Participating Artists: at Carkeek Park: Anette Lusher April Lelia Thendara Kida Gee Chris Papa Barbara De Pirro Gabriel Brown Aaron Haba Brian Gerich Miguel Edwards By Hand Fiber Consortium Reginald Brooks Stephen Rock Zucker, Turner, Jacobson Peppé Julie Lindell Matt Babcock at Point Shilshole Beach: David Francis Dan Smith Sylwia Tur Eden Rivers Teresa Burrelsman Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Supported by: 4Culture Site Specific Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs QFC Potter Construction		Site 10: By Hand Fiber Consortium Sammamish, Washington Airing our Laundry 2011 Suzanne Tidwell, Pearls to Padded Bras & Barbed Wire Boxers - Doing laundry is no fun! It's a tedious, repetitive and thankless job. You can never be caught up on laundry, but you can be caught off guard by laundry when it's made out of materials one wouldn't normally expect. I enjoy exploring what happens when we use untraditional materials to make traditional articles of clothing. Can they still be worn? Do they still provide the basic essentials of comfort, warmth, coverage? We'll see... Beth Newfeld, Working Mother - I come from the east coast of Canada where clothes lines tell a story...and, in generations gone by, a wife/mother was judged by the clothes on her line, ie were there enough underwear to represent each day of the week and we are not talking the underwear that competes with dental floss...she was expected to have all the bedding out...her man’s work clothes scrubbed and hung...etc...I laugh at some of the stories told about a woman scorned due to the dodgy clothes line she would tend. Lois Gaylord, The Missing Socks of Fear and Hope - Airing our laundry can be interpreted in at least a couple of different ways. One is the literal act of hanging laundry out to dry. It also can mean the revealing of secrets or hidden information. This piece addresses both themes by using socks that are notorious for disappearing in the laundry. Dark colors represent the fears we keep locked away and light colors represent those hopes and dreams we have as well. The two different colored “socks” represent those miss-matched socks that return to us in the laundry.