Sheila M. Evans

This Friday is First Friday! (What happened to September, anyway?) For the October Visual Arts Tour I’ll have pastels and oils on display at 1900, the fantastic interior decorators’ shop upstairs from my studio. If you’ve never been to 1900, it is a real treat. It is filled with fabulous and funky furniture, rugs, and decorator’s delights of all sorts. I’m bringing as many new works as I could muster at the end of a long and busy show season. Oh and here’s a bonus: 1900 is right across the street from Robert Karl Winery. First Friday one-stop shopping!

Here are the particulars:

1900
Opening Reception Friday, October 1, 5p.m. – 9p.m.
114 W Pacific Ave., Spokane, WA
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Join me and twenty-three other professional artists at five studios this weekend at the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour. This wonderful event just keeps getting better!

Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour

ONE DAY ONLY:
Saturday, September 25, 10 – 5

Studio tour map

Google map to Hulda’s studio

Just got back from a fun event at Square Room in Seattle (pictured above). It was a fundraiser put on by Square Room owners, artists and friends Brian McGuffey and Leif Holland, to support Heirloom, an independent film about a mother, a son, and Huntington’s disease.

Several artist friends contributed works to the show, with portions of the sales proceeds benefiting the upcoming film. The filmmaker, Ben Weber,  was in attendance and graciously posed for this photo with future me (seriously, I can’t look this old already, can I?). Ben has appeared in several movies and TV shows including a recurring role on Sex and the City. He also can boast having appeared as one of the original Geico Cavemen. Too awesome! We are standing in front of my piece, Champagne, which is still available at Square Room (so far as I know) and will still benefit the movie if purchased. Some pieces sold at the event but many are still for sale if you are in the area and would like to benefit two great causes: Heirloom, and the artists who support it.

Square Room
910 E Pike Street
Seattle, Washington
206 499 3294
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For a more info and a synopsis of Heirloom, read on…

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Jinkies, the Little Spokane Tour is just over a week away! I am so excited. Last year’s tour was a tremendous success, as many of my beloved paintings both old and new found homes.

This year there is one important change: the hours are longer! We will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday September 25th. Other than that, not much has changed but the art. Once again I will be showing in the beautiful screened gazebo at Hulda Bridgeman’s studio, and once again, I will bring a mix of new and older work, much of it at special prices for the tour.

I’ve even created some new pieces just for the event: my three Peachberry mini pastels, above. They were inspired by the abundance of mountain ash berries in our yard. The pastels are only 6″ x 6″, but I have found some extra-funky silver frames for them which give a striking effect.

In addition, I’ll have plenty of larger pastels, some unframed pieces, and a few oils including some little 6×6 “teacup oils.” This is always a fantastic event. I hope you can make it!

Here’s the info:

Little Spokane River Artists Studio Tour

Saturday, September 25, 10 am – 5 pm

Studio tour map

Google map to Hulda’s studio

It’s hard to believe the season is almost done! Sausalito Art Festival is the last of four shows in four weekends, and my final festival of 2010. We’re at our hotel, digesting the first of probably several dinners from Lotus Indian Cuisine in San Rafael, and waiting to set up the booth in the morning. This is a fun and busy show and I’m excited to sell some paintings and meet my fellow traveling artist friends one last time this summer. Of course I just ran into half of them in the parking lot after retrieving a missing bra from the car, but that’s pretty much how it goes, isn’t it?

Anyway, here’s the pertinent info:

Sausalito Art Festival
When: September 3 – 6, 2010
Where: Marinship Park, 2400 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
Hours: Friday (Opening Gala), 6:15 p.m. – ?, Saturday – Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m, Monday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
What I’m bringing: Pastels and Oils
Booth #310