Teaching this Spring
A K Mimi Allin first came to the attention of The Field – Seattle back in 2006, when she assumed the mantle of “The Poetess at Green Lake” and spent every Sunday in the park for a year, sharing poems with passersby and receiving their poems. Since then this conceptual artist has conducted more than a score of events, many of them providing opportunities for other artists to pursue work on their interests. Nobody who was there will forget these studies: In white, in melancholy, in memory. Mimi has spent the summer conducting a pilgrimage, Tahoma Kora—not only walking around Mount Rainier but performing prostrations most of the way. That’s why we’re writing this about her. And this is just a beginning. If you want to see more about her work, please look at her artist website.
Wyly Astley is a visual artist working on a yearlong, self-designed residency at Little Eorthe Farm in Orting. Wyly is awed and inspired by natural design and re-creates versions of things she sees and experiences in nature. She plays with color and scale and especially likes to show her work in site-specific, outdoor installations. Wyly also loves to watch people interact with her work. Like so many things in nature, she uses color and shape to attract people to get close to and touch her work. If you want to see more about her work, please look at her artist website.
