Island artist Kathy Johnson became fascinated with dolls at an early age. Not the typical baby doll with a cherubic face or a Barbie doll sporting infamous body proportions. Rather Johnson’s focus landed on dolls from around the world, dolls she understood to be cultural icons.
Last Thursday evening Ian Moore and his band mates drew the largest crowd in years to a Concerts in the Park show, with well over 400 people attending
Island artist Ann Leda Shapiro’s latest work, a series of five paper cutouts, will be exhibited in a pop-up art show at the Guest Shed Gallery in Seattle for two days only on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m.
Ian Moore and Bill Carter go way back. Before he moved to Vashon in the early 1990s, Moore lived in Austin, where he and Carter first met. Since then the two musicians have appeared on stage together, sometimes in scheduled appearances and sometimes not. They are slated to perform separately on Vashon this week.
Jean Davies Okimoto often says she writes the kind of novel she likes to read but has trouble finding. In the case of her adult fiction that means older characters grappling with the vicissitudes of aging, the nature of living in a close-knit island community and a story that ends on a hopeful note.
At an outdoor gathering hosted by Ron Irvine at the Vashon Winery last month, Vashon’s 2015 Poets Laureate were announced by Master of Ceremonies Annie Brulé.
Vashon Allied Arts’ annual outdoor summer concert BrambleFest will return to Camp Burton from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
The VALISE Gallery invites all islanders and non-residents to create and submit artwork for the gallery’s October exhibit titled “Treasure Maps.”
Cami Lundeen knows firsthand the meaning of a wild ride. Last June, the former island singer, her husband and children set off from Vashon trailing a tiny pop-up camper to launch Lundeen’s nationwide tour
This weekend, a troupe of more than 40 youth thespians, ages 11 to 23, will take the stage to perform “Carrie: The Musical” — a show that offers a powerful message wrapped in a spooky story and show-stopping song and dance.
Island author Rachel Bard will read from her third historical novel, “A Reed in the Wind: Joanna Plantagenet, Queen of Sicily,” at 6 p.m. tomorrow, July 30, at the Vashon Bookshop.
The island band High and Lonesome will play a show at the Red Bike this Friday starting at 8:30 p.m.
The high-flying aerialist spectacle “Open Air” will return to the Open Space for Arts & Community once again at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1.