This should be interesting and fun. I have been talking to some of the artists involved and they are really excited about how this is going to turn out…

This Thursday night come on out for April’s Open Floor event, W3AVE. We will be hosting a live collaborative art session featuring 18 talented artists working in the Seattle area. This event is organized by S3A which is a group that promotes events and artists in the alternative art scene here in our very own city. For Thursday’s event, the artists will each show up with a half completed 12″x16″ canvas, then work to complete each others’ pieces while the audience watches. With so many great artists, Open Floor is going to be wild. I will be there, front row, watching the paint fly! Did I mention that DJ EMC and Acid Unicorn will be providing some excellent tunes for the artists to work with? It’s all happening here, Thursday at 7 p and is FREE to everyone! WOW!

The artist line-up includes: Ego, Stacey Rozich, Augie Pagan, Weirdo, Solace, John Osgood, Kevin “Sensei23” Sullivan, Zach Bohnenkamp, CASH, Ninjagrl, 179, Joe Vollan, Mat Savage, PaperMarbleS, Jeremy Gregory, Justin Hillgrove, Mike Capp & Mike Gardner.

Open Floor presents W3AVE, Thursday, April 29
Henry Auditorium 7-9pm
FREE

EvoFest III is coming to EVO on May 1st!!

DJ Soulrane on the ones and twos, Urban art featuring graffiti art by Charms Won, Vivian Hsu Photography, Pubs & Dkoy… Art prints available at the event!

B-boy/b-girl 1vs1 Footwork/Power/All Sytles Battles (Trophies and $$$ for the winners).

Exhibitions: Naj (Fraggle Rock) Seattle VS. Cricket (Extra Credit) San Fran

Check out photos and videos from the last couple years! Click here!

This is going to be MASSIVE!! Vol.4 is on Saturday, May 1st, at the Baltic Room and will be featuring…

THE LOST BOYS 12 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

:: Lst Bys ::
(Sean Majors, Gene Lee, Marty Mar)

The Lost Boys Family of promoters, DJs and producers started developing a reputation for quality over twelve years ago. With their events gathering thousands of people in some of the biggest venues in the northwest, to their records being played by some of the world’s biggest DJs, this crew has always been synonymous with excellence.

The Lost Boys have had their music played from Australia to Hong Kong, being rocked by the likes of Donald Glaude, Lawnchair Generals, Mark Farina and Kaskade. Their productions have ranged from funky house music to electro dancefloor fillers.

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Photo Booth provided by Tuffer Harris:
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Doors open at 9pm
$10 • 21+ w/ID

Hello Seattle. This is an event that any art lover should not miss. The artists name is Jonathan Wakuda and his stencil work is nothing short of amazing.

Check it out. The opening reception is First Thursday Artwalk in May.

The excerpt below was taken from culturemob

May 6 – June 26, 2010 Artist Reception: Thursday, May 6, 5-8 pm Pioneer Square Art Walk: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 5-8 pm

In “Future’s Past: The Black Ships,” opening May 6 at ArtXchange Gallery, Seattle artist, Jonathan Wakuda Fischer, investigates the dual perception of Japanese culture as hyper contemporary and technologically advanced, yet one that retains and prizes its ancient traditions. Using urban graffiti techniques (spray-paint and stencils), Wakuda references both modern and ancient Japanese aesthetics such as ukiyo-e woodblock prints and the contemporary superflat movement. The paintings in “Future’s Past” tell visual stories based on folklore, anime, science fiction, and Japanese history.

In a style he calls “historical surrealism,” Wakuda’s visual narrative begins on the day in 1853 when Commodore Perry sailed four ‘black ships’ into Edo Bay. Using the analogy of foreigners as otherworldly aliens or ghosts, Wakuda reinterprets the culture shock and epochal changes that followed as Japanese society entered an era that blended East and West, advancement and tradition.

Jonathan Wakuda Fischer has exhibited his work around the country including ArtXchange Gallery, City Hall and Upper Playground in Seattle, and Lower Haters Gallery in San Francisco.

Where: ArtXchange
Price: FREE
When: 5:00pm Thu 5.06.10-8:00pm Thu 5.06.10 with 52 other showtimes 5.06.10 through 6.26.10

179 is an amazing artist and has an opening reception tonight at Upper Playground in Seattle. Also, there will be a new Family Fortune T-shirt designed by 179 at the opening. I will definately be in attendance for this. You wont wanna miss this; plus it is the perfect prefunk thing to do for Friday night! Here are the details:

Opening Night Reception
Friday April 16, 2010
6-10pm

New Paintings By Artist:

http://179ers.blogspot.com/

OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, April 16, 2010

Time: 6pm – 10pm
Ages: All Ages Encouraged!
Cost: Free
Live Music and Refreshments will be provided!

Upper Playground in Association with FIFTY 24SEA Gallery present the Opening Reception of: “Oh Mischievous Me”

179
As an artist she pulls from many different sources that shape the images to be painted. Folklore has been the direction she has been gravitating to. She loves old stories in which animals play tricks on people or each other. They are playful and colorful. Since these animals are surreal in nature, the paintings represent more emotion rather then the literal sense of the animal. Change can be a good thing.

“Oh Mischievous Me”
The important theme of this 179 show is to deal with layers.
What is on the inside isn’t always what is on the outside. Layers make up who we are and what we see. They can be made of many different kinds of things; animals, colors, ideas. Uncovering them can be as fun as a babushka doll or as scary as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Looks can be deceiving, so beware!
For further information on the artist: http://179ers.blogspot.com/. For photos or preview list contact upperplaygroundjen@gmail.com.

The Opening Reception will be held for “Oh Mischievous Me” on April 16th from 6:00 – 10:00pm. Beverages will be provided.

Tonight in Tacoma in the monthly art walk. For a list of venues on the Tacoma Art Walk click here. Something interesting to check out is the glass studio at 114 s. 23rd street Tacoma, WA 98402 The glass studio also offers classes and hands on experience if you are interested in glass blowing; for example check out this event:

NEW ONE Day Workshop

Fruit Making Workshop: Apples, Pears, Bananas or Bring your Imagination~

FULL~ Sat April 24th 2-6pm

4 spots open~ Sunday May 2nd 9am-1pm

$150

In 2012 King Tut is coming to Seattle. This should be pretty interesting. I remember being at the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago in New York and seeing the Egyptian Artifacts was amazing. The story full story below from KOMO

SEATTLE — King Tut is coming back to the Emerald City.

Even though the exhibit is two years away, the first tickets for large groups will go on sale in the fall.

Pratt Fine Arts Center is a really good resource for artists living in Seattle and surrounding areas. Pratt Fine Arts Center offers classes, studio space and special events. Here is more info about Pratt taken from their website:

Mission: Pratt Fine Arts Center is an arts education and resource center dedicated to promoting creative development and artistic engagement to the
local and global community.

Since 1976, Pratt Fine Arts Center has provided art classes for everyone and professional-level equipment for artists at every level. Located in Seattle, Washington, Pratt Fine Arts Center is defined by a diverse and vibrant community of students, instructors, and emerging and established artists.

HISTORY

Pratt Fine Arts Center began as a modest facility with a big vision to build a community of artists and an educational center providing the tools and the training to support the creation of visual art. Today Pratt stands exactly as its founders envisioned: as The Place to Make Art.

For almost 35 years, Pratt Fine Arts Center has been providing the Northwest and global community with the opportunity to experience art first hand. Pratt’s classes teach over 3500 students and its studios serve more than 500 working artists each year. Combined, its classes, exhibitions, lectures and programs reach more than 13,000 people annually. Many established, well-known local artists had their beginnings in our studios.

Pratt is the only facility in the Northwest where absolute beginners and established artists work side-by-side creating art. Affordable studios with unparalleled equipment offers artists of all ages, ability and backgrounds with the opportunity to learn, experiment and create.

This should be really cool; woodblock prints are visually stunning and the Japanese style is quite unique. This exhibit just opened at the SAM and will be on display from April 1–July 4, 2010.

This exhibition brings together prints from the most renowned ukiyo-e artists of the 18th and 19th centuries—including Harunobu, Utamaro, Eishi and Hiroshige—along with Hokusai’s most beloved prints, Great Wave off Kanagawa and Red Fuji. These Japanese woodblock prints demonstrate an evocative play between delicate ink lines and rich blocks of color in portraits of beautiful women and kabuki actors, jewel-like landscapes of famous places, and more. Drawn from the Mary and Allan Kollar Collection, a gift to the Seattle Art Museum on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary, this installation introduces the region to a remarkable collection of prints, all taken from early impressions and in excellent condition.

–Catherine Roche, Curatorial Research Associate for Japanese and Korean Art

On Friday April 30th in Tacoma Artifakt Artists will be displaying artwork at Platinum Reign in Tacoma. The open house will last all day but we are having an artist reception starting at 6pm. What is Platinum Reign you might ask? Platinum Reign offers something for all types of artists. Here is a better description:

Platinum Reign is a digital interface designed to promote independent artists and their creative work. Platinum Reign works as an online store for distribution of independently produced media, such as music tracks, albums, films, books and apparel, broadcasting the artist’s work and marketing their product to the mainstream world. Website launching soon!

Digital Mall

Platinum Reign is always distributing products from talented, creative minds. Some of the established artists featured on Platinumreign.com include Doxology (Seattle’s most provoking, cutting edge Pop-Rock music of the Y2K decade,) the smooth soulful sounds of Alex Duncan, and 253′s block rapper AG.

Film, Video, Magazines and More!

Music is just the tip of the iceberg at Platinumreign.com. Last year Platinum Reign worked closely with Seattle’s premier video production company Crooked Lake Productions to master the festival distributed short film “Emerald City.” “Emerald City” screened internationally and has been officially selected to some of the largest film festivals, including the Short Film Corner of Cannes and United Kingdom’s Raindance Film Festival. Platinum Reign is also producing the exciting new television show, “Ultimate Hook Up” and North West’s best Hip-Hop show “Urban Streets” shot by Level 1 Media.

Head Quarters

Platinum Reign’s Warhol-esque offices are located in Downtown Tacoma and offer two audio recording studios, one video studio, CD and DVD duplication, apparel manufacturing and anything else your promotion team may need.

Platinum Reign gives indepentent artists the ability to go global with one simple click. Swing in for a visit or drop us a line. 1517 Fawcett Ave Tacoma, WA 98402 9-5 and weekends too but they vary 253-572-5690