Goodbye Deming

HELLO EDISON!

As some of your may already know, after many wonderful years working and living in Deming, Smith & Vallee Woodworks is moving to Edison.

In lieu of these changes, we are putting the home and shop for sale or lease. We are listing the property ourselves, so please try to help us spread the word. The home has been much beloved and the shop would be a great space for either another woodworker or perhaps another tradesman or artist.

Information (and lots of photos) below:

For Sale: $295,000
For Lease: $1,700 / mo

4 bed, 2 bath 1,700 sq. foot home with an adjacent 2,000 sq. foot heated shop. Nestled in the foothills of Mount Baker in the town of Deming next door to the Deming Community Library. Cottage industry location with highway frontage. .6 acres and fenced, tree-lined yard to give privacy.

The home is a classic cottage featuring a kitchen by Smith & Vallee Woodworks. Sustainably harvested cherry with a live-edge maple bar top. Woodburning stove in living room. Carpet and hardwood floors. Washer/Dryer in mud-room.

Home available NOW with shop available in October.

PREVIEW: "Dwelling," September 2010

Dwelling: An exhibition of buildings, structures, houses, homes. Lisa Gilley, Terry Leness, David Ridgway, and David Wall.

Lisa Gilley, Newly Painted Fence

Lisa Gilley, "Farmer's Drive"

Terry Leness, Good Reception

Terry Leness, Sentinels

David Ridgway, Conway Butterscotch

David Ridgway, East Spring on Easton

David Wall, S.E. Des Jardins

David Wall, Kirby & Lewis

BIRDS

"School of Fish" and Much, Much More

Since our last post we finished and took down Todd Horton, "Minor Keys" with Peregrine O'Gormley and Chelsea Jepson. It was one of our best shows, and we kept the few works of Todd's that did not sell (so if you want to take a look come by!).

"School of Fish: Contemporary Work by Select Fishtown Artists" has taken off! We had a great opening reception and appreciate all of the positive feedback so far. Running in conjunction with “Artists, Poets, Scholars: Fishtown and the Skagit River” curated by Kathleen Moles at the Museum of Northwest Art, “School of Fish” features contemporary work by some of the artists from Fishtown’s legacy and shows the trajectory of that artists career.

"School of Fish" Artists

Michael Clough

Julie Kerwin

Charles Krafft

Paul Hansen

Bo Miller

Allen Moe

Eric Nelsen

Hans Nelsen

Maggie Wilder

Looking to August...

Our swallows are already excited for "BIRDS." We have already heard from about 35 artists and are expected to have a few more join the roaster. We plan to stack the gallery thickly in salon style and have flocks of birds whizzing by on our floating walls.

Some of the artists include Seattle folks like Carolyn Krieg, Joey Veltkamp, Justin Gibbens, Angela Scott / Skagit artists including Todd Horton, Ann Reid, Kris Molesworth, Ries Niemi, David Blakesley, Kathy Glowen, Kathleen Faulkner / Bellingham artists such as Michelle Newman, Steeb Russell, Ruthie V, Kat Houseman, Kelly Bjork / and off as far as the Peninsula like Karen Hackenberg and David Eisenhour.

Paddles Up!! Smith & Vallee Do the MoNA Auction!

This weekend Wes Smith, Andrew Vallee and Berit Ness hit the Museum of Northwest Art's Annual Auction and had a lot of fun doing so! It was great to see some of our dearest friends and patrons but first and foremost, we care about supporting local artists and local art institutions.

Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Friday Night Preview Party (aka, checking out the goods)

We love our artists!

(Todd Horton, Andrew Vallee, Lisa Gilley and Wes Smith)

(Todd Horton, Andrew Vallee, Lisa Gilley and Wes Smith)

Numbers up! The live auction tent.

Terrific Jack Gunter at auction.

"Minor Keys" Book Now At Press!

Can't get enough of Todd Horton, Peregrine O'Gormley or Chelsea Jepson?? Buy the book!

Smith & Vallee Woodworks is happy to now use Blurb for printing our books which enables you to order your own book! We will, of course, have copies available for purchase at the gallery but this way you can have your own book shipped to your own home or you can give it as a gift!

So far, we have been thrilled with our amazing show and have several red dots to boot. Get down here before the whole show is sold out!

Below: Just a sneak peak. Click on the link for information about purchasing this book!

T O D D H O R T O N, "Minor Keys" by SMITH & VALLEE GALLERY | Make Your Own Book