The League is proud to announce our official Artist-Not-In-Residence: Patty Haller. She will be using the front studio space to paint a 12′ panel for her January solo show at Smith & Vallee Gallery. As our official Artist-Not-In-Residence, Haller will share her process with League students and V-Notes readers. More to come.
THIS JUST IN: Patty moved in the panels last Friday night with the help of a truck driving, cowboy hat wearing, friendly man she found on the dolly app. (I am so sorry I did not think to take a picture.) Sunday she popped in to say hi to the landscape workshop, and returned with paint supplies. Today a layer of GAC-100 was applied to the front and back of the A&C Elephant panels, to prevent warping.
Welcome to the studio Patty!
Her blog post is below. [image_with_animation image_url=”1795″ alignment=”” animation=”None
Artist Not in Residence
Posted by Patty Haller
My social media feed is full of artist adventure posts. Friends posing near cultural landmarks or in unbelievable nature, arms outstretched in joy. Iceland! Italy! France! Japan! These lucky people are in artist residencies, programs that allow creative people to focus on their work, far away from the distractions of home and family.
The residencies might be near major museums or quite isolated. There’s the bonus of scenic travel through world capitals and great land masses. Photographers, painters and writers arrive and settle into campus life, eating meals together and working solo in white minimalist studios. These programs are markers in a creative life, transformative inflection points.
My personal obligations prevent this exotic travel for the time being. So it is with a great grin that I announce my upcoming residency 4.5 miles away at the Seattle Artist League.
Founders Ruthie V. and Lendy Hensley are creating a new creative community in the N Seattle neighborhood of Greenwood. There are classes and workshops nearly every day for all levels of artists, from newbies to intermediate painters to professional artists trying new media. It’s inclusive, with many ways to get involved including figure drawing, lectures and Ruthie’s excellent daily blog V-Notes. I will be the League’s first artist in residence. Because I won’t actually live there, we are calling me the Artist Not in Residence.
This is perfect! It’s maybe 16 minutes away without traffic, Google tells me. I don’t even need to get on I-5. Inside the spacious, friendly school space is a spacious, friendly bare space. It is there where I will create a twelve foot wide woodland painting inspired by an old growth forest at Mount Rainier.
And now I get serious, which is actually challenging for me when I’m around Ruthie and Lendy, two very funny people. I am sincerely grateful for this chance to create a large scale and ambitious work within an active artist community. The panel painting will be part of my January 2017 solo show at Smith and Vallee Gallery, in Edison, WA. Creating it will involve much of the same technique as my other work, but with much more planning and stamina to create the richness I’m seeking. I’m looking forward to sharing my process with the SAL students and Greenwood Art Walk visitors. I’m eager to exchange ideas with Ruthie and fellow artists. Look for our artist adventure updates starting in the next couple of weeks.
Italy can wait. Besides, Florence doesn’t have a Fred Meyer.
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Patty Haller: The League’s Official “Artist Not in Residence”
The League is proud to announce our official Artist-Not-In-Residence: Patty Haller. She will be using the front studio space to paint a 12′ panel for her January solo show at Smith & Vallee Gallery. As our official Artist-Not-In-Residence, Haller will share her process with League students and V-Notes readers. More to come.
THIS JUST IN: Patty moved in the panels last Friday night with the help of a truck driving, cowboy hat wearing, friendly man she found on the dolly app. (I am so sorry I did not think to take a picture.) Sunday she popped in to say hi to the landscape workshop, and returned with paint supplies. Today a layer of GAC-100 was applied to the front and back of the A&C Elephant panels, to prevent warping.
Welcome to the studio Patty!
Her blog post is below. [image_with_animation image_url=”1795″ alignment=”” animation=”None
Artist Not in Residence
Posted by Patty Haller
My social media feed is full of artist adventure posts. Friends posing near cultural landmarks or in unbelievable nature, arms outstretched in joy. Iceland! Italy! France! Japan! These lucky people are in artist residencies, programs that allow creative people to focus on their work, far away from the distractions of home and family.
My personal obligations prevent this exotic travel for the time being. So it is with a great grin that I announce my upcoming residency 4.5 miles away at the Seattle Artist League.
This is perfect! It’s maybe 16 minutes away without traffic, Google tells me. I don’t even need to get on I-5. Inside the spacious, friendly school space is a spacious, friendly bare space. It is there where I will create a twelve foot wide woodland painting inspired by an old growth forest at Mount Rainier.
Italy can wait. Besides, Florence doesn’t have a Fred Meyer.

Smith and Vallee Gallery,
Edison, WA in the Skagit Valley
Patty’s paintings January 2017
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