"Migration" (part 4 of 8)

I watched my father bend
to pick up grain
where the forest had been.
he straightened when a bird called
but couldn’t place its memory.

he sat down with a bottle
and painted colors on his brain,
but they were gone by morning.

he was left with sweat
in an empty field
drained by roads
that lead to cities.

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Every Friday for a total of 8 weeks I will post a section of a poem cycle called “Migration,” along with a painting of the same name. This week’s poetry selection is a reflection on the greatest migration in human history, the movement of individuals and communities from rural-agrarian to urban-industrial environments.

Please tune in every Friday to check out this work, and visit my painting website at www.scottezellgallery.com.

Scott Ezell

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Slideluckpotshow: Call for submissions

I was amazed the first time I checked out the slideluckpotshow; food, booze and great photography, how could you go wrong? If you’re a photographer, this is a great way to showcase your work. If you love photography its a great show. But if you want to truly want to enjoy the evening you have to participate in the pot luck dinner, socializing is very much a part of what this event so much fun!



SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008. 7pm potluck.
Ouch My Eye studios 1022 First Ave S, near Safeco Field.

the THEME is.......GO LOCAL. The subject matter is open, but you have to make it in Seattle or closely neighboring regions. We often overlook the spaces closest to us while hearing the call to explore exotic locales worldwide. Here is a chance to pause and contemplate our surroundings.

Deadline for entries is April 5th. Submission guidelines can always be found at http://slideluckpotshow.com/

If you want to do something outside the box, just let me know.
You can ftp your submissions or mail me a cd.

ftp your submissions here:
host/url: ivan.dreamhost.com
username: seattleslideluck
password: ogslps

Slideluckpotshow
1901 N 35th St Seattle WA 98103

For more info email Shannon Wells at slideluckseattle@gmail.com

Capsule Magazine: Call for designers for 2008

Capsule is looking for product designers, fashion designers, fashion photographers and artists, for this year’s Capsule Magazine 2008. If you or someone you know creates culture, design, art, fashion, or even if you have had the opportunity to work with someone cool in these fields, send us your stuff.

Capsule is a local San Francisco based magazine focused on culture, lifestyle, and the full spectrum of the design disciplines. It reaches the greater bay area with about 15,000 – 20,000 copies. It’s a casual independent magazine published about two or three times a year, May and October are for definite.

If you have an interview piece or pics of your work, please list your direct contact, In general please make sure to send all information that you want posted with your photos, art or what ever -, i.e. your name, contact, a pic, a brief bio etc. in the mag.

Please send submissions to scott@capsulesf.com. Deadline: MARCH 20th.

Want to learn more about? Check out http://capsulesf.com/

"Take a Seat" Exhibition at Drop City Gallery

As a product designer (no, not the software kind) I can't wait to check out this show at the Drop City Gallery.



"Take a Seat"

Take a Seat will feature original chair designs by fifteen artists, architects, designers and craftsmen...

Steve Clark - Parker Hatfield - Milan Heger - Clare GrahamSeth Grizzle & Jonathan Junker - Elena Korakianitou Gregory Lewis - Amy Pruzan - Ron Reeder - James Reinhardt
Judith Roan - Robert Rowland - Dave Smith - Timea Tihanyi
Ellen Ziegler

Each one-of-kind chair is made of recycled, salvaged and/or reclaimed materials.
All chairs are built by their designers giving each submission a distinct and unique personality.
The various disciplines and backgrounds of each individual make for different approaches to this task, leaving us with fifteen distinct solutions to one challenge.
Come see the talent that is taking a seat in Seattle.


Please join us at Drop City Gallery for an opening reception with the artists
Friday, February 15th, 2008
from 6-9pm

Located at:
Drop City Gallery
Lower level:
964 Denny Way
Seattle, WA 98109
206.624.2150
www.dropcitygallery.com

This show will run from February 15th – March 29th, 2008 For further questions please contact the curator, Erika Fairman, at 206.624.2150 or erika@dropcitygallery.com

"Migration" (part 3 of 8)

I was born homeless,
but with a roof on my back
and an instinct toward the sea.
I crawled from a nest
of broken yolk and shells
and blindly turned
to a violence of waves
that pulled me under
toward refracted light and space—

I followed birds that fly
straight out from shore with
an instinct to an island
they have never seen,
where nothing exists
but procreation,
the bones of ancestors
crumpled into dust.

the horizon
swallows tongues,
a zipper in the ocean’s skin
opens into silence.

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Every Friday for a total of 8 weeks I will post a section of a poem cycle called “Migration,” along with a painting of the same name. This week’s poetry selection explores the connection between the geographical migrations of my own life with those of ancient peoples across oceans. Please tune in every Friday to check out this work, and visit my painting website at www.scottezellgallery.com.

Scott Ezell

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

University of Washington Photographers Group Exhibit

For more info: www.depts.washington.edu/uwpgroup

Pacific Northwest Art Annual: Call for Entries

In 1960, The Erb Memorial Union (EMU) at the University of Oregon established an art
acquisition program to purchase works for the EMU’ permanent art collection, in various media created by Pacific Northwest artists.

Over the past 40 years, the EMU has purchased approximatley 40 pieces on behalf of the U of O student body and as a highlight in the community we encourage you to submit your work and be a part of the 2008 PACIFIC NORTHWEST ART ANNUAL.

This year we are only accepting work from Emerging or Established artists, which means if you are a student, we would ARE accepting work from B.F.A. and M.F.A. candidates

POSTMARKED DEADLINE IS APRIL 1st, 2008
Click here to download the PDF application

Jurors include: Adell McMillan, Founder of the Pacific Northwest Art Annual; Kelly Rauer of the Portland Art Center; Andy O' Brien, M.F.A Candidate University of Oregon; Clint Brown, Professor Emeritus Oregon State University; Simone Coker, Visual Arts Coordinator

Important Dates:
Postmarked deadline: April 1, 2008
Selection process: April 4-6 and April 11-13
Notification via Phone or Email: April 13,14
Opening Reception and Best In Show Announcement: May 1
Opening: May 1

Thank you for your time and feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Simone Coker
Visual Arts Coordinator
University of Oregon Cultural Forum
541.346.0007 (w)
847.997.9118 (c)
scoker@uoregon.edu
http://culturalforum.uoregon.edu

"Migration" (part 2 of 8)

Migration (part 2 of 8)


in place of my heart an engine
runs on processed crude
and drives me to
extremities of need,
freeways gun straight and hard
to the edge of continental dust,
10 million years’
migration and decay,
the gnaw of oceans,
sediment of bones and songs—



the throttle yawns
within my ribs,
distance is a stain
of engine oil,
avatar of sun
dug up in muck to burn
in a carburated cylinder
you spin to gamble
one bullet against one hope,
a roulette to see
who will fuck
who will climax
and who descends
thru brain pulp and metal junk
to where violence compends
in the rusting silence of machines,



how will you market it,
who’ll pay top dollar.

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Every Friday for a total of 8 weeks I will post a section of a poem cycle called “Migration,” along with a painting of the same name. This week’s poetry selection explores the evolution of the human relationship to machines and industry. Please tune in every Friday to check out this work, and visit my painting website at www.scottezellgallery.com.

Scott Ezell

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

“Migration,” a poem cycle by Scott Ezell

Migration (part 1 of 8)

the horizon line congeals
from a 1000-mile migration,
the sea opens in a wake
of widening water trails,
the ocean loam plowed open
by a bone hook
and a stone blade,
chickens and taro
in the holds of hollowed palms,
outrigger canoes with 3-edged sails:

thatch houses
broadcast south
along archipelagos
pioneered by
wedge-winged birds
beating into
distance and return,
beyond the continents
of human ken—

islands rise
from Pacific blue
like amphibians,
low and long,
with teeth raised into clouds
and tails that moult
from green to blue,
lipped with shimmers of sand
and wreathed in tropic flowers—

I was here
a thousand years ago,
and now return,
having never left.

diesel engines burn,
and heft the metal hull
thru swells
out on the open sea,
between two islands
where asphalt roads
cut edges into jungle,
palm huts stand gray
in a moulting rain
next to cinderblock homes
with metal sinks that
empty into reefs.
papaya trees grow
from trash heaps,
naked children leap
into water luminous blue—

coconuts curve their trunks into the wind,
the coral shore recedes,
the ocean loam spreads open into
curls of engine wash,
cloud-light rolls
flat and silver
across the sea,
the horizon line dissolves.

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In September 2007 I traveled to New Caledonia, an island nation between Australia and Fiji, for an art residency with two abroriginal sculptors from Taiwan. The theme of the residency was the great Austronesian migrations south from China across the Pacific and Indian Oceans that reached Madagascar to the west, Easter Island to the east, and New Zealand to the south.

My work from the residency is centered on the theme of migration—not only the ancient sea-trails, but also the ways migration manifests in contemporary life when we move to and away from places, relationships, and stages of life.

Every Friday for the next 8 weeks I will post a section of a poem cycle called “Migration,” along with a painting of the same name. Please tune in to check out this work, and visit my painting website at www.scottezellgallery.com.

Scott Ezell

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

We're kicking off the 2008 with 2 new shows...

Thursday Jan 10th: Darin Shuler Reception from 5 to 7pm


"Time Tear" 24" X 36" digital print


"Time Elastic" A show of new digital prints by Darin Shuler.

Can two moments in time coexist? A collection of digital prints, Time Elastic is a science fiction daydream about breaking the rules of Time. With a mod twist, this work is reminiscent of surrealist and 60’s psychedelic art.

Learn more about Darin by visiting his web site

Location: The Shilshole Bay Beach Club 6413 Seaview Ave NW (Ballard)

Show runs from Jan. 10 through Feb. 21, 2008



Friday Jan 11th: David Chula Tupper Reception from 7 to 9pm



"By Another Hand " 30" X 40" Acrylic


"Tales from the Shore"
A show of new work by David Chula Tupper

A 2007 participant of CoCA's annual Painting marathon, as well as a veteran of many CoCA events, David has participated in numerous solo shows and group and juried exhibitions.

Most recent solo venues include the Debra Owens Gallery in San Diego, CA, and a show at the Friesen Gallery in Seattle, entitled "You're Innocent When You Dream".

Learn more about David by visiting his web site

Location: Reception is above the gallery in the Avenue One condos on the corner of First & Clay (Belltown)

Show runs from Jan. 11 through Feb. 21, 2008

Ann Thorpe at the UW Kane Hall 1/15/08

Ann Thorpe on The Central Debates of Sustainable Design.
1/15/08: University of Washington, Kane Hall – room 210.
Talk and Q&A at 7:00 – 8:15 pm Reception to follow until 9:00.

Ms Thorpe is pursuing research on cultural aspects of sustainable design, underpinned by theories of human needs, sustainable consumption and design process and practice. Her work grows out of research she conducted for her book The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability (Island Press) and embraces economic and cultural elements of sustainability, along with ecological ones. She is particularly interested in the role of digital economies and information networks in sustainable design.

News for Designers

HUES is a recently founded nonprofit organization for people of color in the design industries. www.designersofcolor.org



Premsela, the Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, recently introduced a website it touts as "the premier international online guide" to design in the Netherlands. The English-language site features product news, interviews with designers, international events calendar, exhibitions, critical columns, and more. www.design.nl


Van Alen Institute
2008–2009 New York Prize Fellowships
Deadline: March 7, 2008

Van Alen Institute invites proposals for public projects from emerging scholars and practitioners in the design and planning disciplines and other fields in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Up to five Van Alen Institute Resident Fellowships and one Partnered Fellowship with the Social Science Research Council will be awarded for residency periods of three months in the fall, spring, or summer of 2008–2009. Fellowship awards include project support, work and gallery space at the Institute, publication in Public Practice, stipend, and a range of project production, research, and programming resources. www.vanalen.org/nyprize/application_callforfellows.html

Health Insurance

We're all familiar with the starving artist stereotype, well that just might be a bad case of tape worm. The good news is that slots are now open in Washington State's Basic Health care plan...

The Washington State Health Care Authority has announced 4,000 new slots for eligible residents in the Basic Health program. Part of the Washington Artists Health Insurance Project (WAHIP), a long-term effort to improve artists' access to health insurance in this state, Basic Health is state-sponsored and provides affordable health care coverage through private health plans.

The program covers Washington state residents who are within specific income guidelines and who are not eligible for Medicare, not institutionalized at the time of enrollment, and not attending school full time in the United States on a student visa. For income guidelines click here.

For enrollment details click here. For more information, call Basic Health at 1-800-660-9840 or visit Basic Health. For more information about WAHIP and other health insurance resources, visit Artist Trust.

Seeking Blog submissions

CoCA would like nothing more than to have a blog that reflects the vast diversity of what makes Seattle such a creative city to live in. Do you like music, dance, theater, design, etc? Whatever your passion, now is your chance to be heard!.

• Writers: Submit finished pieces of approximately 1000 words or less.
• Artists: Submit up to 4 quality jpegs of your work. Any writing piece accompanying the art should be 500 words or less.
• Provide links relevant to the content of the piece submitted. Also provide photographs, drawings, and other support materials for each piece as needed (jpeg only).
• Include credits and captions for any images, photographs, or drawings submitted. If the images are not your own, copyright permissions need to be obtained and submitted to CoCA before posting.
• Have any other idea that you think is interesting? Send us an email and tell us about it.

Send submissions to:

blog@cocaseatle.org