Elizabeth Malaska, Still Life on War Rug, 2016, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and graphite on canvas (2017)
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
Elizabeth Malaska, They Took Me and Split Me Open From Scalp to Crotch, and Still I’m Alive, and Walk Around Pleased With the Sun and All the World’s Bounty, 2011, oil, gesso, charcoal & pencil on tea-stained canvas, 60 x 47″
Elizabeth Malaska, Maidens, 2019, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 60×84″
The Seattle Artist League is three years old. We’ve put on art walk events, Big League Shows, art parties, and hundreds of art classes. Thanks to you, we have grown a lot in three years! We are so glad you are part of who we are as a school.
The Migration Series In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty paintings about the Great Migration, the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Lawrence’s work is a landmark in the history of modern art and a key example of the way that …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. TONDO At my recent artist’s talk, Suzanne …
I posted yesterday about the burning of Notre Dame. The medieval cathedral was home to many paintings, musical instruments, religious relics, and stained glass, and the building itself was a work of art. Since yesterday’s post, I’ve been collecting status updates for artworks and the cathedral, working to find out which artworks escaped the fire, …
Elizabeth Malaska
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
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