Harbor History Museum

13th Annual Juried Maritime Art Exhibition

This year I was thrilled to learn that all three of my entries had been juried into this show.
Below are my three pieces and pics of the artist reception in August

Prop at Rest                     Headed for Home                     Nevermore

Tacoma Community College Gallery
10th Annual Juried Local Art Exhibit
September 17 to October 26th

Aquatic Blast was juried into this well received show

Aquatic Blast shows at TCC's 10th - I was also in the 7th Annual  

"Night Commerce" in the Burke Museum

International Conservation Photography Awards Exhibit

Burke Museum - Seattle Washington

 Up through November 25th, the International Conservation Photography Awards exhibit is a world class show.  My piece "Night Commerce" won Honorable Mention in the Puget Sound At Risk category.
All the winners are now posted on the ICPA website under Galleries - 2012 winners. 
Here's the link  http://www.icpawards.com/

International and Washington State Photography Competitions Washington Salon

72nd Northwest International Exhibition of Photography and Washington State Photography Competitions
These shows ran concurrently at the Washington Salon, Puyallup, WA.  Western Washington Fair hosted these exhibits.  The Fair had well over 1 million visitors in 2012.  I won an Honorable Mention in the International Competition and 2 Honorable Mentions in the Washington State competition.  Of the 8 images I entered, 7 were juried into these competitive shows.  I was very pleasantly shocked at my showing with an over all field of more than 300 photographers and more than 1,000 images, it was amazing that my photos were chosen and won several awards.

Here are the links to view the show results  http://www.thefair.com/_assets/c1b6b322a48f55d4a89ae3cc348e95dd/2012_PhotoSalonCatalog_WEB.pdf

http://www.thefair.com/_assets/dc5b10b67c22ce78c5926279f46c753a/PF12_WAPhoto_results.pdf

A Busy Season

Summer into Fall has been a very busy and rewarding season this year.  After posting about my image in the Burke Museum, I had the wonderful news that all three of my entries in the Maritime Show at the Harbor History Museum had been accepted for exhibit.  While I have been in this show in past years, I have never had all my submissions get in the show.  What a wonderful surprise.


As a curator of "A Celebration of Washington Artists" at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, I was very pleased with the hanging of the show and the enthusiastic response we have had.  Celebration is a collective showing of artists graduating from Artist Trust's EDGE Professional Development program.  Spanning 9 years, we had

BURKE MUSEUM OPENING

Working for Artist Trust

I am thrilled to have been invited to become a part of Artist Trust wearing several different hats simultaneously.  http://www.artisttrust.org/

ARTIST TRUST AT LARGE

On July 7th I will be giving my first Artist Trust presentation to a group of Olympia artists as part of the newly formed program titled "Artist Trust At Large". Here is a flyer of this presentation. If you are in that area and wish to learn more about Artist Trust - please feel free to join the group - this is a free event

"CELEBRATION"
WASHINGTON STATE CONVENTION CENTER

AN ARTIST TRUST EXHIBIT

SHOWCASES 9 YEARS OF ARTIST TRUST EDGE GRADUATES

I was invited to help curate this upcoming Artist Trust exhibit.  Woo Hoo!!!

The Washington State Convention Center in Seattle invited Artist Trust to hang a show in their public gallery space from July 21st through October 21st 2012.  Artist Trust decided to showcase their EDGE program graduates. I am a 2008 EDGE grad myself.

Actually, in 9 years of EDGE there have been over 450 graduates from this wonderful program - but 450 artists to curate is a lot of work!!!!  There are several of us working on this divided up by year.  I am curating years 2006-2008.  Curators and the AT staff person overseeing us are:

MalPina Chan in Olympia,

Dayton Knipher in Tacoma,

Cathy Sarkowsky in Seattle

Natasha Marin also in Seattle,

Exhibit Intern, Lisa Pollman and

Nichole DeMent - Artist Trust Program Manager

This has been so much fun and I love seeing all the art coming through cyberspace. 

More on this event as the jury process begins and final art is chosen.

Happy Birthday Today

My birthday has been going very well today.  Just created a new piece,
am enjoying my fun kitties,
my birthday roses from years past are in full bloom,
gotten love and wishes from friends and family, and will pamper myself this afternoon.
Plus the transit of Venus is happening on my birthday - a noteworthy celestial event!

won't see that again for another 150 years
I'm inspired by using my mug "Jesus - the gift of Hope"
Yes, indeed our hope is in Jesus. Amen

Doesn't get any better than that



Grayson - title "You Better Make That Special Delivery"



Cleopatra - title "The Cat Did It"

  

Racing With the Wind -  6-6-2012

Original - a botched photo of Washington DC Metro - a truly amazing network of underground transit - AH!  another transit event on my birthday.

Here are a few  non-botched photos of the Metro web

DC Metro

DC metro

New Creations 2012

Mother and Son                                 Dayton Knipher 2012



High Tech God                        Dayton Knipher 2012

Racing on Silver Wings                          Dayton Knipher 2012



International Conservation Photography Awards

The Burke Museum
June 30, 2012 – Nov. 25, 2012


I was thrilled to be juried into this show
opening June 30, 2012

 2012 International Conservation Photography Awards

Seattle –The Burke Museum will once again exhibit the winners of the International Conservation Photography Awards, a biennial juried competition initiated in 1997 by acclaimed local nature photographer, Art Wolfe.  

Over 75 photos were chosen from more than 1500 images submitted by amateur and professional photographers from across the globe. The photographs are conservation-focused, chosen in categories such as Wildlife, Landscape, Underwater, and Community at Risk, which focuses on environmental threats to urban areas. Capturing beautiful moments in the natural world, the photos connect us to the tiniest of creatures and enormous environmental changes. The competition and its award-winning photos inspire, educate, and encourage us all to consider our impacts on the world’s natural resources.

Here are the links to this year's competition. 
Check the Burke Website for a full schedule and details
http://www.burkemuseum.org/

On the ICP Awards site you can view my entry in 2010 -
Honorable Mention - Puget Sound at Risk category

icpawards.com

A Time to Show - A Time to Teach

Seattle Maker Faire - Photos

Seattle Maker Faire 2012

Dayton getting ready to set up -     Animated Instruction -       Portrait                 



 Seattle Maker Faire
June 3rd - Seattle Center

20 x 20 x20

Portrait Hints

By

Dayton K Knipher

Taking Portraits on a Shoestring

20 tips and 20 supplies under $20

I have been juried into the 2012 Maker Fair taking place at Seattle Center. From 11:40 to 12:05 I will be demonstrating how to take better portraits with inexpensive and readily available items. Bring your camera and join me This will be a fun and informative presentation then hands on opportunities to snap portraits at this amazing event.
For more information about a Maker Faire - here's the link - once on the website watching the video shows what you will experience - lots of energy, creativity, inventiveness and just plain fun.
http://makerfaireseattle.com/
About Maker Faire:

The mission of Maker Faire events is to inspire, inform, connect and entertain thousands of Makers and aspiring Makers of all ages and backgrounds through the public gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, authors and commercial exhibitors. The inaugural Maker Faire was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2011 celebrated its sixth annual Bay Area event with some 100,000 people in attendance. In 2010, Maker Faire expanded to Detroit and New York City.
Community driven, independently produced Mini Maker Faire events inspired by Maker Faire are now being produced around the United States and the world, including Seattle Mini Maker Faire. Maker Faire is supported by MAKE Magazine and O’Reilly Media.


1st Annual I CAN!

Freighthouse Square, Tacoma, WA
March 31st

I participated in the 1st Annual Interactive Community Arts Network (I CAN!) event at Freighthouse Square on Saturday, March 31st. This was a free family-oriented event for the community, by the community, drawing together resources already available within the community.

The goal for producing this event was to help Revitalize Freighthouse Square. In an effort to bring community together at a once-thriving space
I gave a presentation on Demystifying Digital Icons on a digital camera

PLUS I had a solo show in a vendor space turned into the Dayton Knipher Gallery for the month of April



Dayton Knipher Gallery - Freighthouse Square            April -2012



Artist Trust Select Invitation

In February I was invited by Artist Trust of Washington to participate in an innovative new opportunity for artists:

CREATING A LASTING LEGACY (CALL)
Creating a Lasting Legacy (CALL) is an initiative of the Joan Mitchell Foundation (JMF) that provides a range of support to visual artists in organizing, inventorying, archiving and creating a comprehensive documentation of their artworks and careers.  The CALL Overview Workshop lead by JMF consultants is geared towards providing participants with the opportunity to understand the CALL experience for both artists and the trained Legacy Specialists who work with them. 

15 Artists throughout the state of Washington were invited to shape the CALL program here in Washington and become CALL Ambassadors through Artist Trust.  I am thrilled to be asked to participate in this valuable initiative and will begin training the first week of March 2012.

For more info on the Joan Mitchel Foundation and their vision for artists, follow the link below.

http://joanmitchellfoundtion.org/artist-programs/call

December at Tacoma Art Museum

Tacoma Art Museum
Winterfest 2011
20/20 Identity and Portrait Project -  I am coordinating this event for TAM
come join the fun
December 4th - 2-4
Reception immediately following presentations
Here's the article in the Tacoma News Tribune
Identities, portraits and
a free community festival
at Tacoma Art Museum
Post by Rosemary Ponnekanti / The News Tribune on Nov. 30, 2011

Port Commissioner Clare Petrich,
who will present at TAM's 20/20 this Sunday,

in Croatia with her daughter
 in the 1970's. Courtesy photo.

It’s all happening at Tacoma Art Museum this Sunday: The annual Let It Snow free community festival also includes the second annual 20/20 Identity and Portrait Project, featuring 20 local individuals sharing stories and photographic portraits in anticipation of the major photographic exhibition Hide/Seek coming to TAM in 2012.

The festival ushers in winter with music from bell choir the Rainier Ringers, dance performances from Metro Arts and Grant Elementary students, make-it-yourself pop-up holiday cards or ornaments and more. You can also walk across Pacific Avenue to the new ice rink, co-sponsored by the museum. All museum entry is free during the festival.

Now in its second year, 20/20 gathers 20 community members to present personal stories and anecdotes accompanied by visual portraits. This year presenters include artists such as Lynn Di Nino, Oliver Doriss, Paul Pauper, Peter Serko, Angela Rockett, John Carlton and Ann Meersman; musician Pamela Ryker; playwright Rosalind Bell; theater director David Domkowski; public figures Tim Farrell, Clare Petrich, Dan Fear, Dawn Lucien and Helen Engle; museum directors Jackie Jones Hook and Mary Bowlby; soldier Ben Price; designer John Vlahovich and TAM’s Courtney Vowels

Rosalind Bell - playwright, author

Mary Bowlby - Executive Director - Job Carr Cabin Museum

John Carlton - Photographer, Comunity Activist

Lynn Di Nino - Artist, Arts Advocate

David Domkowski - Tacoma Public Library -

Manager of Community Relations

Oliver Doriss - Glass Artist, Fulcrum Gallery - owner

Helen Engle - National Environmental Activist

Tim Farrell - Pierce County Council
Jacki Jones - Executive Director - Buffalo Soldier Museum
Dawn Lucien - Community Leader
Ann Meersma - Artist
Clare Petrich - Tacoma Port Commissioner,
Tacoma Maritime Fest - founder
Ben Price - United States Armed Forces
Angela Rockett - Artist
Pam Ryker - Musician - Classical Tuesdays - Artistic Director
Peter Serko - Photographer, Arts Advocate
John Vlahovich - Designer - Principle - Vlahovich Design Assoicates

November 2011 - January 2012

Museum Of Glass
Tacoma WA
Transformation - Art Changes a City - with Peter Serko

Just got two pieces juried into the exhibit -
http://museumofglass.org/page.aspx?pid=459

Third Thursday's are free admission from 5 - 8
Third Thursday Artwalk - check it out



Alien Invasion



Museum of Glass

Whatcom Museum "Fate of the Forest" - press coverage

Seattle Times - August 20, 2011
Got a great review from Seattle Times arts writer, Michael Upchurch for my piece in "Fate of the Forest" at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA (see my post of June 2nd )

"Fate of the Forest" is reviewed in the last two paragraphs of an article re: Elizabeth Colborne - Evergreen Muse.  I was one of only 9 artists out of 200+ in the show who got mentioned.   I'm thrilled!!!!! 

My piece,"Crystal Silence," is a response to everything I find dark and mysterious in our precious forests. There is a quiet majesty in the evergreens guarding our soil, air and wilderness. This inspiration led me to create a piece I felt worthy of the trees we take for granted in the Pacific Northwest.

here's the link to the article

 http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/mobile/?type=story&id=2015938594&st_app=ip_news_lite&st_ver=1.2
and a link to the list of participating artists in the exhibit
http://www.whatcommuseum.org/images/Art_exhibitions/Fate_Artist_List.pdf

Gallery Madera - Tripod Series

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL

"Tripod" slide show
Gallery Madera,
Tacoma, WA

Madera Architectural Elements showroom, Tacoma WA

Participants
Jori Adkins presenting "Lions in Mineral Forms",
Cheryl Johnson investigating "Gorillas and Friends in Uganda" and

Dayton K Knipher exploring nature "Catch a Glimpse of Mystery"

I created a slideshow of 185 of my images
in locations ranging from  Mexico,the Pacific Northwest,
Colorado, and Florida

My intention was to highlight 24 attributes of nature
 using my photography in my 15 minute segment of the evening.

Great Fun!!!! 

Lots of positive response for all our presentations

Thanks to all who attended!!

Summer 2011 Exhibits

Auburn Arts Commission and
Auburn Good Ol Days
Juried Art Show
www.auburngoodoldays.com/juried_art_show.htm
3 pieces in this show




"Waiting For the Horses"










"Those Were the Days"

"Longing for the Sea"








Proctor Arts Festival
Juried Art Show
http://www.proctorartsfest.com/
August 6th and 7th
Brilliant Orange was also juried into this show

Kitsap Arts and Crafts Festival
49th Annual Juried Art Show
http://www.kitsapartsandcrafts.com/
July 29 - 31st
Pieces that were juried into the show
Excuse Me!! won third place in photography division,

"Excuse Me!!! "  

"Brilliant Orange"






"Hatching Carnivals"








The Schack Art Center
18th Juried Art Show 
http://www.schack.org/
my name and piece are pictured on the Juried Art page
Main Gallery
July 1 through August 25
This biennial exhibit of Northwest artists
is a well-rounded variety of mediums to
produce an eclectic and visually stimulating exhibit






"Prop at Rest"

June Exhibits

Whatcom Museum      June 4 - Sept 18 
 In celebration of their upcoming exhibition, Evergreen Muse: The Art of Elizabeth Colborne (1885-1948), the Whatcom Museum is hosting FATE OF THE FOREST an exhibition comprised of Pacific Northwest artists.

Crystal Silence




The reception will be held on June 17th. I will have my piece
 "Crystal Silence" in this exhibit.  Hope to see you at the reception.




Harbor History Museum   June 4 - July 3
 "One Golden Moment"

Also in June two pieces are on exhibit in Harbor History Museum's Maritime Juried Show 4121 Harborview Drive, Gig Harbor, Washington
When I delivered my pieces, I saw many fine entries.
This show is definitely a must see event located in the fabulous
new museum in the heart of downtown Gig Harbor.
The reception is Friday June 3, 2011.
http://www.harborhistorymuseum.org/

April Exhibits

Tacoma Art Museum

1701 Pacific Avenue

Tacoma, WA 98402

Volunteeer Exhibit

March 30th - April 12th

Showing "Aquatic Blast - in the Beginning" and "Crystal Silence"

Henry Art Gallery Cafe
Contemporary Art Museum on the UW Campus
15th Ave NE & 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195
(206)543-2280
April 5th - May 8th
In conjunction with Henry exhibit "Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and Seattle Camera Club," participants in "Creating Visual Poetry" through the Photo Center Northwest traveled first to the Henry to view the exhibit and then to Kubota Gardens in Seattle to capture images in the spirit of  The Seattle Camera Club.  Resulting photos were juried by Seattle photographer Doug Ethridge - leader of the day long clinic. Each photographer had one image chosen for the exhibit.








Pierce College

9401 Farwest Drive SW

Lakewood, Washington 98498

Pierce Arts at Pierce College
Pierce College Gallery
Highlights works of selected Washington Artists

April 4th - April 29th

Showing "River Run"










Photo Center Northwest
900 12th Ave
Seattle, Washington 98122
Push Pin Show
April 1st - April 17th
5 of my photographs are on display in this exhibit.

Sneak Peak

New Artistic Direction
2011 I have taken my photographic art into new territory.  Lack of time has prevented me from updating my website so wanted to share a sneak peak of my work.  Aquatic Blast and Witness Off the Hook are just two of a dozen new pieces just waiting to be unveiled.  Hope you enjoy!!

Would love to get comments of first impressions

2011 and Tacoma Art Museum - Artist Residency

January and February

Tacoma Art Museum - Artist Residency
On January 1 - I began a 4 month photography residency with the Tacoma Art Museum - Mighty Tacoma Exhibit.  This features a number of Northwest photographers in celebration of Tacoma Art Museum's 75 years in the city of Tacoma. TAM is one of the oldest museums in the state of Washington. I am honored to be the in-residence photographer snapping portraits of folks who come to see the exhibit.

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/ 

I am especially thrilled that I know most of these photographers and have participated in a number of events with several of them.  Fellow photographer Steve Russell,  had his image chosen to be the signature photo for all publicity as well as a huge banner hanging on the south wall of the building announcing the exhibit.  I am especially tickled that - when he snapped his photo - he told me it reminded him of my art.
www.steverussellphotos.com/

Also in January, I continued as the official photograher for Classical Tuesdays and, in February, took photos for Alexandra Picard performing with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. 

2010 New Directions - Event Photographer

October thru December
Classical Tuesdays
After health issues landed me in the hospital, winding down 2010 was fairly quiet. I decided to take my photography in a new direction when I was asked to be the "official" photographer for Classical Tuesdays in Old Town.  Accomplished flutist, Pam Ryker, is the organizer and director of these free monthly concerts in North Tacoma. October through February, 2nd Tuesdays. Presented by Old Town Business Professionals Association.  classicaltuesdays.blogspot.com
 October  Performance

Native American Flutist
 Gary Stroutsos



November Performance

String Quartet
Maria Sampen, Jennifer Caine, Sally Singer and Tim Christie

December Performance

Wine and Song Benefit Concert
Romantic Arias
Charles Robert Stevens, Alexandra Picard and Denes Van Parys

Seattle Civic Band and Seattle Temple Brass Band
In December also filmed In Dulci Jubilo featuring
Seattle Civic Band, Raincity Women's Chorus and Contrast String Quartet - Jo-Ann Christen, Conductor
Seattle Temple Brass Band Stefan Wennstig Bandmaster,
and Seattle Temple Songsters - Ken Lyons, Songster Leader. 

This was a festive Christmas celebration