December 2

North End Arts Tour skips Maple Leaf

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I just came across a brochure for the North End Arts Tour and I was so excited when I saw that its map puts Maple Leaf smack dab in the middle. But then I noticed that the route for the tour also goes smack dab around our fine little neighborhood, skipping its myriad galleries and other art venues, including Maya Radoczy’s hot shop that Mike wrote about earlier today.

Participants in the arts tour are invited to pick up a “passport,” that they can have stamped between Friday and Sunday at all six art galleries on the tour to be entered into a drawing for a dinner for two to a local restaurant.

The galleries start in Wedgwood with Gale Lurie’s Studio at 3526 N.E. 92nd St., Artisans’ Gallery at 7525 41st Ave. N.E. and Barbara Kuznetz’ Studio at 7547 24th Ave. N.E., before heading down to Ravenna’s Mary Ashton’s Studio at 6511 19th Ave. N.E., then to Seymour Stained Glass Studio at 5415 Greenwood Ave. N. on Phinney Ridge and Paul Lewing’s Studio at 4315 Burke Ave. N. in the Green Lake neighborhood.

Not a bad lineup, but isn’t it about time we get something like this in Maple Leaf? In the north, we’ve got the “Surge” art installation at Thornton Creek and an art gallery in its neighboring Aljoya retirement living community, not to mention the “whirligig” and other artistic elements of the Maple Leaf Community Garden.

Just south of there is Fine Impressions Gallery, 8300 Fifth Ave. N.E., which not only sells prints made using traditional techniques, but also provides customers with a tutorial of how it’s done.

Then on Roosevelt we have the Snow Goose Gallery, 8806 Roosevelt Way N.E.; Between Cultures, 8809 Roosevelt Way N.E.; Hangfire Design and Frame, 9211 Roosevelt Way N.E., and myriad stores that simply exude artistic flair including Maxine’s Floral Design, 8811 Roosevelt Way N.E.; BeadWorld, 9520 Roosevelt Way; and Art Tile Co., 8511 Roosevelt Way N.E.

And let’s not forget about all of the art that lines the walls of Maple Leaf’s cafe’s and other establishments, including Blue Saucer, 9127 Roosevelt Way N.E. and Essence Salon, 1415 N.E. 80th St.

What other Maple Leaf establishments are worthy of an artistic shout-out? Which do you think should be added to any potential Maple Leaf art tour?

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  1. I’d love to see Maple Leaf develop its own civic culture of arts and other events.

    That empty lot where Cafe News used to be (why is that STILL not redeveloped???) would be a great place to hold a monthly art fair or farmer’s market, for instance–especially during the summer on a weekend morning. The local galleries and cafes and Ace and Reckless and the Math Store and Thornton Place etc. could all get in on it, too. This would undoubtedly draw people into the neighborhood but it would also draw lots of Maple Leafers out and about.

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