04.15.10
I've been amazed by the level of response we've had from visitors to the museum and to this website to the request to help us build a list of Northwest artists. I've been keeping track of the number of Post-Its added to the "What About...?" wall in the gallery and we're up over 650 at this point--astounding! There's about another month to go for the exhibition (it closes on May 23). Think we'll break 1000? Thanks also to those of you who have provided names through blog comments.
I just added a whole new group of Northwest artist names to the "What About...?" page on this site but had a few suggestions and names that weren't specifically Northwest that I wanted to capture here. They include:
--an exhibition about cats
--Lynda Barry (amazing cartoonist, lived Seattle for a little while but really a Midwest girl)
--Peter Max
--Vance Tahmahkera
--Fikret Mualla (Turkish artist)
--Steve Hanks
--Gil Elvgren
--Bob Ross (the "happy trees" painter from PBS)
--Koji Suzaki (Japan)
--art about penguins
--an exhibition about mythology in art (greek gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters)
02.4.10
Northwest artists
Charles Mulvey
Phillip McCracken
Tammy Nicks (photographer)
Marlene Alt
Nancy Kienholz
Jeffree Stewart (landscapes especially)
Albert and Arthur Runquist (Oregon artists, WPA era)
Frederick Zinn (Tacoma artist, 1940s-1950s)
Others
Eric Carle
Themes
Pacific Northwest art quilts
Metalwork (not jewelry), especially pieces that move
cityscapes
01.13.10
The weekly installment from our "What About...?" wall in the exhibition
Northwest artists (in no particular order)
Jack McLarty
Bill Colby
Russell Frost
Betty Frost
Emily Carr
Deborah Lawrence, political/feminist
Elton Bennet, Northwest silkscreen
Pat Dunlap
Helmi Juvonen (three votes this week)
Del McBride
Lorene Spencer
Wes Wehr
Merrill Wagner
Tad Crawford (twice)
Donna Carver
Jay Steensma
Waldo Chase
Cecilia Corr (Northwest watercolors and portraits)
Julie Paschkis
more Jacob Lawrence, Ambrose Patterson, Dennis Evans
Zachary Sterling
Duane Pasco
Thomas Stream
Susan Pointe
Rohn Amegatcher
Themes
the changing cityscape
Northwest coast
Northwest Native American
young artists from the university
the Northwest alt/grunge/punk scene
Local graffiti art, i.e. the Broadway Garage Project
Lego artwork
artwork by kids
scene-rock/emo-rock
black and white pictures of everday life and landscapes of the Northwest
Other artists, not Northwest
Pablo Picasso
Clyfford Still
Other comments
"Me...someday"
"The ugliest building in T-Town"
"a big picture of Myriah"
"Ryman 95 is ridiculous!"
01.7.10
More Northwest artist name suggestions from the gallery. They also been added to the "What About...?" page.
Barbara Lee Smith (Raft Island, fabric wall hangings)
Shirley Scheier (cut paper work)
Richard Gilkey
Jill Nordfors-Clark (basketry, Tacoma)
Trish Harding (Bellingham)
Sara McCormick
Ryan Hardesty
Alex Grey
Luke Brown
Ortega
Beautiful Angle
Edith Willey
Kathleen Gemberling Adkison
Doris Chase
LaVerne Krause
Amanda Snyder
Betty Feves
Virginia Weisel
Victoria Avakian Ross
Frances Senska
Marianne Gold
Margaret Tompkins
Virginia Banks
Eunice Jensen
Sally Haley
Ebbba Rapp
Mike Gold
Tony Angell
F. Mason Holmes (Tacoma)
David Kane
Jessica Kernan Yerxa
Graphic novel illustrators
Local graffiti artists
Art about Grunge
And outside the Northwest: Ansel Adams, Andrew Wyeth, Monet, Juanita San Pablo, Marco San Pablo
