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Feb. 7, 2008
Contact: Bob Adams
(425) 564-3081
badams@bcc.ctc.edu
BCC, Kirkland Arts Center, Bellevue Arts Museum
co-host free ClaysSpeak Symposium Feb. 17
Artists reception opens event at 10 a.m. in BCC’s Purser Art Gallery
BELLEVUE -- The Clayspeak Symposium, including exhibits of art in clay, presentations by three artists, and an artists’ reception, will be held on Sunday, Feb. 17 at Bellevue Community College (BCC), the Bellevue Arts Museum and the Kirkland Arts Center.
An artists’ reception will begin the symposium at 10 a.m. in BCC’s Purser Art Gallery (Room 271 on the second floor of Building D on BCC’s main campus, located at 3000 Landerholm Circle S.E. in Bellevue, at the intersection of S.E. 28th St. and 148th Ave. S.E. )
All symposium events are free and open to the public.
Ceramics sculptor and northwest native Patti Warashina will be the keynote speaker, starting at 11:15 a.m. Warashina taught at the University of Washington for 30 years and her work is included in the collections of The Smithsonian, the Museum of Art and Design New York, The Mint Museum, The Los Angeles County Art Museum and Perth Cultural Center, among many other institutions.
Artists Eric Nelsen and Kathleen Skeels will speak at 12:30 and 1:30 p.m., respectively.
After concluding remarks by BCC art faculty, guests will be invited to visit ceramics exhibitions at the Kirkland Arts Center Gallery and Bellevue Arts Museum.
The Kirkland Arts Center Gallery hosts “Clay? II: International Juried Ceramics Exhibition” from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Bellevue Arts Museum presents “Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser,” with a “walk-through” led by curator Stefano Catalani at 3 p.m.
All Bellevue Arts Museum and Kirkland Arts Center exhibits will be open free of charge that day for symposium participants.
Other artists featured in the exhibition include Clin Cannon, Beth Christensen, Ginny Conrow, Jesse Edwards, Steve Gardner, Carol Gouthro, Larry Halvorsen, Liza Halvorsen, Lois Harbaugh, Jason Huff, Charles Krafft, Geo Lastomirsky, Paul Metivier, Saya Moriyasu, Yuki Nakamura, Maureen O’Neill, Donna Porter, Tammie Rubin, Alisa Savage, E. Valentine De Wald, Jamie Walker and Mary Ann Webster.
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