COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITY!
ART & POETRY CHAPBOOK
Attention Poets! To celebrate the opening of the Auburn Arts & Culture Center later this year, we want to create a digital chapbook of poems about the local art of Auburn, WA. We ask that you submit no more than two poems, based on the local sculptures throughout our fair city. You can get ideas and find some of the many pieces here: Public Art Programs - City of Auburn (auburnwa.gov) and also here: Downtown Sculpture Gallery - City of Auburn (auburnwa.gov). City of Auburn Poet Laureate James Rodgers will select the favorite poems and compile them to correspond with the Arts & Culture Center opening. All poems must be your original work. Good luck, and have a great time exploring Auburn!
How to submit your poem: email poetlaureate@auburnwa.gov with the poem in the body of the email, and "Auburn Arts Poetry" as the subject line.
Deadline for poetry submissions: June 30th, 2022
ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Cheryl Sallee Gallery
808 9th St SE
Artist: Mark Jordan
Exhibition Dates:
through May 4, 2022
Northwest photographer Mark Jordan explores the concept of evoking a mood through compositions of shape and intensity of light. He uses photography as a means to better understand his personal reality --- with choice of subject matter coming from a place of emotional connection. Mark’s end goal is to realize what he sees in his mind’s eye. Using both analog and digital tools, he calls attention to things others may overlook.
For more information about the artist, please visit Mark Jordan’s website
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Artist: Rose Guastella
Exhibition Dates: May 4 - July 7, 2022
For artist Rose Guastella, her “journey as an artist has been a lifelong endeavor.” While painting subjects which range from landscapes to old trucks, and everyday interior settings, the artist strives to use paint and canvas “to capture the light, the air, the weather, and most of all the serenity and peace of water, land and sky.”
For more information about the artist, please visit Rose Guastella's website.
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Community Center Gallery
910 Ninth Street SE
Artist: Judith Rayl
Exhibition Dates:
through May 3, 2022
Rayl practices single-capture photography to illustrate the harmony at the convergence of Nature and the human-made. The Beckoning Sky exhibition presents imagery captured during the moment, with no double images or filtering. Realization of Nature’s capacity for healing drives Rayl’s appreciation of art as a force for wellbeing. She states “At the confluence of ecology & urban life lies a vivid still-point of connection & possibility. My art is a statement of sensitivity to the pain of our social & environmental crises.” The Gallery is located at 910 9th Street SE.
For more information about the artist, please visit Judith Rayl's website.
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Artist: Anthony Heinz May
Exhibition Dates: May 3 - July 6, 2022
Anthony Heinz May creates multifaceted works of art drawing upon inspiration found in both natural and human-constructed environments. He uses “traditional methodologies rooted in abstracted rhythmic patterns found in nature to create works using natural materials as medium in development of 3D work, alongside 2D impressions of space that focus on painted light, color and atmospheric transparency.” “My creations are informed by nature and natural processes as relates to humanity.” As an example, see May’s textile “quilt of paper birch bark sewn by machine illustrating precarious fragility in commodification of nature.”
For more information about the artist, please visit Anthony Heinz May's website.
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City Hall Gallery
25 W. Main Street
Artist: Misook Jung and Alex Kamola
Exhibition Dates: May 3 - July 6, 2022
Born in Korea, artist Misook Sohn-Jung gained experience in drawing while working in an animation studio, and now creates landscape-based paintings that seek to “transfer the movement of time and space that cannot be translated by the camera onto canvas, in an attempt to capture the flow of this age.”
Local ceramicist Alex Kamola uses high fired clays and traditional hand-building techniques to create pots whose inspirations “come from the forest; the forms of slugs, chanterelle mushrooms, birds, tree roots… I think of my pots as my footprints - formed in soft, wet mud and hardened to stone by pressure and heat.”
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Art on Main Gallery
One Main Street
Artist: Anthony Heinz May
Title: Homeomorphism
Exhibition Dates:
April 15 - July 4, 2022
"My creations blur lines between the real (natural) and artificial (human-processed) to portray relationships concerning nature, humans and technology. I rearrange and recombine fragments of these forms to reflect the omnipresence of grids in our world. Each fragment represents a disruption of time as recorded visually in woody vegetation (through the growth and change of its original, organic whole). Through geometric deformation, each material is interwoven so both sets of form mirror one another continuously, to allow possibility for non-orientable navigation. This conceptual play of fracturing and grafting like substrates illustrates particularities of past/present/future of Earth, to perceive time found in nature through an anthropocentric lens."
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 DOWNTOWN SCULPTURE GALLERY
The Downtown Sculpture Gallery showcases ten outdoor sculptures of various sizes, types, and mediums. The sculpture gallery changes annually providing different artwork for Auburn residents to experience and enjoy. The annual People's Choice Award contest is underway. Make sure to join the fun and vote for your favorite artwork. The artist whose sculpture receives the most votes will win a $500 award.
Visit our website to learn more about our entire lineup of sculptures, and to vote for your favorite!
PERFORMING ARTS IN AUBURN
Upcoming BRAVO Performing Art shows featuring music, kids’ performances, and comedy shows at different venues around Auburn.
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AUBURN ARTS & CULTURE CENTER PROGRESS
The transformation of Auburn's historic Post Office into the Auburn Arts & Culture Center is underway. The facility will provide increased access to the arts and cultural education for the local and regional community and drive economic activities in Auburn’s downtown core.
Follow the construction progress and find full project details at auburnwa.gov/arts.
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Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation
253-931-3043 | www.auburnwa.gov/arts
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