Sidney Museum and Arts Association Blog

The Sidney Art Gallery featured sumi artist Patrice Bruzas and her class as the November featured show.  It was a great show with many interesting pieces.  During the reception, Patrice and her students demonstrated their techniques and talked about their art.  If you missed it, you have a unique opportunity to see Patrice on Monday, November 26, at 7:00 pm at the Sidney Art Gallery, 202 Sidney Avenue, Port Orchard, WA.  The South Kitsap Artists Association has asked her to

January 19, 2012 — I recently had the fortunate experience to talk with some students from our local schools at the Sidney Art Gallery Student Art Show reception on January 8.  I'm so impressed with our youth and their creative ability to express, with freedom, the world of art.  This January show features artwork by South Kitsap High School and John Sedgwick Junior HS students. One young man I talked with sketched, in colored pencil, the Twin Towers.  You have

Art Of The Quilter ~ A quilt and needlework exhibition and competition. Every year we just keep getting better.  Eight years ago I moved a textile show into a theme show slot on our featured show calendar and BAM!  We found out real fast how many people are into quilting, knitting, just stitching of every kind.  I had no idea how many ways there was to use a needle, and all the different sizes!  Some needles look big enough to

The Frames Down Show is up! Bit of an oxymoron there.  It's a good show.  Affordable prices and you get to see the work in the "Raw".  No enhancements or cover-ups. I wanted this show to help the artists and the customers save money while participating in the creative process.                                             It took took three of us two days to get the show up.  Once done with the prep work on the paper paintings it went pretty quickly.  The canvases