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Show: Comfort in the Images of Dogs, Group Show Venue: BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm One Night Only In these days when we face a constant barrage of tough and upsetting news, art can offer balm for the soul, and dogs offer comfort and comedy. So to help sooth us as we enter the months of shorter, darker days, Ballardworks brings: “Comfort in the Images of Dogs", a multi media group exhibition of artists' representations of dogs. In The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce offers this definition: “DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.” And adds that for some, dogs take the “place to which there is no human … aspirant.” Join us for the opening reception on October 17th, to celebrate the month of harvest. Please note that the front left door on Market Street will be open for this exhibit as well as the doors on 30th Avenue.
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Artist: Myra Lara Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm Showing through: November 18th www.facebook.com/events/339552316983070/ When the neighborhood Prius has the tasteless Malthusian slogan "Seattle is Full", you know you're in the technocratic city. When superyachts are "sustainable" but your commute is not, you know you're in the technocratic city. When police are thanked during private "community" Pride events but queer and POC spaces are still overpoliced, you know you're in the technocratic city. Lifeswork towards frivolous apps, efficiency, "smarter" economies and "authentic" experiences but silence when evictions, rent burden, low wages, and homelessness increase - but don't worry, the next private-public partnership will handle it in time. That's life in the technocratic city. Ready to find your coping mechanism? Bio: Myra Lara is an architectural designer, cartoonist, and activist whose work focuses on the right to the city, housing policy, genderqueerness, and multicultural everyday life. Drawing on her many disciplines, taught by institution and untaught by self, she explores these topics via comix, zines, protest art, and tweeting. She's originally from a bordertown in south Texas and has been living in Seattle off-and-on since 2010. You can find her at @nullthread and www.myralara.com
Show: The Glass Canvas Venue: Blowing Sands Glass Studio / 5805 14th Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm Showing: October 5th - 20th Morgan Peterson. Sarah Gilbert. Lydia Boss. Katie Miller. Four Pacific Northwest female artists come together, using glass as a canvas to spark conversations. Each artist is unique in her use of the medium but all share in the desire to give the viewer an opportunity to reflect on our world.  The Glass Canvas Artist: Adrienne Silva www.facebook.com/TheWPlive/ Venue: Clover Toys / 5333 Ballard Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/1357833654393856/ Stop in to see the art behind The Witch Princess at Clover Toys.  Artist: Keith Lovik Venue: Populuxe Brewing / 826 NW 49th St Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm Showing: Month of October Keith Lovik considers himself more of a maker than an artist. This local Seattle resident uses old style crafting to bring his myriad of 3 dimensional creatures and critters to life. Whether fuzz or scales or something in-between. The end result is a flourish of color and character that will brighten up your day, and your walls. Take home a small wall mount version of a Chupacabra or Cthulhu, a Dragon Dog or the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. If you needed a space filled with original art you might consider a cute angler fish or a furry monster with an infectious grin. These pieces are unique and fun, each hand crafted and built with love. Populuxe offers special discounts to Ballard Night Out visitors!  It's time to send in your October events. The deadline to get on the October map is October 8th. You can let us know to put you on the map by emailing maxx@ballardnightout.com. Once you get your event info together, send it to us via Venue Submission Form. All event info received by the 15th will be posted to this website and to our social media. Of course, earlier is better. See you in October!  Artist: Anastasia Rudenco adesignart.com/ Venue: Sacred Rain Healing Center / 1100 NW 50th St Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/420584135478841/= In conjunction with Ballard Night Out, Moldavian artist Anastasia Rudenco will be showing works in pen and ink, gouache and acrylic through Nov. 15. Anastasia will be present at the opening to meet and greet and talk about her work.
Show: Science Fiction Double Feature Venue: Copious / 2220 NW Market St Event: September 19th 7:30pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/529749974096499/?event_time_id=529749990763164 Tickets $12 - 15 Storyteller and solo performer, L. Nicol Cabe, imagines how biology and technology will smash together in “Effing Robots: How I Taught the A.I. to Stop Worrying and Love Humans”: Artificial Intelligence is on the way, and it will be powerful. What happens to us when it arrives? How will it perceive humanity? Can it learn … to love? After getting hit on by a chatbot, one horny science fiction nerd is on a quest to make it with a new AI overlord. The latest from Cabe playfully explores a meeting of minds, one digital, and one organic. The show combines true stories, real conversations, and, of course, nerdy references. When the artificial intelligence rises, how will we greet it? Adelaide Fringe Festival 2019 audiences raved that Effing Robots “deftly weaves comedic storytelling with some serious science communication” into “a one-woman show that is part girly-chat, part TED talk.” Banjo ballardeer, Aaron J. Shay, combines folk music inspiration with space-faring adventure in “Apocalypse Songs”: Captain Redacted, a resident of a distant future, was sent to explore alternate universes and document his findings in original songs and poetic stories. This show takes audiences to many fantastical places, from sunken towers under monster-infested seas, to cyber-punk rock clubs in foggy mega-cities, all while exploring the nature of discovery and its power to change us (if we let it). This unique and interactive show is part concert, part theater, part storytelling, and all adventure! Fans of folk singers, science jokes, and speculative fiction will find something to enjoy. Audiences have described it as ‘cheerful, gentle, jaunty and filled with wonder,’ and ‘Pete Seeger meets David Bowie!’ This show's cocktail: Two Become One  Artist: Hayden Stern (Bioluminator Studios) bioluminator.bigcartel.com/ Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2465410593497881/ Join us for the opening of Hayden Stern (Bioluminator Studios) show featuring original works from their Trans Tarot series. Showing September 19th through October 15th. The Trans Tarot is a deck illustrated from submitted selfies from the transgender community. Each image celebrates the enormous range of presentation, identity, and life experience that trans people bring to the table. The deck was borne out of the concept that gender, like tarot, is a mystical process of transformation. As a transgender individual, the artist has used symbolism to understand their identity amidst a gendered society. It is their hope that this deck will resonate with their community while inspiring cisgender individuals to examine their own relationship with society, gender, and embodiment. Hayden Stern is an artist whose work is informed by the experience of living in a trans, disabled body. They create two dimensional art in ink, paint, and fiber to tenderly portray the reclamation of body/self in a society that would prefer they were either cured or absent. They are based in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Seattle).
Activity: Paper Bag Luminaries Workshop Venue: Ballard Odd Fellows / 1706 NW Market St Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/528899171189913/ PROJECT: Paper Bag Luminaries SUPPLIES: Basic supplies provided (paper bags, glue sticks, scissors, ribbon) BRING: snacks to share, and any additional materials you might like to use: colored paper bags, fancy paper scissors, hole punches, ribbon, small & simple LED or battery lights for the interior, small bells, sequin, etc. Luminary Inspirations: https://www.pinterest.com/msneed0927/luminaries/ Young artists are encouraged with an adult conspirator. To celebrate the Autumnal Equinox join us Sat Sept 21st, at Green Lake, 7pm for Luminata Lantern Parade (hosted by the Fremont Arts Council) https://www.facebook.com/events/368864997104883/  Artist: Babs Fulton www.babsfulton.com/ Venue: Populuxe Brewing / 826 NW 49th St Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm Showing: Month of September Once again we are excited to welcome Babs Fulton back as Septembers featured artist! This month her fashionable cats and dogs once again take front and center stage in her latest collage art show. But wait - where are the robots? Robots will be present and begging for your attention too.
Featured Artists: Display Artist: Morgan Bak www.morganbak.com/paintings Live Artist: Lauren Maxwell www.mlauren.info/ Live Music: Birch Pereira www.birchpereira.com/ Venue: Verity Credit Union / 5711 24th Ave NW Event: September 19th 6pm - 8pm www.facebook.com/events/381122742583362/ Join Verity Credit Union as they welcome the autumn display artist Morgan Bak. They'll be celebrating with live music by Birch Pereira and live art by Lauren Maxwell. There will also be snacks, treats, and activities for kids of all ages! Morgan Bak is an artist originally from Orange, CA who has jumped from California to Colorado and landed in Seattle, WA where she currently resides. She has delved into such mediums as painting, illustration, ceramic sculpture, and embroidery; but the medium is mostly reflective of whatever best express the current idea she's currently exploring. Her favorite things to make art about include connectivity, gender, patterns in facial structures, universal symbols, and philtrums. Lauren Maxwell is a comix maker and illustrator based in Seattle, Washington. Lauren has work in various outlets, including but not limited to digital illustration, drawing, video, apparel, and paintings. They have written and illustrated several self-published mini-comics including Ufime(2018), Rabid Prince(2018)and Dark Planet(2016). Birch Pereira: I've been a freelance gigging upright and electric bassist in Seattle now for over a decade. I'm just as comfortable playing jazz in a hotel lobby to touring with a hip hop artist or a singer songwriter. Although I grew up a classical cellist, after a year in orchestra at the University of Washington I switched over to the jazz department and never looked back.
Show: Tenants & Friends Venue: BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St Event: September 19th 6pm - 9pm - One Night Only! www.facebook.com/events/369773017302517/ Enjoy colorful art in our exhibit spaces featuring a mix of media and sizes, with something bound to catch your attention. The artists enjoy discussing the arts with all our visitors. Join us for the opening reception on September 19th, to celebrate the month of Autumn Leaves. Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Thursday, September 19th, 2019. Open 6:00-9:00 pm only. Open houses at several of the 20 BallardWorks studios offer a chance to talk to the artists and see their oeuvre. Families with kids, art lovers, collectors, and neighbors are welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue NW. Studio artists' work includes painting, woodworking, sculpture, print making, and more, all under one roof.  Kathryn Trigg What: Mini Fez and Party Decor Crafting Party Venue: Ballard Odd Fellows / 1706 NW Market St Event: August 15th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/477986549650532/ Join us on Thursday August 15th to make Mini Fez' & Party Decorations for the first Seattle Odd Ball & Fez Fest MATERIALS provided for basic Mini Fez & Party Decorations BRING snacks to share, additional materials you might like to add (gold thread, fancy yarn, fuzzy felt, etc.) THE PARTY: The Tzar of the Noble Order of Muscovites, is hosting the Seattle Odd Ball & Fez Fest on Saturday September 14th, 7pm - 11pm at Ballard Odd Fellows Lodge. (We'll post event details here when they go live.)   Artist: J Gordon
Venue: Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop / 5445 Ballard Ave NW Event: August 15th 6pm - 8pm Stop in for the works of J Gordon at Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop.  Show: Specswizard & Keef Cross (Dayblack - Atlanta, GA) Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: August 15th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/861096594225677/ Showing thru: September 18th Push/Pull is proud to present the work of local artist Michael Hall (aka Specswizard) and Keef Cross (Georgia). Showing through September 18th. Michael D Hall aka Specswizard has been writing and producing hip hop music since 1979--but comics are his first love. He started creating characters and stories when he was just seven years old and he is still at it today. Specs has become a staple in the Seattle hip hop community, and has started to also show his visual art around town, most notably at Steve Gilbert's Studio. He is currently focusing on character designs and pen and ink work for a new comic called the Gibson Comic Anthology that will be published and distributed throughout Seattle and hopefully beyond this summer. Push/Pull is celebrating the culmination of his long awaited book with a show this August along with another notable comic artist and tattooer Keef Cross. KEEF CROSS When I make art, it's truly an escape. An escape from stereotypes and expectations put on "black art" and it's creators. It seems like most people are comfortable seeing black people portrayed walking to church, playing a jazz horn, braiding hair on the porch and things of that nature. There isn't anything wrong with that, but that's not all we are, and that's not all we do. Similar to black cinema and radio, audiences have gotten used to and even anticipate these redundant one sided offerings of black life. Growing up being influenced by Ralph Bakshi, Vaugn Bode', Wendy Pini, and Robert Crumb to name a few, really shaped my visual aesthetic, and tone of my paintings, but even more so, my approach to creating my comic book, "DayBlack". I found that those underground comics of the 70's always had one foot in sexual raunchiness and drugs, and another foot in social commentary, a combination that fascinated me as a kid. Who knew that in those adult comics I hid from my mother, I would find my individual voice and style. I'm all about pushing progressive images and ideas about my people to the forefront whenever I get the chance. TV, radio, and film won't do it, but I feel like art is the last medium that has been corrupted the least, and with the help of other like minded artists who aren't afraid to challenge these notions of what black art is and can be , we can help change the way the world sees us, and the way we see ourselves, one gallery, screen, and book at a time.
Artist: Jimmy Gersen jgersen.artspan.com/home Venue: Populuxe Brewing / 826 NW 49th St Event: August 15th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/473775446741768/ Showing: Month of August Populuxe Brewing is excited to welcome Jimmy Gersen as Augusts featured artist. Jimmy made his home in Seattle, Wa. where he graduated from the University of Washington School of Art. He began displaying his work in small restaurants, and galleries throughout the area. He was mainly working with charcoal and pastels producing painting like drawings. Somewhere along the line he decided to literally, dip his hands into some paint and see what he could do. Soon, painting became his new love. In 2000 he started to perform paintings live, with bands, for private parties, art walks, to name a few. Lucky for us he will be painting live right in the tasting room for Ballard Night Out. This is an event not to be missed! Populuxe offers specials for Ballard Night Out visitors.  Jimmy Gersen Show: "Drawings and Paintings" by Stearns and "Color of Life" by Zola Venue: BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St Event: August 15th 6pm - 9pm One Night Only! www.facebook.com/events/1103668783167102/ "Drawings and Paintings" (third floor) and "Color of Life" (second floor) EXHIBITS' OPENINGS! Thursday, August 15th, 2019 6 PM – 9 PM BallardWorks is delighted to host the Solo Exhibits of Zola Khan and Christopher Stearns organized by Phil Stoiber. **************************************** ARTIST BIO: Zola Khan (ZolaKhan.com) "Color of Life" Farrukh, known professionally as Zola, is from Karachi, Pakistan. He trained and worked under the prominent Pakistani artist Gulgee and has supported himself as an independent artist for over a decade. Farrukh works in oils and acrylics; painting still lifes, landscapes, an abstract horse series, and other abstract works. His work is rhythmic and lively and utilizes expressive brush and knife work, and occasionally pointillism. He has had two solo exhibitions, one in Pakistan and one in Georgia (the country, not the state). Since receiving asylum status in June 2018, Farrukh has been living in Seattle. **************************************** ARTIST STATEMENT: Christopher Stearns Exhibit "Drawings + Paintings" This collection of works on paper represents my attempts to relate impressions from nature to language and architectural forms. Developed over the past 15 years, these works combine drawing, painting, and collage, with a dedication to a kind of lyricism and playfulness that I find liberating. Making these abstract compositions involves sequences of choices, using color, line, shape, and an intuitive sense of space. As I stretch to discover new visual combinations, the process of allowing the piece to tell me what to do next results in a layered formation of meaning. I am so proud to be part of Seattle’s rich and exciting creative community. *****************************************
Our next event, August 15th, will be here before you know it! Send your events in now to make sure we can help you. If you're a new venue, let us know by the 5th by submitting an event or emailing maxx@ballardnightout.com. If you're a regular venue, make sure to submit your event by the 12th so we have time to post it and schedule it into the social media posts. See you in 13 days!
 Artist: Kevin Ducoing www.facebook.com/artofkevinducoing/ Venue: Populuxe Brewing / 826 NW 49th St Event: July 18th 6pm - 9pm Showing: July 2019 Specials: Get a dollar off a beer when you're visiting for Ballard Night Out Kevin Ducoing (Kev) is a Seattle artist exploring themes of unconscious, private moments through odd characters, physical attributes, and chunky textures in his painting surfaces. He is available for commission. Visit his FB page ‘Art of Kev - Kevin Ducoing’ or Instagram @pleasecallmekev or email him at kevinisthatyou@gmail.com
Show: The Honey Roasted Hams [Comedy] Venue: Copious / 2220 NW Market St Event: July 18th 7:30pm - 9pm https://www.facebook.com/events/2332925876954814/ At this Improv-duo- roast- game show the audience will be marinated, roasted then tickled with a honey glaze. Ask questions, play games, get onstage and get made fun of. Danny Bracy and Holly Taylor have hated each-other for 4 years, and we're bringing it to you live onstage! We'll all laugh at each-other and ourselves together. Tonight's Cocktail: Honey Roasted Slam Tickets: $8-$10, check at the link above   Act: Ranger & The Re-Arrangers
Venue: Ballard Landmark / 5433 Leary Ave NW Event: July 18th 6:30pm - 8:30pm www.facebook.com/events/3289157671109875/ Join the fine folks at Ballard Landmark for a lively performance by swing/jazz band Ranger & The Re-Arrangers. Ballard Landmark provides free parking & refreshments for attendees. Stop in for a fun time with our friends at Ballard Landmark!  Event: The Relevant Unknown, Yearbook Vol 2
Venue: Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW July 18th 6pm - 9pm Are you an artist, creator or maker in Seattle? Stop in to Push/Pull to be included in The Relevant Unknowns Yearbook Volume 2. Free to be included in the project. Books will be available for purchase December 2019.  Show: Through the Air Artists: Black Olive - artists from Germany & Switzerland Venue: BallardWorks / 2856 NW Market St Event: July 18th 6pm - 9pm, One Night Only BallardWorks is delighted to host the artwork of the artist group “Black Olive” These 8 artists from Germany and Switzerland are participating in a show curated by Annegret Reichmann. Black Olive Members: Urs Tavernen, Thomas Droege, Anne Deifuss, Thomas Hugo, Cornelia Egli, Christine Kind, Claudia Droege, Annegret Reichmann They have their own styles and themes: Painting, printmaking, collage, illustration and drawing. Broad brush strokes, fine pen lines, fragments of billboards and the use of the trusted palette knife bring line and shape in ink, oil and acrylic onto paper. Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk during Ballard Night Out on Thursday, July 18th, 2019. Open 6:00-9:00 pm only. Open houses at several of the 20 BallardWorks studios offer a chance to talk to the artists and see their oeuvre. Families with kids, art lovers, collectors, and neighbors are welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue NW. Studio artists' work includes painting, woodworking, sculpture, print making, and more, all under one roof. http://www.ballardworks.com<http://www.ballardworks.com/>
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