Kids under the age of 18 in the Wenatchee area are exhibiting Art from throughout this past year! Come see art on display from the Valley’s most creative kiddos!

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Come see our community art show at ARTWORX! The August theme is Aquatic. Submit paintings or other art mediums that relate to the subject of water. Art must be submitted by July 21st, submissions will be closed when gallery is full. Show will start August 7th and end on the 30th. All art will be for sale!

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Unbridled brings together the work of Daphne Sweet and Charlie-Anne Hopkins to examine the landscapes, mythologies, and cultural inheritance of the American West. The work in this exhibition explores how Western and classical narratives have shaped ideas of power, labor, gender, and belonging, reimagining these inherited stories through care, embodiment, and material practice.

Daphne Sweet’s paintings draw from classical art history and personal allegory, reworking familiar motifs through bold color, ornament, and layered symbolism. By reclaiming the female figure from the historical male gaze, her work transforms classical imagery into a visual language of agency, presence, and abundance.

Charlie-Anne Hopkins approaches the Western landscape through lived experience with horsemanship, land stewardship, and material practice. Their work reinterprets Western iconography through care, labor, and ecological attentiveness, challenging narratives of conquest while exploring relationships between bodies, land, and inheritance.

Together, Sweet and Hopkins create a dialogue between classical ideals and Western mythology, offering a vision of the West rooted not in dominance or nostalgia, but in relationship, tenderness, and the possibility of new forms of kin.

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Artist Statement:

Now that I am retired, I have more time to take classes and truly devote my days to something I love. I have spent most of the last decade exploring pastels, but just recently I dug out my 50-year-old oil paint tubes. I’m enjoying learning and relearning things with the medium. Art is a lifelong journey, and I continue on because for me, it really does feed the soul.

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Artist bio:
I was born on the island of Guam in 1948 mover to the Tri Cities Washington Graduated from Kennewick Sr High School in 1967 Graduated from Central Washington State College in 1972 married and raised a family. Lived in Wenatchee for 26 years now. Retired and traveled Europe several times. I picked a brush a year ago and have not put it down. I paint in oils on canvas with landscape and seascape being my passion.

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Open 12-5pm Saturdays in July for “(Art)ifacts” in the Punch Gallery and live performances on the Punch Stage 3-5pm.

This July we present What better way to celebrate our country’s 250th birthday than with a survey of strange and curious items from our collective Koffers? We’ve scoured our junk drawers, attic spaces and scrapbooks for items we’ve squirreled away with the fortuitous intuition that these things might in fact be useful at some point in time.

Well, the time is now!

There will be bonafide extra-terrestrials, curious cloth dolls, detritus from historic East Germany, taxidermied dinosaurs, candy molds, a carpenter’s rule, love letters, concert handbills, retro toys and other childhood miscellanea. Also, you should expect to see a smattering of obsolete technologies, Chinese art supplies, dice, mementos from America’s favorite pastime, a mummified skunk, Antarctic rocks, old boots, a yanked bicuspid, an egg of unknown origin, bottled apparitions from the historic West and a vintage 1978 Battlestar Galactica Ovion 4” plastic figure.

Come and experience the menagerie of artifacts and ephemera cobbled together by the PUNCH crew for your viewing enjoyment.

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