Enriching Burien Through the Arts
Call for Art
CALL DETAILS
Who: Burien Arts Association
What: Three-month long exhibits of original work.
- Any medium
- Must be wall art
- Framed or unframed.
When: 2025
- January-February-March
- April-May-June
- July-August-September
- October-November-December
Where:
Highline Heritage Museum
819 SW 152nd Street
Burien, WA 98166
Opening Reception: First Friday of the month from 5-7 PM
Burien Community Center
14700 6th Avenue SW
Burien, WA 98166
Opening Reception: As scheduled
To apply: Go here and complete the form
Upcoming Events
BURIEN ARTS GALLERY WALL @ HIGHLINE HERITAGE MUSEUM
What: Tufted wool works by Trisha Gilmore
When: April-June 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, April 4, from 5:00-6:30 PM
Where: Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien
Admission: Free to Gallery Wall
What: 7 real stories told by 7 members of the community @ 7 minutes each on the theme “Rude Awakenings”
When: Friday June 27, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Where: Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien
Cost: Free admission
To tell your story, sign up online @ burienculturehub.org/7stories
or email 7stories@burienculturehub.org
BURIEN ARTS GALLERY WALL @ BURIEN COMMUNITY CENTER
What: An exhibit of paintings by Clemens de Kok. For more on Clemens, see his Instagram
When: April-June 2025
Reception & talk: Thursday, May 15, from 5:30-6:30 PM. Light refreshments.
Where: Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Burien Community Center, 14700 6th Avenue SW, Burien, WA.
Center hours are Monday-Thursday 9 AM-7 PM; Friday 9 AM-5 PM; closed Saturday & Sunday. Plenty of free parking.
Cost: Free admission to Center
ART CLASS FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
What: Class on making sunprints taught by Gabee Rafert in a lovely garden setting. In this family friendly class, we’ll be making sun prints with plants using cyanotype paper. Invented in 1842, cyanotype is one of the oldest photography methods, but simple and accessible for anyone to do today. We’ll talk about composition, working with natural materials in art, and then make our own sun prints! Be sure to bring your favorite dried flowers, trinkets, special jewelry, or anything else you want to use in your art work. Each participant will be given a 6×8 cyanotype to work on. We’ll have supplies for 20 people in this class, so please register. If the sun is not out, we will make collages from seed catalogs.
When: Saturday, June 28, 2025, from 1:00-3:00 PM
Where: New Start Community Garden, 614 SW 120th Street, Burien 98146. Ample free parking.
Cost: Free. Register here
Note: There will be art classes for children & youth monthly at the Garden May-September.
VISION GALA: ARTvant-garde: CANCELLED
This event is now cancelled. Burien Arts will refund all artists and designers who registered. We apologize for the inconvenience.
It was scheduled for June 28, 2025 from 6:00-8:00 PM at the SeaTac Community Center, 13735 24th Avenue South, SeaTac.
SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
What: The popular comedy Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare. The plot revolves around the ups and downs of two couples. Identities are mistaken and lovers separated, but love triumphs in the end.
When: Friday, August 15, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Where: Lake Burien School Memorial Park, 1620 SW 149th Street, Burien. Bring your folding camp chair & picnic. Rest rooms & children’s play area available.
Admission: Free. Donations appreciated.
Featured Artist
TRISHA GILMORE
We are pleased to feature the tufted wood creations of Trisha Gilmore in the April-June 2025 exhibit at the Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA.
Trisha is known as an acrylic painter who focuses on botanical and flower images. She also uses collage and multi-media in her works.
The works shown in this exhibit are tufted wool on canvas. She uses a rug tufting machine held in both hands that pushes out yarn into a stretched canvas.
“I draw an original sketch onto the canvas with a Sharpie and then start loading the gun with the color of wool yarn that I have chosen,” she explained. “I shoot the wool into the canvas row next to row, changing the color of yarn when the design requires it. I do not choose the colors I’m going to use ahead of time, but choose as I go. I make these decisions in palette as I do when painting pictures. They feel organically alike to me, just different materials. I like to use floral and plant designs as they are abstracted easily and offer lots of color and texture ideas.”
Trisha teaches a tufting class every few months through local galleries.
Trisha has been making art since grade school, when she found her first “How to Draw Comics” book. Trisha has been a teaching artist in and out of the classroom with Pratt, Powerful Schools, Seattle Public Schools, The Community School and many other venues over the years. She was a member of the Tukwila Arts Commission for 17. She holds degrees in education and art from George Fox University and the University of Washington.
For more on Trisha, see her website https://www.trishagilmoreart.com and Instagram @trishagilmore
All works on display are on sale through the artist.