San Juan Island's - ALL

" THE HEART OF THE ISLANDS"
It's San Juan County Fair Time
August 13-16, San Juan Island
Fine arts catagories include, Oil, acrylic, and Watercolor painting, Pastel, Charcoal, Pencil and Ink Drawing, plus Other category. Printingmaking, woodcut, intaglio, Lithiography, Other, Sculpture, Metal, Stone, Wood, Glass, Ceramic, Papier Mache, Other, Mixed Media, Collage, Mosaic, Assemblage, Book Art, Other, and Video, Documentary, Narrative, Abstract, Animation.

Intake Day is Tuesday, August 12, 9am to 6pm.
Exhibits August 13, 14, 15, 16
All Art must be removed Sunday, August 17 9am to Noon Only

Lopez Island

Lopez Art Guild
August 8 - September 15, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday August 8th 5:30 - 7PM
Lopez Center for Community & the Arts
Showing Art by Debbie Collins, Linda Koenig, Anne Whirledge-Karp

Chimera Artist Cooperative Gallery
CURRENT EXHIBIT: August 8th - September 5th

Chimera Gallery Group Show!
This show featurs new works by members of the gallery.
Opening reception Saturday, August 9, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Refreshments and fun!
Gallery hours: Monday and Wednesday through Saturday, 10 to 5;
Sunday, 10 to 3; closed Tuesdays.
More details at: www.chimeragallery.com

Orcas Island

Plein Air on Orcas
Location: Crow Valley Pottery at "The Cabin" (across from Golf Course)
Phone: 360 376 4260 - July 18, 2008 - www.crowvalley.com
A truly outstanding collection, from a host of regional Plein Air artists. This purely American art-form is known for the spontaneity, freshness and utter freedom it affords its artists!

San Juan Island

waterworks gallery 2008 presents Michael Dickter & David Eisenhour

Mixed media paintings & Bronze sculpture
August 2 – 24th

The gallery’s August show will feature the mixed media paintings of Michael Dickter and the sculptures of David Eisenhour. Michael’s’ paintings area synthesis of layers, creating a rich textural surface on which he integrates fragments of identifiable forms. David’s bronze and unique sculptures beautifully reperent the simplicity and the complexity of the natural world: a bio-narrative story.

Paint the San Juans, Plein Air Painting Workshop
San Juan Art Workshops
July 19, 2008 - July 20, 2008 - Times: Saturday and Sunday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Meet at Funk & Junk Antiques, 85 Nichols St., Friday Harbor
Phone: 866 374 4272 or 360 378 2638
Admission: see website for details: www.sanjuanartworkshops.com
See web for costs, details and supply list

SPLASH OF SUMMER COLOR / San Juan Island Summer Arts Fair
July 19, 2008 - July 20, 2008
Times: Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. / Sunday 10:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m.
Location: Court Street, Friday Harbor
Phone: 360 378 5240
Admission: Free - www.sanjuanisland.org
"The Summer Arts Fair" features local and regional artists selling their works in a juried show. Music, children's hands on art activities, art demonstrations, a Farmers' Market and a pancake breakfast and food court add to the weekend. About 25 Lummi Indian artists will be demonstrating and selling their work nearby.

Westcott Bay Sculpture Park:
FAMILY ART DAYS (Ongoing events)from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Westcott Bay Sculpture Park at Roche Harbor. Every Saturday from Memorial Day weekend thru August 30. Free drop-in arts & crafts activities. Open to the public, for all ages. For more information, visit our Web site at www.westcottbay.org or call (360) 370-5050.

16th Annual San Juan Islands Artists' Studio Tour
June 7, 2008 - June 8, 2008
Times: Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m./Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
www.sanjuanislandartists.com Location: San Juan Island Phone: 360 378 7110

A self-guided tour of 12 working studios with over 31 participants. This is a unique opportunity to observe a variety of artists on their home turf. All studios are located on beautiful San Juan Island within several miles of the town of Friday Harbor. To attend, take the Washington State ferry from Anacortes to Friday Harbor. After arriving in Friday Harbor, stop at Island Studios for your free studio tour map. Island Studios is located just 2 blocks up from the ferry at 270 Spring Street.