Pazienza in Italia
Joel Patience, watercolorist (2026 exhibit)
Joel travels to Italy to paint unique locations and from unique perspectives. Quite often Joel paints in the Renaissance style of Aquarella su carta nera – watercolor on black paper.
Location
Seattle Center Armory, 3rd Floor Balcony, overlooking the Bocce Courts on the 2nd Floor.
Pazienza says his paintings love to be out meeting people, hence the long term mostre / exhibitions such as at US Bank.
Joel and his wife are members of the Italian Club of Seattle, the Seattle Perugia Sister City Association, CAI-PNW, and Il Punto. They’re contributors to the CASA Italian Cultural Center in Burien, WA and are learning Italian through Percorso Italiano.
In addition to several original works, printed greeting cards and some giant beach towels, created from Joel’s paintings, wll be available for purchase and via his online store.
Images are protected by copyright and used by permission of the artist and other copyright holders.
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Images of Bagnoregio
Gregg Krogstad, architectural photographer (2025 exhibit)
Gregg Krogstad, a Seattle-based architectural photographer, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Civita Institute to spend a month in Civita Di Bagnoregio to explore the photographic possibilities of the famous medieval Italian hilltown – a favorite of Rick Steves – and its neighboring cities and small villages. The photographs on display at Festa Italiana are a selection of images from this recent trip, and other photographs from past visits to Italy.
Besides shooting with a conventional modern camera, Mr. Krogstad enjoys working with an antique pinhole camera using large format black and white film.
The pinhole camera has no lens or viewfinder and only a hand operated shutter, so each exposure is a game of chance, an educated guess. Any of the images on display that are black-and-white will have been made with this fascinating primitive device.
