Artist Talk & Film Screening: Storytime with Mare Blocker

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the Puget Sound region.We are an art museum and cultural center on Bainbridge Island in Washington State, a 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle.Admission to the museum galleries is always free thanks to our donors & members like you!

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Join us for a cozy afternoon with Mare Blocker sharing stories and screening film - a perfect event for art and storytelling lovers alike!

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Please join us for an afternoon of Artists’ Books and stories by Mare Blocker. Mare will discuss her latest artwork, Let the Water Hold You, followed by a screening of Storytime With Mare—a film of autobiographical stories that have shaped Mare’s creative journey, produced by Trial and Error Productions. Audience Q&amp;A and reception to follow!

Guest name:Mare Blocker Guest bio:Currently featured in a solo retrospective exhibition here at BIMA, Storytime with Mare, Seattle native Mare Blocker comes from a family of artists and makers. Her first job, at age five, was painting trees in the backgrounds of her grandfather’s landscape paintings, which they sold at the Seattle Center and Pike Place Market. She likes to say she grew up in the Seattle Center's Fun Forest. She had a little bed under the platform of the Bubbleator where she napped in the afternoons while "working" in her grandparents' shop. She’s had many adventures—coaching a swim team, owning a biker bar in Arizona, and running a small rural library in a log cabin in the mountains of Idaho. Now, she’s back in Seattle, working in the studio she and her dad built. Mare has been making books since 1976 and founded The MKimberly Press in 1984. She has published 69 limited edition titles, over five hundred unique artist’s books, and numerous broadsides and prints. Her work is included in more than 100 museums, libraries, and public collections internationally, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the University of Washington Special Collections, the Library of Congress, and The Cynthia Sears Artists' Book Collection at BIMA. Mare has received numerous publication awards, including commissions from the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Center for Book Arts in NYC. Guest website/social:<a href="http://mareblocker.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide" title="http://mareblocker.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://mareblocker.blogspot.com/?view=timeslide</a>

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