Networking and Elevator Speeches for Artists 57829
Join us for this great professional development class for artists! The elevator speech is often used in the business world. It’s based on the idea that you only have the time it takes to get from the top to bottom floor of a building to introduce yourself and your work. In this workshop, led by Artist Trust's program team, you will develop your elevator speech, practice telling your story, and learn effective networking techniques to build on the connections you make in the arts community. By the end of the workshop, you will be more comfortable talking about yourself and your work and be prepared for your next networking opportunity!
Ages: 16+
Fee:  $15
Instructor: Artist Trust
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 5:30-7:00PM
@ The Postmark Center of the Arts.    

Miniature Polymer Owls - 57830
What is not to love about the big eyes and round feathery shapes of owls! Learn how to create a variety of textures, shapes and colors by sculpting your very own adorable miniature polymer clay owls! No experience needed and all materials will be provided, including oven.
Ages: 6+
Fee: $45/$57 Resident/Non-Res.
Instructor: Elizabeth Jo Zosel
Date: Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 10:00AM-12:00PM
@ MakerSpace in The REC.

Native American Style Hand Drum - 57832
Spend an evening making the same kind of drum used by Native American artists and in Native gatherings all over the northwest. Using soaked deer rawhide and a maple hoop, you will lace together a traditional 14’’ diameter one-sided “flat drum” and buckskin covered drumstick. Then we will discuss traditional Salish visual design and how you can paint your personal design on your drum after it dries. Instructor Kenneth Greg Watson has helped more than 400 people make drums of this style... these drums look good and sound great! All materials for this class will be provided.
Ages: 16+
Fee: $110/$138 Resident/Non-Res.
Instructor: Kenneth Greg Watson
Date: Thursday, October 12-19, 2023 | 5:30-7:30PM
@ The Postmark Center for the Arts.

Plush Keychain Blanket Stitch -57838
Create your own plush keychain and decorate up and down with beads and stitching! Make your keychain as simple or complicated as you like. If you have enough time you can make another! Be prepared to use a small needle.
Ages: 15+
Fee: $20/$25 Resident/Non-Res.
Instructor: Amanda Jenkinson
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 | 5:30-7:30PM
@ The Postmark Center for the Arts.

Postmark Center for the Arts Gallery
20 Auburn Ave

Exhibition: RENEWAL: Historic Roots and Artistic Growth 
Exhibition dates: September 16 - January, 2024

Our first exhibition in the new Postmark Gallery will be featuring artworks by 24 talented PNW artists, each sharing their own artistic perspective on the theme of trees, branches, and growth through nature. Also on view as a part of this exhibition will be a grove of wishing trees, uniquely crafted by local artists, with the intention of engaging the community in an opportunity to help create a leaf to add to the trees, sharing wishes, hopes or dreams, and helping to shape the vision for this new space and for Auburn!

We will be holding a gallery reception for this exhibition's artists on Wednesday, October 18, from 5 - 6:30pm. Join us to chat with the artists in person!

Vault gallery
20 Auburn Ave

Exhibition: The History of the Postmark Center for the Arts
Exhibition Dates: September 16 - January 2024

Take a glimpse into the history of the Postmark Center for the Arts! With old Auburn artifacts, records, and information, let the vault take you through time and learn more about the Postmark's transformation. Located within the Postmark Center for the Arts, we are excited to have local artists display their site-specific art installations within the vault! 

Auburn Community and Event Center
910 Ninth St. SE

Artist: Maryna Kantsyr
Exhibition Dates: August 29 - November 1

We welcome Maryna Kantsyr as our current Community Center Gallery artist! Kantsyr's work is heavily inspired by how she interprets her environment, resulting in colorful abstractions of shapes and figures. "Ideas for my paintings usually came from interactions with the outside world, that become an idea of some kind of logic or just emotions that transform to colorful lines and objects. Sometimes I just start with a line and an idea comes after, sometimes I start with one idea and find out that it's transformed to a different idea."

Cheryl Sallee Gallery, Auburn Senior Center
808 Ninth St. SE

Artist: John Woodard
Exhibition Dates: August 29 - November 1

We are excited to present John Woodard at the Cheryl Sallee gallery! Woodard was born in Seattle and studied under influential Pacific Northwest artist Jacob Lawrence at the University of Washington. Woodard hopes that, like Lawrence, his artwork relies on “close attention to the tension between negative and positive shapes.” The series on display for this exhibition feature a process called watercolor resist. Woodard “begins with oil pastels on watercolor paper and then applies a watercolor wash, creating texture as the watercolor pulls away from the wax in the pastels. This technique marries the quality of painting with the immediacy and spontaneity of drawing.”

Art on Main Gallery
One Main St.

"Corrosion Blooms" by Brooke Fotheringham
Exhibition Dates: October 14 - January 1, 2024

The Art on Main Gallery is featuring an installation made of mixed media acrylic, polyester and photo paper lenticular triptych titled "Corrosion Blooms" by artist Brooke Fotheringham. The artist states that "this lenticular triptych is an exploration of entropy and corrosion, a daydream about how the universe is continually breaking things down to their base elements in an infinite cycle of rebuilding. Infrastructure crumbles as oxides grow and bloom out of them. The generative and destructive no longer opposites, but rather a series of reactions and evolutions on a shared continuum."

Lights on! Stage set! BRAVO Performing Arts is on stage this spring! The City of Auburn is excited to present an incredible lineup of music, comedy, theater, and kids’ programming as part of the BRAVO Performing Arts Season. Check out the upcoming schedule at auburnwa.gov/theater.

Upcoming Shows:

• October 13, 14, 20 & 21 at 7:30pm & October 14, 15, 21 & 22 at 2:00pm
  Auburn Community Players: Little Shop Of Horrors | GRC
• Friday, October 27 | Sunrust | Postmark Center for the Arts | 7:30pm
• Friday, November 3 | Seattle International Comedy Competition - Week 1 | GRC | 7:30 pm
• Saturday, November 4 | The Jewel Tones | GRC | 7:30 pm