Seattle Arts and Culture
Traver Gallery: NEW EXHIBITIONS (& online tour & conversation) Tip Toland and Harold Hollingsworth (downtown Sea) By xavier lopez jr on June 24, 2021 at 6:55 PM
Harold Hollingsworth, Nomus Et Phusis, 2021
Traver Gallery is pleased to welcome veteran Northwest painter Harold Hollingsworth to the Traver Gallery family. In
Switched On
, his first solo exhibition with Traver Gallery, Hollingsworth debuts a series of bright, layered, and graphic mixed-media collaged paintings that reference the artists’ interest in early modernism, contemporary graphic design, music, and urban landscapes.
Hollingsworth approaches his work intuitively, collaging found paper materials gathered from telephone poles and other urban posting sites. He builds up an initial surface by recontextualizing these appropriated graphics, layering typography, and imagery. He then applies layers of paint, adding texture and additional graphic elements, accentuating
Grace Meils named Deputy Director for Advancement at Newfields
Meils joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2014 as the Advancement Services Manager. Image courtesy of Newfields.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND
.- After a 20-year career in developing and executing fundraising, sales and development strategies across the art industry, Grace Meils has been promoted to Deputy Director for Advancement at Newfields.
Meils joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2014 as the Advancement Services Manager. Her focus quickly expanded to include oversight of the membership program, and has since grown to include donor events, annual giving and campaign strategy. While Meils has held positions at Newfields, member households have grown more than 80% and she has been a part of the philanthropy team that has helped raised significant amounts of money towards Newfields Master Plan priorities, including the Lilly Family Playhouse renovations, the new Beer Garden, the southwest Border Garden restorati