Polish Festival Seattle returns to its usual venue at the Seattle Center Armory and the Mural Amphitheater this year. The festival will open with a parade from the Mural Amphitheatre to the Armory Food & Event Hall at 12 p.m. There will be the usual attractions – folk group performances, concerts, exhibition, movies, workshops, Polish food and a beer garden as well as booths with arts and craft vendors and different organizations. 2025 highlights will
Wendy Rader-Konofalski, recently featured at the Polish Home Art Gallery, now has a new art exhibit at Bothell Caffe Ladro 18610 Bothell Way Lots of large new work and a variety of smaller landscapes. Come for the art, have a cup of coffee, and say hello to Wendy. All her works are for sale, so if you see anything that interests you, you can contact Wendy at wendyrk53@icloud.com. Or you can check out her website
Please join famed ceramist Sylwia Tur this Friday from5 to 8pm for a soft opening of the Seattle Restored Artist Residency at 1121 First Avenue (one block south from Seattle Art Museum). In the artist’s own words: Along with 4 other artists, I am in the process of transforming the space into an art gallery / store / workshop / studio for the next 5 months. You will be able to see us working, changing
The 28th Portland Polish Festival invites you, your family, and your friends to experience the food, dance, and music of Poland. The two-day Polish Festival in Portland is happening again after a long break caused by Covid and other issues. This is a family event, suitable for all ages and admission is free. Event Dates: Saturday, September 14th, 2024 from 11AM-10PM Sunday, September 15th, 2024 from 12PM-6PM Enjoy authentic Polish food, live music and dance
Polish born and raised Kalina Winska is the Artist in Residence Program at Recology King County. Her “Gleanings / 2024” exhibition runs from September 6 to September 14. This is what the artists says about her exhibition. “A certain beauty and fragility emerge in these otherwise rigid forms, when they have been crumpled and flattened. Everything here has been mistreated and discarded because it is no longer needed, yet in this abandonment the materials take
Polish Festival Seattle returns to its usual venue at the Seattle Center Armory and the Mural Amphitheater this year. The festival will open with a parade from the Mural Amphitheatre to the Armory Food & Event Hall at 12 p.m. There will be the usual attractions – folk group performances, a Chopin concert, exhibition, movies, workshops, Polish food and a beer garden as well as booths with arts and craft vendors and different organizations. The
Wendy Rader-Konofalski, recently featured at the Polish Home Art Gallery, now has a colorful solo art show at Victor’s Celtic Coffee Shop in Redmond at 7993 Gilman Street. She is showing a large variety of brand new paintings including a large triptych called “We the People,” as well as numerous acrylic landscapes, abstracts and a variety of watercolors. The exhibit will run until March 31st, so you still have lots of time to come by
Polish Festival Seattle returns to its usual venue at the Seattle Center Armory and the Mural Amphitheater this year. The festival will open with a parade from the Mural Amphitheatre to the Armory Food & Event Hall at 12 p.m. There will be the usual attractions – folk group performances, a Chopin concert, exhibitions, movies, workshops, Polish food and a beer garden as well as booths with arts and craft vendors and different organizations. Brand new
Local artist Kasia Pawluskiewicz has an exhibition of her paintings and prints at Heritage Distilling Co in Roslyn, WA through July 2023. The exhibition presents ten contemporary figurative oil paintings and a large collection of Japanese-style Gyotaku fish prints (see below) of sea creatures caught over the last ten years of Kasia’s career as a chef aboard luxury yachts, research and cargo vessels from the Bahamas to the Arctic circle. The artist is available for
This is another opportunity to see a painting exhibition by the local artist Wendy Rader-Konofalski. The exhibition is at Cafe Ladro Issaquah Highlands in Issaquah and runs for three months, from May 12 till August 11. The opening reception is on May 21, 2023, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm. The exhibition presents several abstract landscapes and other abstract acrylic paintings. The show is available during the coffee shop business hours. More: please visit Wendy’s
Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist with another exhibition, this time at Victor’s Celtic Coffee in Redmond. The opening reception for her show “The Magic of the Unexpected” is on April 2, 2023, from 2 pm to 4 pm. The exhibition presents several of her large and medium abstract acrylic paintings and abstract mixed media collages on paper. The show, sharing space with a landscape photo exhibit by Les Williams, is available from March 26
Wendy Rader-Konofalski is a local artist who has just opened her first solo exhibition at Caffe Ladro in West Seattle where she presents several of her acrylic paintings. This exhibition is available till January 31, 2023, during the caffe business hours – from 6:30 am to 6 pm on weekdays and from 6:30 am to 5 pm on weekends. Her smaller works can be also seen at the Parklane Gallery in Kirkland as part of
The Camas Public Library in Camas, WA presents an exhibition and book signing event organized by the Camas Sister City Organization. The book “Silesian Stories” has been written by Lloyd Halverson and printed in Polish and English by the City of Krapkowice, Poland. Krapkowice is a sister city to Camas. Book themes include resilience and connections between Silesia region in Poland and America, as well as episodes from the regional history. It is richly illustrated
Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle presents an exhibition Form Follows Language by ceramist Sylwia Tur. Join Sylwia at the artist reception on September 1 between 6 and 8 pm. Below is an intro written by the artist Dear All, I would like to invite you to my third solo exhibition at Linda Hodges Gallery: “Form Follows Language”, where I continue my sculptural work of giving physical dimension to language. In my recent exhibition at the
Polish Festival Seattle returns to the Seattle Center Armory and the Mural Amphitheater this year. This year is also the 10th anniversary of the festival – it started in 2012, yeah! The festival will open with a parade from the Mural Amphitheatre to the Armory Food & Event Hall at 12 p.m. There will be the usual attractions – folk group performances, a Chopin concert, exhibitions, movies, workshops, Polish food and a beer garden as well
The Parklane Gallery in Kirkland presents Silent Voices – a painting exhibition by Irena Jablonski. Jablonski was born and raised in Poland, then worked as a structural engineer in South Africa. She moved to the United States in 1990s and started her artist education in California. Now based in the Seattle area, she has been represented by the Parklane Gallery for about a decade. Jablonski has always been intrigued by the human vulnerability in coping with
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. Join ceramicists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur for an in-gallery discussion of their exhibition on May 8 at 3 pm. A site-specific installation that includes porcelain sculptures, audio, and video artworks, Object Permanence serves as a space for dialogue and collaboration between Tihanyi and Tur, and an opportunity for visitors to discover convergences and
Bellevue Arts Museum presents an exhibition Object Permanence connecting science and art and featuring two artists Timea Tihanyi and Sylwia Tur. The exhibition runs till May 29, 2022. Update: the discussion about the exhibition with both artists, scheduled in April, has been moved to May 8 at 3 pm; instead, on April 9 at 2 pm, Sylwia Tur will give private tour of her exhibition. Object Permanence is a space for dialogue and collaboration between two
The University of Washington Allen Library presents the exhibition Lem’s Bestiary Illustrated by Daniel Mróz organized by the Seattle-Gdynia Sister Association and the UW Polish Studies Endowment Committee in collaboration with the UW Libraries and the Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles. The main focus of the exhibition is collaboration between the writer and the artist and his drawings. The exhibition also includes videos and a display of Lem’s book from the UW Libraries
Local Polish-American Cornish College of the Arts graduate, Kasia Pawluskiewicz is exhibiting a new series of contemporary paintings and fish prints created while working at sea as an artisan chef for the last ten years. Not a gathering but an experience! An outdoor exhibition Friday December 11th from 4 pm to 8 pm and Saturday December 12th from 10 am to 8 pm, with artwork illuminated when dark. COVID protocols applied. Bring masks and snow