Enriching Burien Through the Arts
Essa Baird Paintings @ Highline Heritage Museum
April-June 2024
In the Artist’s Studio
Burien Arts and the Highline Heritage Museum together sponsor In the Artist’s Studio.
In the Artist’s Studio was envisioned as a series of workshops by local artists describing their process and technique. These were planned to be in-person at the Highline Heritage Museum, Burien.
Since the pandemic, we have been presenting the workshops via Zoom and video. The classes are videoed by Burien Arts and produced by the Highline Heritage Museum via a YouTube link.
Please see our video for March-April 2023 artist Danny Mansmith below:
Please see videos of previous artists in the series on our Programs page.
Artist Paul Illian launched the virtual series with a Zoom workshop on landscape painting in August 2020. Please see the video here.
Paul gave an in-person workshop, Landscape Painting with Paul Illian, in October, 2019, at the Museum.
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Who: Burien Arts Association
What: Three-month long exhibits of original work.
- Any medium
- Must be wall art
- Framed or unframed.
When: Starting in 2024:
- January-February-March
- April-May-June
- July-August-September
- October-November-December
Where:
Highline Heritage Museum
819 SW 152nd Street
Burien, WA 98166
Opening Receptions:
First Friday of the first month from 5-7 PM at the Highline Heritage Museum
To apply: Go here and complete the form
Upcoming Events
BURIEN ARTS GALLERY WALL @ HIGHLINE HERITAGE MUSEUM
What: Exhibit of recent works by Essa Baird
When: April-June 2024
Opening Reception: Friday April 5 from 5:00-7:00 PM
Where: Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA. The Museum is open Thursday-Sunday, 1:00 PM-5:00PM
Cost: Admission to Burien Arts Wall is free
What: Seven seven-minute talks on the theme “Duped” or “Aha!”. This event is live and live-streamed on the B-Town Blog Facebook page as well, thanks to Scott Schaefer of the B-Town Blog.
If you cannot attend this event in person, be sure to “Like” the B-Town Blog on Facebook to get a notification for the live stream.
When: Friday, April 26 at 7:00 PM
Where: Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA
Cost: Free
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7 STORIES 2024 SEASON
January 26, 2024
“Brush With Greatness” or “You Only Live Once (Y.O.L.O.)”
February 23, 2024
“The Perfect Storm/Aligned & Positive!” or “Hot Mess”
March 22, 2024
“Paths Not Taken” or “Diary Entries”
April 26, 2024
“Duped” or “Aha!”
May 24, 2024
“Chance Encounters” or “Tiny Acts”
If you would like to tell your story on one of these topics, please fill out the form online or email 7stories@burienculturehub.org.
Featured Artist
ESSA BAIRD
We are pleased to feature the paintings of Essa Baird in the April–March exhibit at the Burien Arts Gallery Wall, Highline Heritage Museum, 819 SW 152nd Street, Burien, WA.
Essa’s primary focus is on on abstract painting and sculpture. Her work centers on the juxtaposition of materials; clay, canvas, and wood can serve as a base for pigment, beads, and thread.
She earned her BFA in Sculpture and Studio for Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, and studied further at Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, Maine; Salem Artworks, Salem, NY; and the NY State Summer School of the Arts, Fredonia, NY.
Solo exhibits include at Caffe Ladro with LoCal Arts, Seattle, WA; Auburn City Hall Gallery, Auburn, WA; and the Caldwell Lake George Library, Lake George, NY.
Essa has exhibited extensively in group shows 2013-2023 in Mercer Island, WA; Seattle; Port Townsend, WA; Cape Cod, MA; Lynnwood City Hall, Lynnwood, WA; Boston, MA; Glens Falls, NY; and Chestertown, NY.
Other art experience includes work as gallery assistant, Bakalar and Paine Gallery, Boston, MA; event installer, Art of the Event, Wilmington, MA; member, MassArt Iron Corps, Iron Casting Group, Boston, MA; art installer and handler, Harvard Carpenter Center, Boston, MA; intern with artist Candice Ivey, Boston, MA; and volunteer, Artisan’s Asylum artist work space, Somerville, MA.
Essa grew up on Lake George in rural upstate New York, surrounded by the Adirondack Mountains, and has lived in Seattle for the last six years. She is a member of Side Rail Collective in the Georgetown district of Seattle, and founder of the online art gallery, Gallery Baird
She currently works as an installer and fabricator at Signs of Seattle, Seattle. WA.To see more works by Essa, please visit https://www.essabaird.com/
All works on display at the Museum are for sale by the artist