4Culture’s Individual Artist Projects funds creative projects for those of us lucky enough to live or visit here. This winter, we have an amazing list of events, presented by our recipients, in the disciplines of visual art, literature and film. Throw on your hat and coat and get out there to see, hear and learn from these terrific artists.
Kevin Heutink: Out on a Limb
December 4, 2011 – 4:15 pm
Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue, Seattle
Free
On December 4th, a free presentation of a new documentary, entitled Out on a Limb by Kevin Heutink will be presented at Northwest Film Forum. This documentary about David ‘Squirrelman’ Csaky, who received international attention and became the face of homelessness when Seattle officials evicted him from his elaborate treehouse on Eastlake. Shot over the course of two years, Out On A Limb chronicles the construction and destruction of David’s make-shift home in the trees and follows his subsequent journey to officially and permanently rise out of homelessness once back on the ground. Along the way we’re introduced to renowned treehouse builder and author, Peter Nelson, and Real Change newspaper vendor, James French. Together, the trios’ precarious paths weave a big picture perspective of these troubling economic times.
Etsuko Ichikawa: NACHI
December 8, 2011 – 7:00 pm
artEAST Art Center
95 Front St. N, Issaquah
Free
artEAST Art Center is pleased to present an artist talk by Etsuko Ichikawa about her most recent project NACHI – between the eternal and the ephemeral – and her process of making the work. NACHI is a large scale multi-media installation that involved glass pyrographs (fire drawing with molten glass), video projection, and sound, and was exhibited at University of Wyoming Art Museum earlier this year.
Hugo Solis: AXIAL
December 8, 9 & 10, 2011 – 4:18 pm to 11:00 pm
Artist Talk: Friday, December 9th at 7:00 pm
UW Center for Urban Horticulture
3501 NE 41st St, Seattle
Axial is a sound installation where a cargo container is employed as a resonant object. Resonant in its acoustic sense because the container is used as sound generator but also resonant in its metaphorical connotation because the container and the generated sounds translate and represent the geological properties of Axial, an active submarine volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge located about 250 miles off the coast of Oregon. The container is also the space/instrument for interpreting the scientific data obtained during the oceanographic expedition Enlighten’10 where the artist recorded the sounds of the hydrothermal vents located in the area at depth of over 4500 feet.
Chris McMullen: Crank-E-Joes, A Mechanical Engagement
December 10, 2011
The Firm
5813 Airport Way S, Seattle
Free
Crank-E-Joes: A Mechanical Engagement stuns you with not-so-simple machines by Chris McMullen, a member of a collective of artists and craftspeople called The Firm.
Sibyl James: The Last Woro Woro to Treichville: A West African Memoir
December 15, 2011 – 7 pm
The Elliott Bay Book Company
1521 Tenth Avenue, Seattle
Free
Seattle poet and prose writer and itinerant traveler Sibyl James will read from her ninth book, The Last Woro Woro to Treichville: A West African Memoir (Stringtown Press), this an account of her experiences as a Fulbright professor at the University of Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa. “Sibyl James has given us the next best thing to a ticket to West Africa’s Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Through her eyes as a ‘resident foreigner,’ the country comes vividly alive in all its joys and foibles, from funky communal taxis and gyrating dances to student uprisings and politics that have led to the recent civil wars.” – Brenda Peterson.
Isaac Layman: Paradise
Through January 22, 2012
Frye Art Museum
704 Terry Avenue, Seattle
Free
In Paradise, Isaac Layman expands his practice of constructing large-scale, psychologically charged, photographic-based visions of the spaces and objects found in his Seattle home. His new artworks explore the desire to fabricate escapes, destinations, and monuments and the role discontent plays in driving the need to create imagined perfection.
Molly Landreth: Emobodiment, A Portrait of Queer Life in America
Through January 27, 2012
Group f/5.6 Gallery
East Shore Unitarian Church
12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue
Free
Photographer, Molly Landreth exhibits images from her extensive project entitled, Embodiment, A Portrait of Queer Life in America. This project has been featured in the New York Times Online, OUT Traveler, SheWired, and American Photo among many other publications. Group f/5.6, based in Bellevue, is proud to present this project in the Northwest.
Gene Gentry McMahon: Waterwatching: Puget Sound and the Duwamish River
Through January 31, 2012
Seattle Aquarium
1483 Alaskan Way, Seattle
Aquarium Entry Fee Required
Painter, Gene Gentry McMahon exhibits her latest work, Waterwatching: Puget Sound and the Duwamish River, which serves as a visual journey through the history of the Puget Sound region from the late 18th century to current times, with a particular emphasis on Elliott Bay and the Duwamish River. “Having lived in the Puget Sound region all my life, I have a passion for its history and a deep concern for its well-being,” McMahon said. “In my work, I am always interested in the question of how we balance civic growth and community needs with the intelligent management of our waterways. As a community, we have not always achieved that goal. But by outlining the remarkable history of the Puget Sound in ‘Waterwatching: Puget Sound and the Duwamish River,’ I hope to inspire interest in its history, pride in its beauty and diversity, and an awareness of the challenges we face in safeguarding its future.”
© 2009 Molly Landreth, Cooper, Oakland, CA, Photograph
© 2011, Hugo Solis, AXIAL
