Curating Franke Tobey Jones Senior Art Show

Have been working on this show since August and
it has now taken wing.  First hung the show at
Franke Tobey Jones in October and now is hanging
in the Tacoma Art Museum.  Lots of compliments for
a very talents group of Washington State artists.
Reception is Thursday night - Tacoma's Third Thursday
Juror's panel will be featured at the reception.
This year's jurors are
Becky Frehse
Dane Gregory Meyer
Patsy Surh O Connell
A thank you to each for the diligent effort in choosing
the best of our 216 submissions.
Also a huge thank you to JJ Hudson who has been the
administrator for the show at FTJ and to Sarah Idstrom for
her far reaching vision in promoting senior artists this past 9 years.
This show could not have happened without their invaluable
contributions. 

Pacific Grove, CA The Language of Flowers

Aglow

Floral Still Life

The Language of Flowers
In celebration of Emily Dickinson
December 3, 2014 – Jan 4, 2015
Opening Reception:
Friday, December 5, 2014 5:30-7:30PM
Featuring harpist Eleanor Bennett-White

Featuring the Art of
Patti Bond, Anne Downs, Debra Ferreboeuf , Sylvia Gardner,
Jerry Ginsburg, Yolanda Gurries, Dayton Knipher, Briana Lyon,
Stephanie Martin, Marie Massey, Barbara Mellin, Marli Melton,
Susan Mendelsohn, Tom Montan, Chester Ng, Erika Perloff,
Claire Phillips, Julia Seelos, Murray Wagnon, Julia Watson,
Cindy Wilbur, Rowan Wolnick

Flowers have reigned for centuries as the messengers of love,
gratitude, remembrance, and friendship. Emily Dickenson often
meaningfully referred to flowers and plants in her poetry.
Victorians commonly referenced flowers, trees, mosses and
leaves to send nuanced messages. The Language of Flowers
is an exhibition of two-dimensional artwork inspired by the
writings and poetry of Emily Dickinson and the meanings with
which we have invested flowers since ancient times.

Harbor History Museum - Peninsula Art League Juried Show

Silent Misty Morning                                              Dayton K Knipher, 2014

"Silent Misty Morning" was juried into Peninsula Art League's 2014
annual show at the Harbor History Museum.

On exhibit
September 26 thru
November 16 2014

A Night at the Carnival opens to rave reviews

Mark and I got the show installed at Northwind.  My install was pretty involved with 2 slide shows and a video to set up, but all went well and things look great.  We had a wonderful reception with 150 to 200 people in attendance.  Yay!!!  

One attendee wrote to a mutual friend "I thoroughly enjoyed my "night at the Carnival" without the traveling, parking, walking and lines.  I just immersed myself in the carnival.....the colors are still twirling in my head.  Bravo!!!!"

next opening at

PHINNEY CENTER GALLERY

6532 Phinney Ave. N.

Seattle, WA  98103

www.phinneycenter.org/arts

Show opens on Sept 3 and runs through Oct 3 2014

Opening Reception is 

Friday, Sept 12  from 7pm to 9 pm

Northwind Arts Center July 2014

American Carnival

Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA, July 2014,  

"A Night at the Carnival" - Traveling Exhibit with 3D artist Mark Lubich

Mark and I have been working on this themed show for over 2 years now.  We have traveled to carnivals, strategized, planned and produced artwork for this show and we open July 4th at Northwind for a month of fun at the carnival.

Harbor History Museum 2013

Peninsula Arts League Annual Juried Show 2013

Target Practice         Racing on Silver Wings                                              

The Corridor Gallery, Seattle, WA 2013

The Corridor Gallery
Throughout 2013 Tashiro Kaplan's Corridor Gallery at 306 S. Washington St., Seattle,

exclusively showcased Artist Trust EDGE graduates.  Building management provided this space free for an entire year in order for EDGE Graduates to show their work.  Corridor Gallery is in the heart of the arts district in the same building as 4Culture, Gallery 110, SOIL, SHIFT, Gallery 103, Gallery 104 and many others.  First Thursday Artwalk in Seattle happens primarily in this building and visibility for our art was tremendous.  It was a fabulous opportunity for EDGE graduates to have the entire year to showcase their work in the Corridor gallery space.  We have a Facebook page of shows that have exhibited in throughout 2013  https://www.facebook.com/pages/EDGE-at-the-Corridor-Gallery/552116681484849

Curators of the Corridor Gallery were Dayton Knipher (14 months), Lisa Pollman (11 months), Malpina Chan (11 months), and Katy Krantz (9 months).   Guest curators were Akiko Masker, Lita Kenyon, Deborah Kapoor, Cathy Fields, Ellen Hochberg and Anna Macrae.  All curators with the exception of Lisa are EDGE graduates and volunteered their time and expertise in order to make each show possible. 

Center on Contemporary Art - 2013 Shows

This marked the first showing of a piece from a series Mark Lubich and I have been developing this past year titled "A Night at the Carnival."  Now that it is July of 2014 we are ready to install this show at Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend, WA.  More on this show soon.  Here is my juried entry to "Collision"

Center on Contemporary Art

Like a Rolling Stone - CoCA 24 Hour Marathon 2012

After showing two pieces in CoCA's "Show Us Yours" exhibit in October 2012, my proposal to be the first photographer to participate in their 24 Hour Marathon was accepted through a juried application process. This was their 20th marathon.The challenge for the artists was to create completed works of art in a very short 24 hour turnaround. Armed with my camera, computer, printer, and other supplies needed to create, produce, print and frame my pieces, I descended on Seattle Design Center and CoCA's gallery space for the long haul.  Below are the pieces I create for the event and sold at CoCA's auction the next night.  Many thanks to Ray Lemery who was my point person and trekked back and forth from SDC and Costco with test prints and ran errands for me as needed.  I felt it worked well and hope the CoCA will again consider having a photographer as part of the mix. Created the first two from an odd contraption parked on the railroad tracks.  Never did find out what it is used for. 

 

 

 

 

 

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