Cascadia Art Museum is FREE TO SEE every third Thursday, offering free admission to all during regular business hours and during Art Walk Edmonds from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. FREE TO SEE is made possible thanks to a generous donation given in honor of Gary Faigin, artist, educator, and founding Cascadia Board member.
Every third Thursday in Edmonds galleries, businesses, and restaurants join in celebrating the arts & cultivating local vitality. Cascadia Art Museum has been participating since our opening in September 2015, providing the community with live music, artist demonstrations and exclusive screenings of Northwest artist videos.
We are also excited to offer free admission during the Art Walk Edmonds evenings. Art Walk Edmonds is a FREE community event held monthly throughout the year, rain or shine. We invite you to come enjoy all types of art including fine art, music, performance art, culinary art, and the written word. With a growing assortment of fun events and activities, you will always find something new to engage your creative mind. Come do something AWEsome with us! For more information on Art Walk Edmonds, check out their website: artwalkedmonds.com.
This Month at Cascadia Art Museum: Shiva Partovi
Shiva Partovi. “And Still We Bloom”, Acrylic on Canvas
About the Artist:
Shiva Partovi is a Persian-born abstract expressionist painter working in acrylic and oil pastels on canvas. She left Iran as a child, and her work carries the memories she took with her: Persian turquoise, the pinks of her family’s rose garden and the carpets of her childhood home. She is rooted in spiritual reflection and the rhythms of dance, piano, and poetry – especially Rumi, whose poems sometimes begin a painting. Shiva approaches painting as both a physical and contemplative practice. She begins after quiet reflection, painting upright on the wall or flat on the ground, her rhythm internal, brushing and marking with whatever tool the canvas asks for. Her layered compositions unfold through intuitive gesture, luminous color, and expressive movement: shifting fields that open spaces of stillness and evoke perseverance, resilience, and the enduring human capacity for hope. Ultimately the paintings invite each viewer into their own journey where vulnerability and courage can surface. For Shiva, life is lived in the moments between chaos and calm.
