Artist John Wiens shows at Library this June (ARTS-021)

How could you capture 3 dimensional movement in a 2 dimensional medium?

This is a challenge that has fascinated artist John Wiens for more than 50 years — first as an architect, and then later as a sketcher, a watercolor artist, and now as a printmaker, working primarily in BARN’s printmaking studio.

“My artwork,” he says, “is the expression of my joy of being alive. I am in this world and I’m of this world. Art is the act of celebrating that of being alive. To accomplish artwork requires awareness, contemplation, receptiveness, courage, skill, tools and an idea. In my work I’m trying to capture something specific in the people, landscape, or the still life

Come see John’s movement-inspired abstract monotypes at the Bainbridge Library, opening Friday, June 1 from 5-7 pm.

Credits: BCB host: John Fossett; audio tech: Bob Ross; audio editor and social media publisher, Diane Walker.

Abby Wyatt2024-04-26T10:29:21-07:00May 15, 2018|

Land Acknowledgment

“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.” – Chief Seattle 1854

We would like to begin by acknowledging that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors.