VALA to team up with Redmond Town Center for arts festival

Published 3:19 pm Monday, June 24, 2013

Venues for Artists in the Local Area, Eastside (VALA) is partnering with Redmond Town Center to produce the Redmond Town Center Arts Festival from July 12-14.

The free event will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday along Northeast 74th Street between 164th and 166th avenues northeast.

VALA is presenting a juried installation of artwork from 18 selected artists from the arts festival. The installation will be on display at the VALA Art Center, 7303 164th Ave. N.E. from July 11 to Aug. 4. There will be a reception and awards presentation to honor the artists from 6-8 p.m. on July 11.

Also honored at the artist reception is arts festival featured artist Jacqui Calladine. Calladine will be working with artists, volunteers and the public during the festival on a community public art project titled “Mapping Redmond,” a fiber map of Redmond.

The awards guest juror for this year is Marge Levy. Levy has been working in clay since childhood and has played a role in educational, curatorial and development projects throughout her career from being a professor at Purdue University to developing education programs at major museums across the country. Along with her artistic practice, she currently is on the Education Advisory Council for Bellevue Arts Museum and is a docent at the Seattle Art Museum. We are honored to have her as our guest juror.

For questions regarding art programming, please contact Jessica Lambert at jfklambert@valaeastside.org. For venue related questions, please contact Christina Henning at christina.henning@macerich.com.