Current Exhibition:
The 2023 Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Exhibition: Process is a Loop and a Line
September 25 - November 3, 2023
Opening Celebration: Wed.Sept. 27, 4-6pm
SMG opening: Fri., October 6, 6-8pm
To mark the Seattle Metals Guild’s 35th year, the theme of this year’s member biennial exhibition is Process is a Loop and a Line. Along with the finished work, the show includes process ephemera that document the development of ideas. These process materials represent all the work that extends out into time and space beyond any individual completed work.
Past Exhibitions:
2023-2023 North Seattle College Continuing Education Art Exhibition
July 178 - August 17, 2023
NSC Continuing Education and the NSC Art Gallery present a showcase of artwork by CE students from the last year.
Student Art Exhibition
May 15 - June 15, 2023
The NSC Art Department and the NSC Art Gallery present a showcase of artwork by students from the last year. Until May 31st voting will be open for People's Choice Award, so please visit the NSC Art Gallery to see the exhibition and cast one vote for your favorite piece.
About Helen Ramona P2
March 13 - April 28, 2023
Artist's Exhibition Statement:
Janelle Abbott’s 2023 series “Helen Ramona” is dedicated to and inspired by the artists late grandmother of the same name. In this iteration, Abbott utilizes fashion, painting, and furniture to contemplate the stages of a life lived, and the narrative void left in the absence of the dead—illustrating the creative power of the living to memorialize and mythologize those who have gone before us. Large scale paintings of weeping roses are juxtaposed by a series of translucent white garments representing the transformation of Helen Ramona from child to eternal spirit.
About the Zero Waste Methodology
The zero waste patterns are like giant puzzles where each piece fits perfectly into the next so that nothing fabric is wasted. When cut and assembled, these pattern pieces become a garment; deconstructed, they can be returned to a perfect rectangle of fabric. Comparatively, traditional pattern drafting wastes 15% of materials in conjunction with garment production. Zero waste honors the time, energy, labor, and natural resources imbued within the material world—it can also provide artists and designers with an opportunity to extend their creative capacity by working within strict limitations. The JRAT brand of zero waste design extends beyond pattern drafting and includes the exclusive use of post-consumer waste such as found or donated clothing, dead-stock textiles, and factory off cuts.
About the Artist
Janelle Abbott (JRAT) was born into the fashion industry—her parents owned a clothing manufacturing company where they produced Tencel garments in Seattle for over 20 years. This early exposure to the behind the scenes of garment production gave Janelle a sense of reverence for the labor involved in creating clothing. She received a BFA in fashion design from Parsons School of Design in 2012. In the face of the exploitive labor and environmental damage perpetrated by corporate fashion, Janelle decided to carve her own path—one committed to upcycling, sustainability, hand craft, and the zero waste design methodology. Densely pleated, boldly clashing, and unexpectedly rhythmic, Janelle’s work is scrappy, unapologetic, and a testament to just how much time and energy it takes for real humans to manufacture and produce every consumer product we engage with.
Ideas of Home
January 23 - March 3, 2023
When we think about home each of us conjures a different image, and these continue to morph and change throughout our lives. For some, home is the container—the place—that holds our daily activities; for others it is where our emotions and memories dwell; for still others it is about those we care most about; and for some it is all of these. The concept of home also brings to mind a balance of scarcity and abundance, the transitional nature of place, as well as what it means to build a home. After the last few years in which most of us spent more time “at home” than we ever imagined we would, ideas of home have expanded. The eight artists whose work is included in this show are brought together around this theme of home, though their standpoints and perspectives may differ.
Participating Artists:
Martha Armstrong: www.marthaarmstrong.com
Tyanna Buie: tyannajbuie.com
Olivia Fredricks: oliviamfredricks.com
Shruti Ghatak: shrutighatak.com
Ariston Jacks: www.aristonjacks.com/fineart
Kathy Liao: www.kathyliao.com
Daphne Minkoff: dminko.otherpeoplespixels.com
Markeith Woods:www.markeithwoods.com
Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction
November 14, 2022 – January 13, 2023
In the art world the word abstraction is slippery in its meaning and the category is large. There are many connotations. It presumes many different visions and ways of working all pulled out of the representational world and distinct. For this exhibition we look toward work that takes a concept to its core with a clarified aspect. But even in the included pieces by these seven artists there are many ways of working. For some it might be a considered simplification, the concept distilled to its essential parts, whittled down. For some they submerge themselves in a place or ingest a researched idea distilling it to its essential parts, iterating and perhaps reiterating it after much time circling the mind. For all of the included artists what you are seeing is an offering of something of the repeated trace of the original idea. Whether simple or complex in its aspect each is made with a highly considered touch or gesture, honed.
Participating Artists:
Lydia Bassis: https://www.lydiabassis.com/
Avantika Bawa: https://www.avantikabawa.net/
Susan Belau: https://susanbelau.com/
Sue Danielson: https://www.suedanielson.net/
Carole d’Inverno: https://www.caroledinverno.com/
Sara Osebold: https://www.soseboldart.com/
Megan Prince: https://www.meganprince.com/
(a) relation of body to water
September 26 - November 4, 2022
Water is a multifaceted and, of course, fluid proposition and as we approach it the relationship builds in complication. Through dependance, power, comfort, worship, fear, and the many ways we envision this natural resource our connections and viewpoints multiply. (a) relation of body to water is a group exhibition of work by artists who have looked to the entwined relationship of water and people. This exhibition supports these relationships.
Among the pieces in this show are Mayumi Hamanaka’s Invisible Lands which presents what the sea has stolen and given back as gifts, redistributing wealth. Jen Shaw’s Flood State expresses the uncertainty of living in Louisiana where humans and water are constantly at odds. Ethan Bickel swims in the waters surrounding Seattle as a daily healing practice and his photographs document his interaction. All of the artists in this exhibition delve into our ties to water and what we imbue it with.
Participating Artists:
Ethan Bickel, ethanbickel.net
Sheila Coppola, duwamishresidency.com/sheila-coppola
Mayumi Hamanaka, mayumihamanaka.com
Gene Gentry McMahon, northwestworklofts.com/gene-gentry-mcmahon/
Natalie Niblack, natalieniblack.com
Joaquin Palting, joaquinpalting.com
Samantha Scherer, samanthascherer.com
Jen Shaw, tracy-simpson.com
2021-2022 North Seattle College Continuing Education Art Exhibition
July 19 - August 18, 2022
NSC Continuing Education and the NSC Art Gallery present a showcase of artwork by CE students from the last year. Until August 5th voting will be open for People's Choice Award, so please visit the NSC Art Gallery to see the exhibition and cast one vote for your favorite piece. Gallery hours for the summer are Tuesday & Wednesday 12-2pm and 5-7pm and Thursday & Friday 12-2pm.
2021-2022 North Seattle College Juried Student Art Exhibition
May 16 - June 16, 2022
The NSC Art Department and the NSC Art Gallery present a showcase of artwork by students from the last year. Until May 31st voting will be open for People's Choice Award, so please visit the NSC Art Gallery to see the exhibition and cast one vote for your favorite piece.
Extracurricular lll
March 14 - April 28th
Extracurricular features the work of the practicing Artists who comprise the North Seattle College Art Department. This exhibition highlights current work by this incredible group of makers. Our art faculty and techs create work that is not only inspiring to the community in which live but serves as inspiration for the students they teach. Their individual artistic practices are central to their teaching curriculum and in turn the experiences they have in the classroom greatly impact their work. Do not miss this chance to see what our outstanding group of teaching artists has been working on when not in the classroom.
Participating Artists and their Classes/Roles at NSC:
Ling Chun – Ceramics
Emily Gherard – Drawing
Michelle Kelly – Painting/Drawing
Amanda Knowles – Printmaking/Drawing
Barbara Knuth – Jewelry and Metalsmithing
Paul Komada – Digital Art
Kelda Martensen – Printmaking/Drawing/Painting
Daphne Minkoff – Painting
Joaquin Palting – Digital Photography
Paula Rebsom – Sculpture/Ceramics/2D and 3D Design
Aaron Scofield – Jewelry Tech
The Sun, The Moon, & Stars
January 31 - March 3, 2022
The sky holds intrigue. During the day when the sun reigns we can believe that we are the center of the universe. Once the sun sets and we gaze out into space filled with millions of other stars and planets we see our insignificance. All cultures honor these heavenly bodies through art, poetry, films and song. We all stand side by side looking out from our place in the universe and marvel.
In this show seven artists look into space for their motivation – seeing it through a telescope, watching the patterns that the stars make as they traverse the sky, tracking time, creating a vision of history and the future – all read into the sky just above our heads.
Participating Artists:
Daniel Carrillo
Rebecca Cummins
Louise Fisher
Patricia Lagarde
Kirk Lang
Nora Pauwels
Anna Von Mertens
