Seattle resident Molly Hashimoto's paintings have been published as notecards, holiday cards and gift books by Pomegranate Communications. Pomegranate has paired her paintings with quotations from John Muir for a calendar: Nature's Peace, published in 2012, and 2013. A 2014 calendar will be published with all new paintings. Her work has been exhibited at the White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon, the Michael Pierce Gallery in Seattle and the Whatcom Museum of Art in Bellingham, Washington. In 2004, her painting Lewis and Clark Trail: Missouri River won First Prize in the Shoreline Arts Festival, Seattle, Washington. In 2004, her paintings were on exhibit in St. Charles, Missouri at the Foundry Art Centre’s inaugural show The Adventure Begins, a signature event commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Her painting, A Range of Lofty Mountains, won an Award of Merit. She exhibited in a solo show at the National Parks Conservation Association gallery in Seattle in 2008: North Cascades: Mountains of Change. Her work was included in Confluence: Artists of the North Cascades in 2009 at the Smith and Vallee Gallery in Edison, Washington. Her paintngs were exhibited at the 2009 and 2010 Sitka Art Invitational in Portland, Oregon. She exhibited her work in solo shows at the Elisabeth Miller Library at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticuture in Seattle in 2011 and 2012.
Education Molly recieved a B.A. in English literature from the University of Minnesota, and pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago. She studied illustration at the School of Visual Concepts in Seattle.
Teaching is an important part of her artistic journey. In addition to the outdoor seminars that she teaches at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology at Cascade Head on the Oregon coast, the North Cascades Institute in North Cascades National Park and the Yellowstone Institute in Yellowstone National Park; she also offers programs for King County Library System and Sno-Isle Library System. She has worked with students and patrons of all ages. Her mission is connect them to nature and cultural history through hands-on art experiences. In 2012 she taught her first plein air workshop in Italy through Il Chiostro, in the beautiful restored monastery of San Fedele at the Tuscan Renaissance Center. She'll be teaching again in fall of 2013 in Italy at Lake Garda, at the foot of the Alps at the Convent of San Tomaso.
Dear Molly:
I found your site and you have beautiful pictures!
I am looking for watercolor journals, (sewn) and not moleskine.
Can you direct me; having trouble finding good paper (arches ect.) in non-spiral format.
Pilgrimway2@yahoo.com
Posted by: Sandra Loubert | December 06, 2010 at 12:59 PM