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Internationally acclaimed cartoonist draws from island home
Do what looks normal but isn't. For Jim Woodring, that directive, in 1989, launched the now acclaimed artist…
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Internationally acclaimed cartoonist draws from island home
Do what looks normal but isn’t. For Jim Woodring, that directive, in 1989, launched the artist
Arts
Vashon Opera opens Season Eight with “Dialogues of the Carmelites”
Toward the end of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, 16 Carmelite nuns gathered at the…
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Vashon bio-pic lights up silver screen
A new biopic will light up Vashon Theatre's silver screen about a subject dear to islanders' hearts: the…
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Island artist achieves ambitious goal: 100 paintings in 100 days
If you were challenged to create the same thing for 100 consecutive days, what might that be? For…
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Local artist paints locally, shows internationally
To see the beguiling portraits and landscapes of island artist Olivia Pendergast, chances are you'd need to book…
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Coffee and community: new book about popular island locale
What makes Vashon unique? Over the years that question has provoked the imagination of many island writers, poets,…
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Art legacy: daughter of island artist exhibits her work
Lately, Jane Spakowsky has been dreaming of a little cabin in the woods. The self-taught, mixed-media artist, who…
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‘Chicago’ comes to Vashon
Theater director Susan Hanson had just finished touching up the risers with black paint, laying out the glow…
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Vashon youth musicians take to the Strawberry Festival stage
There's a new spot not to be missed at Strawberry Festival this year. The VARSA Youth Stage located…
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Public art: new work by Vashon master carver
Master carver and island resident Israel Shotridge is widely regarded as one of today's finest Tlingit carvers. Well…
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Old friends talk about books, perhaps magic
When island poet and magician Tom Pruiksma and Portland writer Pauls Toutonghi get together, the unexpected often occurs.…
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Dance event celebrates community, past and present
This year, Vashon's Strawberry Festival will honor pre-World War II Japanese farmers who once grew most of the…