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 “First Time”
When: Friday May 23, 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 painting bumblebees taught by beekeeper Gabee Rafert, who will also discuss their their biology and importance for our gardens.
When: Saturday, May 24, 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 on Eventbrite.
Note: There will be art classes for children & youth at the Garden May 24-August 30.
VISION GALA: ARTvant-garde
What: Our annual Vision Gala, an benefit art show/sale with food, wine & live music. New this year is a fashion show as well. It is ARTvant-garde!
When: June 28, 2025, from 6:00-8:00 PM.
Artists’ & fashion designers’ deadline to sign up: June 1, 2025
Where: Banquet room, SeaTac Community Center, 13735 24th Avenue South, SeaTac, WA (by the Highline SeaTac Botanical Garden). Ample free parking.
Cost to attend: Free admission. Donations appreciated.
For more information & to sign up, go to https://www.burienarts.org/vision/
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.