The 31st annual Vashon Center for the Arts Garden Tour is good to go.
This year, the time-honored presentation by the arts center will include five gardens, a plant sale, pop-up garden art galleries, a quilt show, a silent auction of artist-created garden chairs, and a host of other happenings around Vashon.
It all takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 4 and 5, with attendees able to take treks through five opulent island gardens. This year’s featured gardens belong to Winnie Mitchell and Ralph Frable; Laurie Lessen-Reiche and Rob Hotchkiss; Mike Kleer and Hiro Nakamura; Joseph Van Os; and Briana and John Coghlan, of HomeGrown Organics.
Tour-goers will also have chances to shop at pop-up galleries and art sales on the tour, featuring outdoor sculptures by Alexander Komola and mosaic garden art by Elaine Summer. A plant sale, held in VCA’s Heron Meadow, will include a wide selection of plants and a variety of whimsical chair planters.
At VCA, a popular art chair auction will return, with silent bids taken throughout the tour. This year, the chairs are modeled on the famous Wave Hill Chair. Kevin Hoffberg and Eddy Radar donated the materials and their time and talent to build the chairs. Each is a work of art, individually painted by a talented local artist.
Pam Ingalls’ oil painting, “Golden Graces”, commissioned especially for the 2022 Garden Tour, is also on display and part of the auction.
The Vashon Island Quilt Guild will also display a collection of handmade quilts in the VCA breezeway throughout the weekend. One of the guild’s quilts, “Flowers Galore” is part of the Garden Tour raffle, which also includes a large potted Japanese maple from Island Home Center & Lumber, a garden cart and tools from Ace Hardware, and five yards of compost and delivery from Mike’s Materials.
All proceeds from the chair auction and the raffle will directly support VCA programming and operations.
Find out more and get tickets, $40, online at vashoncenterforthearts.org, or at the VCA box office.
View the auction online at vca.maxgiving.bid/items.
