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Farewell to Rain Village

Community Exhibition Closing Reception August 5

How do you create Home?

Since 2018, multidisciplinary artist Soo Hong has pondered this question. Rain Village is a community arts project that brings together communities in conversation and creation on the topics of belonging and mutual empathy. Using the symbol of a raindrop, Soo invites patrons to participate in an example of social practice by creating 3D ceramic sculptures of participants drawings, interactive decals, and - with this interaction - completing a mural of a topographic map of Kirkland. As a guest of the gallery, you are encouraged to add raindrops to the map, as well as view artworks on display that were created in separate iterations of this project in Seattle, Redmond, Issaquah, and Bellevue. 

Featured Artists: You! There are many participatory elements of the Rain Village Project. Come visit and leave your mark.

Closing Reception: Friday, August 5, 6 pm - 8 pm

Exhibition Dates: June 8 – August 6, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Fridays 12 pm – 6 pm, Saturdays 12 pm – 4 pm

More Information Here

Seattle Art Fair Recap

We were thrilled to be invited to be part of the Seattle Art Fair this year.

Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, returned to the Lumen Field Event Center July 21-24 for the fair's celebrated weekend, bringing 85 top local, national, and international galleries together with the region's strong collector base.

Seattle Art Fair's anticipated sixth edition also highlighted the region's museums and institutions while featuring an array of innovative installations, events, talks, and performances curated by author, curator, and self-described “cultural infrastructure builder” Nato Thompson, returning again as the fair's Artistic Director.

It was an honor to be visited by so many incredible people from the community.

Special thanks to KAC Gallery Director Miha Sarani and all who made this possible, especially our extraordinary gallery team, including Ellen and Holly, our teaching artists for displaying their wonderful work, as well as everyone who helped staff the booth throughout the event - Will, Rupa, Steph, Danielle, Amy, Julia, John, Denise, Eleanor, Benjamin, Shayla, Audrey, Jesse and Sean.

More Information Here

New Exhibition: Snow Lake by Tara Kraft

Open now at Kirkland Public Library

Rocks ooze time and change. When I look at rocks, I imagine the eons of geologic movement that created them. It is a huge expanse of time that dwarfs our tiny existence. To lovingly study rocks connects me to the natural world in its immensity, but also in its particulars. It brings life into perspective. It places humanity into a larger, epochal scale of time, one we must consider more as we face the consequences of our impact on the planet.

I meet rocks while hiking, and there are few hikes as iconic and well-known as the Snow Lake Trail. It is not unusual to pass a hundred hikers on a weekend trip. The dramatic views of Snoqualmie Pass and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness are stunning, but I’ve chosen not to paint a grand view of the landscape. Though I love the landscape, I am uncomfortable with the associations that view has with conquest and consumption, from so-called manifest destiny to glossy social media. Instead I focus on small pieces of the trail, small pieces that contain whole worlds, to encourage consideration and contemplation.

I think of my painting process as geology in fast-forward. I build up layers, scraping texture back, allowing my materials to express their unique physical properties. I enjoy the endlessly alluring play of paint that creates unexpected and powerful moments.

More information about the artist can be found at: http://www.tarakraftart.com/

New Exhibition: The Truth is Out There

Opening August 24

The final curatorial project of Kirkland Art Center Curator J. Gordon and Geneva Baldauf, Gallery Strega, entitled The Truth is Out There, looks at the intersection of art and science through the slightly cracked lens of the wunderkammer, or the cabinet of curiosities. Featuring works from over a dozen artists from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond and in partnership with the Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop, the exhibition examines the worldly and otherworldly connections to oddities and artifacts within contemporary curio culture. 

Featured Artists: 

Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop

Dan Pillers

David Julian

E. Valentine Dewald II

Heather Talbot

Julia Carpenter

Kristen Ferrel

Maja Sereda

Scott Michael Horn

Skylar Fleming

Steve Jensen

Suze Woolf

Tak Hau

Troy Gua

Opening Reception: August 26 from 6-8 PM

Exhibition Dates: August 24 – October 29, 2022

Gallery Hours: Wednesdays – Fridays 12 pm – 6 pm, Saturdays 12 pm – 4 pm

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Thank You Shayla

Thank you so much to Shayla Alarie for her time as our Director of Education.

Shayla was a wonderful member of the KAC team and we wish her all the best on her new, exciting opportunity.