Window # 6

"Little Big Horn" Ron Garvais  

Window # 5

"Ghost Dance"  Ron Garvais

Ron Garvais Bio/Artist Statement

“Discovered”

Born in Helena, Montana, Ron Garvais is Native American Indian from the Lakota (Sioux) tribe.   Garvais is a leading contemporary Native American Indian Artist, influenced by all artists throughout history.  Garvais studied Art, Art History and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, earning a B.F.A. Studio Art and a B.G.S. Native American Studies.   Garvais work can be found in myriad of public and private art collections, including galleries, museums and universities.  Garvais has had numerous exhibitions nationwide.  He currently lives in Spokane, Washington.

Garvais strives to make interesting paintings, aesthetically, technically, and conceptually. He incorporates Native American themes within his paintings through subject, title, style, or a combination thereof.  Garvais refuses to romanticize the "Indian" as many Indian and Non-Indian artists and people do.  His paintings are interpretive and educational as he expands perspectives of Indian people simultaneously providing positive Native American imagery for all to appreciate.

For his Art Opening titled “Discovered” he addresses the concept of “Discovery” regarding indigenous peoples of this continent.  The idea that indigenous people was found is ridiculous yet still taught at every level of education.  Every painting within this opening was “Discovered” by Garvais and altered completely or slightly based upon what he was trying to convey within the painting.

In closing, Ron Garvais strives to make interesting paintings:  artistically, aesthetically, technically, and conceptually.  Garvais work functions on these levels, not because he’s Native American Indian, but because he successfully conveys the mentioned aspects within his paintings.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,

Ronald Lance Garvais

Window #17
Nicholas Griego- "Angel"

ART IS...At The Hutton

ART IS...At The Hutton  
A unique project that allows artists to display their work in windows at a prominent downtown location in Zone 4-The Historic Hutton Building and attracts attention to the spaces for lease within the Hutton Building.


A limited number of artists will be chosen to show their work in the outside empty storefronts of the Historic Hutton Building on Washington Street between First and Sprague Avenues in downtown Spokane.  The work, an artist's resume and links to more of the artists' work will simultaneously be seen on the blogs site:  http://artisatthehutton.blogspot.com/


This site is grouped by artist and each window is numbered with a corresponding number on the physical window.


Artists have 24 hour-7 day a week live exposure of their work.  The J.F. Thamm Gallery  at 11 S. Washington St., Spokane, WA  handles the art sales. 


Take a stroll down to the Historic Hutton Building and enjoy the show. Then find out more about the artists and their work on this blogsite.


All space where the art is displayed is "for rent." 


Potential Artists, buyers, and those seeking to rent at the Hutton Building email pinklloyd2@msn.com;  call  509-868-7434 or stop by the J.F. Thamm Gallery at 11 S. Washington St., Spokane, WA  99201


Yes, ART IS...At The Hutton 

IDA BROWN

Window # 15

                     Sad Skull   Giclee print w original oil wash  33 1/2" x 26"   $600

Window #16

Yaquina Head    Giclee Print-original acrylic on canvas board  28" x 24"  $450

Ida Brown

Born in Spokane Washington

Current residence Spokane

Art Mediums used:   acrylic and oil painting, sketching, drawing with colored pencil and charcoal

Blog Site:   http://www.idabrownartist.com/      

Fine Art America Website:   http://ida-brown.fineartamerica.com/     

http://ida-brown.artistwebsites.com/

Biography:

Ida started out as many young artists start out. As a child she spent countless hours in her room drawing and sketching to her hearts content. Over the years her skills developed and grew to where she began to tackle more complicated works. She began to study various text and styles of different artists like Monet, Da Vinci. She spent many hours at the library growing up checking out books on animals, and people. She spent countless hours studying the anatomy of people and animals and poured over countless books on various subjects. She had a love of art and had the basic skills and talent, but didn’t have the training needed to create a good composition. So she went to college at Spokane Falls Community College where she studied under Jim Hinton in his figure drawing class. She also took classes at the Falls in perspective drawing, calligraphy, and ceramics.  These classes gave her a good basis to start developing her style and started her experimenting with different techniques. Various things sidetracked her art education, but it was never forgotten. She continued to work on her skills in her spare time outside of work and family. She has continued to create her art for various friends, and for her work.  She has been the artist in residence for her employer and has volunteered her skills to create art for their library newsletters as well as published her artwork for the library magazine ALKI.  Over the years the skills have grown and developed into what you see now. She continues to grow and develop as an artist.  She hopes to continue to challenge and develop herself into an accomplished artist with help and advice from other artists and by continuing to work in different mediums.  As far as her personal life she has been married to a wonderful man for over 30 years and they have bright and precocious a 10 year old son. They currently reside in Spokane.

Education:

Spokane Falls Community College 1977-1978

Completed one year of art education. 

Classes Taken:  Calligraphy, Drawing Perspective, Art History, Figure Drawing with Mr. Jim Hinton, and Ceramics

Spokane Falls Community College 1978-1980

Television Production Degree Two Year A.A.S. Degree

Spokane Falls Community College  1993-95

Library Technician Degree Two Year A.A.S. Degree

Spokane Community College 1981-1985

Data Entry Certificate One Year 1981-82

Office Technology and Business Management Two Year A.A.S. Degree 1983-85

Current Employer:  Eastern Washington University

ILDIKO KALAPACS  
Window #7

                     Look  Painting-Mixed Media   20" x 30"   $900


Window #8

           MANA     Sculpture-Mixed Medium      12" x 15" x 20"        $500  

Ildikó Kalapács was born in Hungary and has been living in the USA since 1987.  She left Hungary just before the end of the Soviet occupation and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Her past experiences with social issues can be detected in her works created in the USA in the past 14 years.

Her work is rooted in two cultures (Hungarian and American) and influenced by her travels as a folk dancer and artist.  Her two-dimensional images are derived from the traditions of figurative art mixed with traces of Central European folk art and the four languages she has been closely exposed to (Hungarian, Russian, English and Japanese).  The complex nature of her art can be traced back to her interest in intercultural disciplines and globalization.

Her three-dimensional art works consist of mostly ceramic works with some mixed media and bronze pieces.  The use of these materials has some tradition in Hungarian art but ceramics also plays a philosophically and conceptually important role in her art:  Ceramic material symbolizes the fragile nature of the human body and soul.  One must touch it and handle it gingerly and carefully.  This is the basic principle and approach to her socially oriented sculptures.  Along with the literal form, her work leaves enough room for abstract or conceptual interpretation.

  http://www.ildiart.com
    ildako@idiart.com

RÉSUMÉ

ILDIKÓ KALAPÁCS

804 West 12th Avenue
Spokane WA  99204
(509) 747-0979 http://www.ildiart.com
ildiko@ildiart.com

EDUCATION Eastern Washington University, Cheney WA — 1988-92
B.A. cum laude in Studio Art, Aug 1992

EWU/English Language Institute, Cheney WA — 1987-88

Tömörkény István Art High School, Szeged, Hungary — 1979-83

LECTURES
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2010

Soap Lake Art Gallery, Soap Lake WA, 2008

“Straddle”, solo show talk, Dusha Galéria, Szeged, Hungary, 2007

First Western Hungarian Artists’ Traveling Exhibition, Hungarian Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary Oct 11, 2006

“Frontiers in Marketing”, A Business Workshop for Artists and Entrepeneurs, Lecture and panel discussion, CREATE and WSU Pend Oreille County Extension, Newport, WA, Mar 25, 2006

“Women in Central Europe”, with Wayne Kraft, Women’s Studies Center, EWU, Spokane WA, Nov 2005

Interview with Ms. Márta Sebestyén, Women’s Studies Center, EWU, Spokane WA, Nov 2005

Hungarian Japanese Print Show Opening: Talk, Kamiyamada Bunkakaikan, Kamiyamada, Japan, Nov 2002

“Body of Concepts”, Doll Gardner Gallery, Portland OR, Oct 2001

“Dance and Identity”, at “Latte Talks”: Silver Radio Event, Lewiston ID, Mar 2001

“My Professional Activities”, AWE, Spokane WA, Mar 2000

“Equality:  Women in my Art “, Lewis-Clark State College, Women’s History Month, Lewiston ID, Mar 2000

JAMAALI ROBERTS
Window # 3

   Dragon Love               Acrylic        24" x 27"                          $200

 I'm a sub-abstract surrealistic artist from Atlanta with a background in street art and illustration on a never-ending quest to explore new art techniques and express myself through the vast number of medium

Jamaali Roberts 
509-944-5353

Objective 
My objective is to obtain a position in a growing business or art institute and progress with further employeess in order to meet personal and company goals. that will allow me to progress personally and creatively. I also intend to gain a greater knowledge of the trade or business i am apart of in order for me to become an accomplished skillsman.  In addition my objective is to meet new people and to be a better service to my community, through good service and inspring art.

APEX Museum, Atlanta, GA 
May 2006 - August 2006 
Intern
   * Install and remove exhibits in the main gallery
   * Provide tours and ample historical black information to the visitors of the museum 
   * Keep account of  gift shop cash register
Education 
Decatur High School  
2002-2007, Graduate

Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 
2007-2008
         * Undergraduate, Graphic Design 
Interests 
Expand my graphic design knowledge-base and skills
Learn and perfect new  skills
I desire to interact with others in order to accomplish goals and overcome problems using team work
jamaalistate@gmail.com
phone: (509)944-5353

John Thamm

Window # 1

  

                
                                 Arizona Landscape  Oil  8" x 10"  $600 
                                               
Window # 5

                          Alexander Solzhenitsyn  Oil  12" x 16"  $800


Window # 6

                           When I Grow Up  Oil  25.5" x 35.5"  $180

                                         
Window #14

                      Episcopal Church, Bisbee    9" x 12"  Oil  $75

                                                                             
Window #18

                       Landscape, Germany  18" x 24"  Acrylic  $1600
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

John F. Thamm   J.F. Thamm Gallery  11 S. Washington St.   Spokane, WA  99201

John F. Thamm lives in Spokane, Washington. He holds portrait-workshops in many areas of the USA and in Europe. John F. Thamm's passions are portrait painting, landscapes and social realism. His book”Vets-Fifty Portraits of Veterans and their Stories” will be released May, 2010. 

Born in Wendell Idaho, Thamm studied with Herman Keys and went on to receive a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Idaho. He had a Ford Foundation Scholarship to the Art Student’s League in New York City and also studied in Los Angeles and Padua, Italy. Thamm has taught portrait workshops in the U.S., Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany, and owned art galleries on and off since 1964 in New York City’s Greenwich Village; Asbury Park, N.J.; Bisbee, Ariz.; Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane.

John has been a courtroom sketch artist for television and newspaper media including CNN, ABC Asscoatied Press, KREM, KXLY and the Spokesman Review.  Notable trials he has covered are: Weaver-Harris Ruby Ridge Trial, Branch Davidian-Waco Trial, Wenatchee Sex-ring Trial, and the Aryan Nations vs Southern Proverty Law Center. At the end of the Ruby Ridge trial he completed a large portrait of Gerry Spence that hangs in his personal collection in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. John's experiences at these trials led to his social realism show: Operation HUM/CON.

As artist in residence for the City of Spokane in the 1980’s, Thamm completed a 26- by 4-foot mural in the Council Chambers’ waiting briefing room depicting the history of Spokane and a portrait of James Glover. The previous year, he created an 83-foot long exterior mural in Hillyard, illustrating Spokane’s railroad history. His last mural project was a series of portraits of Peaceful Valley residents on the pillars of the Maple Street Bridge. 

 John’s most recent project is the completion of  fifty portraits of veterans that will be released as a book this May titled; “Vets-Fifty Portraits of Veterans and their Stories.” The 50 veterans – colonels, captains, sergeants, infantrymen, and servicemen and women from every branch of the armed forces – come from “all the wars, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm and Iraq.

A show of the paintings opened this summer at the Spokane Veterans Medical Hospital and  was featured by the local PBS station-KSPS in the November Northwest Profiles series. The project can be viewed on the “Vets” project blogsite- http://johnthammstudios.blogspot.com/

 Contact information:  John Thamm, PO Box 1678, Spokane, WA  99210-1678, 

phone (509) 868-7434, email: pinklloyd2@msn.com   Website:  www.jfthammstudios.com 

“VETS” Project Blogsite: http://johnthammstudios.blogspot.com/

J. F. Thamm Gallery  11 S. Washington Street, Spokane, WA  99201

509-868-7434    Gallery Blogsite: http://jfthammgallery.blogspot.com/