“Women of Vision” was created by artist John Tapert and will be unveiled Saturday, March 7 at the Redmond Regional Library. Courtesy photo -
“Women of Vision” was created by artist John Tapert and will be unveiled Saturday, March 7 at the Redmond Regional Library. Courtesy photo

Art piece to be unveiled at Redmond Regional Library


March 5, 2009 · Updated 5:55 PM 

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A new art piece at the Redmond Regional Library, 15990 NE 85th St., will be unveiled and dedicated at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7 in the conference room at the east entrance of the library. Light refreshments will be served.

Commissioned specifically for the Redmond Library by the Nokomis Club, as part of their centennial celebration, the piece is called “Women of Vision” and was created by local artist John Tapert. It combines fused glass, a historical photograph of the 12 original Nokomis members and imbedded gold leaf to celebrate this pioneering group of women who laid the foundation for the community’s first library nearly 100 years ago.

The “Ladies,” as current Nokomis members refer to them, operated an informal library until about 1927 and helped raise money to construct an actual library building in 1933. They operated that library until 1947 when the library joined the newly-formed (in 1943) King County Rural Library District.

Among modern-day Nokomis Club activities, the group awards an annual college scholarship.

For information about Nokomis, contact Clare “Amo” Marr, president, at (425) 881-5141.

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