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Jun 19, 2010

There’s a great deal going on. There’s a GREAT DEAL! going on. Ming Holden came to CoCA to interview Joseph Roberts and Pablo Martinez (phone) and Alvaro Noboa (unavailable) and myself. Ming is a Seattlite who blogs on Huffington Post. She&r…

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Category: Press   Tags: Biennale, Press, philosophy
Jun 6, 2010

The painting progression here: Painting Progression: I was much further out than you thought Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man,But still he lay moaning:I was much further out than you thoughtAnd not waving but drow…

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Category: Poetry   Tags: Poetry, water painting
May 13, 2010

Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rita Dove. John and I prepared the girls, played them a recording of one of her readings online, got them involved and psyched up to go. We didn’t have a sitter, you see. Selfish of us, but we both wa…

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Category: Poetry   Tags: Poetry, artists
May 7, 2010

COCA6413 Seaview Ave NW ? Seattle, WA 98107 ? 206 728.1980 ? www.cocaseattle.orgFor Immediate Press Release: 05/07/2010 Contact: Ray C. Freeman III 206 349-3147 ray@cocaseattle.orgSeattle artist, Kate Vrijmoet, wins a top award at Ecuadorean painting bien…

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Category: Press   Tags: Show, Accident Paintings, Biennale, Award, Press
May 2, 2010

Anabella Azin, Kate Vrijmoet, Alvero Noboa, Shotgun Accident received third place. More photos below. With a good sense of humor, I’m taking stock of my trip to Ecuador. There is plenty of work to do since getting back and I’m trying to tie up all the lo…

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Category: Biennale   Tags: Show, Accident Paintings, Biennale, Opening, Travel
Apr 25, 2010

Mystic Sons of Morris Graves, Seattle Lodge No. 93 I received a titillating invitation in the mail last week. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it. It was beautifully made and I loved the stamps but I first had to find out that this wa…

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Category: Mystic Sons of Morris Graves   Tags: Show, Northwest Art
Apr 25, 2010

Seattle’s Kate Vrijmoet wins a top award at international painting biennale in EquadorWHAT: II Álvaro Noboa International Biennale of PaintingWHEN: Public Reception: Wednesday, April 28, 7 p.m. WHERE: Luis A Noboa Naranjo Museum, Guayaquil,…

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Category: Biennale   Tags: Show, Accident Paintings, Biennale
Mar 25, 2010

by Ivana Taylor, Link to her wonderful blog :Strategy Stew, here: but her text for Mastering the Inner Game Report: Using Brain Science to Set Goals blog is below. Before I cut and paste it I want to report that I’ve written and sent in 3 grants s…

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Category: Goals   Tags: brain science, Business and art
Mar 9, 2010

Jason Boone died young in a freak air accident. The flight he was on suddenly lost 10,000 feet of altitude. He was the only passenger to lose his life on that flight. Painting progression link: Painting Progression: The rest is a faint echo   2001 un…

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Category: Painting   Tags: Poetry, Show, Biennale, water painting
Feb 26, 2010

Today Barbara Noonan introduced me to the work of Russian born, Bongart and I fell in love. Look at the piece above! I’ve been oggling the images in the catalog she lent me, but I haven’t had time to read it. It’s filled with wonderfu…

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Category: Painting   Tags: Painting, Painters