All the Flowers: An Artist Talk with Samuel Spurrier

ABOUT SAMUEL SPURRIER

Samuel Spurrier is a fiber artist, pattern maker, and botanical dyer living in Bainbridge Island, Washington. He studied pattern making at Apparel Arts in Oakland, California and apprenticed under botanical dyer Monica Medeiros. His love of nature and flowers comes from his childhood in upstate South Carolina. There, his grandmother Frankie showed him the joy of color found in blooms and his grandfather Big Sam instilled a reverence for nature that comes through in his art.

Spurrier grows and forages all the botanicals used in his work on Bainbridge Island. Specializing in eco-printing, a sustainable natural dyeing technique that permanently transfers the pigments and tannins of the flower and leaf directly to the fabric, he incorporates his love of gardening and his passion for textiles to create work that pulls the viewer into a world all its own. Clothing, embroidered tapestries, and artist’s books made from his dyed fabric all explore themes of our connection to nature and our place in the universe. His aim is to capture the fleeting beauty of the blooms of summer—a season on the Island that is brilliant but brief.

Follow Samuel here: @samuelalltheflowers

BIMA’s PRISM programming is where art comes alive, off the walls and onto the stage. From films and concerts to artist talks and community celebrations, PRISM expands what it means to be an art museum through regular, engaging live events on BIMA’s stage, in its galleries, and outside the museum.

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Within Reach: An Artist Talk with Patricia Orellana

ABOUT PATRICIA ORELLANA

Patricia (Patti) Orellana’s journey into the art world started at a very young age in Jersey City, NJ, with endless drawings on walls and coloring her patent leather shoes, much to her mother’s frustration. She lived two brief years in Medellin, Colombia as a young child, an experience that would influence her and her work once back in the United States.

She earned her B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, which is where she also had the opportunity to study Art Therapy. She was able to see first hand the power of art in healing through Art Therapy internships in Manhattan and New Jersey. Patti relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1992 and worked in the graphic arts for local corporations. She completed the EDGE Program through the Artist Trust and she continues to grow in the local arts community. Patti is an artist who currently resides and works on Bainbridge Island.

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Artists Panel for Booking: Artists’ Books by Black Artists

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Artists Panel for Booking: Artists’ Books by Black Artists

PANELISTS

Tia Blassingame
Rick Griffith
IBé Crawley
Guest curator Colette Gaiter

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Object Lessons: An Artist Talk with Carletta Carrington Wilson

ABOUT THE ARTIST

The narrative threads of Carletta Carrington Wilson’s literary and visual works merge mirroring the melding of language and form. Encountering cloth as a constellation, as a geographical expanse and translator of time, Wilson explores the potential and possibility of engaging with fabric and its fabrication in unexpected ways.

The Pacific Northwest’s moody skies, mountain ranges, and bodies of water are integral to her artistic practice. It is here that her work has rooted itself, has ascended and descended, has formed structures upon which eye + hand, mouth/tongue/mind conjoin to create text & images reaching across realms of time. Her work is sited in and linked to the act of imagining and re-imagining a history in which multitudes of individuals found themselves without the means to transmit the meaning of their journey through the beauty and brutality of life. She uses history as canvas, an eye, camera lens, brush stroke, sculpting tool, pen, and thread.

Wilson’s poems, artist’s books, and artworks and can be found in local, regional, and national collections. She is the author of Poem of Stone and Bone: The Iconography of James W. Washington Jr. in Fourteen Stanzas and Thirty-One Days.

Learn more: https://carlettacarringtonwilson.com

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SOLD OUT – Deeply Rooted: Artists’ Talk and Film Screening with George & David Lewis

About the Artists

George: George Lewis was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1944 to parents who loved gardening, picnicking in the woods, and cooking. His mother, Wilma, instilled in him an early appreciation for the arts, and George began gardening and painting in watercolors as a child. After surviving the challenges of high school and college, he developed a passion for concrete sculpture and water gardening, which led to the creation of fountains and columns as integral garden elements. After meeting David, the two began a lifelong collaboration, expanding their work to include garden mirrors, plaques, fountainheads, paintings on concrete panels evoking ancient fragments, and column fountains. George continues to thrive creatively and personally, celebrating decades of partnership with David and a supportive community of friends. He expresses deep gratitude for this retrospective exhibition and the efforts of all involved.

David: Born in Cleveland, Ohio, David grew up surrounded by beauty and adventure. At 14, he lived for a year in a small fishing village on Crete, Greece—a formative experience that sparked his lifelong fascination with archaeology and mythology. After studying Classics at Oberlin College and exploring a variety of early careers, he moved to Bainbridge Island, where he met George in 1990.

Together they founded Little & Lewis, creating concrete sculptures, fountains, paintings, and gardens over 25 years. Married for 13 years and partners for 35, David and George retired 12 years ago to focus on giving back to the community that inspired and supported their work.