From January to December, artists from Marysville and Arlington, between and beyond, work in their studios and on their kitchen tables trying to capture the beauty they see in the world

John Vistaunet, of Marysville, presents Northwest of Eden at the Everett Art Boutique during January.
Lakewood resident Shari Osti is included in the printmakers show, Impressed, presented by Arts Council of Snohomish County in January.
M-PHS student Katie Bashforth wins Best of Show in the Northwest regional Scholastic Art Awards.
Arlington resident Aleks Kargopoltsev, who works in his gallery/studio in Mukilteo, teaches classical drawing and painting through Arlingtons community education program.
Four pieces from Kathryn Glowens series, Overhead, Underfoot are acquired for the Arlington City Council Chambers with funds raised at the Arlington Arts Councils 2005 Fall into Art Auction. The arts council also commissioned a school of ceramic fish by Marguerite Goff for the outside wall of City Hall with proceeds from the auction and a matching contribution from the city of Arlington, to be installed in 2007.
Janet Wold, of Marysville, participates in two shows in March, Home is where the Art is in the Built Gallery in Everett and The Leaf Motif at the Parklane Gallery in Kirkland.
Kent Baker, of Arlington, shows his landscape photography in the Spring Art Show presented by the Stanwood Camano Art Guild March 11.
A life-long resident of Bryant, Shirley Fulfs, coordinated the Skagit Art Associations Art in the Pickle Barn, in its 18th year at the Skagit County Tulip Festival.
A Lakewood area resident with a working studio on Kackman Road near Arlington, Marguerite Goff, presents the Pleasant Ridge Gallery revival show at Rexville Grange for the Skagit County Tulip Festival.
Marysville artist Joan Grout has work accepted into the 56th annual Co-Arts Show opening April 23.
AHS art students of Bev Schatzs, Corissa Chopelas, Linsey Studerus, Matt Bailey and Preslie Duskin, have work on display at the Berry Barn Art Show during the Tulip Festival in Mount Vernon.
Watercolor artist Colleen Ozora demonstrates techniques at the Greater Marysville Art Guild meeting May 3.
Arlington mural painter Harry Engstrom paints a Glasair airplane during Airport Appreciation Day May 6 as part of a series of airplane portraits for the Arlington Airport.
Tulalip youth are busy preparing art work for the Tulalip Art Festival which is May 11.
Janet Wold creates Long Road to Womanhood with many interesting found objects for the Art of Recycling presented by the Arts Council of Snohomish County in May.
Tinnel Hillis wins a department portfolio award at the Marysville-Pilchuck High School Art Festival which was on display May 24.
Finished banners from a collaboration between the city of Arlington and the Arlington Arts Council, with eight done by Carole Bossartes eighth-graders, are hung on major intersections around historical downtown.
James Madison represents the Tulalip Tribes on the Snohomish County Arts Commission as well the board of directors of the Arts Council of Snohomish County. His sculpture, Grandfather is part of Arlingtons Sculpture Walk on the Centennial Trail for the year.
Pam Summers and Marguerite Goff show their work in Beads of Fire presented by the Cascade Clay Artists at the Gallery at the Depot opening June 2.
Arlington stone sculptors Verena Schwippert and Kirk McLean show works in the 40-piece Bellevue sculpture exhibit, opening June 17.
Oso artist Monica Yantis hosts members of the Arlington Arts Council in Art in the Barn in Oso June 24 and 25.
A former Arlington resident, Lori Vonderhorst, shows her art work in two different Everett shows simultaneously in July.
Two Grace Academy students, Wil Owens, fourth-grade, and Alexa Lynne Webb, fifth-grade, win $1,000 savings bonds in Community Transits coloring contest visualizing mass transit in 30 years.
Arlington artist Suzanne Schaefer shows pet portraits in All about Animals at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery.
Marysville quilter Catherine Kessel is a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Quiltfest Aug. 11 – 13 for a quilt called, The Language of Flowers.
Arlington artists Carey Waterworth and Helen Lueken show their work at Fresh Paint in Everett. Waterworth then finished recent work from her trip to Russia for the Lighthouse Festival in Mukilteo.
Marysville artist Glen Oberg participates in a show featuring paintings painted on location in Ireland at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery in Snohomish.
Weston High School art teacher Persis Gayle finally gets her pottery shed relocated from the old campus.
Kathryn Glowen shows new work in a show, Three Installations, at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle and another manifestation of Petland in Spokane during the summer.
Kirk McLean delivers an obsidian bench carved with the topography of San Juan Islands to the Westcott Sculpture Garden on the island.
Peg Lahey and Jean Olson install an exhibit of artist-decorated pumpkins in the Arlington Library to promote the Arlington Art Council upcoming art auction.
Dean Rocky Barrick and Carol Van Loo, of Arlington participate in the annual juried show at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery, along with Mara Price, of Marysville.
Quil Ceda Carvers gather at the Marysville Library to carve on the third Thursday of each month.
Arlington Arts Council raises $7,000 for public art projects at the Fall into Art Auction Oct. 21.
Coleen Allen teaches painting at Brushstrokes Art Supply.
Marvin Lilley shows a long series of landscapes in Brushes with the Land at the Gallery by the Bay in Stanwood.
Maryvsille artists Joan Grout, Mary Edwards and Miko Winder gather for the first ever art walk at two bookstores, BookWorks and Phoenix Books, on Third Street.
Persis Gayle invites kids to throw pots at her Frailey Mountain Clayworks studio show.
The Art along the Way project of Arlington Arts Council has added the River Rock Inn and The Shire Cafe to its list of venues for public art.
Four studios north of Arlington are open to visitors Dec. 2 and 3 in the Arlington Arts Councils North Arlington Studio Tour.