Squatchcon organizers seeking local artists
Squatchcon Comic & Arts Convention has announced dates for a second annual event. Presented by Anime Kat, Squatchcon 2023 is set for Thursday, March 30, through Sunday, April 2, at the Vern Burton Community Center and Red Lion Hotel in Port Angeles.
Event organizers are now seeking artists, artisans, and small businesses to participate in the artist alley.
Part comic convention, part arts market and part Sasquatch festival, Squatchcon features a market with more than 50 local artists, an onsite gaming room, a panel series featuring local arts industry leaders and an all-ages cosplay contest.
Vendor applications are open until Jan. 1, with priority placement offered for artists and creators local to the Olympic Peninsula. For application and information, visit squatchconpa.com.
A limited number of free tables are available to Port Angeles nonprofit organizations and Port Angeles High School students.
For more information about Squatchcon programming, sponsorship or other ways to get involved, email to info@squatchconpa.com.
Local artists featured in magazine
The Winter 2022 issue of Needle Arts, the quarterly journal of the Embroiders’ Guild of America, is featuring the work of several Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap County textile artists.
“Fiber and Beyond Exhibit” describes the summer 2022 show in the Latimer Quilt & Textile Center, Tillamook, Ore. of Peninsula Fiber Artists. The two-page spread includes a photo of three walls of the exhibit as well as individual photos of projects by Liisa Fagerlund and Linda Carlson, both of Sequim, and Joyce Brustad Gordon and Nordland.
Carlson’s fabric collage is also the journal cover image.
Exhibit participants included Sequim’s Kathie Cook, Lynn Gilles, Susan Nylander and Marla Varner.
Other participants in the exhibit include: Evette Allerdings and Barbara Houshmand of Port Angeles; Erica Iseminger of Chimacum; Mary Tyler of Port Hadlock; Jeri Auty of Port Ludlow; Leslie Dickinson, Caryl Fallert-Gentry, Pat Herkal, Celeste Kardonsky Dybeck, Kindy Kemp, Debra E. Olson, Janice Speck, Cathie Wier and Joyce Wilkerson of Port Townsend; Donna Lark of Redmond (formerly Port Townsend), and Donna Lee Dowdney and Carol Roi Olsen of Bainbridge Island.
