Faigin and Youtz Composed: Art, Music and Mingle

FAIGIN & YOUTZ COMPOSED:
Environmental Video Collaborations of Gary Faigin and Gregory Youtz

Saturday, January 17, 7:00PM – 8:00PM
Doors open at 6:30PM: Paintings by Gary Faigin on view
7:00-8:00PM: Introductions, viewings and audience discussion of Worlds Within Worlds and Elegy for a Mechanical Age
8:00-8:30PM: Wine and Nibbles Reception
FREE, Register here

Graphite Arts Center will host a showing of two short videos created by Seattle artist Gary Faigin and Tacoma composer Gregory Youtz. Faigin and Youtz met in Earth Creative, an international organization of artists, scientists and educators that uses the power of the arts and sciences to raise awareness about climate change to advance climate justice for all.

The two videos, each under 15 minutes, take us on a tour of many of Faigin’s well-known oil paintings and drawings that use imagery of powerful trains and fragile still life objects to invite contemplation on humanity’s headlong rush toward the domination of nature with increasingly dangerous consequences. Youtz’s scores intensify the experience as the videos move us around the details of the paintings.

Composer Gregory Youtz will be joined by Faigin’s wife Pamela Belyea who is the co-founder, along with Faigin, of Seattle’s Gage Academy. They will talk about the creative processes that led to these two films and their environmental messages.

This will be one of a series of events this coming year celebrating the life and work of Gary Faigin who died in September 2025.  It will also be the second environmentally focused presentation by Earth Creative at Graphite. Last July Graphite hosted a screening of Terra Nostra – a video about environmental danger and hope, built on a symphonic score by Christophe Chagnard, who is also the founder of Earth Creative.