Tomorrow at Noon, please join us for a Zoom webinar with Susan Burgers, Kathleen Secrest and Laura Viola Preciado. It should be a very interesting discussion about collegiality and collaboration as well as challenge when working on a creative team. These Whidbey Island artists consciously practice and celebrate the time-honored tradition of women coming together to build community through creativity. A practice celebrated throughout time and history and a multitude of different cultures. Their commitment to this practice and the contemporary twist that they add too it has resulted in a robust body of work. It includes drawing together in community, but it also includes shipping work back and forth between artist residencies and a pandemic that forced them to work outside 6' apart for a beat. Web link to tomorrow's talk is below and we hope you can join us. The gallery is currently open across the hall from the Holman Library on the main Green River College Campus: DRAWN TOGETHER: BURGERS, VIOLA PRECIADO & SECREST April 4 – May 27, 2022 Virtual Artist Talk April 12, Noon Artist Panel Discussion Webinar Event, April 12 at Noon<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84862030034> Virtual Exhibition<https://sdillon40.wixsite.com/drawntogether> Historically women have come together to create objects of beauty and practicality, to share their stories and skills, and to support one another. Artists Susan Burgers, Laura Viola Preciado and Kathleen Secrest began drawing together to create community and inspire their individual artistic practices. The pandemic created new challenges requiring unique approaches for working together, requiring the artists to move outdoors, wear masks and even create drawings while remaining six feet apart. All drawings incorporate marks made by each artist responding to the marks made by the others. Once a week these artists were drawn together to share in the practice of abstraction, challenging one other to integrate the marks as the drawings progressed, and agreeing on completion. This practice was an exercise in non-verbal communication, critique and community as the artists grew closer and supported each other through unsettling times.