Fall Arts Lineup

WHATCOM MUSEUM ANNOUNCES FALL ARTS LINEUP
Local history, national artist featured

Bellingham, WA, July 19, 2011 — This fall at the Whatcom Museum promises a variety of cultural experiences for visitors, from the dramatic, experimental artworks of Brooklyn, NY-based artist Lesley Dill, to the remarkable legacy of Bellingham photojournalist Jack Carver, plus a short and sweet selection of prints from the collection. Program highlights range from artist talks and after-hours live music to art workshops, family activities, weaving demonstrations and the popular Native Art Market.

Exhibitions

A Paper Trail: Prints from the Collection

October 1 – November 13, 2011

Highlighting important and unusual works in the collection, including new acquisitions by Michael Spafford, and  Darren Waterston, A Paper Trail explores printmaking, contrasting and comparing styles, techniques and subject matter through a variety of works, including those by Guy Anderson, Christo, Richard Diebenkorn,  Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore,  Bridget Riley and Jay Steensma.

Curated by Scott Wallin

Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan

October 23, 2011 - March 4, 2012

Lesley Dill is one of the most prominent American artists working at the intersection of language and fine art. Her elegant sculptures, art installations, mixed-media photographs, and evocative performances draw from both her travels abroad and profound interests in spirituality and the world’s faith traditions. Exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche, Dill invests new meaning in the human form. Intellectually and aesthetical engaging, the core of her work emerges from an essential, visionary awareness of the world.

Curator of Art Barbara Matilsky authored the catalogue and curated the show, which will travel nationally.

Delivered Daily: The News Photography of Jack Carver

Nov. 19 – March 25, 2012

Jack Carver was The Bellingham Herald staff photographer from October 1945 to August 1981. This exhibition curated by Jeff Jewell, photo archivist, will feature images selected from the photographer’s  remarkable legacy of  50,000 negatives and 20,000 original prints. For decades, the newspaper credited his photos to an anonymous “Herald Staff,” but area residents knew who Jack Carver was. He seemed to be at every community event, however momentous or modest, with his 4x5 Speed Graphic press camera. Carver’s high-resolution images document nearly forty years in the history of Bellingham and Whatcom County.

Events and Programs

Aglow: A Shimmering Evening for the Whatcom Museum

Saturday, October 1

Gala Dinner and Auction

6-9:30; black tie optional

Artist Talk: Lesley Dill

Sunday October 23, 2011, 2 PM

$3 suggested donation/members free

Family Activity Day

Saturday October 29, 2011, Noon-5 PM
$3 suggested donation includes admission/members free

Curator’s Tour/Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan

Thursday November 3, 12:30-1:30 PM (Brown Bag Series)

$3 suggested donation/members free

Artist Presentation: Pat Spark

Saturday, November 5, 7 PM

$3 suggested donation/Museum & Guild members free

Artist and author Pat Spark with a lively program on the progression of her fiber art.

Workshop: Optical Color Blending for Feltmakers and Spinners Cosponsored by Whatcom Weavers Guild.

Sunday, November 6, 10 AM – 4 PM

$90/$80 Museum & Guild members; plus  $25 materials fee

Mixing fiber is not the same as mixing paint! Learn optical blending theories needed for mixing fibers in feltmaking and spinning.

Art Walk

Friday November 4, 6-9 PM

Free! See Lesley Dill exhibition

Whatcom Weaver’s Guild show, demonstration and sale

Saturday November 19, Noon-4 PM

$3 suggested donation/Members free

Beautiful, informative, enlightening — and good shopping!

Mixit

Saturday December 3, 8-11 PM

$10/$5 members

The after-hours Mixit series is equal parts dance party, gallery walk and hands-on art project. Shimmer and shake for the final Mixit of the year! Music TBD.

Native Art Market and Family Activity Day, Co-sponsored by Northwest Indian College

Saturday and Sunday December 10- 11

$3 includes admission/members free

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