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Gallery Hours: By appointment only and open during
ARTwalk, May through December, 6pm to 9pm on Second Saturdays
in Ballard. http://www.ballardchamber.com
Sev
Shoon Arts Center
the center for the aspiring
and experienced artists
Sev Shoon Arts Center was started in 1991 by Swiss artist, Dionne Haroutunian. Sev Shoon is an environment dedicated to the art of printmaking. We offer studio rental, quarterly classes, host demonstrations of fine art printmaking, and also host monthly exhibitions, which serve as an outlet for our renters, students, and instructors to show their work.
FALL CLASS SCHEDULE
INTRODUCTION TO SILKSCREEN PRINTING
Instructor: Elizabeth McDonald
INTRODUCTION TO ETCHING
Instructor: Betsy Barnum
BEGINNING MOKU HANGA:
Traditional Japanese Water-Based Woodcuts
Instructor: Francesca Lohmann
BEGINNERS’ BOOTCAMP
Instructor: Kelda Martensen
COLLAGRAPH PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP
Instructor: Barbara Bruch
RELIEF BLOCK PRINTING
Instructor: Theresa Neinas
BEGINNING / ADVANCED MONOTYPE
Instructor: Kappy Trigg
SOON AT THE SHOON
August: A Visiting Artist from China
Reception: Saturday, August 14th, 4 - 6pm (new date)
Art Partners International, artpartners.net, brings Zhang Guanghui back to Seattle and to Sev Shoon. In this exhibit he explores a number of new themes and revisits some iconic imagery on an intimate scale.
Please read more about this exciting visit on our Soon at Shoon page.
Yellow Crane Tower Wuhan, colored woodcut , 8.6" x 6", 2004
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Messages Unwritten
Second Saturday, August 14, 6 - 9 PM
Chine collé prints by Phil Stoiber, along with printing demonstrations during the Ballard Art Walk, immeadiately following Zhang Guanghui's reception.
GALLERY NEWS
- The Sev Shoon gallery participates in the Ballard ARTwalk from May through December. Please join us on the 2nd Saturday of the month, 6-9PM for the opening receptions. To view images from our gallery program, please see the Soon at the Shoon page.
- Gallery hours are by appointment only.
- Directions to Sev Shoon
Gift Certificates available... for the artist and/or art lover! Can be
applied to art, classes or rental.
(Visa and Master card accepted as well as cash and checks!)
FEATURED ARTIST
Francesca Lohmann |
I was born in San Francisco in the year 1986, the daughter of a Waldorf teacher and a violin maker, but the majority of my childhood was spent in Placerville, California, a tiny gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
I attended the Rhode Island School of Design for collage, where I received my BFA in printmaking. Originally I had intended to study painting, but while taking a lithography class during my freshmen year I fell in love with the processes involved in making prints; I enjoyed the sense of antiquity, the technical challenges, and the freshness and variety of mark and texture that could be created. During my time in collage, I became increasingly fascinated by the natural world as subject matter for art and began sprouting beans and lentils on damp pieces of paper in order to study and record the various stages of germination. During my senior year, I purchased a microscope with which I was able to extend my observation of growth to the cellular level, culminating in a degree project based on the process of mitotic cell division.
After graduating from RISD in 2008, I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where I worked at Aurobora, a small fine art press/gallery for about a year before re-settling in my current location in Seattle, WA. At the moment, I am in the process of planning a collaborative installation with a fellow graduate of the RISD printmaking department, which will be based on my sketches of various stages of bread mold at the cellular level. I teach traditional Japanese woodblock at Sev Shoon, and also recently led a workshop at the Asian Art Museum in conjunction with the "Fleeting Beauty" exhibition.
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Mitosis Portraits, Spit bite etching with chine-colle, wax, 5 pieces, each 4"x4" 2008
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Sprout Pattern, woodblock printed on gampi paper, 22"x30", 2008
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Honey Leak VI, beeswax, sterling silver, honey, objects are approximately 2" tall, 2009
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1766 NW 61st Street, layers of old wallpaper, white paint, varnish, 36"x90" 2009
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