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City Views

City Views

September 16 – October 19, 2007

“City Views” September 16 – October 19, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2 – 5 pm: Opening Reception
3:30-4:30: Free Lecture & Presentation by J.Ricketts and A.Coleman with comments by Jamie Stickel, Chairman of the Downtown Yakima Association in Kendall Hall Auditorium.


Wednesday,October 3: Special workshop(s)and presentations by Anita Lehmann – designer, illustrator and architect, and Sheri Brockway -architect of YVCC’s new Glenn-Anthon Building. Call the Gallery for times and location(s) at 509-574-4875.

“Kids Views”- Educational outreach program with local schools. Call the Gallery for more information at 509-574-4875.

This exhibition features “views” of urban environments including Yakima’s City Center through the eyes of painters Julia Ricketts and Amanda Coleman, and illustrator Anita Lehmann.

Ricketts is an Artist Trust award winner and painter from Seattle who has shown her work throughout the Northwest for the last 12 years; her work is in the Microsoft Permanent Collection and the City of Seattle Collection among others.

Coleman graduated Summa cum Laude from the University of Michigan in 2004 and is represented by the Patricia Cameron Gallery in Seattle. Lehmann – illustrator, designer and architect completed the watercolor and ink compositions that illustrate Yakima’s “renaissance.” Her many professional projects include illustrations for Dale Chihuly and a container designed for Starbucks. Lehmann’s illustrations are on display courtesy of the Yakima Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.

This exhibition is made possible by generous donations from: Brockway, Opfer, Raab Architecture, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Prudential Almon Realty, Phi Theta Kappa, Title V, YVCC, Puterbaugh Construction, KDF Architecture, and the Larson Gallery Guild.