The Public Market displays artwork from local artists throughout the year. Please contact the Market Manager at publicmarket@openaccess.org if you would like to have your artwork considered for display.
The following artists are featured at the Public Market right now:
Pavlina Ortiz
Pavlina Ortiz Photography specializes in babies, children and family photography. She’s a custom photographer, working mostly on-location, serving Bellingham, WA area, including Lynden, Ferndale, Blane, Everson, Burlington and Mt.Vernon. As a photographer her specialties also include maternity, birth and newborn photography, relationships, seniors and lifestyle photography.
Please visit Pavlina Ortiz Photography website to view her portfolio or contact Pavlina directly at 360.224.9244 to schedule your session.
Katy Houseman
Katy's artwork displayed in the Public Market uses her skills with oil on wood to capture animals in nature. The various animals display unique characteristics and show Katy's appreciation for nature.
Katy grew up in great falls montana and graduated college with a degree in Fine Studio Arts. KatStudios was started several years ago as she began to show and sell work fairly consistanly. She is determined to live a creative life and take her art to some sort of success. She shows in Bozeman as well as the Danforth Gallery in Livingston, the Pheonix Gallery in Butte and the Bellingham Public Market. She has had shows through out Montana and in North Dakota as well as Wyoming. She works in private collections throughout the United States even a movies star or two own work including a big fat pigeon painting!!
Betty Bastai
Whatcom Creek Scrolls: Call for Fire and Water Memories
Whatcom Creek Scrolls is an art project that deals with the recent history of Whatcom Creek.
Members of the public are invited to write their memories of the 1999 Whatcom Creek’s fire onto DEER DATA TAGS and the memories of the creek ‘s extraordinary recovery onto REPAIR TAGS at a Memory Boxes Polling Station that is located just before the customers’ restrooms.
This station will be available until January 31, 2008.
Over 10,000 MEMORY TAGS are needed to complete Whatcom Creek Scrolls.
I will transfer these memories onto a 4-mile long drawing and exhibit the work in twenty-one scrolls at Mindport Gallery, Bellingham, in the fall of 2009.
For more information please contact the artist by e-mail at bettybastai@verizon.net.
You can visit the artist’s website at www.bettybastai.com
Whatcom Creek Scrolls is partially founded by ARTIST TRUST
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