Featuring Guest Mural Artists: Susan Greene and Lisa Nessan
The Olympia Center, 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 26th, The Olympia-Rafah Mural Project presents a full day of workshops led by a team of artists and community members for Olympia residents and artists. Workshops will focus on developing themes and design ideas for a mural to be painted in downtown Olympia later this year honoring connections between Olympia and the town of Rafah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The mural will be an expression of a people’s recognition of the Olympia-Rafah Sister City connection. It will honor that relationship and, also, the common struggles for justice and the hidden histories that impact members of this community. Saturday’s workshops will be from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm, at The Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St. NW, in downtown Olympia. A light lunch will be provided.
Artists Susan Greene and Lisa Nessan of Break the Silence Mural Project in the San Francisco Bay Area, will share their work painting murals in the United States and in Palestine and discuss the power of mural art to spark action for social justice. They will provide guidance for the Olympia-Rafah Mural Project and help create a foundation for the elements of the final mural image. They will, also, address the public mural painting process as a tool for human rights advocacy through education and creation of a culminating mural celebration. Saturday’s workshops will include creative breakout sessions, exploration of proposed mural themes, a visit to the wall site, assembling images, and working with art materials to conceptualize and gather preliminary sketches for the mural.
The workshops will provide local artists a unique opportunity to learn about the process of painting a collaborative public mural as they, also, learn more about the Israeli- Palestinian conflict within the framework of human rights and art.
The free events are sponsored by The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, and The Olympia-Rafah Sister City Project. For more information call (360) 754-3998 or email .
Male art model available
Contributed by Allan White
Male Art model available for drawing groups and other art classes. Can model for drawing, painting sculpture or other mediums. Characteristics: 33 years old, tall lanky, slender muscular build, long, carmel blond/brown hair. Resume, photos, and references available upon request. For more info, contact Allan at: or 253-732-5187.
Here Today Temporary Public Art Project
Contributed by Stephanie Johnson
CALL TO ARTISTS Here Today Temporary Public Art Project Deadline: November 16, 2007
The City of Olympia is commissioning artists to create temporary public art projects/installations in downtown Olympia August 1-31, 2008. “Here Today” celebrates a sense of place through performance, visual, literary, moving picture or any other artistic medium. It’s about learning some of the ropes of public art. For a prospectus, look online at www.olympiawa.gov/cityservices/par, email Stephanie Johnson, Arts & Events Manager at or call 360/709-2678.
First Night volunteer roundup - Oct. 14
Contributed by Alicia
First Night Tacoma-Pierce County is looking for volunteers to help out with its New Years Eve event.
Volunteers are invited to attend an open house/free pizza event at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, at King's Books in Tacoma.
For details or contact information, go to http://www.kingsbookstore.com/events.html#FirstNight
First Night Tacoma-Pierce County - Call to Artists due Oct. 31
Contributed by Alicia
Will we be talking about YOUR fabulousness in 2008?
First Night Tacoma-Pierce County is looking for artists of every ilk -- music, performance, visual, etc. -- to apply to take part in the fabulousness that will be taking place this Dec. 31, 2007.
Green Change invites writers, musicians, videographers, photographers, poets, and other artists to submit their work for the launch of Greenchange.com.
Greenchange.com is a new network for people with Green values to share, organize, and change the world.
We seek original work to help build a vibrant Green counterculture. In particular, we want outstanding essays, articles, music, video, photos, short stories, poetry, and art from people with Green values. We’re open to nearly any topic, but we especially want to feature work that is thoughtful or inspiring. Click the link below to find out more.
