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This Way to the Egress Studio Press website

Looking for poetry from the Pacific Northwest?
This is the outlet for Egress Studio Press publications:
poetry books, broadsides and greeting cards. There's a page
of rare and out-of-print poetry books, and information about
the Northwest poets published by Egress Studio Press.
Take a minute or so to see what we've got at www.egressstudiopress.com.
You can also see the new assemblages and jazz portraits. Check back once in a while for new art and poetry.

Art Shows:

Slow Roots Festival in Stanwood Camano Community Fairgrounds, WA
Saturday, August 27 from 11am to 10pm, and Sunday, August 27 from 11am to 7pm:
This is the first booth at an arts festival where I'll be participating with my artwork!
• Come and hear a variety of top musicians performing folk, blues, bluegrass, country, and more
• Local, organic, gourmet wholesome food professionals like Chef Tom French, Author/Chef/TV Graham Kerr and
many other food professionals, and a farmer's market
• And juried artists showing, demonstrating and selling their art
I hope you'll come and visit my display, and enjoy a delicious day of food and music.

Allied Arts Juried Artist Series
From 9/2/2011 through 9/30/2011
at the Allied Arts of Whatcom County Art Gallery, 1418 Cornwall Avenue
Artists on display include: Steve Satushek: Photography, Ken Wiener: Metal Sculpture,
Geoffrey Wilce: Mixed Media Boxes and Anita Boyle: Assemblages
I'm pretty excited about the new assemblages that have been several months in the making. They combine my handmade papers and
bits and pieces from nature, technology and life in general. Originally, intended to describe a sense of place, they have become poetically metaphorical.

List of Poetry Readings:

Wednesday, August 17, 6:30-8 pm: James Bertolino, Anita K. Boyle and an open mic
Traditions Cafe, 5th Ave. and Water St. in Olympia WA

Friday, December 9, 7 pm at King's Book in Tacoma: Anita K. Boyle and open mic
218 Saint Helens Avenue, Tacoma WA

Assemblages and Jazz Portraits at Argyle Salon, Bellingham
runs May through June and extended into July

Argyle Salon (ph. 360-752-0788, address: 1344 King St # 102) has always been a stylish hair salon with a highly-trained staff of artisans. Currently, Argyle is showing my jazz portraits in the large salon room, and a series of my assemblages in the smaller room. Local artists have been showing their works on Argyle Salon's walls for a few years now, and the clients enjoy the artworks while they are getting preened and all prettied-up. My hair is red! Stop in and take a look.

Each of the assemblages uses articles from nature and technological items,
as well as detritus dropped or left behind by the people of Whatcom County:

From the Whatcom Humane Society:

Here's a few of the animals we recently photographed for the Whatcom Humane Society's Baker Creek Shelter.
Dot is an exceptionally nice dog with a sweet disposition.

Dot

It's kitten season. Who can resist their antics? Here's one they call LittleCaesar.

This is Gandolf. North Fork Pizza and Pub sponsors 50% of the cost of adopting a black cat.

And one more photo taken three weeks prior to the above photos. This is Sassy, and is most likely adopted by now:

Photos: August 9, 2011, Baker Creek Shelter, Whatcom Humane Society

A little volunteer time at the Whatcom Humane Society for Jim and me has introduced us to amazing animals and dedicated people. It's been quite the experience. We are a photography team: he poses the animals and I do the photography. It's not as easy as it sounds, but it is a lot of fun. Jim double-dips there by doing a two-hour walk with the dogs every week, which is great exercise for him, and fun for the dogs, too. And then we make greeting cards from some of the photos. We donate 10% of the proceeds from the sale of these cards to the Humane Society's Baker Creek Shelter. We hope to have enough for our first donation soon.

Arachknits:
If you click this area, your browser will go to this great site for knitters. This is my daughter Angela's site.
She's a clever lady who not only knits, but makes her own knitting patterns, whittles and paints
knitting needles by hand, makes ink and watercolor drawings, and many other things, too.

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