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Seattle Fashion Show
Friday, April 17th  •  8 pm – 10
Fashion Show starts at 8 PM
@ New York Fashion Academy • All ages welcome
5201 Ballard Ave. 
Cost: 10.00
Beer and wine garden available with identification

The Haute Trash Fashion Show Deets:

The Haute Trash Fashion show is brought to you by a group of progressive fashion designers, bringing their 25-years experience to the 8th Annual Recycled Art and Fashion Show.  The group’s designs have been featured at the Seattle Art Museum, Burning Man, county fairs, and dozens of other community festivals throughout the Western U.S. Designs and accessories are made from a wide variety of unconventional materials like inner tubes, food packaging, soda pop tops and other salvaged materials.

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Nothing in the history of the world is more amazing than Leslie and the Lys. And I don’t know about you, but I am ready to be a part of history and witness the bedazzling debauchery. This is not a joke. The sparkly sensation will grace our humble community to perform in all her fabulousity at MOE Bar, Monday, March 30^th. Tickets are available at www.ticketwest.com, MOe Bar, Rudy’s Barber Shop and select QFCs, or call by phone: 1-800-992-8499.

November Art Walk is tomorrow, November 8, 6-9pm. Here are the happs:

Reception, BallardWorks (Artist Workspace):

November 2007 
Artists’ reception  Saturday, November 10, 6-9PM with music by Paul Fowler and son, cellist and music teacher at Van Asselt School, Seattle.

BallardWorks Art Exhibit: “Affinities: Space & Structure”
An exhibition of artists engaged in painting with the encaustic medium is curated by Joan Stuart Ross & Jay Lazerwitz. Each artist’s work displays a unique discovery of this tactile medium, yet thematic concerns of dimension, depth and form connect them.

 New York Fashion Academy Auction:

You’re invited to NYFA’s fourth annual Silent Auction fund raiser, taking place this Saturday, November 8th from 6-10 PM, with bidding ending at 9:30 PM. We have donations from local businesses and artists -coffee, gift cards, paintings, pictures, art objects, clothing, gift certificates, accessories, fine wine and port, restaurants, local events and more; all suitable for gifting.  100% of the auction proceeds support the academy student’s upcoming runway fashion show, Prima La Luce: “First Light” which will take place on April 11th, 2009. Complimentary sips and bites.

 Phinney Neighborhood Association Winter Beer Taste

 (yes, I know, NOT Ballard, or Art-Walk, whateves)

Enjoy ten tastes from 27 different breweries from 7-10pm

http://www.phinneycenter.org/events/beer.shtml

The 5th Annual Sustainable Ballard Festival is coming up this weekend (September 27th and 28th at Ballard Commons Park), brought to us for free by Sustainable Ballard, a local non-profit organization developing a grassroots vision of sustainability for the community of Ballard (www.sustainableballard.org).

From Saturday to Sunday (11-5pm), the Festival will feature a variety of progressive organizations who are at the forefront of discovering and implementing sustainable, green solutions, such as Seattle Electric Vehicle Association and the Sunyata Group. The festival will include various lectures and workshops from eco-gurus and authors on ways to incorporate sustainable living through alternative (but affordable!) transportation, gardening, eating, home/decor remodeling, art and products and the local business where you can find them. They also have fun art projects, puppet shows and “baby oragami” for kids.

Insider tip– Mainstage Festival Sponsor, Earthues (www.earthues.com), a Ballard fair-trade, women-owned textile and eco-friendly natural dye workroom, will host a demo on dying with indigo powders onto fabrics from 10-5pm on Saturday. Seriously, when else would you ever get to do this? Call Weaving Works to reserve your space 206-524-1221.

Come early to the Sustainable Ballard Festival either day and you could be one of the first 200 people that receive a free copy of Chinook Book, full of local event and shopping savings of up to $3,000!

Wayne Wichern and Daria Wheatley are bringing their designer hats to Ballard. Their work has been featured in galleries and special events all over the west coast, such as the Seattle Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, MOHAI and the San Francisco Fine Art Museum. They will exhibit their fall line of handmade millinery, available for purchase, and of course to ogle over, at the upcoming October Art-Walk weekend at the home of New York Fashion Academy (www.newyorkfashionacademy.com).

Friday, October 10, 10am-6pm

Saturday, October 11, 10am-9pm

www.hats2008.com

Let’s face it, this Saturday’s Art-Walk event will probably be the last dry and relatively warm Art-Walk night for the next, oh, I don’t know… nine months? So we are rolling off the couch, and from 5-9pm we will enjoy the cool, descending summer evening on Market Street.

Here are some of the options for this Saturday’s Art-Walk:

Opening Celebration at Monster Art and Clothing

Join the Monster crew to celebrate the very recent opening of the newest clothing and accessory storefront in Ballard with savory delectables, music and maybe even some trapeze action. (Corner of Ballard Avenue and 20th in the Cors and Wegener Building).

Glassblowing at Art By Fire

Pretend to have talent like Dale Chihuly and go to the Art By Fire Gallery at 5465 Leary Ave. NW. For $29 and 15 minutes of inflated, molten glass, you can blow like the pros. Call in advance for reservations (206-789-1490).

Beats at Triple

Did you even know that there was probably the coolest shoe store outside of San Francisco in the space above Rudy’s Barbershop and King’s Hardware? Triple features an array of beat-boy (and girl) styled sneakers and usually hosts DJs to spin records while you shop on Art-Walk nights(www.tripleseattle.com). Check it.

The New York Fashion Academy is gearing up for it’s 5th annual fashion show, with multiple lines expected to hit the runway sometime in April of next year. But fashion shows cost money. Money that broke-ass students don’t have, which will pay for things like pipe and drape, runway construction, lighting, photographers, advertising and promotion, among many other details that go into 15 minutes of fabulousness.

The students of New York Fashion Academy will host a silent auction/parlor party on November 8th, coinciding with the November Art-Walk night. They are currently seeking donations (products or services) that will be auctioned off to fundraise for the 2009 NYFA fashion show. If you’re a proprietor of a local business, consider donating a gift certificate– it’s promo for your business on a bustling Art-Walk night– and you’ll help support little fashionistas in their quest to “work-it-out” and be “fierce”. Or just come to shop– I hear a select group of students will be showcasing some of their pieces, and you won’t want to miss it. It’s kind of a big deal.

Please direct all donation inquiries to:

Newyorkfashionacademy@hotmail.com

(206) 352-2636

More fashion is coming to Ballard. Move over, make room. It’s a big deal. Monster Art and Clothing is moving into the old Cors and Wegener Building on Ballard Avenue and 20th, to officially open for business this Friday, August 29th. But this isn’t another polished Dolce Vita or previous commercial tenant, Merge. All of you Ballard-purists with your skeptical eyes and crossed arms can appreciate what local artist, Holly Gummelt (http://www.etsy.com)  and her art posse are trying to do with Monster Art and Clothing– eco and econ friendly art and fashion.

With the exit of Merge and most recently Olivine (both have moved onto yuppified Fremont), a new movement is setting forth: clothing made by artists, to look like art, at an artist’s budget. Holly Gummelt, a Pike Market craft booth veteran, is picking up her tent, and setting up shop in Ballard to bring art to the common man. She coins her movement, “casual art”, for unpretentious, anti-boutique people– so basically, for Ballardians. “We don’t have a lot of money ’cause we’re artists, so we’re really trying to bring something to others who love handmade art, that’s sustainable and affordable. We’re not ‘hoity-toity’; we want to be accessible.”

And we want to access you, Monster Art and Clothing! With hoodie wraps made from 100% up-cycled wool (see photo with proprietor, Gummelt, modeling hat/scarve), screen-printed T-shirts, and quirky accessories created out of recycled scratch, Ballard welcomes you with open arms…. right after we put down our fishing polls and finish our beers.

Sitting unmarked on Ballard Avenue for the past nine years was at one point the largest distributor of handmade, original greeting cards in the United States. Souvenir, owned and curated by Curtis Steiner  (www.curtissteiner.com) with a friendly sales associate named Liberte, is less of a boutique and more of a decorative art gallery, full of quirky and eccentric surprises from the all original handmade cards (only $6.50 each!) made from vintage photos, match boxes and gold leaf to early 20th century botanical lithographs. Steiner is a real artist and craftsman– his stuff, 1,000 Blocks, is a permanent feature in the Seattle Art Museum–as anyone could probably decipher from the glassine baby doll dresses dangling in the storefront of his shop. This store is more than just retail, it’s a museum of treasures, but here, you’re encourage to touch– and even wear the exhibits. 

5325 Ballard Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
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Tel 206-297-7116

Hours: Tue-Sat 11-5.30, Sunday 12-4