Lectures and Events
Artist Lecture: Joseph Rossano His work incorporates media ranging from Douglas fir to sculpted glass, and he'll talk about how rural traditions have influenced his career. 7:30 p.m. Thurs. Mar. 18. Museum of Northwest Art, 121 South First St. (La Conner), $4, 360-466-4446.
Artist Lecture: WILLIAM TURNER A slide presentation, refreshments, and a chance to hear from the veteran Seattle-trained painter, who's represented by Foster/White. 6:30 p.m. Thurs. Mar. 18. Pratt Fine Arts Center, Jackson St. and 20th Ave., free, 206-328-2200
Artist Lecture: Dan Webb The Seattle sculptor, a wizard with woods and this year's recipient of Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen award, discusses his work. 6 p.m. Mon. Mar. 22. Pratt Fine Arts Center, 1902 S. Main St., free, 206-328-2200.
Birdhouse Auction In a benefit for arts education at Stevens Elementary School, well-known local artists have transformed plain cedar birdhouses into a surprisingly cool collection of stuff. Included are works by Patrick Holderfield, Eva Isaksen, Roy McMakin, Elisabeth Sandvig, Michael Spafford and 30 others. Sure beats a bake sale. 6 p.m.-11 p.m. Sat. Mar. 20. St. Demetrios Church, St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Ave. E, free, 206-329-4590.
Country Crafts Home and Gift Show The Eastside's largest spring craft show and folk art festival. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thurs. Mar. 18-Fri. Mar. 19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat. Mar. 20. Vasa Park Resort, 3549 W. Lk. Sammamish Pkwy. SE, Bellevue, free, 425-888-1798.
Primal Urges Fashion Zoo Models will sport fashion designs created by 40 students from the Art Institute of Seattle in this sure-to-be fabulous event. Proceeds support Art Institute scholarships. 8 p.m. Fri. Mar. 19. Moore Theatre, 1932 Second Ave., $10, 206-448-0900.
Openings
Museum of Glass A survey of Italo Scanga, who began experimenting with glass as part of his mixed-media sculptures in the late 1970s. A good friend of, and major influence on, Dale Chihuly, Scanga was a frequent guest artist at the Pilchuck School until his death in 2001. An extremely uneven career ranged from gaudy cubist knock-offs to occasionally clever sculptural works. 1801 East Dock St. Tacoma, 253-396-1768. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat. (third Thurs. of the month until 8 p.m.), noon-5 p.m. Sun.
Last Chance
Frye Art Museum What would Velazquez paint if he were a twenty-first century American born in Georgia? Bo Bartlett seems to think he has the answer. A student of Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett's images are realistic, tightly structured and loaded with theatrics. There's a palpable sense of mystery and foreboding in such paintings as "Homecoming" and just enough weirdness to make them compelling. 704 Terry Ave., 206-622-9250. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun.; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thurs. Ends Sun. Mar. 21.
Solomon Fine Art "Obscured Elements" offers meditations on human physiology by two artists: Gerri Ondrizek's ink-on-fabric tapestries based on her family's chromosome patterns, and Ellen Garvens' odd photographs of artificial limbs and prosthetic devices. 1215 First Ave., 206-297-1400. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Sat. Ends Fri. Mar. 19.
Galleries
Art Institute of Seattle Gallery "Wee Works" refers not to bodily fluids, but the minuscule scale of some 200 works of art by college art students from the U.S. and Scotland. 2323 Elliott Ave., 206-448-0900. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat.
Artemis This often-overlooked but dependable little gallery in the Mount Baker neighborhood is now under new ownership and relaunches with a show of work from three locals: Jamie Gray's abstract canvases, Todd Karam's mixed-media paintings of bikes and furniture, and James Drury's brilliantly acerbic line drawings. 3107 S. Day St., 206-323-0562. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.
Atelier 31 New work by Seattle's Adde Russell, whose paintings of birds, insects, and other animals find these creatures tangled in confining ribbons of paint. Also on display, figure studies of humans and apes by dancer/painter Brian Chapman. 2500 First Ave., 206-448-5250. 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Tues.; 10:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun.
Black Lab "Parades and Other Disturbances," features new work by local photographer Keith Johnson. 4216 Sixth Ave NW, 206-781-2392. Noon- 5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
Bluebottle Seattle's Blaine Fontana is much sought-after in the contemporary design scene, and his debut show of paintings entitled "The Manifest Soup Transcripts, Chapter 1-9" offers a narrative of personal experiences from the late 1990s. 415 E. Pine St., 206-325-1592. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Tue.-Fri., noon-6 p.m. Sat.-Sun.
Capitol Hill Arts Center "Numerosity," is an installation focusing on the "practicality and accessibility of fine art" by Corrie Greenberg. 1621 12th Ave., 6 p.m.-2 a.m. (age 21 and over only).
CDA Gallery In a series of boldly patterned paintings entitled "This Day," Catherine Cook uses recurrent abstract forms to create well-balanced but improvisational compositions. Each is named either for the date it was completed or a newspaper headline from that same day. 506 Second Ave., Suite 200 (Smith Tower), 206-296-7580. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon-Fri.
Consolidated Works "Suspension" is an extensive selection of audio-and video-based work by Perri Lynch, Derrek Hoffend, Stephen Vitiello, and others. Christian Marcalay's "Guitar Drag," offers the sonic/video spectacle of an amplified guitar being dragged by a truck. 500 Boren Ave. N., 206-860-5245, 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 1 p.m.-8 p.m. Sat.-Sun.
