Found object assemblage artist featured in Gardiner

By Kirk Boxleitner
Posted 5/28/25

The Gardiner Community Center’s Gallery of the Arts plans to open its exhibit for its next featured artist at the start of the month this weekend.

Sequim resident Marion L. Head will be …

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Found object assemblage artist featured in Gardiner

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The Gardiner Community Center’s Gallery of the Arts plans to open its exhibit for its next featured artist at the start of the month this weekend.

Sequim resident Marion L. Head will be the gallery’s featured artist for June, and the opening reception for her exhibit will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 1, during which members of the public will be able to meet with Head and discuss her artwork with her.

Head graduated from Florida State University with a degree in art education and for more than 30 years taught art and gifted children in Florida, South Dakota and Washington. She concluded her career at the Seabury School in Tacoma.

“Marion has worked in almost every medium,” gallery exhibit coordinator Janet Johnson said. “But lately, she’s concentrated on found object assemblage.” She added that Head was originally inspired by teaching about Louise Nevelson. “Her work evolves from the objects she finds, sifting through local recycling shops, friends’ collections and nature,” said Johnson.

According to Head, “Assemblage has no limits in the objects used, in terms of their sizes or forms, which keeps it consistently inspiring.”

Johnson considers it a coup to recruit another local artist for the Gardiner gallery.

Gardiner Community Center routinely serves residents from Quilcene to Diamond Point. Johnson noted that future artists to be exhibited could come from throughout their corner of the Olympic Peninsula, as far north as Port Townsend and as far west as Sequim.

“It’s amazing how many talented artists we have in this area, working in a wide range of media and styles,” Johnson said.

The board for the Gardiner Community Center approved funding for the installation of the Gallery of the Arts’ display system, while its art committee has been drawn from two volunteers from the Gardiner community.

“The gallery will be hosting solo monthly shows, to encourage and celebrate the talents of local artists,” Johnson said. Artists interested in showing their work can email her at johnsonjanet55@yahoo.com with two images of their work.

The Gallery of the Arts’ remaining show openings for the year are scheduled for June 29, July 27, Aug. 31, Sept. 28, Nov. 2 and Nov. 30.

What to know:

The Gallery of the Arts is located in the lower level meeting room of the Gardiner Community Center, at 980 Old Gardiner Road in Sequim. It is open to the public during the hours of its community events and activities.