Art on Main Gallery and Vault Gallery - Accepts applications from regional artists to install 3-dimensional or multi-media art installations in two site-specific gallery spaces in downtown Auburn: the Art on Main Gallery and the Vault Gallery. Both spaces provide a $1,000 artist stipend to support the creation of new work and site-specific projects, or the installation of existing work for three-month exhibitions.
Eligibility: This is a call to artists residing in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon and Idaho).
Project Budget: $1,000 stipend for selected artists.
Application deadline: September 7, 2023
For more information or to apply, please view the online application.
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Art Galleries - Artists are selected through an annual application process for exhibitions in three city gallery spaces, showcasing diverse artworks by regional artists.
Eligibility: This is a call to artists with no geographical restriction, but all artwork must be dropped off and picked up in person in Auburn, WA on the assigned exhibition dates.
Application deadline: September 7, 2023
For more information or to apply, please view the online application.
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Art on Main Gallery
One Main Street
Artist: Maggie Andersen
Exhibition Dates:
April 12 - July 5, 2023
The City of Auburn and the Auburn Arts Commission are pleased to present an art installation by Maggie Andersen at Auburn’s Art on Main window-front gallery, on view April 12 – July 5, 2023.
Artwork Statement and Biography:
"Clothing speaks a universal language that most people relate to. I am asking viewers to rethink the application of something so common. These life-sized wall sculptures suggest stories of exploration, survivorship and overcoming. I treat these ‘garments’ as paintings, employing balance, motion, and harmony. Other times, I explore the creative process as solving a puzzle; using 22-gauge wire, hand sewing the pieces into fitting harmony. By bending flat industrial metals with my female hand, I find irony in turning the once utilitarian and recycled materials into graceful, fluid motion. Transformation is a common human experience, I love to turn the ordinary into something unique.
As a long time semi-retired art educator for public and private schools, it is a honor and privilege to facilitate for any one’s imagination, including mine. Having been involved in the arts most of my life, I am always curious to explore various mediums and learn through connecting my heart, hands, and mind. As I create, I laugh a lot. I cannot take my art too seriously as I become a child myself. I am grateful, curious, and still exploring."
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Community Center Gallery
910 Ninth Street SE
Artist: Marit Berg
Exhibition Dates: May 2 - July 6, 2023
Artist Marit Berg is a printmaker with an incredible eye for detail, and she draws inspiration from patterns seen in nature. She writes about how her art “reflects on the intricate relationship humans have with the environment and with other animal species both past and present.” Her artwork is informed by contemporary views on ecology and “the wonders of myth and folklore.”
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Cheryl Sallee Gallery
808 9th St SE
Artist: Fred Thumhart
Exhibition Dates: May 2 - July 6, 2023
Artist Fred Thumhart is a photographer who believes that “creativity is a fusion resulting from a collision between chaos and order, and that the special kind of creativity we call art is generated by a fearless, playful approach to the world that escapes the everyday conventions and results in a new and startling order.” His intriguing images range from “pure realism to abstraction, and surrealism” aiming to “show the viewer something she/he has never seen before.”
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Auburn Community Junior Players:
Junie B. Jones Jr.
Participants will learn voice, choreography, acting, and more that will culminate in four community performances. Auditions will be held on the first day of camp.
Camp opportunity for youth Ages 7-15
July 10-28 | 9am-4pm |57406
3-week Fee: $730/$925
Location: Ilalko Elementary | Instructor: Kathryn Stahl
Performances at Auburn Riverside High School Theater: Friday, July 28 at 7pm; Saturday, July 29 at 2pm & 7pm; & Sunday, July 30 at 2pm
Register online or by calling 253-931-3043.
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Auburn Community Junior Players
The Many Disguises of Robin Hood
Participants will learn acting, blocking, stage direction and audition techniques. Camp will meet for three weeks and end with three community performances of the full production.
Camp opportunity for youth Ages 7-15
August 7-25 | 9am-4pm | 57412 | 3-week Fee: $730/$925
Location: Arthur Jacobsen Elementary| Instructor: Kathryn Stahl
Performances at The Theater at Mountainview: Friday, August 25 at 7pm; Saturday, August 26 at 2pm; & Sunday, August 27 at 2pm
Register online or by calling 253-931-3043.
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The transformation of Auburn's historic Post Office into the Auburn Arts & Culture Center continues to progress. 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. We are looking forward to a Spring 2023 opening.
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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