CroatiaFest - Exhibits

October 3, 2010

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Exhibits

2009 Art Exhibits Historical Displays Past Exhibits

Art Exhibits at Harrison Street Gallery
Seattle Center House, 3rd Floor
October 1-12, 2009

2009 Highlights

Lady, in gypsum and plaster, by Katerina Zahirović -Marinović will be featured in the gallery along with two originals created especially for CroatiaFest 2009 in keeping with the theme Croatian Women - Tradition Bearers.

Local Artist Gloria Barello will exhibit two new pastels of women making palacinke and strudel.

Photographs by Eva Sköld Westerlind will exhibit her photography of three generations of Croatian women working and celebrating as they have for centuries in the mountain villages of the Žumberak region of Croatia.

Also an exhibit of costumes and watercolor depictions of traditional costumes. The watercolors are part of the Blanche Payne Costume Photograph and Drawing Collection, at the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division.

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Historical Displays
Seattle Center House, Main Floor
Come enjoy the historical displays of selected Croatian communities in Washington State. This year's CroatiaFest theme “Croatian Women: The Tradition Bearers” focuses on Pacific Northwest Croatian Americans women.

Community Displays:

Anacortes
Bainbridge Island
Bellingham
Cle Elum/Roslyn/Ronald
Tacoma

Special Displays:

Croatian Wives and Wives-to-be: How They Came to America
Croatian Women of Achievement

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Past CroatiaFest Art Exhibits

2008

Featured Artist: Ivo F. Raić, visiting artist from Sarajevo. View Ivo's artwork

Exhibiting Artists: local artist Gloria Barello, Marylou Ozbolt-Storer and her FIBRÉARTS creations of distinctive art to wear, jewelry by local artisan Louise Petrich Iverson, and historical costumes.

2007

Featured Artists: Emerging artists Gloria Barello and Sam Mirkovich . Guest artist Ivo Raic (www.raicart.com).

Educational exhibit featuring ancient and current alphabets and language of Croatians by artist Ante Sardelic. A history of the Grb and other coats of arms.

2006
Featured Artist: Miho Šimunovic Internationally acclaimed watercolor artist, from Zagreb, residing in California, with a career spanning over forty-five years.

The Oblak Family
Mario A. Oblak, Croatian sculptor living in Seattle. Oblak’s works are in numerous private collections and public works of art are at Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake, Washington and at King County’s North District Multi Service Center.

Mara K. Oblak exhibited photographs from her trip to Croatia. Marko A. Oblak, student in Landscape Architecture at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California, exhibited sketches.

Other exhibiting artists: Marius Hibbard, Gloria Barello, Ante Sardelić.

2005
Beverly Prkacin Read, volunteer curator.
Featured Photographer: Marius Hibbard, owner of Bowman Gallery in Anacortes, showcasing his artistic and creative photographs of Croatia taken during a tour with the Vela Luka Croatian Dancers.

Gloria Barello, Bellevue, exhibited her paintings of Croatians in every day village life. Sam Evich, local Croatian architect, displayed his photos of Croatia highlighting the architectural styles of the country. Milena Soree, local Croatian photographer, displayed “Croatian Rose,” her award winning photograph. Bob and Peggy Gunovick, active members of the Croatian community, displayed artifacts of Croatian villages. Peggy and her son, Paul Elkins both displayed their artwork.

2004
Featured Artist: Ante Sardelic From Toronto, Canada, Croatian painter, sculptor, printmaker and poet Ante Sardelic exhibited paintings from his “Eternal Homeland” series, a touring tribute to his native land. Originally from Blato, island of Korcula, Sardelic’s abstract images draw from symbolism and modern Cubist styles – brightly colored, intertwined figurative shapes with symbolic landscapes. Andrea Mohorovicic, from Zagreb’s Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, wrote of Sardelic’s work, “…a profound symphony of shapes, words and music."

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