It’s Friday! And with Friday comes Friday Favorites. This week we want to make a shout out to Drawing Day 2009, which is tomorrow June 6th, and the celebration of the fabulous weather we have been having here in Seattle!

Drawing Day 2009

Illustrators of the world unite! Tomorrow is Drawing day 2009 so get out your pens and papers (or whatever your preferred medium is) and start drawing. The goal of Drawing Day is to have over one million people upload images that they create on June 6th. At Imagekind we have created a group just for this purpose. Art can be uploaded at any point over the weekend but should be created on June 6th, 2009. To find out more about Drawing Day click here.

Join the Drawing Day 2009 Group Now!

Bring in the Sunshine

Seattle is known as a cold and wet destination, but the last few weeks have been absolutely glorious. We even had a hot weather alert go out this week due to the irregularly hot temperatures. Schools are taking this in stride and there seems to be an abundance of school field trips to anywhere that involves the great outdoors. The office, on the other hand, has been a slightly different story – it is hot and sticky. To help refresh us a bit, I have chosen some great images from Imagekind member artists that celebrate the sunshine and the pleasures of these hot long days.

Have a great weekend!

Eileen

Today, May 16 is Seattle’s annual Starbucks Bike to Work Day. In support of the event, our office will have accumulated nearly 60 miles of bike ridin’ commuter madness by the end of today. It was great fun to get out and enjoy the sun, encourage healthy lifestyles and promote a cleaner alternative for the environment.

Tasha, one of our wonderful Customer Service team members bikes to work nearly everyday, rain or shine (and here, it’s mostly rain, not so much shine). “Biking to work is super!” Says Tasha. “Not only do I park for free, I get to work quicker than when I ride the bus, I get my daily exercise, and I get to stop and take photographs along the way!”

If you are in the Seattle area this weekend, you can see Tasha tearing it up at the New Belgium Urban Assault Ride, complete with bike scavenger hunts, obstacle courses and a huge after party.

Get biking!

Nate

Image: Seattle at Night by Rick Takagi

What?!?! You’re in Seattle and say you’re bored this weekend?!?

In our ever-increasing-attempt to build a genuine arts community we want to try and bring you useful and interesting news and events. We are starting out with just our little home town for now but we hope to soon expand our gaze and reach to bring you info from wherever our members might reside. If it’s another city, state or, yes, even country, we would love to hear about it! So, post a link or let us know!

Read on to see some pretty amazing things happening around the Seattle art scene. All of these were compiled by our newest team member here at Imagekind, our intern Grace! You will probably be hearing more from her in the coming weeks, so take the chance now to say hello!

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