WAST, The First Two Weekends in October, Yearly
WAST: The first two weekends of October each year, I open my studio at the Morgan Block Building in Fairhaven for the Annual Studio Tour. This year, 60 artists are participating in this self-guided tour from 10-5PM on the 7th, 8th and 14th & 15th. Signs will be set up around town and maps are available in the Studio Tour brochure. If you are looking for Christmas gifts, a painting for the special placement over the fireplace, greeting cards for all occasions, pottery, Jewelry, or handmade books, come out and take advantage of this great artist event. Visit my studio on the second floor of the Morgan Block Building, #6, entrance at 1000 Harris Street. Additionally, visit jewelery Marijo Martini in Studio #9, and on the third floor, painters Jill Smith #13 and Ron Pattern #14.
What else is new? I’ve been working on abstract paintings and new greeting card images. I also have Books for Sale, as many of you know, I am an author as well as a painter. My latest book, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Words, consists of poetry and prose written by WIldhaven Writers, a writing group I founded in 2013. We decided to respond to Roe V. Wade being overturned by putting together a book of abortion stories, personal essays, and poems. The book also includes stories about divorce, child rearing, and other women’s experiences. The book launch will take place October 20, at VIllage Books, at 6PM. We hope you will join us. Below is the cover of the book. It will be available soon at Village Books by the end of September.
Additionally, I will have my other two books for sale: Celia’s Heaven and Saltwater and volumes of True Stories published by Sidekick Press.
Ms. Canyon has lived in Bellingham, WA for the past eighteen years and on the Kitsap Peninsula for almost forty years. Before that, she grew up in Spokane where she began to paint, write, and dance as a child. Her formal studies include painting, pottery, and illustration through Spokane Community College and Yakima Valley College and painting instruction with West Coast painters such as Charles Palmer and William Elston. After running a commercial pottery studio in Spokane from 1976-1986, she focused primarily on painting, moved to the Peninsula and studied visual communication at NW College of Art. From there she studied art therapy and psychology at Marylhurst University. After graduating baccalaureate in 1993, she continued to paint, showing in Seattle and Spokane, privately and in group shows. She teaches writing at Whatcom Community College (holding the MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University). In her art studio located in the Morgan Block Building in Historic Fairhaven, she paints and teaches multi-media classes. To view more of her artwork, go to www.nancycanyon.com.
