BOOKTREE, SATURDAY,OCTOBER 1 (609 Market St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033)
4:25-6:00. Workshop
6:15-8:15 Reading and Book Signing
Workshop 4:25:
“A blank canvas or a blank page is an opportunity”
A BLANK CANVAS:
UWE ARENDT, Artist, GRAPHIC DESIGNER
MICHAEL MAGEE, POET, writer, performer
Uwe and Michael will conduct a workshop/discussion on the interplay of the visual and the written word, how to start a canvas, make an artistic space emotionally to experience and frame your work. This will include your
input as well as writing prompts, so bring some blank pages, crayons, pastels and ink and or lead.
Don't MISS this one.
After 6:15 pm we'll hear from Michael Magee the poet, perhaps a few things from Uwe and YOU on the open mic. Bring a few poems to share!!!
Between 8 and 8:30 pm we'll wrap things up and maybe get a bite to eat and a drink down the road a piece.
Please share with friends, family, writers, artists, and even complete strangers you haven’t met yet. Our facebook event page is here.
Bio- Michael Magee
Michael Magee’s plays and poetry have been produced and published in the U.S., England, and Greece. His chapbooks include: Ireland’s Eye, A Trip to Jerusalem, and the recently published Terra Firma Sacred Ground Poem 1970 -2022 (MoonPath Press 2022). His play Shank’s Mare was produced at Northwest Actor’s Studio and later became a movie which won a best actor award at the Bare Bones, Script to Screen Film Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A Night in Reading Gaol With Oscar Wilde was produced here and in Derby, England. He was co-editor of 2020 Tacoma: In Images and Verse and is editor and publisher of Beaux Arts Press. Recent work has been published in Cirque and Journal of Wild Culture.
He has lived in Seattle, San Francisco, London, Nottingham, England and now lives in Tacoma, Washington. These poems are a culmination of work dating back to the 1970’s when he was a student of David Wagoner and Bill Matchett at the University of Washington. He has written scripts for radio and dance, won first prize in the Dancing Poetry Contest in San Francisco and second prize in KindofaHurricainePress’ Editor’s Choice Awards. Michael has read at Shakespeare and Company, Paris and on BBC Radio 1, as well as being a participant in the Jack Straw Writer’s Program for radio in Seattle. He wrote several songs for the CD Vaudeville. He has been an Artist-in-the-Schools in Washington, Seattle Artist-in-Residence with the Seattle Arts Commission and Arts and Aging Team.
Bio Uwe Arendt
Born in 1945, Uwe spent his formative years in Vienna, Austria, and entered the professional School for Graphic Design at 19. He frequented the Kaffee Havelca, a popular hangout for artists, where he was exposed to leaders of the Vienna School of Surrealists, including Hundertwasser, Leherb, Fuchs and others.
At night he studied with a leading graphic designer and in his spare time drew inspirations from earlier Viennese masters, Gustav Klimt, and his favorite, Egon Schiele. He was particularly enthralled with Schiele’s line work and his edgy composition style.
He worked for one of the leading printing and publishing companies in Bern Switzerland, returned to Vienna helped Encyclopedia Britannica publish books utilizing emerging technology using photo comp typesetting and lithography. He produced cover art of many Deutsche Gramophone classic music recording releases.
Uwe relocated to Seattle and launched his own design firm. He specialized in creating logo designs, strategic branding concepts and corporate designs for regional and national companies.
He is known as a multi-disciplined artist creating colorful abstractions and powerful emotional portraits in pencil acrylic and dry watercolor uniquely combining texture, line work, space and energy. He has gained recognition in Monaco, Los Angeles and New York.
Now Uwe Arendt is poised to undertake his final challenge: the artistic expression of universal themes that resonate with all people. He creates layered and iconic portraits that draw from all aspects of his background, his youth in Vienna, his career as a graphic artist and life in the Pacific Northwest