Enjoy the rainbow of butterflies on loan to us right now from our friends at Community to Community Development. This installation is part of a collection of 10,000 hand-folded butterflies that symbolize the immigrant people who are such an important part of our community. You can also listen to this podcast: a recording of the vigil held to honor local farm worker Honesto Silva Ibarra whose tragic passing was marked this August. Additionally, you can add your voice to the call for a...

Meet Shelby Sneva! We're pleased to introduce you to another artist participating in our Spectrum show. Shelby is a graduate of the local BFA program at WWU and has lived and worked here in Bellingham, building a small business and working in the community ever since. She has a studio in one of our local cornerstone art spaces, the Waterfront Artist Collective, where she operates her leathercraft business, SOWN Designs. If you're a local, you probably know Shelby. She's been in the public in...

It's one of our favorite times of year! Back to School! Mindport will be closed to the public from August 29-September 6. We hope to see all of your bright, shiny, masked faces again when we reopen again September 7.

Today, we're pleased to bring you the second email highlighting the studio process of Mike Sonnichsen. We introduced you to his intaglio process last week, and today we're going to show you the work that goes into his letterpress prints. We're pleased to have two images from this series in our gallery right now. The lego prints are similar in process to the intaglio prints: each finished print is created using just 3 ink colors. Also, each finished print is run through the press multiple...

Mike Sonnichsen spent the first seven years of his life in Puerto Rico, snorkeling, collecting ocean glass, and exploring rain forests. The qualities of tropical light and color snuck into his consciousness yet lay somewhat dormant until he began architecture school. It was there he discovered printmaking as an outlet for his process and color sensibilities. Inspired by geometric order, he continues to explore color, systems, and the transformation of ordinary objects through print and...

I'm writing to invite you to come see our current Art exhibit at Mindport. Spectrum: exercises in perception, inclusivity, joy & theory is a collection of contemporary works by five regional artists: Christopher Hartshorne, Cat Snapp, Shelby Sneva, Mike Sonnichsen and Luke Zeiger. Spectrum is on view through the summer. We're pleased to present the works of this diverse group of artists whose practice relies beautifully on one of the more complex elements of design: color. In addition to...