North Coast Open Studios: 5 Women Artists Join to Show Their Work at Samoa Women’s Club During North Coast Open Studios

For the first time, five local women artists will join forces to show their diverse art and demonstrate their tools and techniques at the historic Samoa Women’s Club during the first weekend of North Coast Open Studios.

The Samoa event will run for one weekend only, Saturday and Sunday June 1 and 2 from 11 am to 5 pm. Participating artists include silk painter Tina Gleave, beeswax collage artist Gigi Floyd, fiber artist Cindy Shaw, ceramic artist Marty Flora, and Japanese ink painter Annette Makino.

During this free, family-friendly event, the artists will demonstrate their artistic techniques. Makino will grind a sumi ink stick in a traditional Japanese ink stone and show how to paint with bamboo brushes on rice paper. Floyd will have the tools and supplies that she uses to create both her collages and block prints, and will be happy to explain each process. Gleave will demonstrate silk painting without resist lines, while Shaw will share her deconstructed silkscreen process of placing textures under the screen, such as leaves, and transferring it onto paper.

Free refreshments will be served. In addition to original art, there will be haiku greeting cards, prints, handmade books, fabric-covered boxes and tee shirts for sale.

The historic Samoa Women’s Club, which looks right out onto the dunes, is rarely open to the public. The house is located between Arcata and Eureka at 115 Rideout Avenue in Samoa, a four-minute drive from the Samoa Bridge.

Directions are as follows: From Samoa Boulevard, turn left onto Cookhouse Road. Turn right onto Vance Avenue, and then take the first right onto Rideout Avenue.

For more about North Coast Open Studios visit their website at www.northcoastopenstudios.com, or call (707) 834-6460.