Andrew Hida: THE SLOW HEALING PROJECT

Slowing Healing: Jason, part 1


Café Solstice welcomes the first public exhibition of Andrew Hida's Slow Healing project during the month of May. The show will feature 9 chromogenic prints from the portrait series and 12 giclee prints from the documentary work. An LCD screen will also be setup for the duration of the month streaming the six multimedia videos.

Reception: Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 6-9 pm

When: May 1-May 31, 2009

Where: Café Solstice (University District)
4116 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206.675.0850

The second chapter to Jason's story begins on April 27, 2008, when Jason endures a series of seizures. Only a week before a diagnostic procedure at Swedish Medical Center, Jason and Suzetta hope for a cure to alleviate his overwhelming head and stomach pain. At times this might be difficult to get through, though it is a challenging glimpse of a reality once shared by Jason, Suzetta, and their two kids for three years.

Please follow the link below to Part 2 (16.3 MB):
http://www.andrewhida.com/movs/JSN/20090331_JSN_pt02_002.mov

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT vol. 12--GOING ROGUE

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT vol. 12: GOING ROGUE!



Pecha Kucha Night seattle celebrates the stubborn ingenuity of a few individuals contributing to the creative revolution. Come and reignite your faith in human creativity with bite-sized presentations from those not afraid to step outside the box. Create community, share ideas, get inspired & see great work - we’d love to see you there!

Thursday, April 30th, 2009
6:00 PM Doors Open
6:30 PM Presentations Begin
Ouch My Eye Gallery
1022 1st Ave S., Seattle, WA 98134


PRESENTERS INCLUDE:

• Tamara the Trapeze Lady: Trapeze Artist & Burlesque Dancer
• Sara Imhoff: Founder of IMPRINT Architecture
• Liz Panelo: Creator, Dr. Sketchy’s Seattle
• Chris Toncray: Illustrator, Architect
• Abigail Taylor: Seductive Baker
• Dan Belcher: Design Technologist
• Amanda Swartwout: Karaoke Queen
• John Arthur Morefield: Founder, 5 Cent Architecture
• John Gascon: Occhio
• Nathanael Martin: Sculptor, Designer, Rogueist Extraordinaire
  

About Pecha Kucha
Pecha Kucha (Japanese for the sound of conversation) gathers creative individuals to share their work and ideas in an informal environment. Pecha kucha Night was conceived in 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (from Klein Dytham architecture, in Tokyo), as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to showcase their ideas, visions, work/areas of curiosity.

inquiries: pechakucha.seattle@gmail.com | website: http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/seattle

I know its easy to hate them but sometimes a lawyer is a good thing...

Hello creative artists!

Here's a little contest for you. I have joined the board of directors of Washington Lawyers for the Arts. They helped me out once and do much amazing good work for artists of every ilk. Check out thewla.org for more info.

A topic at my first meeting was the naming of their new newsletter. Some ideas were tossed around, but none of them really stood out, so I thought I would set the challenge before the community we are serving. The name will be used for the newsletter letterhead each month and if we use your idea, you win

• 2 reserved seats to the June 20 Columbia City Cabaret including 1 (one) drink each and chocolate at your table.

The name needs to start with the business name i.e. The Washington Lawyers For The Arts________ (fill in the blank). Something fun or even a bit quirky to disspell the notion of the usual stuffy lawyer stereotype.

Email your ideas to me here by May 5th and I'll let you know what the board decides at the next meeting.

Also! We are interested in profiling artists in this newsletter. If you have had a positive outcome or experience with the WLA we would love to feature your story and a profile of your work. Contact me if you have a story for us and please pass this E-mail around.

Thank you for your time!

xoxo
Tamara the Trapeze Lady

Alaska State Parks: Call for submissions

Art For Alaska Parks – 2009 – Alaska’s Top 30 Competition

• $1000 Grand Prize
• 5 Award Catagories
• Entry Deadline is August 28th 2009

The Art For Alaska Parks competition is designed to celebrate the beauty of Alaska by showcasing representational artists and enhancing public awareness of Alaska Parks and Public Access areas.

Subject matter for the artwork is to be representational in execution and depict the area of a subject from one of Alaska’s State Parks Marine Parks, Recreational Areas, Historical sites or state managed Preserves, Refuges or Critical Habitat Areas. Federal lands and National Parks are not eligible.

Make sure to get a copy of the entry form at:
www.artforalaskaparks.com

DIVA Design Competition: call for submissions

Lisa Krikawa's “Delicate Leaf” Bridal Ring Trio Suite in platinum and diamonds (above)

The Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA) invites designers from all walks of the jewelry industry to submit entries for its DIVA Gives Back design competition. The entry deadline is May 4, 2009, and awards will be announced during the WJA DIVA Awards Party on June 1 at Lavo in Las Vegas’ Palazzo Hotel.

WJA’s annual DIVA Design Competition promotes and encourages jewelry design by women. Open to all women, regardless of experience, training or background in jewelry or jewelry design, the competition is judged by a panel of industry experts who evaluate designs based on their originality, creativity, wearability,\ and interpretation of the competition category.

Full details available at:
http://www.womensjewelry.org/DIVAAwards

1000 Artisan Textiles: Call for entries

Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books is an international publisher of high-quality visual and idea books for design professionals and creative enthusiasts-crafters, artists, and designers. (Check out our distinctive books at: www.quarrybooks.com.)

We are seeking submissions for possible publication in 1000 Artisan Textiles, an upcoming book by Sandra Salamony (author of 1000 Jewelry Inspirations) and Gina M. Brown. We are looking for the finest artisan-made examples of quilts, wall hangings, linens, rugs, baskets, wearable art, home accessories, and fashion accessories; incorporating any number of techniques including felting, hand and machine embroidery, appliqué, dyeing and fabric painting, weaving, beading, and all types of surface decoration.

Full details available at: http://www.sandrasalamony.com/artisantextiles.htm

Love design: What if Pottery barn sold Dildos?

Another great article from Fast Company on the upcoming Milan Furniture Fair. Full article: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/michael-cannell/cannell/milan-preview-love-design

X-Board: Cool green products made from paper

Ever wonder why IKEA furniture is so light? Want to know what’s inside a hollow core door you might find at Lowe’s or Home Depot? In the production process, many manufacturers of inexpensive furniture will add a structural core of paper or fiberboard support. X-Board is a material which is comes in sheet form employing this construction method. It’s composed of recycled honeycomb material which is sandwiched between two layers of thick paper. When the seemingly flexible and flimsy core material is adhered to the paper surfaces, it gives the material structure and incredible rigidity. For the full article: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/recycled-rigid-board-material-furniture-product-design-architecture-x-board.php

Dwell Innovate It: Call for submissions (phase 2)

Dwell is pleased to announce Innovate It! sponsored by the all-new Volkswagen CC. Our spring 2009 design contest and competition are set up in two phases. First, send in suggestions for everyday objects that you think need a rework. Either they don’t function well, are poorly designed or are just downright useless for the task they were designed to perform. Dwell editors will choose the items for redesign. Then the competition phase launches where you are invited to submit design proposals for recreating one (or all) of the three most tragically troublesome objects. You may participate in one or both phases of this contest and there is no limit to the number of entries.

Full details available at: http://www.dwell.com/contests/innovate-it.html

A Graphic Design User's Manual

At first glance Fast Company might appear to be a business rag but if you dig a bit deeper you can appreciate that is is also a great design magazine. Here's a great article on London based graphic designer Adrian Shaughnessy.

The full article is available at: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/alissa-walker/designerati/graphic-design-users-manual-qa-adrian-shaughnessy

Alehouse 2010: Writing submissions

ALEHOUSE PRESS seeks submissions for Alehouse 2010. Now considering short essays (2,000-word maximum) on subjects related to poetry, especially California poets and poetry; plus book reviews of recent publications (750-word maximum).

For more information, please visit http://alehousepress.com or query editor@alehousepress.com.

NAAFA: Call for submissions

You are invited to apply for the Fifth Annual Northwest African American juried Fine Arts Exhibit (NAAFA) for 2009. Artists of African descent living in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon and Washington) are encouraged to showcase their work in this annual exhibit that fosters artistic development, exposure and professionalism throughout the Northwest.

More info available at: http://www.pnaafa.com/CallforArtists.html

Stock artwork, logos, copyright and the power of Twitter. A cautionary tale.

Here's a great story for all you graphic designers, photographers and any other creative that sells to and buys from stock art/photography services.

http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/stock-logos-copyright-twitter/

Free Indesign training

Yes, I said free!

Seattle based Creative Techs will be offering a free 10 week online training series for Indesign CS4. Future free online training will include Illustrator and Flash.

For full details http://creativetechs.com/tipsblog/free-10-week-indesign-course/