May (detail). Actual piece 12 x 12
Gail Howard will be our August artist. You can check her work out here, but don’t miss her West Seattle Artwalk opening at Click! from 6 to 9pm on Thursday, August 13th. Her paintings really must be seen in person to be appreciated and beside that you’ll enjoy having a glass of wine and chatting with her. She’s been a Click! customer for ages and we are really excited to have both her and her work in the store.
West Seattle Blog coverage of GOTR, August 1st.
Also, try to catch those Girls on the Run from 6 to 9pm on Thursday August 27th! While tasting several lovely sparkling wine selections, you can find out about this excellent nonprofit and it’s mission to “Educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living.” Click! will donate 10% of all sales during the event to Girls on the Run – pretty good motivation to do a little shopping. Gail’s work will still be at Click! if you aren’t able to make her opening.
• Posted by Frances on August 2, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: art, GOTR, party
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Our friend Stephanie Hargrave recently introduced us to Roger Shurtleff and we are so grateful! He is a really stand up guy, a solid artist and as a result of our introduction he is our featured artist for May.
Roger tends to paint a series of pieces around a theme before changing out his brushes and paints to approach another idea or story. We checked out pieces from several of his series. I was struck by the way he is able to reference previous imagery but make it completely relevant in its new context. There is a graceful evolution about his paintings.
We will have work from Ghostland.
Flyover 16 x 16″
We will also have his latest series, Tools of the Trade.
Finisher 12 x 12″
Join us for the West Seattle Artwalk, Thursday May 14 from 6 to 9pm. We’ll open some bubbly, have some bites and chat with Roger. Oh…you can also do some shopping and perhaps even aquire one of Roger’s paintings.
• Posted by Frances on May 7, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: art, artwalk, encaustic, new.
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Remember that beautiful credenza by urbancase that we had upstairs at Click?
Before they head to NY and the ICFF show, the urbancase designers will unveil their new line of contemporary furniture, lighting, and home accessories tonight at Cairo Gallery. The preview is from 7 to 9pm and the gallery is located at 507 East Mercer at the corner of Summit and Mercer on Capitol Hill. John and I will boogie out of Click! promptly at 7 this evening. Hope to see you there!
• Posted by Frances on April 28, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click
• Tags: furniture, Our Favorite Design Sites, urbancase
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The Pratt Fine Art Auction takes place May 16th. It’s a grand event – amazing artwork and 700 or so art lovers celebrating and supporting the arts in Seattle by raising their bidder numbers. If you want to buy artwork, be inspired by artistic talent and the generosity of a crowd, get your tickets now and tell them you want to sit with Frances and John at the Click! table.
If you’re not certain that you can make it to the auction you still have the opportunity to get excited about the art and support Pratt at the same time.
Click! and Mission Latin Restaurant are hosting a sneak peek of artwork donated by talented West Seattle artists. Come out to the Admiral District on Tuesday April 21st from 6 to 9pm. Both businesses will have auction artwork displayed and will be donating 10% of product, food and drink sales to Pratt during the event.
Morula 7, Stephanie Hargrave
Many of you know that I have been on the Board of Trustees at Pratt Fine Arts for several years. Both John and I have taken classes in the studios at Pratt. Much of my jewelry education and inspiration happens at Pratt. Truly, if you’ve ever thought about taking a painting class, trying your hand at welding or even checking out little bit of everything, Pratt is the place to start exploring. We’ve always got catalogs in the store. Come by and we’ll tell you how great Pratt is.
• Posted by Frances on April 18, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: Pratt
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So…a while ago, Gini Johnson, a West Seattle real estate force, came into Click!, bought a few lovely things and suggested that some of her real estate associates would love to gather at Click! for some wine and socializing. Well it’s happening.
The group is 360 Modern www.360modern.com. They are real estate agents who specialize in representing, selling and geeking out on modern homes in the Seattle area. We are pretty excited to host a room full of folks with modern tendencies. So come out during the West Seattle Artwalk www.westseattleartwalk.blogspot.com this Thursday the 9th, from 6 to 9pm. Save 15% on all your purchases, snack on tasty things, sip a glass of wine, adore Kate Fluckinger’s www.katefluckinger.com amazing artwork and chat about that modern dream home you know is in your future – You may even find someone to help you find it!
• Posted by Frances on April 8, 2009.
• Filed under: art, click, eco-friendly, in store
• Tags: modern
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The opening party for Megan Bailey was a huge success. Her show Length Wise came together just in time, defying every technical challenge that was put in her way. Having been told that it couldn’t be done, she blew everyone away with Crocodile, a seven piece spread in which each scale was painstakingly illustrated.
Megan’s work is about line and form, and it is about animals that are at once figurative and very literal. She started with a series of small 4″x4″ blocks, and soon found herself working larger, as in the series of Albatross images entitled “Bird Parts”:
Megan has been our graphic designer for the last year (remember our anniversary cupcake?), and we are thrilled to be hosting her first art show. She has priced the work to be very accessible, and we expect the pieces to move quickly.
If you do not live in the Seattle area, please call or email for sizes and pricing. Note that all of the images here link to larger versions.
• Posted by John on December 13, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, holidays, in store
• Tags: animals, art, birds, Our Favorite Design Sites, screen print
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When we heard about Karen’s accident we were shocked. Karen used to work with us at Click! We know her to be a very focused individual who set high standards for herself whatever the task.
While we constructed jewelry, she and I had conversations about riding and her bikes — a Kawasaki and a Harley. She is passionate. I particularly remember how long it took Karen to leave work. There was ritual; the jacket, the chaps, the hair pulled back, the helmet and the bike warming up. It seemed to take forever, but none of it was optional and she took care with each step.
We’re so glad to see that Karen has made such amazing progress since her accident. We are also glad to have her and her photography at Click! She will be joining us sometime after 6:30pm for the West Seattle Artwalk so come by, wish her well and take a look at her wonderful photography.
BTW, Click! will not take any commission on the sale of her work. 100% of each sale goes into her pocket for expenses during rehabilitation. So consider a purchase (cash or check, please). We will also have envelopes available if you would like to make a donation directly to the account set up by her friends to help her out. Friends Of Karen Derby, Account Number 3622621070, at any Wells Fargo Bank.
Hope to see you!
Also, we mentioned this all in our newsletter, which you can view here. And you can sign up over here.
• Posted by Frances on October 8, 2008.
• Filed under: art, in store
• Tags: donations, Karen Derby, photography, West Seattle Artwalk, West Seattle Blog
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At home, we have a wide assortment of handmade mugs. We use them daily, defiant of the increased risk of breaking our beloved one of a kind functional art pieces. There is something about waking up to a lovely drink (like, say, coffee) when you are drinking it out of a mug that loves you right back that makes you feel like the world is actually a pretty good place, and that it will be OK to leave the comfort of the breakfast nook and be a part of it.
Introducing Lollipop Pottery, the creation of Tyler and Jessica, who got married and had babies and made mugs and bowls, and who make us happy every morning when we wrap our hands around their creations (the mugs that is… we haven’t actually met their babies). They hand throw each piece, apply Jessica’s hand drawn decals, and hand embellish with lead-free glazes. That’s a lot of hands!
You’ve got to get up pretty early to get the matching bowl:
Food/microwave/dishwasher safe. $27 – $32.
• Posted by John on August 27, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: birds, ceramics, handmade, love, pottery
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We went to a gift fair in Northern California mostly to show our line of cork jewelry to the wine industry. Who knew that we would find the brilliant Joanna Mendicino, who’s handmade ceramics she describes as “crafty modern”? Her simple, clean forms appeal perfectly to our sensibilities.
Check out “sea kelp”:
and “shorebirds”:
We should be receiving her work shortly! UPDATE: It’s here!! And even more lovely in person.
• Posted by John on August 14, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
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Summer is here (finally!) and that’s worth celebrating. This weekend we’ll be kicking up our heels at the West Seattle Summerfest in the Alaska Junction. The free, three-day festival is in it’s 26th year and will feature booths from area merchants, works by local artists, and tons of activities and demonstrations for all ages.
Click will be setting up across from Northwest Art and Frame, showing off a sleek, new red loveseat and handing out coupons for 15% off in our booth or at the store. You can find us outside from 10am-8pm on Friday and Saturday and 11am-7pm on Sunday, taking advantage of the live music and food vendors and trying to appear as though we’re working. Come enjoy the lovely weather with us!
• Posted by Frances on July 10, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click
• Tags: West Seattle Blog
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It’s really exciting to have Dixie’s work in our Jewels in May show. Dixie was our jewelry production manager up until last January. Her reason for leaving the perfect job you ask?, so that she could make her own work. Well she has. We have her bold brass hooped earrings freshly spray painted and literally dripping with color, her meticulously sawed and shaded feather pendants and her amazing one of a kind felt rings. We are also thrilled to hang her Paper Doll series of paintings on the walls of Click! Dixie found some old paper doll books at a second hand store and gave the ladies a new life. They are all grown up now and they each have something to say.
Paper Doll Series #4 $350
You can meet the one and only Dixie Darling at our Jewels in May artist’s reception on Thurday, May 8th from 6 to 9pm. The show remains up at Click! through the month of May.
• Posted by Frances on May 4, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
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We’ve often said that we live in a parallel universe with our good friend Daphne. She and her husband make jewelry together, and have opened a contemporary home furnishings store in “the other Washington” (DC). They recently bought a home on Chesapeake Bay (does that mean we we get a place in the San Juans?) which has inspired her to do a line of “botanical” jewelry, cast from the wild plants and seeds she finds on the property.
Her work is carried by many of the same shops and galleries that carry Frances’s designs, which makes sense as they have a similar, clean aesthetic. We will be featuring Daphne’s jewelry May 1 through 31, along with a few more of our favorite jewelers!
• Posted by John on April 30, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
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As we’ve been hinting about in our newsletter, we have something special planned for May. Beginning May 1, we will be featuring the work of five of our favorite jewelry artists (in addition to Frances). There will be an artists’ reception on Thursday, May 8, just before Mother’s Day weekend, where we will be serving cosmos and donating a portion of the jewelry sales to Northwest Hope and Healing. On a personal level, it seems natural for us to support an organization that assists women with breast cancer for Mother’s Day. It’s also exciting to get the chance to show off the work of some very amazing women!
We will highlight the individual artists here in our blog, but in the meantime you can view the postcard for the event here (front) and here (back).
• Posted by John on April 27, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: jewelry, special events
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This week for the West Seattle Art Walk we are having an official “opening” party for Brad Strain, who has been our featured artist for the last two months. Brad’s work will be coming down at the end of the month, but not before we hang his latest creations:
“Thoughts Left Behind” 11″ x 14″ $250
“Winter Talking Blues” 7″ x 7″ $80
The Art Walk is Thursday, April 10, from 6 to 9pm. We will have snacks and beverages and several more of Brad’s beautiful pieces… one of which might just find a home on one of your walls.
• Posted by John on April 5, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click
• Tags: art walk
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Not on the art walk or at Click! but worth mentioning: Friday night, March 14, several artists will be surfacing at 4221 SW Juneau, for an event they call “More Noise Please!”. T.S. Pew’s artwork has had us seeing the world from multiple perspectives for years, and we only just realized that the artwork Chad Steig makes is not limited to the beautiful cocktails he mixes at Blackbird Bistro. These are kids who are serious about their art, and we seriously love it.
• Posted by John on March 14, 2008.
• Filed under: art
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Yes it’s true. We always have the best snacks and beverages on the West Seattle Art Walk (Thursday March 13, 6–9pm), but you have to when you’re a little off the beaten path. Of course it doesn’t hurt that we’ve got some kick ass art to show as well.
Our current featured artist Brad Strain has brought us some new work that takes some of his themes of home (and a longing for home) and incorporates them with polaroid images of local urban landscapes. He also brought more paintings, which seem to be gaining quite a following.
Our own “in-house” artist is featured this month as well: Frances is introducing new colors to her cork jewelry line. Fans of Frances’s jewelry will love the way the silver and gold light up with “ocean” and “sage” — two new colors of dyed cork, as announced in our recent email newsletter. (Sign up here)
• Posted by John on March 13, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: art, West Seattle
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On February 14th Click! will begin participating in the West Seattle Artwalk. Come out with your sweetheart or non-sweetheart for wine, cheese and of course, art. Our premier will feature new work by artist Brad Strain. His mixed media paintings are expressive glimpses of emotion. We love them.
see through thoughts, 14 x 11″, $280
no i am not, 18 x 24″, $350
• Posted by Frances on February 12, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
• Tags: artwalk
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We are so excited to go to Twilight Artist Collective‘s 3 ladies + 3 years + New Location grand opening party this evening to welcome them to West Seattle! The Twilight gallery features eclectic local art including 2D work complemented by handbags, funky t-shirts, jewelry, and other great things.
The artist cooperative is all about giving artists opportunities to show their work. In fact, they have put us in touch with several of their members, whose work will be featured on the walls of Click! in the coming months.
• Posted by Frances on January 12, 2008.
• Filed under: art, click, in store
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Stephanie Hargrave was the first 2D artist we featured at Click! and people still regularly ask about her encaustic paintings. Thursday evening, January 10 from 6 to 8pm she will have an opening in Kirkland at the Patricia Rovzar gallery. She wrote the following about her new work:
Chrysanthemum, A Series will be in the back portion of the gallery, and is, essentially, one very lengthy encaustic painting. 32 feet to be exact! It is a concept I’ve been working on for quite a while, and is finally complete.
The painting is broken up, of course, into sections. Each of the 12 paintings is framed and available separately, and while each one stands alone, each one feeds visually into the next, and the last into the first. Oh, if only I had a round room!
It’s pretty hard to get us out of West Seattle these days, let alone Kirkland, but this is not to be missed.
UPDATE 1/12/08 changed image below to one from the show, which was stunning, and will remain up at Rovzar Gallery until Feb. 11.
• Posted by John on January 9, 2008.
• Filed under: art
• Tags: paintings
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