Let it ‘Snow’

Collective Visions, a member-run co-operative gallery, is honoring those hard-working artists with a show of their own this month, titled simply “Snow.” The season-related show features artwork devoted to snow, and the winter wonderland-scapes it creates.

Collective Visions, a member-run co-operative gallery, is honoring those hard-working artists with a show of their own this month, titled simply “Snow.”

The season-related show features artwork devoted to snow, and the winter wonderland-scapes it creates.

The show opens Jan. 5 with a reception for the artists from 5-8 p.m. during Bremerton’s First Friday Artwalk. In addition to the opportunity to meet the artists, their work will be 10 percent off during the Artwalk.

The gallery is also hosting a special show by Indiana artist Eugenia Woolman in the Boardroom Gallery, titled “Pieces of You.” Woolman creates collages and “collographs,” photographs blended with collage elements.

She has been creating her art since WWII, after training at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. She had her first solo show in New York in 1947 and over the next decade had shows in Washington, D.C. and New York. Her work is influenced by a lifetime of traveling the world. She has lived and exhibited in Europe, West Africa, Thailand and the Philippines.

Her collages and other works can be found in private collections in Washington, D.C., New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Dubai and she is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

She will not be at the Artwalk reception, but she will make an appearance on the last day of the show, Jan. 27, when she will give a lecture and demonstration of her style at 2 p.m.

As an early warning, January also marks the return of one of the gallery’s most popular concert series acts, Pearl Django. The Gyspy jazz group will do two shows, an evening performance Jan. 20 and an afternoon show Jan. 21.

The Seattle-based group has won fans around the world with its lightning fast gypsy jazz stylings, based on the Hot Club of Paris style of the late, great guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephan Grappelli.

The group has performed at gypsy jazz festivals around the world, including the first Django festival in Iceland in 2001 and the prestigious Festival Django Reinhardt at Samois sur Seine, outside of Paris, in 2002. They have released seven CDs to date.

Tickets for either Pearl Django show are $20 in advance, $24 at the door. For advance tickets stop by the gallery at 331 Pacific Ave., Bremerton, or call to reserve at (360) 377-8327.

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