Vashon Allied Arts 40th Anniversary:
40 years for the Arts
Vashon Allied Arts marked its fortieth anniversary with a celebration
at the Blue Heron on Saturday, July 16, 2006. The particular goal was
to bring back together some of the most important people involved in
creating, nurturing, and sustaining Vashon Allied Arts over the
decades, and to provide a get-together for new and old friends and
well-wishers.
From its start in the mid-70's as the "Arts Resource Center" up where
Granny's Attic is now, to the first Blue Heron in the current Vashon
Historical Museum building on Bank Road, to Vashon Allied Arts'
current home in the former Vashon International Order of Odd Fellow's
Hall on the Island Highway just south of McFeeds, there has been a
succession of individuals who went above and beyond in keeping Allied
Arts, the Art Auction, and the Blue Heron alive at times, and
prospering now.
My own small role was, with Janice Mallman, in being the first Visual
Arts coordinators (we were talked into this no-small-task by Christine
Beck and Laura White!) at the old Blue Heron on Bank Road back in
1979-1980, and in helping with the lease signing and the move into the
current Vashon Allied Arts home in the Odd Fellow's Hall back in
1980-1981.
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Photography copyright (c) 2005, 2006... John Sage/FinchHaven - http://www.finchhaven.com/digital/
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