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Activity: Paper Holiday Decorations Venue: Ballard Alki Odd Fellows / 1706 NW Market St Event: November 21st 6pm - 9pm https://www.facebook.com/events/779322932526595/ We will be participating in the 3rd Thursday Ballard Night Out with another installation of our Participatory Art Experiences. We will be using book pages, wire produce ties and paper tubes to create holiday decorations. Looking forward to having you join us! 
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Show: Prints & Portfolios Venue: The Curmudgeon Gallery @ Grumpy Old Man's Comics & Collectibles Event: November 21st 6pm - 9pm Join Alan LaMont for a showing of his prints alongside the work of some of comic's greats at Grumpy Old Man's.  Show: Collective Conscience #3, art show & book release Venue: Push/Pull 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: November 21st 6pm - 9pm Showing: November 21st - December 17th www.facebook.com/events/569090890292612/ Push/Pull presents the third edition of Collective Conscience, our annual celebration of the members that make our work possible. Member work will cover our gallery wall and we'll have the official release of our annual anthology, Collective Conscience 3. This year's cover is by Jon Garaizar. Many pieces are priced to gift for the holidays.
Our next event is November 21st. If you haven't sent us info on your event, please do so now!
For December we have a special event planned. December's Ballard Night Out is the 19th. We'll be having a special scavenger hunt. Maps will have an insert with clues and you can submit your answers by writing them in and turning in to venues or submitting via Instagram. Venues will have prizes for those that find 5 or more clues. To submit your info or get involved in the November or December events, you can email maxx@ballardnightout.com or click on the Venue Submission Form above. Artist: Jon Garaizar Venue: The Lavatory Gallery @ Push/Pull / 5484 Shilshole Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/615623815512159/ Showing thru November 19th Push/Pull's own Jon Garaizar invades the Lavatory Gallery. Opening October 17th, showing through November 19th. Stop in for Ballard's only fine art gallery in a bathroom. Jon Garaizar is a Seattle artist from the Bay Area. He works in print, ink and comic form to explore the world metaphor, conspiracy, UFO's, esoterica, and time travel. His work examines and highlights the endless loop of conspiracy and mania, it's mirrors and origins in reality, and how we build the cruel, unreal world that forces us to craft such fantastic tales. His current projects can be seen on instagram @enchanting_stranger
Event: Pumpkin Carving & Movie Night Venue: Ballard Odd Fellows / 1706 NW Market St October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/2534081306826313/ Join the Odd Fellows to Carve &/or Decorate a pumpkin, while we watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" PROJECT: Carve &/or Decorate a Pumpkin SUPPLIES ON HAND: Basic carving tools, markers, acrylic paint, a few small pumpkins BRING: a Pumpkin to Carve, snacks to share, and any additional materials you might like to use for decorating your pumpkin (a light source, special carving tools, carving patterns, etc) Young artists are encouraged with an adult conspirator.  Artist: Anita Arora (Morbid Anatomy) Venue: Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop / 5445 Ballard Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/3037727306243676/ Showing: through Nov 2nd Join Seattle artist Anita Arora at Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop in Ballard, Seattle for this one night Reception of her art during the monthly Ballard Night Out from 6 - 9pm. Anita will be on hand to discuss the magic that goes on in making these exquisite pieces. Contemplate them up close and take home your favorite. Wine will be available for guests 21+  Art Group: Path with Art Venue: The Gerald / 5210 Ballard Ave NW Event: October 17th 6pm - 9pm www.facebook.com/events/433173167316755/ For October's Ballard Night Out, The Gerald is featuring drink from OOLA Distillery, from which a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Path with Art. Artwork from Path with Art participants will also be on display. OOLA and The Gerald are proud to be supporting the work of Path with Art because we believe in communities coming together to improve the lives of all Seattle citizens. Join us in supporting Path with Art and learn more about an organization working to make the transformative power of the arts more accessible for all! - Path with Art is an organization that transforms the lives of people recovering from homelessness, addiction, and other trauma by harnessing the power of creative engagement as a bridge to community and a path to stability. -Located in Seattle's vibrant Capitol Hill neighborhood, OOLA Distillery produces small, handcrafted batches of premium spirits. - The Gerald is the premier craft cocktail bar of Ballard located on historic Ballard Ave boasting the largest back bar in Ballard of over 500 bottles and featuring Asian inspired fare.  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.
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.
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