Ride the Gato Verde catamaran to Sucia Island for a day of hiking. This promises to be a wonderful day on the water and trails with good food and friends.
The Gato-Verde carries 12 passengers. If you are interested in going, respond by email to organizer, Martie Lopez. Cost is $90.00 each.
Original date – September 9 – trip is being rescheduled.
Go to www.gatoverde.com to check out the boat and general information.
Construction work is blocking our usual meeting place for the Rotary Park Left walk route on Friday, June 21. An alternate walk to Chuckanut Falls is scheduled. Walk begins at 8:30 am.
The meeting place for this walk is Arroyo Park on Old Samish Way. There is a small parking lot at Arroyo Park and a second lot on Old Samish Way a short distance southwest of Arroyo Park.
Carpooling is recommended.
We have two great exhibits at the Whatcom Museum’s Lightcatcher that we’d like to share with you. Save the date for Friday, January 25
Joan Ofteness and Dewey White, docents and walker/hikers, will each lead a tour at noon on California Impressionism: Selections from the Irvine Museum. Please come at 11:45 am to participate in the tour.
DURING THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH centuries, California artists produced a unique style that combined several distinctive aspects of American and European art. This style — known as California Impressionism or California plein air painting, after the French term for “in the open air”— focused on capturing the special light and color of the state’s landscape and helped to define modern landscape painting.
Through this stunning collection of 50 paintings from the collection of The Irvine Museum, California, this exhibition features many of the most important artists of the period, including Franz Bischoff, Emil Kosa, Phil Dike, Edgar Payne, William Wendt, Guy Rose, and Granville Redmond.
Martie Lopez, docent and walker/hiker will lead the tour at 1 p.m. on Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection (size doesn’t matter). This exhibition will not have docent tours for the public, this is a tour only for our WF.
Marin’s most recent passion is collecting small paintings averaging 16 inches square and smaller in size. Chicanitas showcases 65 paintings by 26 painters, ranging from photo-realism to abstractions to portraits to landscapes. In contrast to other works in his collection representing and promoting the Chicano art movement of the mid-60’s and 70’s, the content of many of these small paintings leans more towards the artist’s internal or personal statement rather than as a response to political, social or cultural situations.
To read more about the exhibitions: http://www.whatcommuseum.org/
Cost for the private tours, which includes admission, is $6.00 for non-members (please bring exact amount) and is free for members – just remember to bring your member card when checking in at front desk.
Friends and spouses are also welcome. Carpools work best, and free parking is available at the Whatcom Old City Hall, otherwise be prepared to pay for metered parking for more than two hours.
Please email martie.lopez@verizon.net to reserve your spot on either tour.
An email will be sent to closer to the date as a reminder to those that have signed up. Joan, Dewey and Martie look forward to your attendance. These tours have become part of the Walking Groups special event series and we are happy to share our research on these exhibitions.
If you cannot make our tour, docents lead tours on California Impressionism on Thursday and Friday at 1. There are two tours on Saturday and Sunday, 1and 2 p.m.