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PROVIDING AFFORDABLE STUDIO SPACE AND engaging with the local art community

PROVIDING AFFORDABLE STUDIO SPACE AND engaging with the local art communityPROVIDING AFFORDABLE STUDIO SPACE AND engaging with the local art communityPROVIDING AFFORDABLE STUDIO SPACE AND engaging with the local art community

Our mission is to foster creativity and collaboration

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our story

In 2003, four Seattle artists came together and purchased a former manufacturing building. 

They remodeled the space with the sole purpose of supplying affordable workspace for artists. 

The building is currently home to the studios of 25 artist-tenants and opens its doors for Ballard Art Walk every second Saturday (6 to 9).


BallardWorks is an early model for artists who want to secure a stable and enduring workspace.


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What are we showing this month?

Art Walk - September 13th - 6 to 9pm

Interpretations of Line and Shape

It is obvious: lines and shapes are the smallest common denominator in the world of visual expression. 


We are not making a groundbreaking discovery. Our show is about the power of the small. The difference in the subtlety. The detail that drives the gaze. The mark that defines an expression. The whisper and the theatrical.


We have put together a display showing different styles and uses of mark making, from the abstract to the representational. We have included paintings, drawings and prints, to show you the range of results a simple hand gesture can have.

The artists participating are:

Patrick Connelly
Diane Davis
Leigh-Ann Friedel
Lisa Snow Lady
Carolle Rose
Kappy Trigg
Marion Wachter
Annie Walker


We invite you to wander around and read their own personal take on how they use the line inside their own work. Meet the artists during the Opening show on September 13th from 6 to 9pm

Art by Annie Walker

 Art by Annie Walker 

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Celebrate the end of Summer with a classic: Mail Art


We are dedicating some space on our walls to celebrate the almost lost art of sending postcards from paradise, since social media has substituted the traditional "I wish you were here" with a "I ate broccoli". 


Truthfully, at this point immortalizing your dinner plate has become a tradition on its own, but not the one we are celebrating today. Do keep an eye for "The portrait of a salad" coming soon at a gallery near you, but today (September and October) we are celebrating postcards and Mail Art.

BALLARDWORKS

Open every 2nd Saturday 6pm to 9pm

Ballard Art Walk

2856 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA, USA

A big red building across from the Ballard Locks.

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