Meetings

Evergreen Association of Fine Arts member meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month from September through May. We meet from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (We do not meet in June, July, or August.) The 2024 meeting Schedule is 4/9, 5/14.

Bellevue Arts Museum

Bellevue Arts Museum

Our NEW meeting location is at Bellevue Arts Museum.

The museum is located directly across from Bellevue Square at 510 Bellevue Way NE.

Free parking in garage located under the building. Enter garage by going north on Bellevue Way NE from NE 4th St. Take elevator to first floor. Enter the building. Auditorium is to the right. Covered drinks are allowed.

EAFA Thanks March Guest Artist Ned Mueller

Ned Mueller self portraitNed is a highly respected artist with over 65 years of experience in painting and drawing. He is a “Master Artist” with the Oil Painters of America and the American Impressionist Society. Ned has participated in many significant shows nationwide and won numerous awards.

He worked as a concept artist for Walt Disney Imagineering and taught workshops. Ned is often invited to jury regional and national art shows and teaches regional and international classes and workshops.

Visit his website for more information: www.nedmueller.com

EAFA Thanks February Guest Artist Ron Stocke

Ron Stocke portraitEAFA is excited to welcome Ron Stocke for an exciting watercolor demo. Ron is an award-winning watercolor artist who finds the medium honest, challenging, and always new. He has been a cover artist for Watercolor Artist Magazine and other publications and is a regular contributor. Ron is also a teacher who conducts comprehensive workshops, demonstrations, and lectures on various art materials across North America and Europe. He creates a safe, environmentally friendly studio and holds Signature Membership with the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and Northwest Watercolor Society. He is also an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and a member of the American Impressionist Society. Ron has been an Artist Ambassador for M.Graham Watercolors for over 15 years.

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EAFA Thanks January Guest Artist Larine Chung

Larine Chung PortraitSeattle-based artist painting in the tradition of contemporary realism.

Larine Chung will present new works from a recent 2023 solo show, “Coming Home,” and how COVID-19 shaped the inspiration and creativity of her paintings. She will discuss her thoughts about value, hue, temperature, and chroma, including color notes of interest.

Bio: Larine Chung is a Seattle-based artist who paints in the tradition of contemporary realism. Fueled by her unyielding curiosity, Chung’s works are rooted in everyday life. Her mixed cultural background informs her art, lacing her Eastern sensibility with the depiction of Western motifs, presenting the underlying tension of duality merging into oneness.

Chung trained in the Aristides Atelier after receiving her BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After graduation, Chung continues to explore the language of painting with painters Golucho and Antonio Lopez Garcia. Chung has had five solo shows thus far. She is the co-director of the Classical Atelier at Gage Academy and founded the Eastside Artists Collaborative in 2010 with the vision of fostering artistic growth in her local community.

Website: https://larinechung.com
Facebook: @larinechung
Instagram: Larine Chung

EAFA thanks December’s Guest Artist Julia Carpenter

Thank you, Julia Carpenter for an excellent and thought-provoking presentation at EAFA’s December meeting and for participating as a Juror in the monthly art critique.

Julia is an artist who loves painting portraits and capturing the natural beauty of animals. She is affiliated with “Women Painters of Washington” and teaches Zoom workshops. Her paintings and drawings reflect her fascination with nature, life’s resilience, and death’s inevitability. Her portraits, whether of humans or animals, are born from a deep sense of empathy, angst, and awe.

Julia’s art attempts to answer how something so powerful and full of life can suddenly disappear. Grief, always present in her work, has influenced her views on nature and its struggles due to human development and destruction. She works with oil paint and rich, messy charcoal, using techniques like applying, removing, scratching, and carving until the subject reflects her obsession with the tenacity of life.

Website: https://juliacarpenterfineart.com/home.html
Facebook: Julia Carpenter Fine Art and Art Classes (Julia Oliver-Clifner)
Instagram: juliacarpenterpaintings

EAFA thanks November’s Guest Artist, Amy Pleasant

Amy Pleasant portraitDeveloping Voice in Your Art

Artist talk and poetry reading by Washington artist Amy Pleasant, the artist and writer behind “Family Album: Our Stories.” currently exhibiting at the Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio. Seventy-eight paintings and poetry examine the notion of memory and generational transition. Pleasant will also talk about the role of voice and narrative in artwork.

Statement: Amy Pleasant is a figurative and abstract painter exploring memory and generational transition through a feminine lens. Her color-saturated figurative paintings are often rooted in black-and-white photographs abandoned at thrift stores. Using images and poetry provides an opportunity to animate and embellish a moment and propels the viewer to create their narrative.

 Bio: After spending several years teaching elementary and middle school in Los Angeles and Seattle, Pleasant returned to Art School and studied Computer Animation at the Art Institute of Seattle and The Drawing and Painting Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art. Her work has participated in exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago and solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Dallas, and Seattle. Recently, her work was exhibited at the San Juan Islands Museum of Art and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and her solo exhibition, Family Album, closes on October 29th at the Canton Museum of Art (Oho) in August 2023. Pleasant was the recipient of the Artist Trust Gap grant in 2016. In 2019, she attended the Blue Mountain Center, NY, Artist, and Writers Social Activism Residency. She lives on the Kitsap Peninsula and enjoys hiking and spending time with her family.

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EAFA thanks October’s Guest Artist, Larry Calkins

Finding inspiration in the world around him, Larry Calkins creates art that provokes laughter and emotion in his hand-built studio/home and sometimes outside. He trained in photography and worked with various mixed media, paint, fiber, metal, and whatever fit his vision.

He uses simple materials and objects that present some history: rusted metal, found cloth, or wood scraps. His typical paint medium is beeswax, which he mixes with pigments. Occasionally, he carves his brushes from twigs; often, if an object he wants is not readily available, he will create it. He experiments with unique surface treatments, and since 1995, he has been known for the signature look and feel of his dress sculptures with their simple yet elegant shapes and leathery, tactile surfaces. They are often compared to pioneer or shaker styling and have evoked surprisingly emotional responses. His most elaborate creations are ‘artist’s books’ – using metal, fabric, twine, paper, paint, drawings, photographs, found objects, and sculpted objects made of dirt, wax, clay, or wood. Often, the subject matter of his art builds on hear-say narratives passed along in the remote logging and farming community where he was raised.

He is represented in museums, galleries, and social media. Check out the links below to view a wide range of his art.