Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Cristina Velásquez, whose exhibition, Somos Animales Poéticos, will be on view at Blue Sky from Aug 7 - 30, 2025.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Barbara Strigel, whose exhibition, A Space becomes an Entry, will be on view at Blue Sky from Aug 7 - 30, 2025.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our August 2025 exhibitions

5 - 9 PM

Please join us in the gallery for a conversation with Michelle Dunn Marsh and Adrain Chesser around the exhibition Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography.

Michelle Dunn Marsh (b. 1973, she/her) is the co-founder of Minor Matters Books. Since 1994 she has professionally engaged with the artform of photography through the creation of over one hundred publications, curation and placement of exhibitions, and development of numerous public programs. She has held leadership positions with Aperture Foundation (New York), Chronicle Books (San Francisco), and Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle), and consulted with the estate of legendary music photographer Jim Marshall, among other professional roles.

Adrain Chesser is a self-taught photographer who refined his craft and practice through personal mentor/protégé relationships with photographers Rosalind Solomon and Debbie Fleming Caffery. His first critical success came with the body of work I Have Something to Tell You, a personal exploration of what it meant to disclose life-altering news.

In 2004, he was awarded a year-long residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. His projects have been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and in 2014, he presented at the TEDx convention in Vienna. His first book, The Return, was published in 2014 by Daylight Books. Minor Matters Books published his second monograph, I Have Something to Tell You, in the fall of 2017.

His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Portland Museum of Art; and The Norton Museum of Art, among others. He is the recipient of a 2025 Art Projects grant from 4Culture and King County for the completion of an 18-year collaborative project titled Beaster & Bear.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our July 2025 exhibition

5 - 9 PM

Seeing Being Seen: A Personal History of Photography

Curated by Michelle Dunn Marsh

Join us in the gallery and meet participating 2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers Artists on Sat, Jun 14 from 1 - 4 PM.

This event is FREE and open to the public.

We will be offering a special 10% discount on prints that are available for purchase, this discount only applies to the purchases inside the gallery during the day.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Mariette Pathy Allen, whose exhibition, Breaking Boundaries: 50 Years of Images, will be on view at Blue Sky from Jun 5 - 28, 2025.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Jesse Egner, whose exhibition, I Want to See How Things Play Out, will be on view at Blue Sky from Jun 5 - 28, 2025.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our June 2025 exhibitions

5 - 9 PM

Join us for a day of art, community, and celebration at our annual Members Party! 

This special day is our way of saying thank you to our amazing members and spreading awareness about this great opportunity to support Blue Sky. Enjoy light refreshments and great company. Bring your photo-loving friends and family members!

Come pick up your exclusive membership benefits
and meet the rest of the Blue Sky Community!

Here’s a little hint for the 2025 membership card: 🏔️

Not a member? Consider joining.

Members at every level receive monthly exhibition postcards, invitations to member-specific events, eligibility to participate in our annual Members Exhibition, discounts with our community partners via our Reciprocal Benefits Program, and more!

We look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Sara J. Winston, whose exhibition, Our body is a clock, will be on view at Blue Sky from May 1 - 31, 2025.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Leah DeVun, whose exhibition, Resemblance, will be on view at Blue Sky from May 1 - 31, 2025.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our May 2025 exhibitions

5 - 9 PM | This is an in-person event, masks are encouraged.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Laura Beth Reese, whose 2024 Critical Mass exhibition, #influenced, will be on view at Blue Sky from Apr 3 - 26, 2025.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Nykelle DeVivo, whose exhibition, Tha Crossroads, will be on view at Blue Sky from Apr 3 - 26, 2025.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our April exhibitions

5 - 9 PM | This is an in-person event, masks encouraged

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Debra Achen & Charlotta María Hauksdóttir, whose exhibition Lost Landscapes is on view at Blue Sky from Mar 6 - 29, 2025.

This artist talk will take place in the gallery, masks are encouraged.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our March 2025 exhibition

5 - 8 PM | This is an in-person event, masks are encouraged.

Debra Achen & Charlotta María Hauksdóttir: Lost Landscapes

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Hyun-taek Cho, whose exhibition, Vacant Room, will be on view at Blue Sky from Feb 6 - Mar 1, 2025.

This artist talk will take place in the gallery, masks are encouraged.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Colton Rothwell, whose exhibition, Pearl Road, will be on view at Blue Sky from Feb 6 - Mar 1, 2025.

This artist talk will take place in the gallery, masks are encouraged.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our February 2025 exhibitions

5 - 8 PM | This is an in-person event, masks are encouraged.

Please join us on Zoom for an artist talk from Ken Paul Rosenthal, whose exhibition, In Light, In!, will be on view at Blue Sky from Jan 9 - Feb 1.

This artist talk will take place on Zoom.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Ford Gilbreath, whose exhibition, Our Town After Dark, will be on view at Blue Sky from Jan 9 - Feb 1, 2025.

This artist talk will take place in the gallery, masks are encouraged.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our January 2025 exhibitions

5 - 8 PM | This is an in-person event, masks are encouraged.

Please join us in the gallery for an event with Mike Vos, who will be signing his new book Somewhere In Another Place during the December First Thursday extended hours.

This event will take place in the gallery, mask is encouraged.

“Mike Vos presents a new sort of landscape photography, one for the Anthropocene, one that is a practice of both time and place, and one which seeks contextual transcendence by altering what and how we see. Somewhere In Another Place distills more than three years of work and countless miles traveled across the continent into 49 double exposure photographs which represent nearly 100 distinct locations. We are invited into a procession of carefully invented places, to witness their visual echoes, to see their waters mirror ancient shapes. Here you’ll find vessels mixed with mountains, waterfalls framed by windows, stalactites crossed with a satellite dish, geologic formations stitched with ephemeral human structures on their way out of existence. Because all imagery is composed, overlaid, and captured manually on a large-format camera, Vos plays an existential tetris of fitting together immersive new terrains and opening a unique plane to consider the mesh of interactions between landscape, the built environment, and the self. With an afterword elaborating on his process and a reading list of literature which inspired the series, to experience this book is to join Vos on his journeys, to explore and behold as you never have.”

Mike Vos (b. 1986) is a photographer, visual artist and musician from Portland, OR.

Drawing inspiration from various literary movements and themes, Vos uses traditional and experimental 4x5 film techniques, multi-channel video, field recordings and instrumentation to craft complex narratives that advocate for the preservation of wild spaces. Constantly pushing the capabilities of film photography, analog video and sound, Vos creates immersive experiences to draw viewers into surreal representations of physical places.

Traditional landscape photography lacks the ability to fully translate the complex emotions that come when viewing places firsthand that are ancient, beautiful, and strange. Much like variant adaptations of the same subject matter, Vos interprets landscapes into ethereal and otherworldly dreamscapes to capture the awe and wonder that exists in nature.

Vos has been awarded artist residencies at esteemed institutions such as MASS MoCA, The Akureyri Art Museum in Akureyri, Iceland, Bær Arts Center in Hofsós, Iceland, Cobertizo in Mexico, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Arts in Wyoming, and in his home state of Oregon: Caldera Arts and The Sitka Center for Art & Ecology.

His work has received support from grants through the Regional Arts & Culture Council, The Ford Family Foundation, The Puffin Foundation and the Oregon Arts Commission. In 2024 he was awarded a fellowship with The Sitka Center for Art & Ecology and released his debut monograph “Somewhere in Another Place” through Buckman Publishing.

Please join the Blue Sky staff on Zoom for a 2025 Pacific Northwest Drawers Application Q&A session. This is the perfect opportunity to ask questions about the application whether you are a first time or returning applicant.

This event will take on Zoom.

Join us in the gallery and meet participating 2024 Pacific Northwest Drawers Artists on Sat, Nov 16 from 1 - 4 PM. The holiday season is around the corner, this print walk is a perfect opportunity to sprinkle artistic touches to your shopping cart as most prints will be available for sale. We look forward to seeing you in the gallery!

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Please join us on Zoom for an artist talk from Charles Xelot, whose exhibition, White Water, will be on view at Blue Sky from Nov 7 - Dec 21.

This artist talk will take place on Zoom.

Please join us in the gallery for an artist talk from Pierre Dalpé, whose exhibition, Wigstock, will be on view at Blue Sky from Nov 9 - Dec 21.

This artist talk will take place in the gallery, masks are encouraged.

Join us in the evening to celebrate the opening of our November exhibitions

5 - 8 PM | This is an in-person event, masks are encouraged.