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I'm Bill Traver
the founder of the Traver Gallery.
I grew up in Seattle, went to Ingraham High School,
where I had a high school art teacher
who encouraged me,
because I was dyslexic at the time,
to follow my interest in the arts,
which I always got good grades in.
All my other grades were
“Bill was a slow learner.”
The Traver Gallery, I think,
wants to be a place
where artists can feel like
they can come and be supported
and we can support them in a honest,
truthful, genuinely earnest way.
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Because I was a student at Cornish
there was this patron of Cornish,
Annie Gould Hauberg.
Annie Gould Hauberg was married to John Hauberg,
who owned a tree farm up north
called the Pilchuck Tree Farm.
She got together with Dale Chihuly,
who was from
this area originally, from Tacoma.
He went to Annie Hauberg
and John Hauberg
and told them about this idea
of starting this school.
This hippie
farm up on the Pilchuck Mountains.
And the Haubergs went along with it.
They said, okay,
we'll let you have some property.
And that's how the American Studio Glass movement got started.
It seemed like this was something
that was going to happen.
This was something on the rise,
you know,
And we were the new kids on the block.
We were the new gallery in town.
There were a couple of
other galleries, not many
who chose not to show glass.
They didn't want to show glass
because there wasn't an art form.
It wasn't considered art.
It was a craft.
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My daughter Sarah grew up in the gallery in Belltown.
I have pictures of her
as a baby crawling around the gallery.
It's a great picture.
-You know exactly how old it is
by the can of Pepsi.
-Yeah.
-My dad loves telling the story
of how my crib was actually a drawer
in a dresser that they used
as like a filing cabinet.
And so really, from day one,
this has been kind of
the center of my universe in some ways.
We had a gallery in Tacoma
because they just built
this new glass museum in Tacoma,
and we wanted to have a location
in Tacoma next to the glass museum.
And so she came back
and went to work there
and eventually got more
and more and more involved in it.
And of course, she knew
all of the artists
and they loved Sarah.
And then when we closed that gallery,
she came here.
And I was getting much older
and needed to take a break
or move away from the gallery
a little bit, and she took it on.
She chose to
become the director of the gallery
and has been doing it ever since.
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I have the privilege of working
with some artists here
that have been with the gallery
since the very first shows
that the gallery presented.
I've literally known them
my whole life.
I want those relationships
to be really deep.
It's frankly what makes it successful. I think.
You can't really represent art
if you don't know the artist,
if you don't know where
they're coming from, what drives them,
you know, who their pets are,
who their kids are,
where they like to travel.
All these things are the stories that we tell
that make these pieces come to life.
(whirring]
It's fabulous.
I get to see my dad every day.
I think once we both came to terms
with working together,
we've just been able to learn a
huge amount from each other.
As he
gets older, he gets wiser
and it's just wonderful to see
how much love he gives to this place
and to the artists that we work with
and the collectors that we work with.
And yeah, just try and
let that inform me every day.
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Growing up in this gallery
and being surrounded by art,
my whole life has undeniably shaped
how I approach the world.
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We're so fortunate here
in the Pacific Northwest
to have such a close knit
art community,
and I think that it's really part of
what makes the Pacific Northwest
a special, beautiful place.
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-I’d love to leave the gallery
to Sarah in a way
that she's able to take it on
and into the next 50 years.
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Catch Art Zone, Friday nights at 8
and anytime online at seattlechannel.org/artzone
[audience applauds]
-I am doing a raven and some flowers.
That is my design.
I specialize
in neo-traditional tattoos.
[tattoo needle buzzes]
-I have always loved art. And, you know,
I think tattooing is a really good way.
It's like therapy.
And so I've always really loved it.
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-This is my 30th year tattooing.
I won’t tattoo anything
that's offensive or racist.
-Right now is the most painful tattoo
I've ever had.
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-I love for the people
who come to the expo
to experience a little bit of the love
of the tattoo community
that I've been a part of for 32 years.
-I'll say it's weird, though,
people like watching me get
tattooed is kind of strange.
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-Seattle Tattoo Expo is
one of the top expos,
I would say, in the U.S.
-I love this convention.
-I think it's pretty [bleep] cool.
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[buzzing]
The Seattle Tattoo Expo
will be back in August 2024.
Exact dates TBD.
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An Art Zone favorite,
the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio,
is at Jazz Alley this month.
And to celebrate, here they are.
Delvon on Hammond B3 organ,
Jimmy James on guitar, and David McGraw on drums
performing “Shortcake.”
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The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio plays
six shows at Jazz Alley,
September 14th through the 17th.
For this outing,
Delvon will be joined
by Josh Purdue on guitar
and Ehssan Karimi on drums.
Ticket information is at jazzalley.com.
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And that wraps us for this week.
A big thanks to studio e gallery
for hosting us.
And a reminder
that Written in Water, paintings
by Sarah Nosworthy, is up
through September 30th.
So we're going to leave you
with highlights from THING,
a three-day music festival
that rocked Fort Worden
in Port Townsend in late August.
There will be a THING 2024
and we will let you know
when those dates are set.
So enjoy and we'll see you soon.
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[audience applaud]
-What's up?
[audience cheers]
What's happening?
[audience claps]
Where am I?
[audience cheers and laughs]
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-THING is a homey music festival.
It's a place
where everyone can come
with their families
and be themselves and be comfy
and still be like right up close
to like really amazing music.
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-It’s a really beautiful day for this.
-Yeah, beautiful day
for this, really chill vibes.
Everyone is doing everything
from like enjoying right up
close to the stage or taking a nap out
(laughter)
in the grass.
It's nice that everyone
sort of on their own vibe.
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We live very close
and it's super exciting
there's a festival in our neighborhood
and we love it.
There's so much to do.
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I'm a local.
I came last year just for one day,
but I have a three-day pass this year.
THING is a sense of community.
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They started a
festival in our back yard. (laughs)
All right.
[audience cheers and claps]
All right!
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