NIC exhibit features work by Hawley
Over the past 20 years, MacKenzie Hawley has taught art to hundreds, if not thousands, of students. Hawley’s two decades of teaching are reflected in her acrylic paintings and charcoal drawings on exhibit in “Take Your Seat,” under way in Boswell Hall Corner Gallery on the North Idaho College campus in Coeur d’Alene. The painting “ABC Look at Me” features the bold image of a chair – a prominent item in most educational settings, says Hawley.
“While all chairs perform the same function,” she says, “there may be a variety of shapes, sizes and designs, just as there is a variety of students.”
The Mead artist also uses a lot of square canvases in this exhibition, because, she says, “many students are made to feel that they have to fit into a certain ‘box’ in order to be accepted.
“I believe the arts provide a unique environment in which the students can think and process in nontraditional ways,” she says. “Through the visual arts, many students can excel, find acceptance and discover their personal voice.”
Meet Hawley today at 10:30 a.m. when she leads an informal Gallery Walk. The show is up through Feb. 25. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Whitworth’s ‘Blur Purlieu’
Opening Tuesday on the Whitworth College campus is “Blur Purlieu,” an exhibition featuring prints that explore themes of community and culture.
Organized by artist Candace Nicol of Reno, Nev., the portfolio of work by 19 current or former Idaho residents was first exhibited in New Jersey at the 32nd Southern Graphics Annual Conference 2004.
The title, “Blur Purlieu,” means to obscure or smear edges or neighborhoods.
Artists were asked “to create imagery that examines the evolution of community through the culture of its people,” said Nicol in a news release. They “draw from their own experiences of being placed in a new community.”
Participating artists include May Aboutaam, Stephanie Bacon, Karen Bubb, Laurie Blakeslee, Katie Cepek, Stephanie Dickey, Kirsten Furlong, Megan Jensen, Dan Kolsky, William Lewis, Barbara Madsen, Larry McNeil, Kimiko Miyoshi, Nicol, MaLynda Poulsen-Jones, Brent Smith, Cerese Vaden, Sue Wilson and Melanie Yazzie.
The opening reception on Tuesday runs from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Koehler Gallery in the Fine Arts Building.
Artists Nicol and Poulsen-Jones of Boise will present a lecture, “Blur Purlieu, Community Constructs and Psychological Boundaries,” during the reception at 6 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Hall, Room 203.
The exhibit is up until March 4. Viewing hours are weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information call 777-3258.
‘Hot Rods’ in Moscow
The Third Street Gallery in Moscow, Idaho, is the setting for several dozen “Hot Rod” photographs taken by Peter Vincent on the historic dry lake beds and the Bonneville Salt Flats on the Utah and Nevada border
“My images create a new spatial relationship between hot rods and the landscape,” said Vincent in a news release. “The space formed between the object and the environment has a dignity and a formalistic spatial tension.”
He added: “There are no distractions to wade through in a visual sense. The subject is seen for what it is, an integral part of the landscape.”
An opening reception is Friday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. View the images weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. through April 1. The gallery, located in Moscow City Hall, is on the corner of Third and Washington streets. For information, call (208) 883-7036
CREATE in Newport
“The Cat’s Pajamas,” an art show celebrating the 1920s, opens Friday at the CREATE Place in Newport, Wash.
The art center, 900 W. Fourth St., is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information on the art exhibit or directions, call (509) 447-9277.
WSU Art a la Carte
Washington State University’s spring weekly brown bag lunch lectures series continues next Thursday with Kelly Williams.
In her presentation “Wretched to Radiant,” the Portland artist “takes on the knotty issues of beauty, body image and media manipulation in current culture and contemporary history,” according the Art a la Carte Web page.
She will talk about “her satirical, tongue-in-cheek approach to art making and about how she combines vintage imagery with everything but the kitchen sink to get her message out.”
Bring a sack lunch to the free noon presentation in Compton Union Building, Cascade Room 123 on WSU’s Pullman campus.
Old Hotel in Othello
During February the Old Hotel Art Gallery is showing wood bowls carved by Ken Goodrich of Moses Lake and watercolors by Russian painter Olga Ingbring of Beverly, Wash.
The free gallery, 33 E. Larch St. in Othello, Wash., is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (509) 488-5936 for more information or directions.