Puget Sound Through An Artist's Eye

You’re invited to Tony Angell’s book reading, PUGET SOUND THROUGH AN ARTIST’S EYE

People For Puget Sound, in association with University of Washington Press and IslandWood, presents artist and naturalist Tony Angell reading from his new book that captures his art and the natural history of Puget Sound.

Angell will be reading on Thursday , September 24, at IslandWood, on Bainbridge Island beginning at 7 PM.

Copies of Puget Sound Through an Artist’s Eye will be available for $35 plus sales tax and will be signed by the author.

For nearly fifty years Tony Angell has used Puget Sound's natural diversity as his artist's palette. In this book, he describes the living systems within the Sound and shares his observations and encounters with the species that make up the complex communities of the Sound's rivers, tidal flats, islands, and beaches: the fledging flight of a young peregrine, an otter playfully herding a small red rockfish, the grasp of a curious octopus.

Tony Angell is an illustrator, sculptor, and author. Angell has won numerous writing and artistic awards for his work, including the prestigious Master Wildlife Artist Award of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and the 2006 International Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Grant Award. His sculptural forms celebrating nature are to be found in public and private collections throughout the country. In 2002, Angell retired as Washington State Director of Environmental Education after thirty years of service. A devout conservationist, he received The Oak Leaf Award, the highest recognition given by the national office of The Nature Conservancy.

He is author of In the Company of Crows and Ravens; Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays; and Owls. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.

Readings and book signings of Puget Sound Through an Artist’s Eye will also be held at the following times and locations:

Sept 22            Traditions café, Olympia, 7 PM
Sept. 29            Bellingham Public Library, 7 PM
Oct. 18             Seattle Public Library, 2 PM
Oct. 22             Port Townsend Marine Science Center, 7 PM

All  readings are open to the public.

People For Puget Sound is a citizens group working with people for a clean and healthy Sound. Since 1991, it has protected and restored habitat through education and action. www.pugetsound.org