FEATURED ARTS & ARTISTS FEBRUARY 2020: BILL MITCHELL, CLARA BOWE, & THE PERFECT PORT. PUPPIES FOR PEACE
Contact us 3609410459 or abba@csiri.org. Click on picture of the Director hear the song of the nightengale.
Click to hear video The Perfect Port in memory of Bill Mitchell, Anacortes Artist who created The Anacortes Mural Project used by Pokemon. Here Clara @ 99 years young sits on the same exact bench she sat on as an excited child of 9 when the Anacortes Art Depot was a working train station linking thîs island of Fidalgo to the world. CSIRI.ORG HOSTED CLARA BOWE'S 99TH BIRTHDAY BASH on 3/26/2010 @ 4-7PM & HER 100TH BIRTHDAY BASH ON 3/26/2011 IN THE ANACORTES LIBRARY CIRCLE ROOM, but it was here @ The Art Depot where she used to volunteer for the Folk Art Festival that we held her Memorial after she passed on in March of 2014, less than a month from her 103rd Birthday. An Anacortes resident since 1915, she volunteered for Meals on Wheels as a delivery driver for over 15 years after retiring here in 1974.
Clara Olive Senff Bowe was born in 1911 in Sedro Woolley WA and moved to Anacortes with her family in 1915.