[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]We received a second postcard from Thailand! Nikki Barber, the League’s printmaking instructor is spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques.
Nikki sent us another “postcard” via email. Look at her apron. The Seattle Artist League is now officially international!
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Artists from Thailand and nearby countries (plus the USA!)
I had about three people translating for me during the demo. The cool thing about Printmaking is most shops are standardized with similar equipment. Despite the language difference, we were all pretty much on the same page.
I love our art shows! They are big events, over 100 artworks in each of our last two Big League Shows! A fabulous range of artworks and artists collected to form a dynamic and inclusive arts community. Let’s do it again! CALL FOR ART! League members, and everyone who has taken or taught a class at the League …
William Robinson is an Australian painter, born in 1936. His enormous paintings of the Australian landscape often involve multiple perspectives with disorienting and twisting effects. He wants his viewers to feel that they are enclosed within a landscape, having it unfold before them. “Living in the country everything moves—the seasons, the clouds, nothing is set. …
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The lower half of the painting is, I think, some of the best painting I’ve ever done. I consider the upper half of the painting to be unfinished. This painting was a part of my 2016 series Neither Will This Stay; Paintings Full of Emptiness. I was learning to focus with a turbulent mind. I practiced buddhist …
Postcard from Thailand: Nikki teaching at Rajamangala University
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Nikki sent us another “postcard” via email. Look at her apron. The Seattle Artist League is now officially international!
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