Skagit Valley artists' stones honor victims of gun violence
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July 31, 2019
IF THESE STONE COULD TALK, THEY WOULD CRY – “Say their names” is on display through Sunday at the Port Transit Shed in Anacortes. Each of the over 970 ceramic rocks displays “the name, event, date and age of an individual killed in 84 mass shootings in America,” including 40 Washington State first responders and 57 children killed so far this year. – Photo by Ken Stern
Almost one year after collecting weapons from the public – aiming to transform guns into art, a group of local artist has crafted an emotionally powerful exhibit dedicated to gun violence. Their memorial stones, piled into a cairn, is now on its first public display at the Anacortes Arts Festival. The Memorial Cairn installation is part of the Anacortes Regeneration Project and includes the work of several dozen Skagit Valley artists.
La Conner’s Tracy Powell is among those artists, as well as Natalie Niblack, Pieter VanZanden, Lanny Bergner, Peregrine O’Gormley, Paul Thorne and K...
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