Blue Green Agave by Kelly Haejung Paik
Small Expressions
Our annual show for the giving season
November 22, 2024 - January 6, 2025
Open 12 Noon to 5 PM • Thursdays through Mondays
Jeanette Best Gallery
701 Water Street, Port Townsend, Washington
IN THE GALLERY, the Small Expressions artists prove something delightful: Beauty and energy fit inside 16 inches.
This is the measurement, in any direction, in which they express themselves in Northwind’s annual exhibition.
Small Expressions brings together nearly 40 makers from across the Pacific Northwest.
They create with stained glass, handwoven fibers, soft pastels, colored porcelain, assemblage, a pinhole camera,
a Risograph printer ... the mix of media shows our Northwest resourcefulness.
The jurors have selected 207 works from more than 500 entries. Throughout the show, as pieces find homes, new works will be rotated forward from our artists. We invite you to return and see the changes — and find out the winner of the Jurors' Choice Award, to be announced at 12 noon on opening day, November 22.
“I encourage gallery visitors to savor the details,” adds Mitzi Jo Gordon, one of our three jurors.
“Great things really do come in small packages.”
The Small Expressions jurors
JAIDEN DOKKEN is Northwind Art’s Exhibits Coordinator and a versatile
artist and writer. They work in ceramics, stamp carving, poetry and visual art
presentation — all with an immense amount of delight. Jaiden is currently
serving as Clallam County’s Poet Laureate, is an editor and reader for Perennial
Press, and has published their writings in Strait Up magazine, SpeakEasy,
Fiction International and other journals. Jaiden is also a Northwind Art School
teaching artist.
SHANNON KIDD is an illustrator turned designer, turned organic farmer, turned
educator living on Salish land in Washington State. Their work is informed by
the natural world, fantasy, community, and the liminal spaces we live within.
Working with people and creating a playful space is their goal, whether
Shannon is with students or clients. They teach a variety of Risograph
printing classes with teenagers and adults at Northwind Art School.
MITZI JO GORDON is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. Mitzi Jo
centers collaboration, interactivity, and reclaimed materials in her work at every scale,
from collage mini-zines to mixed media installations, and social practice projects.
She has served as a founding artist and curator of multiple public art projects,
including the SPACEcraft shipping container studios and the Bluebird Books Bus.
While serving as manager of the Port Townsend Creative District, Mitzi Jo is working on a
book of essays about her experiences in social practice.