Blog Archives - Ballard Night O̶u̶t̶ In

What Happens In A Dark Place at The Vestibule

10/30/2017

Show: What Happens In A Dark Place
Artist: Alyson Provax and Serrah Russell
Venue: The Vestibule / 6312 32nd Ave NW Unit A
Event: November 16th 6pm - 9pm
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Also Showing: November 17th & November 18th 6pm - 9pm

Portland artist Alyson Provax and Seattle artist Serrah Russell have created new works utilizing collage, polaroid, letterpress, and animation which explore ideas of absence, disappearance, memory and change in the context of the recent solar eclipse within our current political climate.

November BNO After Party!

10/25/2017

Date: November 16th 9pm
Venue: Substation 645 NW 45th St

Support Ballard Night Out and see some great bands! Head over to Substation after you view art.

Your map + $10 gets you in to our after party featuring:

Left Turn on Blue
Strange Like Us
and Seaside Tryst

21+ / After Party is at the Back Stage

October 19th Ballard Night Out is Here!

10/18/2017

Whether you start in Old Ballard, Sunset Hill or West Woodland, there's plenty of art and activities happening this Thursday for Ballard Night Out! Most events start around 6pm and end around 9pm. If we have specific information about an event, it will appear below.

You can pick up a map at venues or click here for a mobile or downloadable version.

We hope to see you out enjoying the culture of Ballard.

WTFeRee Show and Tell at Ballard Alki Odd Fellows

10/17/2017

Group: WTFeRee Society
Venue: Ballard Alki Odd Fellows / 1706 NW Market St
Event: October 19th 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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INTERNET WTFeREE!
Hello Show n Tellers!

Our next night together is coming up. Book your calendars for Thursday October 19th for our fourth evening learning about curious matters. This time around we’re going to share wierdness found on the internet. We'll be sharing our personally curated greatest hits from the hilarious to the truly strange and hope you can join us.This is a fun, participatory audience event and inquiring questions are encouraged.

Evenings correspond with the Ballard Night Out (3rd Thursdays) and are open to the public 6:00 - 9:00 pm. We usually are underway by 7 pm. Light refreshments will be available. A suggested donation of $5 is requested to cover costs and net proceeds will be donated to a local nonprofit organization.

JOIN US!

Adam Michael Waldo at Captain's Nautical Supplies

10/17/2017

Artist: Adam Michael Waldo www.adammichaelwaldo.com
Venue: Captain's Nautical Supplies / 1120 NW Ballard Way
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Showing: October 19th - December 19th

Captain's Nautical Supplies will be featuring the nature photography of Adam Michael Waldo October 19th - December 19th. Stop in to see the new pieces during Ballard Night Out, October 19th 6pm - 9pm.

Adam Michael Waldo is a photographer, adventurer, and model based out of Seattle, Washington. A life-long passion for travel informs both his world-view and his artwork. The work he produces gives expression to a fascination with form in all its stark beauty, strength, and simplicity. There is a visceral quality to his work that highlights the subtle immediacy of what is essential. The strength of his vision lies in his ability to show us the aesthetic webbing of reality—the conjuring of universality in the particular. A landscape, a sea-worn piece of driftwood, the spires, angles, and planes of a skyscraper or telephone pole—things that within each of our daily lives we may see, relish briefly (not exactly knowing what about it moves us), and then go on without a second thought—these he sets about stripping with near surgical precision in order to coax to life an impression that sticks with us long after we have viewed it through his eyes. Like the landscapes Hemingway describes through language, Waldo peels away sentimentality, subjectivity, and all that lends itself to cut-rate, overly-emotionalized artwork so that one is confronted with a thing the way that it truly is in itself. This uncompromising dedication to the representation of form strikes deeply not only into his portrayal of a specific subject, but also into the mind and being of his viewer. We recognize—though may not always have the words to describe—the exact clarity and strength of his vision. Lesser artists constantly seek to endow their subject matter with the colors of their own emotions, with the result being something lacking in universality. Waldo recognizes (as did Hemingway, Kubrick, and Frank Lloyd Wright) that the essence of the subject belongs to the subject alone. The subjects he chooses reveal themselves to us in their most stark or delicate skin—we are left confronting the thing itself, in all of its uninterpretable splendor. This is why his photography stays with us; this is why certain artists’ work remains just as alive and vital now as it was years ago. We are confronted the mysterious building blocks of the universe in his pictures. We are startled by the mysterious building blocks of ourselves in his pictures.

Open Studio at Raven's Nest Studio/Gallery

10/17/2017

Artist: Rosemary Antel amzn.to/2hc0xB9
Venue: Raven's Nest Studio/Gallery in BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St Studio #2D
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Recent Works, both small and large, and works in progress. Mediums include Oil and Watermedia, as well as woodworking and sculpture. Stop in to meet the artist.

Water at BallardWorks

10/16/2017

Show: Water
Featuring: BallardWorks Artists
Venue: BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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BallardWorks artists will hang their own artwork in the BallardWorks Galleries from October 19-November 10, 2017. The theme is WATER, and our artworks will exhibit many tangents that relate to that pervasive subject.

Please come and see WATER artwork in the BallardWorks halls and gallery spaces, as well as visit several open artists' studios.

Three floors of exhibition spaces and some art studios will be open for the Ballard ART Night Out, Thursday, October 19, 2017. Open 6:00-9:00 pm one day only. Families with kids welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue NW. Includes painting, wood working, sculpture, quilting, encaustic, printmaking and more, all under one roof. www.ballardworks.com

Robert Calafiore & Joseph Minek: Color Darkroom Innovators at GALLERY 1/1

10/16/2017

Show: Color Darkroom Innovators
Artists: Robert Calafiore & Joseph Minek gallery1of1.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=79
Venue: Gallery 1/1 / 2856 NW Market St Ste 2G in BallardWorks
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
Showing: Now through November 11th

GALLERY 1/1 is pleased to present the West Coast debuts of two innovative photographic artists, Hartford-based Robert Calafiore and Cleveland-based Joseph Minek. This two-person exhibition will feature new work by these artists who embrace process, material, and traditional darkroom techniques and each has elevated their studio-based craft into an exciting direction for photography. Calafiore employs his hand-built pinhole camera to create vivid large-scale one-of-a-kind chromogenic prints of abstracted still life tableaus constructed with mid-century modern glass objects. Minek also has a modernist abstract painterly quality to his work that he achieves by applying photographic chemistry on light sensitive color paper breaking all the traditional darkroom rules. He then assembles the paper elements into collaged mosaics of striking form and color.

Alaina Stocker at Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop

10/16/2017

Artist: Alaina Stocker
Venue: Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop / 5445 Ballard Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Showing: October 19th - November 14th

Stop in to see some of Alaina Stocker's daily drawings. Many are inspired by or include items from Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop.

Showing October 19th - November 14th

Carnage: Ladies of Gore at Push/Pull

10/16/2017

Show: Carnage: Ladies of Gore
Featuring: Alex Gotay, Corinne Halbert (CHI), Savannah Horrocks (MINN), & Marie Hausauer
Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 10pm
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Showing: October 19th - November 14th

Ladies of Gore: Marie Hausauer, Savannah Horrocks, Alex Gotay & Corinne Halbert (Chicago)

These artists are breaking art stereotypes and creating some of the bloodiest, most disturbing, nightmarish contemporary art. See these 4 masters of macabre together for Carnage.

Art will be on display through November 14th.

What Would Jesus Glue? Marty Gordon's collage art at The Leary Traveler

10/12/2017

Artist: Marty Gordon - What Would Jesus Glue?
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Venue: The Leary Traveler / 4354 Leary Way NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Showing: October 19th - November 14th

Stop in during Ballard Night Out to see What Would Jesus Glue: The Collage Art of Marty Gordon's solo exhibition.

Marty Gordon draws on a diverse artistic background that includes writing, theater, and printmaking to make his clever collages. A former minister, Gordon now devotes his spare time to collage making. Blending sophisticated humor with a comic visual style, he has developed his own unique genre of collage. Gordon lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Sarah, who is also an artist and costume designer. He has exhibited his art nationally and internationally and is featured in the recent publications Masters: Collage, Kolaj Magazine and Modern Vintage Illustration. You can see more of his work at his website: www.whatwouldjesusglue.com.

Art will be on display October 19th - November 14th.

The Leary Traveler is 21+ and features delectable food and beverages daily.

Ilysia Van Deren - Pleasure Escape at The Vestibule

10/12/2017

Artist: Ilysia Van Deren - Pleasure Escape
Venue: The Vestibule / 6312 32nd Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Showing October 19th - October 29th

An installation of fabric, texture, and pleasure by multidisciplinary artist Ilysia Van Deren. With Ballard Night Out. Through October 29th.

The Vestibule is a unique alternative gallery space which supports emerging artists through funds from short-term AirBnB rental. Emerging artists receive small stipends to produce and hang work, commission free.

The gallery is open only in conjunction with monthly shows. We will be open October 19th-21 6-9 pm and October 26-29 6-9pm

New Venue: Laurette Chassé at Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

10/11/2017

Artist: Laurette Chassé
Venue: Saint Paul's United Church of Christ / 6512 12th Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 8pm
Showing: October 19th - November 15th

St Paul's United Church of Christ is happy to announce the opening of its new Art Gallery with their participation in the October Ballard Night Out, 6-8pm.

The featured artist is Laurette Chassé, showing
collages along with whimsical ceramic sculptures. Refreshments will be served.

Anna Hooser at Royal Drummer

10/11/2017

Artist: Anna Hooser / www.annahooser.com/
Venue: Royal Drummer / 6420 24th Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 8pm

Stop in to see the watercolor and ink work of Anna Hooser while sipping a pumpkin spice latte. One night only at Royal Drummer.

Robert Sparrow Jones at Blowing Sands Glass Studio

10/11/2017

Artist: Robert Sparrow Jones / robertsparrowjones.com/
Venue: Blowing Sands Glass Studio / 5805 14th Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
Showing: October 1st - October 30th

Robert Sparrow Jones: "I am interested in narrative; storytelling through pictures evoking a deep sense of place. What moves me to make these works is the trifecta of memory, love, and the passage of time. The pictures serve as a shifting cross-section---using color, tone, and an expressive languor in paint language, to create a local dialect that, although uneven, I think vividly captures the energy, the mutability, or perhaps the stubborn persistence of what it's like to be affected by place. They are meant to act in the present but suggest a past, moving in the rhythm of everyday like that is rife with multiple time signatures. The figures are intended to add atmosphere to past peregrinations and dalliances and knit the uncertainties of our life's complications into such a lovely, changeable shifting. the emotional landscape emerges when our attentiveness to the sensual world brings a certain mutable responsiveness from the imperatives of consciousness."

Krista Jefferson at Monster: Art, Clothing & Gifts

10/11/2017

Artist: Krista Jefferson / www.wild-and-whimsical.com/
Venue: Monster: Art, Clothing & Gifts / 5000 20th Ave NW
Event: October 19th 6pm - 9pm
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Showing: October 19th - November 13th

Join us for a "Wild and Whimsical" Ballard Night Out, featuring the works of Krista Jefferson! From evil veggies to funky sock monkeys, her work will surely put a smile on your face! As always we will be serving our weird food buffet!

For more information about Krista, check out her website:
http://www.wild-and-whimsical.com/