Art Walk Edmonds
Every third Thursday from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. galleries, businesses, and restaurants join in celebrating the arts & cultivating local vitality within Edmonds. 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:
Victoria Likes
Thursday, January 15th, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
This month, we’re excited to host local artist Victoria Likes as our Art Walk artist! In Victoria’s words:
With art, as in nature, the sky has no limit.
Some of the most precious hours of my life have been spent outside marveling at the beauty of our natural world. Being outdoors is both humbling and inspiring because Mother Nature is the greatest artist of all time. She is my church, my sanctuary and my solace. For all of her vastness, brute force, and breathtaking allure, nature remains fragile and fleeting. She is inseparable from us – and she reminds us that our time on earth is short.
My Backyard Birds are a beautiful reminder that nature is magnificent and all living things depend upon us.
In the fall of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, I began my artist life. I was inspired by birdwatching, and quickly logged over 100 species logged in my Bird Field Diary. My first painting was a small Anna’s Hummingbird. But depicting these lovely creatures life-size somehow felt like a disservice to them. Because my greatest wish at that time was to make these small miracles more visible in our daily lives. As a result, now I paint all of my birds on oversized canvases.
Big things, I alway thought, could not be missed. But I was wrong. Our natural world is in crisis. Since 1970 we’ve lost more than a quarter of the world’s bird population. And the decline of these fair creatures is being echoed across the entire ecosystem of plants, insects, and wildlife.
My hope is that my work will help others stay connected to nature and become better caretakers.
