Join Field Trip Society for an evening of festive fun creating Halloween masks with artist Ursula Brookbank at AMcE Creative Arts. Inspired by the Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks of the early 1960’s, field trippers will create unique masks using simple materials....
News/Events
Our News/Events page shares AMcE’s press, noteworthy moments, upcoming events (+ event registration info) and visits with our lovely artists.
AMcE Artist Vander McClain – Notes From The Field
Vander McClain’s paintings are distillations of natural objects and found moments in remote, natural environments. Documented on-site in locations around the U.S., Vander renders his collected objects and specimens as they are by following their shapes, lines,...
Events During Robert Hardgrave’s PEARL
During Robert Hardgrave’s fan-tastic show PEARL, we are hosting events that will include artist talks with the man himself. The gallery is also hosting a day of celebrating the art book in all is various forms and expressions. We’re having an in-gallery pop-up...
Robert Hardgrave – Studio Visit Sneak Peak
Robert Hardgrave - Studio Visit Sneak Peak I love being in an artists’ studio space, seeing how they work and relate to their art, materials, and process. I love staring at all their visual this and that clutter and inspirations pinned to their studio walls. In...
(Virtually) living in the art of AMcE’s artist Christine Nguyen
AMcE artist Christine Nguyen’s work is an exploration of an imagined micro and macro universe that engages vibrant conversations between the celestial and terrestrial. It also incorporates her love of experimentation in finding new ways to create...
Weston Lambert’s work is out of this world (and in the news)
Unconformity #3, 2022 Green jasper and chalcedony glass 3 ½ x 7 x 2 ½ inches We’re pleased to share that Weston’s work got a nice nod in Crosscut’s ArtSEA. And very clever that it was mentioned tangentially to the amazing new photos released by Nasa from...
Look! A Seattle Gallery and Art Museum Map! Hooray!
Eloise in action We noticed there wasn’t a one-stop shopping platform that listed Seattle’s art and culture venues. We’d also hear from folks stopping by the gallery that they wished there were such a thing. They also shared they were confused about which art walk was...
Get Togethers and Chatting Up Strangers as Tonic for The Soul
I wanted to share why I do events at the gallery. As background, alongside my art career I spent 11 years as a community event planner, producing upwards of 100+ events annual from smaller-scale boutique events to large-scale concerts with crowds from 30 to over 500....
New summer event series – Crafts x Crafts
AMcE is kicking off a new summer event series “Crafts x Crafts,” featuring local artists leading art workshops and/or art-driven get-togethers served up with draft beers from a local brewery. Ticket price includes the artist’s talent, workshop supplies, and a pint of...
“Avian portraits. Non sequitur titles.” – a Q & A with artist Matt Adrian (of Mincing Mockingbird fame)
Matt Adrian Mincing Mockingbird AMcE Creative Arts AMcE: For the unindoctrinated, you paint exquisite, caringly rendered bird portraits, and then name the works with far-out, darkly humorous, and deliciously irreverent titles. Sometimes the birds look as if they could...