Day 27 of 365 Things To Do In Edmonds, Wa – Mural Painter Greg Hartman

 

Real people in Edmonds’ past were featured in the “Evolving Edmonds” mural.
Calling it “the tallest mural I’ve ever done,”
Edmonds muralist Greg Hartman has completed the Edmonds Mural Society’s newest mural, “Evolving Edmonds,” a montage of historical Edmonds images, painted on the side of the Comstock Jewelers building downtown. “It was a bit intense, but the people at the Mural Society were really nice to work with, so everything turned out OK,” Hartman said.

“It’s a fascinating piece,” Mural Society spokesman Jeff Stilwell said. “My favorite part is that Greg carefully included actual historical figures from our past in his mural. For example, that really is Vern Sill unloading stock for the Feed Store right after World War I. And, Stillwell added, the mural shows the Cloud family celebrating their 25th anniversary as publishers of Edmonds’ former newspaper, the Tribune-Review, in 1946.

The mural features four panels highlighting different time periods in Edmonds’ history, in keeping with the Mural Society’s theme this year of A Moment In Time. “In preparing my concept, I walked the streets of the city, talked with the people, browsed through the stacks at the historical commission, Hartman said. “One day, it just dawned on me: No town is a town without the people. You can remove just about everything else, but not the people. After that the concept came on me pretty quickly.”

With such exacting detail, the mural took almost two weeks to paint.  “We’re using the very best of materials,” noted Mural Society artist liaison Manya Vee. NOVA paint has been made by a family in Culverton, California, since the ’60s.  It’s the first choice in quality for muralist all around the country, and we want our murals in Edmonds to be the very best.”

The Edmonds Mural Society is currently seeking 501c(3) status, they are a volunteer-run organization and relies exclusively on the donations and the support of its dues-paying members.  More information is available at www.EdmondsMuralSociety.org.
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Wayne Purser is a 1st generation REALTOR in Edmonds, Washington. He is the founder of this unique real estate blog for Edmonds & the Snohomish County area. He and his wife, Denise, live in Edmonds with their teenaged son. In his spare time, Wayne enjoys organizing community events, volunteering for youth programs, traveling, and sharing his city with anyone who will pay attention.

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Day 18 of 365 Things To Do In Edmonds, WA – Jeff Stilwell’s Dropped Stitch

New Comedy…A real stitch!

 

“There’s a part of him that doesn’t necessarily know what he’s searching for in life,” local actor Robert Geller commented.  Geller is playing the pompous suitor Bertram in Edmonds playwright Jeff Stilwell’s new dramatic comedy, A Dropped Stitch, opening September 30 at New Space Theatre in Shoreline.
“It feels very exciting playing this role,” Geller said, “Something I’ve always wanted to have – a terrific character that I feel very connected to: a conservative gentleman in a modern world with a loving nature.”  Bertram is the largest role Geller has ever played on the stage.  He has been studying acting in earnest for four years.  “I am approaching him just the way I’ve studied: being authentic to his back story, his conflicts, his trigger points, and responding truthfully to what the play brings out in him.”
“Robert’s a lot of fun to work alongside,” A Dropped Stitch leading lady Manya Vee said.  “He’s a real hoot, when he starts braying on and on about brushing one’s teeth as the ultimate act of civic responsibility.  I really have to fight to keep a straight face.”
In the play, a very conservative and traditional Bertram falls in love with independent and artistic Bobbie, played by Manya Vee.  “Opposites attract?” Manya Vee smiled.  Geller sees it a bit differently: “That independence that he starts to see in the woman he formerly saw as subservient; it opens up the world for him.  It’s a big risk for him to start going in that direction.”
“Yes, both lovers have a rather large narrative arc to cross in ninety minutes of stagetime,” playwright Jeff Stilwell noted.  “That’s what makes it fun.  Enthralling, really.  Once they get started down that path, we can’t really let them go.  Luckily for us, both actors are really tearing into their parts with great abandon.”
A Dropped Stitch is the sixteenth play of Stilwell’s produced so far, a career that has earned the playwright a long pedigree of critical salutes, such as Dale Burrows’ judgments of Teacup Tipsy: “a trip and a half in a little more than a hour and a half through an Alice-like wonderland and a half; ground-breaking in ways more than one…” and One Tile Short: “an intense dramatic comedy you don’t want to miss. It is an uninterrupted 90-minute power pack with something to say and a super-charged cast of four saying it…”
A Dropped Stitch runs for nine performances, Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 pm, September 30 to October 16.  Tickets ($20) are available at 425.776.3778.  For more information about the play, read the script and meet the cast, see New Classics Theatre.
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This has been 365 things to do Edmonds, WA—See you next time and remember….It’s an Edmonds kind of day.

 

About the Author

Wayne Purser is a 1st generation REALTOR in Edmonds, Washington. He is the founder of this unique real estate blog for Edmonds & the Snohomish County area. He and his wife, Denise, live in Edmonds with their teenaged son. In his spare time, Wayne enjoys organizing community events, volunteering for youth programs, traveling, and sharing his city with anyone who will pay attention.

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