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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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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?

ballard art walk: April 11th / may 9th




Shapeshifters and Disguises

 Shapeshifters and Disguises is a show that brings together the work of five Seattle artists, weaving a single thread of storytelling, magic, and transformation by contrasting interpretations of fabled characters, East European folklore, and costume design. 


Transformation emerges in many forms: through garments that define a character, the simple act of wearing a mask, or through complete metamorphosis—from human to animal, from body to symbol, echoing rituals of fertility and mythic reinvention. 


Participating artists:

Dawn Endean

Laura Crow

Mariya Apostolova

Nancy Reithaar

Sharon Greenberg



Exhibition Hours: Open during Ballard ArtWalks or by appointment

April 11th and May 9th from 6 to 9pm

Dawn Endean

Dawn Endean has been making art for over 50 years. She has exhibited at the Turner Print Museum in Sacramento, CA; The Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, WA and Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, WA. In addition, she has shown at numerous galleries nationally and internationally including at the Detroit Stockholm Gallery; at Seattle's Davidson Galleries; Shift Gallery; Jacob Lawrence Gallery; and the Columbia City Gallery. Other regional venues include the Schack Art Center in Edmonds; The Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island; The Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend and Mighty Tieton in Tieton Washington; Gallery 25 in Fresno, CA and One Plus One Gallery in Helena Montana. 


Her work is in collections throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as in New York, Stockholm, Florence and in the Bridwell Art Library at the University of Louisville. Endean studied printmaking at Northern Illinois University, at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, and in San Miguel Allende and Oaxaca Mexico. 


She currently teaches Printmaking at her Seattle studio as well as at various regional arts venues. 

Mariya Apostolova

Mariya Apostolova is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary artist and educator, originally from Bulgaria. Working across sculpture, mixed media, installation, and film production design, she uses clay, steel, paper, found materials, text, and projection to explore relationships between form, experience, and environment. 


Her process-based, site-responsive practice examines material transformation, ecological systems, and embodied memory, informed by experiences of displacement, motherhood, and long-term engagement with landscape. 

Nancy Reithaar

Born in Seattle, Nancy Reithaar has lived in the Pacific Northwest all her life. She creates her multilayered artwork at the Sev Shoon Art Center in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.


A  graduate of the University of Washington, Nancy earned a BFA in painting and soon thereafter developed her unique style of incorporating monotype printmaking into her compositions. Nancy finds her greatest joy in nature, particularly among wild animals. Her use of vivid colors and texture make each work an original as she layers cut-outs of her own printed material on a prepared paper. Skillfully executed, each work evokes a special relationship with its viewer.


Some of Nancy's favorite subjects include wolves, heron, frogs, cats, raccoons, and horses. Because of her proximity to the Ballard Locks and the Woodland Park Zoo, she is never far from a variety of animal subjects to inspire her.


She spends considerable time in zoological parks and wildlife sanctuaries to study animals' movement, textures and colors, and then expresses her interpretations of those subjects through brushstrokes on paper and subsequent images from the press.


She shows her work in Seattle frequently, and regularly shows in galleries, coffee houses, and fine retailers throughout our region.

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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