted career including architectural interiors, furniture design as well as fine art, sculpture and more recently award winning woodworking. Matthew has had the fortune to have worked in design of high end residential and corporate offices, yacht interiors, celebrity offices, restaurants, night clubs and more. His work has been exhibited on both coasts, several galleries, The Bainbridge Museum of Art and appeared on HGTV.

Deanna Dusbabek

Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Mixed Media, Photography

Artist, Storyteller & Photographer Fine Art Collage, Watercolor Photographs, Fine Art Florals, Portraits & Lifestyle Line I craft compelling, poetic and authentic visuals across mixed media and photography. For Fine Art For Portraits & Branding For Lifestyle Line Shop

Nancy Filsinger

Visual Arts: Illustration, Mixed Media, Painting

In 2010, Nancy enrolled in the first sketching and plein-air oil painting classes of her life. She believes that she is living proof that artists are not all charmed creatures who hatch from magic eggs, instantly able to create all manner of masterpieces. Instead, art is a path that any mere mortal might endeavor to take, understanding that some stages may be easier to maneuver and master and there will be many highs and lows along the way. The gateway to this enchanted place is open for all to enter at whatever level of skill or stage of learning. Come along with Nancy and share her journey. May it inspire you to jump headlong into an adventure of learning all your own, fearless and free.

Charles Fitzgerald

Visual Arts: Sculpture

"My work demonstrates a diversified approach in both materials and concepts. I create sculptures using wood, synthetic concrete and stainless steel. I have also completed several commissions where a specific theme was required. I often observe small forms like insects, birds or berries and transform them into large scale sculptures." - Charles Fitzgerald Strawberry (Something New VI) is for sale at $7,000

David Franklin

Visual Arts: Sculpture

David started creating public art in my teens as a member of a graffiti crew, cutting stencils and painting them in abandoned rail yards near downtown Denver, CO. It was an inauspicious (not to mention undisciplined) beginning, but the overall experience made him acutely aware of my deep-seated desire to connect with humanity and have a chance to do large-scale installations. That seemed an impossible dream at the time: he had no formal art training and no clear avenues for developing the skills that would make him a viable contender in the public art arena. So in the early nineties he moved to the Northwest for a fresh start and began seeking people to help him realize my goal. Enter Duane Pasco, a successful regional artist known for being a part of the revival of Northwest Coast Native Art and creating monumental freestanding and integrated sculptures. He spent nearly a decade as his apprentice, gaining not only the graphic and sculptural skills he needed to propel my own art forward, but first-hand experience with large-scale art production—everything from concept and design to fabrication and installation. Today, by integrating my roots in graffiti with his training in native sculpture and graphics, he seeks to create an instant connection between the viewer and my art. He wants people to “get” his art the way we all “get” petroglyphs—on an innate level, independent of history or heritage. In the past 20 years David has developed a diverse portfolio that features work in a variety of styles and media, including metal, glass, and wood. In the public art realm, he's been fortunate to secure several well-placed, high profile commissions. He's also had the privilege of teaching at the renowned Marc Adams School of Woodworking, and have twice been awarded the prestigious John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Residency. Like most of life’s many satisfying accomplishments, his success as an artist is the result of creative collaboration. He owes an enormous debt of gratitude to each of the mentors, muses, and co-workers who have inspired him over the years. In many ways, he considers his work as much theirs as his own.

Pamela Galvani

Visual Arts

Pam Galvani is a text-based artist and printmaker on Bainbridge Island, Washington, near Seattle. Her work is shown at Bainbridge's The Island Gallery. She has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, participates in calligraphy and printmaking events around the world, and is an active member of the Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN). Pam is a text-based artist. Inspiration for her work often begins with her reading or hearing words, phrases or stories that resonate with her. By abstracting the original text, her intention is to discover and reveal ideas that go beyond what legible words may communicate. Each of the prints is a monotype... She allows the process of making prints to structure her exploration into how meaning reveals itself. CURRENTLY SHOWING Black, White and Gray March 2-April 30, 2018 Exhibition at The Island Gallery THE ISLAND GALLERY 400 Winslow Way E, Suite 120 Barinbridge Island, WA 98110 SELECTED PAST EXHIBITS Island Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2017, 2018 Carter Art Center, Kansas City, MO, 2017 The Coni Wolf Gallery, York College, York, Pennsylvania, 2016 Shift Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 Gallery 25, Sacramento, CA, 2014 Studio Place Arts, Stowe, VT, 2014 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2014, 2013 Seattle Print Arts at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, August,10-17, 2012 Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2012, 2011, 2008 Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA, 2011 Bellevue College Gallery, Bellevue, WA, 2011 Polaris Building Gallery, Bellevue, WA, 2011 Pratt Gallery at the Tashiro-Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA, 2011, 2008 Winslow Art Center, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2011 St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2011, 2005 Treehouse Café, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2010, 2009 Art Grice Studio Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA, 2010, 2007 Seattle Print Arts Salon Exhibit at The Patricia Cameron Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2010 Freemont Abbey, Seattle, WA, 2009 Northwest Encaustics Studio Gallery, West Seattle, WA, 2009 Guillemot Cove Gallery, Seabeck, WA, 2008 Bank IV Gallery, Topeka, KS, 1988 Century II, Concert Hall Foyer, Wichita, KS, 1988 Memorial Union, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 1987 McFarland Gallery, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1986 Lynn Havel Gallery, El Dorado, KS, 1986

Cortney George

Visual Arts: Ceramics

Pottery by Cortney George After a career as a chiropractor, Cortney is circling back around to her first love of art in the second half of her life. She's so happy to be able to be creating works of art that are practical and functional for all!

Natalie Q. Godfrey

Visual Arts: Mixed Media

Natalie's art is a practice and a process. She started with collage, continued with paper, and carried on with cardboard. First and foremost, Natalie is a collector. She squirrels away the many everyday objects that frequently go unnoticed. She takes pride in the act of caring and composing. As she puts it, "My art, much like my life, is full of repetition, repurpose and reverence." She is an artist by virtue of the communities that surround her. Natalie is the recipient of the 2019 Amy Award*. *The Amy Award is an endowment established by David and Caren Anderson in memory of their daughter Amy. It is presented to a young adult under the age of 35, who is or has been an island resident, has compiled a body of work in the visual or performing arts, and whose work demonstrates a sense of quality, creativity, exploration and dedication.

Gigi Godfrey

Visual Arts: Painting

Gigi Godfrey is an artist living on Bainbridge Island. She describes her artwork as an expression of her inner feelings ranging from contemplation to whimsy to just pure joy. She is drawn to subjects displaying some sort of rhythm—whether in the way the light patterns form, the shapes link together, or the weaving of color harmony. Gigi is happiest with her work when she stays loose with the brush and leaves unfinished work show through—creating a trail of the evolution. Color and texture are the real appeal for Gigi and she enjoys using many different tools—brushes, palette knives, scrapers—to create interest in the work. When searching for the right color value and temperature, Gigi tends to leave all the marks on the final work, showing the decision process, which she calls “painting out loud." Using oil paints or gouache, Gigi takes on whatever “speaks” to her. This might be an outdoor landscape, a still-life display, a personal photograph, or even an octopus at the local aquarium.

Erik Gonzalez

Graphic Arts; Visual Arts: Murals, Painting, Sculpture; Graffiti, Urban Art, Spray Can Art, Street Art, Fine Art, Concrete sculpture

Erik is a professional graffiti artist whose work has been showcased across the country and recognized across the globe. His 16-years of experience working in nonprofits led him to found the Urbanists Collective, an arts organziation specializing in redefining public spaces and creative social engagement. Erik is currently the Executive Director of the collective, based in the central valley of California, and most recently has branched out to the state of Washington. Erik specializes in spray can art as a professional medium for murals and fine art.

Sandy Haight

Visual Arts: Illustration, Painting

Bainbridge Island resident Sandy Haight, has been focusing on painting the inner landscape of plants and flowers, calling these works Floralscapes. They evolved during a transition from her career as an illustrator (www.sandyhaight.com) to discovering her own artistic vision. Her gardens and travels provide endless inspiration to explore with a camera, zooming in on those sparks of color that most attract attention in the landscape. “Enlarging and composing the bloom from a photo to fill the picture plane, I take the viewer into an abstract and sensual world,“ explains Sandy. “I look for beautiful transitions of color or textures that could be expressed luminously with my many layers of glazed watercolor or provide an opportunity to try new painting techniques.” The shapes, designs and patterns inside flowers and plants are the subject that awakened her love of painting, giving her a chance to create images of stunning beauty while merging realism with an abstract sense of design. Since the pandemic she's experimenting with acrylic paints. Showing her paintings in the Northwest Watercolor Society’s juried shows qualified her to become a signature member in 2012. The initials NWWS now follow her signature on the Floralscape paintings. Sandy Haight was the poster artist for Bainbridge in Bloom’s 2015 Garden Tour and the 2016 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. She moved to Bainbridge Island in 2017 to a large new studio where she can create larger and larger Floralscape paintings.

Lone Hansen

Visual Arts: Mixed Media

Ben Harmon

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Ben has lived on holly farm lane his whole life, he is an island boy through and through. He works at Fairbank Construction during the days, but at night he is Ben of Built by Ben Woodworking. Ben creates masterful woodworks from various types of wood gathered from around the world. His works primarily consist of dining tables, coffee tables, reception desks, and more...with a twist. Ben sometimes integrates technology into his works, he will integrate linear actuators in order to electronically change the heigh of his pieces.

Mary Harmon

Visual Arts: Textiles

Welcome to my shop. Weaving is a passion of mine. I take inspiration from the beauty of the northwest and from historical textiles. I weave with primarily natural fibers such as cotton, linen, wool, silk and tencel. Non smoking environment.

Grace Harris

Visual Arts: Jewelry; Metal Jewelry Artist

Grace loves the puzzle involved in designing and creating jewelry using gemstones, pearls, and textured metals. She is a retired public and private sector financial manager, experienced in developing large public sector operating and capital budgets, including the funding and acquisition of public art collections. She is a former Board President of the Bainbridge Island Studio Tour, current BARN board member, and member of AHB's Public Art Committee.

Isabelle Hoonan

Graphic Arts; Literary Arts; Visual Arts: Constructions / Collage, Media & Visual Communications, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking

Isabelle Hoonan is a writer whose practice bridges themes of critical theory, empathy, technology, gender, and intercultural education. She grew up in the Pacific Northwest, graduating from Western Washington University in 2015 with a BA in Creative Writing and a minor in Design Studies. After waitressing, traveling, and working a B2B sales job for a year, she came to Paris to attend Paris College of Art’s Masters Program in Transdisciplinary New Media. Her writing contextualizes the ethics of Other and perceptual consciousness and construction.

Craig Jacobrown

Visual Arts: Sculpture

Craig grew up in Seattle and Bainbridge Island and in 1990 received the first one percent for art contract on the Island to create the Rainbringer Sculpture at the roundabout of Madison and High school Rd. Craig asked for permission from his mentor/elder Chief Henry Seaweed to use his family crest figure ‘Kolus’, the younger brother of Thunderbird, for dispay as a public sculpture. Henry headlined a dedication and blessing ceremony that used giant parade puppets constructed by island middle school students to bring to life the symbolism of the Thunderbird representing rain, Salmon representing surface water and Whales representing salt water. As Bainbridge has solidified it’s reputation as an art lovers destination, Craig has installed several more sculptures on the island including two public installations- ‘Leap Frog’ at Battle Point Park and ‘Caregiver’ in Owen’s Playground at Rotary Park which represents the legendary rooted woman caregiver of NW tradition and was dedicated by George Melas Taylor of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation to all modern day Caregivers . As Craig has continued to produce many private and public sculptures, often for communities who use them to illustrate and bring to life their own cultural stories across the continent and the world. At the same time Craig also runs a mask fabrication and movement training company called ‘The Maskery’ together with his wife, Zann, and his son, Toby (themaskery.com). Meanwhile Craig performs mask and puppetry shows with the Hamumu Arts Collective (hamumu.org) producing films, festival and ceremonial arts that bring to life traditional stories and wisdom that can have an impact on future generations. Craig also has a Masters degree in teaching specializing in the Native American learner and taught in private, public, and tribal schools including K-12 and college. To this day he teaches arts residencies throughout the NW including the Arts Humanities Bainbridge Education program, Museum of Pop Culture and the American Indian Heritage school where he helped develop and test the educational study guide ‘the Anient Art of Conflict resolution- Northwest Native Traditions’. Check out The Maskery!

Renee Jameson

Visual Arts: Printmaking

Renee is a monotype print artist living and working on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She walks almost daily along the shoreline and is inspired by the constant changing sky. She is particularly captivated by the effect of the morning light as the sun rises. As the light hits the clouds it creates subtle and sometimes dramatic variations of color and value ranges. She often gets her best shots at dawn when the sun casts an eerie glow on moisture in the air. "One of the most exciting things I observe is how rapidly the cloud formations change into new and dramatic shapes within a matter of seconds. I have my camera with me at all times on my walks. Some days I see very little that interests me and other days the sky is extraordinary. On those days I take lots of shots to get the most compelling ones that I use in my monotypes. I try to create a world the viewer can interpret and respond to in their own way. In this way I consider myself an abstract artist. My objective is to create a mood and atmosphere that will evoke an emotion in the viewer and possibly a memory from the past." Renee's process involves laying down carefully mixed layers of colored ink. She typically lays four to six layers down before the detail begins to take shape and the depth of color develops. Renee creates intrigue and mystery through her use of light which she achieves by beginning with a bright background and layering over that with mostly transparent ink. At the point where she has four to five layers in place the work begins to take a life of its own and she tries to let go of expectations and just let it flow.

Kelly Johnston

Visual Arts: Painting

Kelly's work combines bold color and loosely applied paint to emulate the poetic interaction of sunlight on the water’s surface as well as the abstract qualities of clouds and sky. Working with water soluble oils and gouache, she uses fluid brushstrokes and atmospheric depth to evoke sunlit spaces and to highlight the organic patterns she finds repeated in nature. By attempting to capture the fleeting light of the landscape, Kelly hopes to convey a sense of wonder in her paintings, as well as an underlying reminder of the impermanence of our human experience. Kelly Johnston earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting + Drawing with a minor in Art History from the University of Washington. A Seattle native, Kelly moved to Bainbridge Island in 2014 with her husband and two children. Most days she can be found working in her studio/gallery space in downtown Winslow - please stop by and say hello!

Martha Jordan

Visual Arts: Painting

Martha Jordan, formerly the Art Education Director of Oil & Water Art Supply is the director of Winslow Art Center. She lives on her sailboat with her husband, two dogs, and a cat, and circumnavigated the globe for six years before landing on Bainbridge Island, where she now makes her home. Martha has over twenty years experience in the art and teaching fields.

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