Alchemy Art Center’s Artists in Community program continues in July

Alchemy Art Center shares news about three free arts events taking place over the next two weeks.

Friday, July 22
4-5 p.m., The Dome, 1255 Wold Rd

Alchemy is hosting an artist talk by local and international collaborators Nikyta Palmisani, Juniper Blomberg, Anya Gleizer, and Pablo Fernández Velasco, all visiting from Lopez Island. This group will discuss their projects addressing ecological boundaries, sense of a place, and local food systems. Nikyta and Juniper are local Lopez artists, Anya is an artist and researcher at Oxford University, and Pablo is a researcher at Trinity College Dublin. This presentation is the culmination of their collaboration.

Thursday, July 28
6-8 p.m., The Dome, 1255 Wold Rd.

Come to Alchemy for this culminating pop-up art show featuring the work of June and July interns and residents Ananya Bernardo, Vince Cuadra, Maya Djiji, and Sulli Yost. These young/emerging artists will be showing prints, pottery, ceramic sculpture, soft sculpture, fiber arts, jewelry, t-shirts/wearables, and more. Bring your wallet and snag some original art for your collection. Also featured will be art by youth mentees who have been working with this team this summer. Light refreshments will be served.

Sunday, July 31
5:30-7:30 p.m., San Juan Islands Museum of Art, 540 Spring St.

This third installment of Alchemy’s summer artist talk series (in partnership with the San Juan Islands Museum of Art), will feature visiting artists/interns Ananya Bernardo and Vince Cuadra, and local artist and Alchemy Founder/Co-Director Maria Michaelson.

Ananya Bernardo is a visual artist from Silver Spring, Maryland who is currently exploring different mediums. She mostly works with silkscreen prints but is learning mediums like textiles, collage, ceramics and digital art. Her work uses bright colors to delve into personal growing pains as a means of expression.

Vince Cuadra is a queer-trans Costa Rican-Argentinian multimedia artist born and raised in the magical city of Miami. He creates playful and colorful work mostly focusing on identity, queer joy, nostalgia, social issues, and documentation. He makes art using a variety of media including clay, collage, painting, photography, video, and soft sculpture.

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