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Bothell Art Walk
Art will be up at Wanderlust Book Lounge for the August Bothell Art Walk with a reception from 5-8 pm. There will be music. Come say hi!
Aug 11, 2022 | Bothell, WA
Venn Gallery - Greenwood Art Collective August Art Walk
I will be there starting around 5 pm and the show goes on until 10pm.
Aug 12, 2022 | Seattle, WA
City of Bellevue Downtown Utility Box Wraps Program
Installation at the intersection of NE10th St and 108th Ave NE.
Projected installation Aug/Sept 2022 | Bellevue, WA
City of Kent 2022 Traffic Signal Control Box Art Wrap Project
Installation at SE Kent-Kangley Rd and 116th Ave SE.
Projected installation Aug/Sept 2022 | Kent, WA
City of Tukwila Utility Box Art Program
Installation at intersection of S 180th St and Sperry Drive.
Projected installation end of August 2022 | Tukwila, WA
Urban Artworks Georgetown Mural Apprentice Program
Assistant teaching artist for summer program that teaches youth in the community how to research, design, and install public artwork. Reception planned for the end of the program to celebrate the completion of the mural.
Sept 1, 2022 | Mini Mart City Park, Georgetown - Seattle, WA
WAMAL (Washington Alaskan Malamute Adoption League) Fundraiser
Oct 2022 | Seattle, WA
Pancakes & Booze Art Show
Nov 19, 2022 | El Corazon, Seattle, WA
Highlights from this past year.
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About the Artist
Carmel Mercado is a self-taught Seattle-based artist on an unrelenting quest to celebrate life and joy with her communities. With her use of bright, bold colors, patterns, speckled backgrounds, and whimsical child-like designs, Carmel aims to evoke happy bemusement, laughter, and a sense of gratitude for the otherwise magically mundane things in one’s day-to-day that create joy. For Carmel, some of those small daily joys include good food and good company (in the form of animal friends), two common themes in her art. Carmel works predominantly with acrylics and mixed media on canvas, but she also creates digital children’s illustrations and indoor mural art. She has been a part of several juried shows and gallery exhibits throughout the Boston, Orlando, and Seattle areas and has received art commissions from institutions such as the City of Bellevue, Tukwila, and Kent.
Carmel’s punchy whimsical style has been heavily influenced by her time working with children as a board-certified pediatric ophthalmologist and from her travels around the world learning folk art and visiting wildlife habitats. In particular, Carmel draws a lot of influence from her time living in Japan. Carmel obtained her B.S. in Biology with a humanities concentration in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University.
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