Mobius Art Gallery

Etsuko Ichikawa: My Glass Pyrograph is an abstract drawing on paper made with fire by scorching molten glass. This work captures and eternalizes the immediacy of a moment, and it is a trace of my body movement with fluid glass.

Artist Talk: April 18th, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

About the Artist: I am a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and activist.

I was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. I came to the U.S. to attend Pilchuck Glass School in 1993 and worked for Dale Chihuly as a studio assistant for eight years. I became independent in 2003 and since then, I have been making art full time. After living in Seattle for 29 years, I have become nomadic and am currently traveling around the world to participate in art residencies.

I was born and raised in Tokyo and have lived in the U.S. for almost 30 years. Both places are home to me, and while my life is rooted in America, my spiritual-seeking and aesthetic sensibilities strongly call to Japan. My work is a reflection of myself in these two distinctively different cultures.

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Art of Resistance: Woman, Life, Freedom

The GEC invites you to the Art of Resistance: Women, Life, Freedom, a photo and video installation highlighting the current Iranian protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini after her arrest by the Iranian "morality" police last September.

Perception of Failure by Clarie B. Jones

About the exhibit: Failure, real or perceived, fear of it and society’s ensuing judgement, is something which we often must deal with. Claire B. Jones proposes to explore and highlight this struggle in this exhibition by revealing to the viewer the flaws she sees in her own artwork. Since the viewer is typically not aware of the original intent, they cannot judge the work by that bar unless the artist chooses to reveal it. In exposing her perception of the flaws in her art, Claire hopes to show that failure is not as straightforward as we often perceive. The aim of the exhibition is to encourage the viewer to think through, and open-up about their ideas and experiences of failure.

From Claire B. Jones: My art is driven by a fascination with material and form, embedded in experimentation, and impelled toward possibility. Each machine-stitched fiber sculpture evolves from a technical challenge or question; each sculpture leads to more questions and more ideas. Inspired by mathematical topology and a desire to achieve new forms, I create self-supporting, three-dimensional objects out of flat fabric and machine stitching. My background in research and computer engineering brace my systematic experimentation with technique and architectural construction. Just as math topology studies the limits and continuities of transformed shapes and spaces, I explore the properties of material, plane, and form, testing and stretching their boundaries and possibilities. http://www.clairebjones.com/

Ephemeral Constucts by Francesca Udeschini

"Ephemeral Constructs" is an exhibition of large-scale sculptures and cyanotypes by Francesca Udeschini inspired by the meticulously built and inevitably transient webs of orb weaver spiders. Francesca Udeschini (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in spending time observing nature and investigating mortality, transformation, and impermanence in connection to the human experience. It will be an open gallery with light refreshments and an artist talk.

Intersections = Math + Art: Showing Our Work exhibit

The Cascadia College Art Gallery is hosting an interdisciplinary show titled Intersections = Math + Art: Showing Our Work. The exhibit will feature the following artists, Monique Catino, Timea Tihanyi, Henry Segerman, Claire B. Jones, and Volkan Alkanoglu.

Monique Catino

Geometric shapes, origami, and tessellations, as well as Catino's love of color and fascination with glass, comes through in mosaic work, and now also in beaded glass sculptures. The last couple of years Catino has been deeply immersed in learning new fabrication techniques that will transform 2D ideas into the sphere of 3D.

Claire B. Jones Sculpture: A Digital Exhibit

Claire B Jones creates colorful, whimsical, free-standing sculptures by painting with thread on cotton canvas. The fabric evolves by layering and blending a myriad of machine stitched thread until the underlying canvas is completely covered.

The Museum of Special Art: Illumination February 24–March 19, 2020

MoSA presents artists with disabilities from across the Pacific Northwest as they unite together to bring their works out into the light in the Illumination Traveling Exhibition. Become enlightened and enjoy the radiance and beauty of these unique pieces featured by these artists.

Mobile Phone Art Show January 13–February 6, 2020

We all take pictures with our mobile phones, but most of us don't print out the good ones. This art show gives the campus community the chance to do just that. Releasing them from our phones, printing them out and putting them on a gallery wall is a collective sharing of our experiences through images... IRL (in real life).

Más Allá de las Fronteras: Intercambio Oaxaca-Seattle/Beyond Borders: Oaxaca-Seattle Exchange November 5–December 5, 2019. Esta exposición colectiva es un intercambio entre 20 grabadores de Oaxaca y 20 de Seattle. Desde los 80s, los artistas de Seattle y Oaxaca han compartido y aprendido técnicas tradicionales de la gráfica, que incluyen relieve, intaglio y litografía. La exposición se llevará a cabo en ambas ciudades.

This collective exhibition is an exchange between 20 Oaxaca and 20 Seattle printmakers. Since the 1980s, artists from Seattle and Oaxaca have shared and learned traditional printmaking techniques including relief, intaglio and lithography. The exhibition will be held in both cities.

Perspectives: Paintings by Mini Galindo and Kristi Galindo Dyson October 7 – November 1, 2019. Exhibition Curated by Jed Murr; Residency Organized by Anida Yoeu Ali & Naomi Macalalad Bragin as part of the 2019 Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency.

Gregg Deal: Existence As Protest May 13 – June 7, 2019. Exhibition Curated by Jed Murr; Residency Organized by Anida Yoeu Ali & Naomi Macalalad Bragin as part of the 2019 Critical Acts Visiting Artist Residency.

Gregg Deal (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a provocative contemporary artist who challenges Western perceptions of Indigenous people, touching on issues of race, history and stereotypes. Through his work—paintings, murals, performance art, filmmaking and spoken word—Deal critically examines issues and tells stories of decolonization and appropriation that affect Indian country.

Lakota Emergence Artwork by traditional and contemporary Lakota artist. January 7 – March 13, 2019

An educational art exhibit that divides the traditional Lakota emergence narrative into sixteen passages and pairs each passage with a contemporary Lakota artist. Learn about the narrative and see the amazing original artworks.

Artwork by coastal Salish and Yakama Nation artists. October 9 - November 15, 2018

Exhibiting artists: Alfred Charles, Jr., Hollyanna Cougar Tracks, Mike Gobin, Tillie Jones, Ty Juvinel, James Madison, Michelle Myles, Jon Shellenberger

Resonance

Installation by Sarah Jane April 9 - May 10, 2018. As a member of the Grünewald Guild, in Leavenworth, Sarah Jane creates site-specific and participatory works as the backbone of her creative practice. She is interested in creating meaningful, thought-provoking experiences that are accessible to viewers from many different backgrounds. This installation has an element of sound.

Joan Stuart Ross & John Clark Gleason:

Recent Paintings October 9 - November 17, 2017. Seattle artists show their recent works. The newest paintings of Joan Stuart Ross are from the "Oyster" series, inspired by the luminous oyster shells near her studio in Nahcotta, Washington. This work focuses on spatial depth, multi-layered grids, and the combinations of like and unlike media.

John Clark Gleason's landscape paintings explore the emotive significance of color and gesture. The pure exuberance of the surfaces take them beyond landscape into abstraction.

Resist! Art and Poetry

April 17 - May 1, 2017 RELATED EVENTS: The Written Image: Blending Poetry with the Visual Arts with Shin Yu Pai Poetics of Resistance with Stephen Collis, Sarah Downing and Paul Nelson Resist! Art and Poetry exhibition offers a group show of paintings, drawings and sculpture and two poetry events curated under theme of resistance and protest.

Particles on the Wall

An Exhibition of Art and Literature April 14 - May 5, 2016. Exploring elements of the nuclear age and in particular the world wide implications of the Hanford Washington nuclear site.

Integrated Learning Project

Poems and Prints March 15 - April 1, 2016. Artistic results from an integrated learning project between the ENGL 274 Poetry Writing and ART 240 Printmaking classes. Chris Gildow's printmaking students created colorful monotype evocations of poems written by Jessica Ketcham’s students.

Hot off the Press:

Contemporary Prints at Cascadia January 28 - February 1, 2016. The exhibition showcases works by four regional printmakers:

Robert Hardgrave – Kate Sweeney – Christina Reed – Kris Molesworth

Arts off the Magazine:

Works featured in the campus arts magazines May 27 - June 5, 2014. Works created by students and staff that are featured in the arts journals, Yours Truly, Cascadia College and Clamor, UW Bothell.

Keys to the Studio:

Works from Regional High School and College Art Faculty April 7-17, 2014. Outstanding two and three-dimensional artworks by high school and college art faculty members from Cascadia’s service area. The show is a great learning resource for students and the entire Cascadia community.

Secretum Naturae~

Secret Nature: Prints by Mercedes López March 3-20, 2014. Ms. López's work explores details in nature and her intimate relationship with them. As a visiting artist from Oaxaca, Mexico in 2012, she taught a printmaking workshop at Cascadia. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca and has exhibited throughout Mexico.

Memoir Americana:

Paintings by Eric Montoya January 13-31, 2014. Memoir America explores our individual historical narratives and our place within a collective historical narrative. Our perception of the past is shaped by the language of our time, the landscape, the rhetoric of messages and images which are distilled into a personal history and an understanding of identity.

Bring to Light:

Photographs by Don Tremain and the Cascadia Community October 2-17, 2013. The exhibit centered on the 2013-14 campus learning theme of ‘roots’. The show featured the photography of Don Tremain, as well as photographs from the campus community that symbolized a connection to their roots, either literally or metaphorically.