Small Works in my DePirroStudio shop!

My biomorphic sculptures are now available in my DePirroStudio shop! 

Take a peek, HERE

'The Contemporary Art of Pacific Northwest Crafts'

Northwest Designer Craftsmen

is pleased to be exhibiting 

'The Contemporary Art of Pacific Northwest Crafts' 

at the Washington State Convention Center

September 29 - January 6, 2019

705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101

7am to 10pm daily

Level 2 Main Galleria

Sunday October 7 - Everyone is invited to:

Artists Opening Reception at 1:30

Curator Lloyd Herman’s presentation at 1:45

At 3:00 we will walk to Facere Gallery for a Reception

1420 5th Ave

Everyone is welcome

My new sculpture 'Multiples: Keeping Tabs' will be included in this exhibit. Created out of hundreds of aluminum pull tabs crocheted together using stainless steel wire.

'Kelp Forest' Extended!

'Kelp Forest'

Great news, 'Kelp Forest' has been extended through this Fall!

If you didn't make it to Tacoma Ocean Fest, there's still time to see it installed in this incredible historical space...also be sure to check out Annie Crawley's photography displayed on the gallery wall behind.

'Kelp Forest', 15ft wide x 10ft deep x 8ft long, created using over 400 reclaimed & reinvented plastic bottles. 

A HUGE thank you to Ocean Fest Tacoma, Rosemary Ponnekanti, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation & Foss Waterway Seaport for funding & hosting this project!

Our appreciation also to Alec Clayton for his thoughtful words highlighting this important event! ARTICLE

Foss Waterway Seaport 

705 Dock Street 

Tacoma, WA 

Take a virtual stroll through the Kelp Forest...

Tacoma Ocean Fest

Tacoma Ocean Fest

Celebrate | Learn | Protect

June 10, 11-4 

FREE

Foss Waterway Seaport 

705 Dock Street

Tacoma, WA

My new Environmental Installation 'Kelp Forest' will be featured at Tacoma Ocean Fest. Created using hundreds of reclaimed plastics, in mass I have collected, washed, cut & reassembled over 300 plastic bottles. The completed installation will be suspended up high within Foss Waterway Seaport enabling visitors to walk underneath it's ghostly form.

Ocean Fest is a one-day free festival on Tacoma’s waterfront for World Ocean weekend. It brings the community together through arts, sciences and water play to celebrate the ocean, tell about its threats and inspire people to protect it. Big thanks to Greater Tacoma Community Foundation for funding this project and to Rosemary Ponnekanti for the invitation!!

Learn more about the festival here, Tacoma Ocean Fest 2018

"Following A Thread" BallardWorks-Seattle

'Kelp' (detail) Crocheted Plastic Bags & Acrylic

"Following A Thread"

BallardWorks Exhibits Group Show 

ArtWalk

Thursday, April 19th 

6:00pm-9:00pm

BallardWorks 

2856 NW Market St., Seattle 98107

April 19 - May 9

This group exhibit is a survey of the fluid landscape of textile arts. In it, Seattle-based established and emerging artists examine the dynamic of the stitched line as inspiration, mark, and material. Curated by Cameron Anne Mason, exhibiting artists include Lou Cabeen, Barbara DePirro, Maura Donegan, Deborah Kapoor, and Carol Milne.

Three floors of art studios and exhibition spaces open for the Art Walk Thursday, April 19th, 2018. Open 6:00-9:00 pm only. Open houses at several of the 20 BallardWorks studios offer a chance to talk to the artists and see their oeuvre. Families with kids, art lovers, collectors, and neighbors are welcome. Enter through the 1st or 2nd floor doors on 30th Avenue NW. Studio artists' work includes painting, woodworking, sculpture, print making, and more, all under one roof. http://www.ballardworks.com/

Note that the BallardWorks Ballard Artwalk has changed to the Third Thursday of each month, 6:00-9:00 PM, so mark your calendars. We look forward to seeing you! https://www.ballardnightout.com/

'Nectary' (detail) Crocheted Plastic Bags & Acrylic

'Pollinate' (detail) Crocheted Plastic Bags & Acrylic

'Radiate' (detail) Plastic Bottles & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire

'Bloom' (detail) Plastic Bottles & Crocheted Stainless Steel Wire