We made a trip to the Skagit Valley and then to Seattle last weekend, to visit family and friends. While on the way over the mountains, someone sent me a link to the Bellevue Arts Museum concerning an exhibit that is currently on display there. I didn’t think we would have time to do this, but as it turned out we had about 3 hours Sunday afternoon, after the Seahawks game (Rick’s mom, who is 96, is a rabid Seahawks fan, so he went to watch the game with her while I met with some of my knitting friends). It was well worth the visit!
The exhibit is called “In the Realm of Nature: Bob Stocksdale & Kay Sekimachi”. It is a retrospective of the work of Bob Stocksdale, a master woodturner, and his wife Kay Sekimachi, a master weaver. Bob died in 2003 but Kay is still a working artist. The exhibit was first shown at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego (Sept 2014 – March 2105) and the only other venue is the Bellevue Arts Museum (July 3 – Oct 18, 2015). There is a beautiful accompanying book with the same title, which of course we bought, but they allowed photography so here is a tiny flavor of what we saw:
As long as we were there, we decided to wander up to the third floor to see the other current exhibit.
Counter-Couture: Fashioning Identity in the American Counterculture
September 4, 2015 – January 10, 2016
Counter-Couture celebrates the handmade fashion and style of the 1960s and 1970s. Often referred to as the hippie movement, the Counterculture of the era swept away the conformism of the previous decade and professed an alternative lifestyle whose effects still resonate today.
This turned out to be FABULOUS (well, maybe you had to be there in the 1970’s, which we were). What a hoot! Wait a minute, where are those embroidered workshirts that I stitched in the early to mid-70’s? Trust me, they don’t hold a candle to most of the gems we saw at the museum, but I have never been able to part with them. Looking in the closet…here they are!
Twisp of Fate 
Those leaf “bowls” (or whatever they are) in your 4th pic are amazing! Not that all the weaving and wood pieces aren’t. And doesn’t it amaze you, what you did “way back when”?