Join us! Swinomish Youth and local artists create lino block designs for the upcoming Canoe Journey in La Conner Saturday June 4th! 11-4Pm at La Crema, 6th and Morris Streets. Team up for printing large block prints using a steamroller! Thanks to Arnie Svendsen our local steam roller volunteer.
Join us and carver Kevin Paul for an exciting hand made activity in which artists share their visual compositions via linoleum, ink, paper, and pressure, creating huge relief prints right on the street.
Fifteen to thirty artists participated in designing an image suitable for block printing with the themes “Journeys, what sustains you? and protecting mother earth.”
Printmaking on the Street June 4th 11-4PM in La Conner and July 6th at the Anacortes Arts Festival. The opportunity to create and exhibit large block prints during the Canoe Journey, Anacortes Arts Festival and Native Journeys exhibition at the Historical Museum would be a great opportunity for young up and coming native and non native artists to be recognized.
contact: www.theodora.cc/art@theodora.cc
Sponsored by
Kevin Paul
Law Office of Patricia Paul PLLC
The La Conner Arts Council
The Canoe Journey Council
The Historical Museum
How it Works
The story…….I got this idea with Candice Vitale, from Anacortes, when I saw a school down in Tacoma doing this with a group called Wayzgoose. It looked like so much fun and a great way to get up and coming young artists activated to making art in the street together with already established artists who are also looking for a new and different way to connect with cutting edge art. I like to think of this as art that is bringing creative people together and making a bridge between communities in a way which did not exist before. There is a level of comfortability that one has to give up to make work that does not rely on a safety net. Its a bit raw and well done. Spending hours carving linocut in a circle of teenage artists is cutting edge. It brings about some real conversation and a level of commitment from those who show up. I hope if it continues it is establishing a familiarity and trust between artists from these different groups.
