BAC Goes Botanical

Bainbridge Arts and Crafts
151 Winslow Way E.
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
For more information and high-res images, contact Victoria Josslin, Director of Education and Information, 206.842.3132 or Victoria@bacart.org.
The BAC Gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10-6; Sunday, 11-5.

BAC Goes Botanical
June 6 – July 1,
June 6, 6-8 p.m. Exhibition Reception
June 26, 4-6. Guest Speaker Susan Bird Olds: “Decoding the Blossom: Flower Symbolism in Art History”

Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Goes Botanical!
Plants offer rich possibilities to artists—a huge range of beautiful structures and colors, as well as an endless source of ideas and metaphors. In June, BAC artists explore botanical imagery in paintings, prints, photography, glass, and ceramics.

Claudia McKinstry; Tracy Lang
These artists bring years of skill, vision, and ideas on their depiction of plants. Claudia McKinstry’s oil and watercolor paintings show us the drama of light creating form. Tracy Lang expands the textures and patterns of plants into dynamic watercolors.
Vases
A well-designed vase looks as great when it’s empty as when it’s full of flowers and leaves. This show features remarkable artists working in either glass or ceramic. Artists include Sherri Grossbauer, Nana Kuo, Merilee Moore, Reid Ozaki, Ann Reynolds-Pearl, and Morgan Seeley.


Botanical Photography
These photographers bring a particular vision to images of plants and flowers. In their hands the design of the photograph grows naturally out of the design of the plant. Artists include Amber Dawn Hallet, Jonathan Hallet, Kurt Lindsay, Colleen Meacham, Ken Smith.
June 26, 4-5:30. Guest Speaker Susan Bird Olds: “Decoding the Blossom: Flower Symbolism in Art History”
Guest lecturer Susan Olds decodes the historic flower symbolism in western art, including Roman murals, medieval manuscripts, baroque and contemporary painting, including botanical illustrations by Renaissance masters such as Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci. Admission, $15.00