Ignited by Vashon : Art by Vashon Artist Residency Alumni - Sept.5-28

Looking forward to participating in the show on Vashon Island

'Ignited by Vashon' show at Vashon Center for the Arts. https://gallery.vashoncenterforthearts.org/event-works...
Some of my self published book called "A Show of Hands" will be there as well as the 'Yes' photograph from the book (shown below). 

                      Back and front book cover below

"A Show of Hands" is a photo-based softcover artist book inspired by prehistoric handprints on cave walls. I use the form of hands as a symbol of connection, action, and a way of weaving between inner experience and the outer world. Many of the photographs feature white cotton gloves as a medium for engaging the landscape—arranged as gestures, birds, and words. Traditionally used to handle precious objects with care, the gloves here suggest extending that reverence to our relationship with nature. Combining evocative images with reflective text, the book hopes to offer an imaginative and thought-provoking exploration of creativity, interaction, and connection.         I created the first draft of this book during my 2023 Vashon Artist Residency.
                   Below are a few images from the book ...










                                   PS...this social media 'stuff'...is not my thing!

Come for a studio visit during PT Studio Tour Aug.23-24 ~ Sat & Sun 10-4

Would love to see you if you want to stop by. We can share creative work & musings.  

PT Studio Tour 2025 info

I will have some of my photographic books* (A Show of Hands) available for sale, as well as some photographs, documentation of ephemeral site specific work and miscellaneous visual inspirations. Also, I've been clearing out my flat files and will have special deals on some prints, photographs, drawings, small cards and zines.

I believe everyone is inherently creative, and that creative work (& working) can help us cultivate being more present in our lives with greater aware which can promote greater peace, and well-being—both personally and collectively.

...I welcome your presence, curiosity, questions and reflections.

@ 2957 Sherman St., Port Townsend ~ # 28 on the Studio Tour map https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?mid=1cqeROSuddemSHZgm5B_71XImhRQ2vnw&ll=48.052775411674176%2C-122.78292365000001&z=10

My Artist Bio and Description below & on the Studio Tour website

https://www.rawartcollective.org/featuredartists/2025/4/23/gloria-lamson-aka-glo

I've been working creatively through art making with various materials for over 50 years and have an MFA in Arts and Consciousness. I often see my life as my medium and art-making as a way to connect, engage, and/or transform my experience. My work has included temporary, site-responsive installations—often in nature—documented through photography, a practice I’ve been involved with since beginning in high school. More recently, I’ve been combining my photographs to create books and ‘multiples’, that is, combining several images together to form a singular visual piece.

Currently I find myself seeing eyes in the world around me and having ideas around ‘seeing’ and being seen. I ponder what I/we see and how the world might be seeing me/us while reflecting on the influence of our thoughts and feelings in relationship to our perception of the world and our experience. (Will have some current images on display from this series)

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Images below are from my paperback book* which has photographs from some of my work with white cotton gloves in the landscape. It will be available for viewing and purchase.

Glad to see you at my studio if you can make it Aug. 23 & 24th  :-)

Welcoming visitors to my studio during Port Townsend Studio Tour 10-4pm. August 23 & 24

https://www.rawartcollective.org/featuredartists/2025/4/23/gloria-lamson-aka-glo

 web based map - https://www.google.com/maps/        #28 on map

https://www.rawartcollective.org/

The 6000 Circle Project Exhibit in Grass Valley, CA

 https://www.nevadacountyarts.org/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D180347690 

The following two images will be a part of The 6000 Circle Project Exhibit 'Honoring the Feminine' in Grass Valley opening Sunday March 9, 3-6pm and the show will be up until April 25. 

The 6000 Circle Project, focuses on the circle as a symbol of balance and unity, a never ending container of feminine energy and light. They envision 6000 circles, created by a multitude of artists, of all genders, from around the globe, both groups and individuals, gathering and making for a series of interactive public and digital installations. 

Open Creative Working Studio at Northwind Art - January 11, 2025 Noon-6

My studio will be open for Studio Tour 10-6pm, August 24. Come & play with/in a "Conversation in Paint"

 https://rawartcollective.org/artiststudiotour

Below is the blurb from https://rawartcollective.org/artiststudiotour   

To see the info below go to 9th person up from bottom of list on above web link. 

Studio located on Sherman St. in Port Townsend between 2957 & 2959 & looks like this

       Some friends and I will be facilitating "Conversations in Paint" for interested folks as we did at the Connectivity Fair in April.

Here's how it works..two willing participants (friends or with a person you meet at my studio) will sit across from each other and take turns making painted marks on paper in silence, using water based paint. No experience necessary! All supplies will be provided. Hope to see you there :-)

Northwind Art Creative Work/Playtime Open Studio - at Fort - SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1:00PM - 5:00PM PDT

Creative Work/Playtime Open Studio

SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1:00PM - 5:00PM PDT

Regular price

LEVEL: All - Beginner to Advanced/Professional
AGE GROUP: Adult (ages 18+) or supervised younger kids
LOCATION: Building 324C, Fort Worden, Port Townsend. 

DESCRIPTION   Do creative stuff and celebrate spring! Join host Glo Lamson in this nurturing and fun open studio. Mess around with provided collage materials or bring whatever supplies you want to play/work with. Come with an idea of something you want to do or make, or let the moment and the community environment inspire you! You never know what might show up until you give yourself time and space to explore.

SUPPLY INFORMATION
Collage materials will be provided, or bring any of your own materials that you want to work with!

• Northwind Art School is equipped with most common supplies for you to use including brushes, water containers, pencils, palettes, scrap paper etc.

FREE and suggested donation $20+ at the door or at checkout online via the "add donation” function at Northwind Art website, all funds raised will go toward the Northwind Art scholarship fund!  And anything you give is appreciated!

Come for the entire time or pop in & out as you wish. Or just stop by to say hello! 

Don's Pharmacy offer Northwind Art School students a 10% discount on art supplies. (If you sign up thru Northwind’s website)

ABOUT GLO  Aka Gloria Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been central in her life for more than 50 years. During that time, she has a history of making jewelry, doing photography, creating artist books, abstract paintings, some sculpture, and temporary, site responsive installations and interactions which she documents with photographs. She graduated from Evergreen State College with a specialization in photography. Years later she earned an MFA in Arts and Consciousness from JFK University.

 Her work has been shown at the art museums of Bellevue, Tacoma, and Oakland as well as in many galleries. She has done numerous public temporary site responsive installations in studios, galleries, store fronts, art parks, and in the natural environments of Alaska, California, Washington, Wyoming, and Colorado.

Her creative work has been an important stimulus for connection, growth and healing in her life. She hopes to share, support, and facilitate conscious creativity in others so they may know these gifts also. It is her belief that working creatively in this way can help us become more authentic, enabling us feel more deeply connected to ourselves and others. Also that it can help us experience greater peace within ourselves, which enables us to bring a more peaceful presence to the world we share. 

 Blog: https://glorialamson.blogspot.com/  , Instagram @glolamson  , Website under construction -  GloriaLamson.com

Images from Jan. 6, Northwind Art Open Working Studio - another Open Studio at the Fort - March 31 (1-5 pm)

Photos from the Jan.6 evening.

I believe a good time was had by all :-)  

Open Creative Working Studio Offering --Jan. 6 - 4pm-8 at Fort Worden

 

Inside - Outside. Photographic Multiples

Much of my artwork comes from my intention to weave together the worlds within me with the worlds around me.  It offers me a way of reconcile inner and outer reality.  These are some recently created 'multiples' which move in that vein, combining several photographs to create new images.

I am in the midst of creating a new website....but some other multiples can be seen in this blog  June 12, 2021 

The Land Sees

Liminal Zone Descent

Line Dance

Between Rock and Hard Place

Open Creative Working Studio

Within & Between ~ Work in Progress

 ~ Reflections from the weaving of my art & life ~

It's been ages since I've posted anything online and I don't imagine I'm alone in being sick of so much computer time/work.  However, if you want to see what I've been reflecting on, here is a link to a google presentation of work in progress.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ub9LRekCcPMwvbfmTOrTHW2KISa8_bLhcLqYLudiGRY/edit?usp=sharing

 Art as a Way…