Curated by Rebecca Raupach, Ex Libris is a Guild of American Papercutters show that was held at the GAP’s National Museum in Somerset, Pennsylvania from September 2020 through November 2020. 

14 papercutting artists (including me) are represented in the show which includes many fabulous paper cut book plates.

My book plate with an elephant is titled Wisdom Keeper as elephants are seen as wise beings in different cultures. My other book plate is titled Cosmic Explorer and includes a turtle with stars and moon.

Did you know black cats…

• Are adopted at slower rates than other color cats.
• Tend to be more abused than other color cats.
• Crossing your path are seen as good luck in Britain, Japan, and Ireland.

To help educate the public and eliminate negative attitudes towards black cats, National Black Cat Day was created.

Please join in and make some positive actions, such as...

• Posting pictures of black cats on social media and sharing what you adore about them.
• Helping animal shelters care for black cats and other creatures through your donations.
• Adopting a black cat and giving them a loving home.

It’s time to eliminate the stigma against black cats and celebrate them!

In participating in Joanna Hutchinson’s 100,000 folds community art project, I am excited to share that I have completed and mailed my 250 origami folds to her.  

Joanna conceived of this community art project to help people visualize the scale of the first 100,000 deaths by COVID-19 in the United States as well as a way to mourn these deaths that continue to grow.

She invites anyone who is interested to participate.

These folded origami paper shapes will be assembled into an art piece.

Find out more here.

This is the centennial year for women getting the right to vote in the USA.

Yes, it has been 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which ensured the right to vote for women!

Washington State was the 5th state in the nation where women won the right to vote (before the amendment was ratified nationally in 1920).

I'm grateful to the suffragettes and the many other people that worked hard, struggled, and sacrificed so women have the right to vote today!

I'm also excited to share that my art, "Resonating Truth," has been juried into a beautiful show celebrating the 2020 Suffrage Centennial in Washington at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, Washington.

This engaging exhibit was organized by the Washington State Historical Society.  All the collages in the exhibit relate to women getting the right to vote. 

The show runs April 9 to November 8, 2020, but due to the Coronavirus pandemic, it's not clear when the show will open and close as a physical, in-person event.

For now, you can enjoy the online exhibit by clicking here. 

Be sure to click on the photo for each artwork to read the artist's statement about their piece. Many of these works were inspired by courageous suffragettes and fascinating suffrage history, so you don't want to miss this aspect of the show.

​Click here to view and download the exhibit's announcement postcard.

In addition, the Washington State History Museum is hosting a live, streaming event via Facebook on June 4, 2020 at 6PM to 6:45PM PST which will include looking at some of the collages in the exhibit and discussing how you can make your own suffrage history collage with images from the Historical Society’s collection.

You must have a Facebook account to attend. 

You can access the Facebook event by clicking here.

• Bored?
• Want something different to do?
• Create a collage!

All you need is paper, images from magazines or other periodicals (or even the web), a glue stick, and scissors.

It's easy. It's fun. Anyone can create cool art!

In support of the World Collage Day celebration on May 9, 2020, I'm the happy recipient of a wonderful little packet to create collages as well as an uplifting mini (2.25" x 3.5") collage by artist, Elsa Bouman.

Front and Back of Mini Collage by Elsa Bouman

8"x5" Peaceful Forest and Dino Celebration Collages
​by Kathryn V. White

A big thank you to the Shoreline-LFP Arts Council along with the Gallery at Town Center in Lake Forest Park and Elsa Bouman for brightening my day.

So join in the fun and celebrate World Collage Day with your own creations!

Post Card Sized Cowboy Collage and
​Mini Totem Collage by Kathryn V. White

Newport Way Library is celebrating Earth Day with their annual community poetry display. 

This year, submitted haikus will be shared online on their Facebook page. A selected few will be stenciled on library sidewalks with invisible “Rainworks” paint. When it rains, these haikus will pop-up to delight library visitors!

How fun is that!

Submissions are due by Sunday, April 15, 2020. Learn more here.

Below are my three haiku submissions.

I think my "Splish-Splash Blast" would be particularly good for a rainy-day sidewalk poetry pop-up!

Dear Earth, With Love
Earth, so beautiful!
Giving a home to many.
Let us love her well.
 
Splish-Splash Blast
Puddle jumping fun!
Let’s hold hands until we’re done!
Splish-splash rain, splish-splash!
 
Happy to be Me!
Flowers bloom, trees shade
Warm days to be out to play
Happy to be me!

Now, it's your turn to join the fun of writing Earth Day inspired haikus!

​Read Between The Lines: Collage + Writing Art Show returns!
 
Stop by Cancer Lifeline and enjoy an inspirational, multi-media collaboration of artists from the Northwest Collage Society and writers of Cancer Lifeline writing classes.  My collage, “I Got This!” is at the show.
 
The exhibit is located at the Dorothy O'Brien Center at 6522 Fremont Avenue North in Seattle, WA 98103.

Art and writings are on display from November 21, 2019 through January 16, 2020 with viewing hours for the public from Monday through Thursday, 11am to 3pm. The show is closed on November 28, December 24, 25, 26, 31 and January 1, 2020.
 
Enjoy!

Photos from the Read Between the Lines Exhibit

I'm thrilled to announce that my artwork, “Summer Interlude” has been included in the Guild of American Papercutters (GAP) juried show, Places in Paper.

The 34 included artists use papercutting to explore where we live, where we come from, and where our dreams take place. The show is curated by Melanie Kehoss, Co-VP of Membership of GAP and is juried by Anne Burton of BlackRock Center for the Arts and Tamar Shadur of Shadur Arts.
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This traveling exhibit can be seen at two locations in Virginia:

From September 9, 2019 through December 8, 2019

• Gallery 3700 – 3700 Four Mile Run Dr. Arlington, VA

From December 17, 2019 through February 18, 2020 

• Westover Library – 1644 N McKinley Rd Arlington, VA 

Enjoy the show!

(Note: I've updated my earlier post to include new photos from the Westover Library exhibit).

Places in Paper Exhibit at Westover Library.
​Photos by Melanie Kehoss.

Existing for hundreds of years, ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging. 

To share this ancient art form, the Seattle Chapter of Ikebana International displayed beautiful, often deceptively simple, ikebana arrangements at the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) on May 27 and May 28, 2018. Flowers, bamboo, banana leaf, eucalyptus pods, ceramic, and wood were artistically utilized for traditional and more contemporary, free-style arrangements.  

Below are photos from the ikebana event. The last photo is a more western style flower arrangement also displayed at the SAM on the same days. I include it along with the other photos I took for comparison to the ikebana.

An ikebana exhibit hosted by the Seattle Branch of the Sogetsu School will be held on October 20 and October 21, 2018 at the Olympic Sculpture Park at the Paccar Pavilion on 2901 Western Avenue in Seattle, WA.

You can learn about the Seattle Chapter of Ikebana International here and the Seattle Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana here.

For those who want to see how ikebana is done, demonstrations will be held at 1PM and 2PM each day of the October event.

So, mark your calendars. You won’t want to miss it!

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​Kathryn is a published author and an award-winning artist. Her book, Rumble Tumble Joy: A Journey for Healing, Inspiration, and Wholeness is available on Amazon. Her art is available as canvas and fine art prints. Learn more at www.kathrynVwhite.com.

Amazon has a winner with its Spheres located at Lenora Street and 7th Avenue in Seattle.  Designed by NBBJ, it’s a lush, tropical paradise aimed to increase the productivity of Amazon’s employees by providing a beautiful place for working, eating, and relaxing.

With humid, 70+ degree temperature and over 40,000 plants, the Spheres offer a perfect winter mini-get-away from Seattle’s rainy and dreary days as well as a year-round respite from cubicle drudgery and concrete urbanity. 

They are also an artist’s dream for exploring a variety of colors, textures, and shapes; a botanist’s fantasy for beholding a great diversity of foliage; and a designer’s wonderland of clever seating and distinctive views.

Tasty food and scrumptious-looking donuts are available to inflame your appetite!

Tours book quickly, so if you know someone who works at Amazon and is willing to take you as a visitor, this will be your quickest way to get inside this marvel.
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​Kathryn is a published author and an award-winning artist. Her book, Rumble Tumble Joy: A Journey for Healing, Inspiration, and Wholeness is available on Amazon. Her art is available as canvas and fine art prints. Learn more at www.kathrynVwhite.com.