Community invited to Arts reception Tuesday, February 9

The staff and board of directors of the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council would like to invite the community to its Annual Meeting on Tuesday, February 9 at 6 p.m. at Shoreline City Hall, 175th and Midvale. We will be presenting the Arts Council's 2010 Community Project Awards to other organizations, and its 2010 Artists-in-Residence Grants awarded to teachers in the Shoreline School District. Board members, officers, and staff will be introduced. The Arts Council is managing quarterly exhibitions at Shoreline City Hall and the festivities will also include a reception for the artists in the current City Hall Gallery exhibition. Please join us in congratulating the award and grant recipients, mingle with the artists, enjoy refreshments and learn more about the Arts Council and its role in the community.

Artists showing in the Gallery:

Matt Calcavecchia – watercolor on paper
“I alternate working in three mediums: oil, pastel and mixed water-media. Each of these mediums, and how I relate to them, requires a different approach and application: each expresses a distinctly different mood and requires me to think in a fresh way.” 

Helen Drummond – oil painting
Painting is an emotional response which brings forth a visual indicator of my soul's longing to merge with the immediacy of nature in the wilds, the less tamed places of city, in the color of sky and water, the movement of trees, and in the bearing of meadows and mountains. Nature is my true teacher and never fails to give me subjects for my compositions.  

David Owen Hastings – mixed media monotypes
“In my fine art studio, I create organic abstractions, exploring patterns, shapes, colors and textures I see in nature and the elements. The simple yet intricate structures of microorganisms appear as recurring figures in my work. Monotype is my primary print medium, which is akin to a painting that is printed.”  

Hye Young Kim – dyed yarn and acrylic painting
“I have been questioning human existence by presenting physical and psychological human traces with art practice. The work acts as a recording of an individual’s daily routines, tracing of my own body engaged in everyday habits and rituals These large-scale acrylic paintings incorporate yarn and dyes, and explore my own notions of a private domestic existence.”  

Candace Lange – acrylic on canvas
Candace Taylor Lange is an amazing artist with a strong personality that shows through in her paintings. With an eye for the surreal and a bold sense of femininity, Candace is proving to be one of the most unique working artists in Northwest Art today. 

2010 Community Project Award Recipients:

Friends of Third Place Commons – Dance and Drums in the Commons
Richmond Beach Community Association – Strawberry Festival Bands
Shoreline Concert Band – Guest Soloist for Spring Concert
Filipiniana Arts and Culture – Mabuhay Philippines 2010
Choir of the Sound – Spring Pops Concert
VSA Arts of Washington – Creative Arts for Life Drama Program

2010 Artists-in-Residence Grants:

The Arts Council has approved funding for 17 projects in the Shoreline School District. These projects all feature professional teaching artists working with students in the classroom and will take place between January and June of 2010.


Shoreline City Hall is located at 17500 Midvale Ave, Shoreline, WA 98155. For more information please contact the Arts Council at 206-417-4645 or email us.

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture all of the arts in the community through programs and events, arts education, advocacy, and support for artists and arts organizations.