Arlington stone sculptor, Verena Schwippert’s large work, “Water, Precious Water,” is one of 39 pieces in the city of Bellevue’s ninth biennial sculpture exhibit, “Sculpted Green.” The outdoor exhibit is located in and around Bellevue’s City Hall and downtown park. This year’s works were selected for being surprising, thought-provoking, humorous and beautiful.
A resident of Silvana and partner in her husband’s insurance office, Carey Waterworth created the picture that is on the cover of the Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce’s new telephone directory which was distributed last week. Waterworth responded to the chamber’s call, last winter, for art that celebrates the commerce of this region. After contemplating the options, Waterworth painted a colorful portrait of a farmer’s market vendor with Three Fingers Mountain and a classic barn in the background.
The little guys have the first go down Olympic Avenue Saturday when the Arlington Fire Department Women’s Auxiliary presents the first event in two weeks of fun as part of the Arlington Festival 2008. The Kiddies Parade starts at 2 p.m. with line-up starting at 1 p.m. on Division Street. It ends with a big shebang with clowns and characters and all the kids in costume at Fire Station No. 46 on McCleod Street.
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Janet Myer wants to do it all. She is a multi-talented artist who leaps for inspiration from her Cowlitz Native American heritage to Victorian women dressed in long white gowns. She paints jazz musicians and interesting architecture.
This Friday through Sunday at Legion Park in the north end of Everett is the 11th annual Sorticulture, Everett’s Garden Arts Festival — part art, part horticulture. Sorticulture will showcase artists presenting a variety of handcrafted, locally-made garden embellishments, and specialty nurseries presenting a wide array of rare and unusual plants.
SEATTLE — Musical theater students of Arlington, Marysville and Stanwood were among 2,200 high school students, teachers and parents from across Washington state packed into Benaroya Hall, June 9, for the sixth annual 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre Awards, sponsored by Wells Fargo.
A participant in the upcoming Art in the Barn, Rocky Barrick won first place in the “works on canvas” category at the Stanwood-Camano Art Guild Spring Show, June 7 and 8, for his work, “Couple of Old Crows.”
It’s the end of an era at Biringer Farm this weekend. The 19th annual and final Pig Out runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 21 and 22 at Biringer Farm, an official sponsor of the Marysville’s Strawberry Festival.
Last year’s Strawberry Festival Ambassador, Brooklynn El Fattal learned a lot of dance routines this year for her performance in the Northwest Savoyards’ production of “The Music Man.” She and her two sisters are performing as River City Teens and River City Kids in the chorus of Meredith Willson’s musical about a fast-talking traveling salesman who intends to con the people of River City until he falls for Marian the librarian.
