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Northwest Painters Show at Nordic Heritage Museum

By Sarah Byam

Flying High by Fred Thomas, on display at the Nordic Heritage Museum.

Jun 13, 2001 -- From June 14 through July 29, the Nordic Heritage Museum will exhibit 60 paintings by some of the Northwest's finest painters in a show titled Epic Passages in Northwest Art. Epic Passages represents the first-ever joint exhibition by the all-male Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters and the all-female Women Painters of Washington. Mayor Paul Schell has declared June 14 "Epic Passages Day" to commemorate the occasion.

The Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters was founded 72 years ago as a creative outlet for artists employed in less creative fields such as architecture and advertising illustration. Two years later, the Women Painters of Washington was founded on a similar premise--there were no professional openings for women artists in 1931, and female artists weren't allowed into the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters.

Together, these two groups comprise much of the Northwest's art history, influenced in their early years by such important art figures as painters Eustace Ziegler and Mark Tobey, sculptor George Tsutakawa and photographer/painter Myra Wiggins. With the Epic Passages show, the Northwest's finest artists enter the new millennium with their first joint venture.

The Womens Painters of Washington currently supports some 130 professional painters, sculptors, printmakers, designers and craftswomen, showing nationally and internationally.

In conjunction with Epic Passages, members of each group will present three free workshops for teens, to be held at the museum on June 16, July 14 and July 28. Artists will work with teens selected from Ballard High School art classes.

The Nordic Heritage Museum is located at 3014 NW 67th Street, just north of the Ballard Locks.

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glenda wiffler	Mar 27, 2005	Tacoma	artist
Call for artists. Rainier League of Arts is presenting and the Washigton State History Museum is sponsoring the Tall Ships Tacoma Art Show at the Washington State History Museum June 22-July 24, 2005. Artists 18 and older may enter by submitting slides to Rainier League of Arts PMB#190, 10611 Canyon Rd. E., Puyallup, WA 98373-4256. One slide is $15,two for $20 and 3 for $30. Artists can go to rainierleagueofarts.com show page and download the prospectus. Be sure to mail to 98373-4256 zip code as prospectus was mailed showing wrong zip code. Glenda Wiffler Show Chairperson