You’re at a fancy celebration; black tie, evening gowns, crystal and white table linens.
You notice a humble man dressed in a blue work shirt and pants walking in. His eyes dart around the large room looking for an available seat.
“The Giving of Art — The Art of Giving” is an art sale organized by
11 Whidbey Island artists who wish to emphasize the ability to make a difference both locally and globally with the giving of art.
The sale opens Friday, Dec. 14 and runs through Sunday, Dec. 16 in the Front Room gallery in the Bayview Cash Store.
The artists are making one-of-a-kind pieces specifically for holiday gift giving while also raising funds for two carefully selected charities, Operation: Sack Lunch and Children’s House International.
A percentage of all the artists’ proceeds will go to the organizations.
Artists and artisans participating in the sale include Tohnia Alexander, handmade soaps in lovely Scott Alexander wooden boxes; Maryon Attwood, functional ceramics, sunflower-tiles and platters; Adriana Gallagher, comment-worthy felted wool scarves; Elizabeth Haughton, mixed-metal jewelry; Robbie Lobell, soda/wood-fired and award-winning pottery; Sarena Mann, figurative papier maché mobiles; Barbara Stout, Taoist inspired works on paper; Tree Top Bakers, delicious holiday baked-goods; Michel Tsouris, small encaustic paintings and “ridiculous chicken paintings” and Jane Winslow, visual photographic poems.
Beverly Graham is a recording artist who started Operation: Sack Lunch to feed the working poor and homeless on the streets of Seattle.
The program has served more than 1.3 million meals since 1989 and currently serves 18,000 meals each month in the Seattle area.
What do you intend to do today? Not your itinerary; go to work, spend time with family. But your specific intentions: How will you affect the people in your home before you head out the door? How many people will you smile at today at work? How will you rejuvenate yourself before coming back home and how will you end your day?
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Though two of the artists are sisters, the three women showing this month at Karlson/Gray Gallery in Langley all very much do their own thing.
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Curled up on a soft bed in the living room, he raises his head and looks up with eyes that emit pure unqualified love and forgiveness.
Yet, his own life has been one of abandonment. His body is full of the physical scars of abuse and neglect, his eyes hold the emotional scars.
Imagine yourself in your sickbed.
You need medication but that means overcoming the monumental task of getting your doctor to see you right away in order to get a prescription and then dragging your sick self to his office and then to the pharmacy before getting back to the relief of your bed.
Fred Bixby, this month’s Hometown Hero, lives his life with his glass three-quarters full.
Says paratransit service driver Phyllis Brett, “He could probably complain about a lot of things I would imagine — but he never does.
