Stray Gallery has relocated from 26th and Esther streets to 1706 W. Columbia St., Vancouver.
Stray is an in-home gallery that opened in March. It’s hosted by poet Nicole Sayer and presented by the Neo-Romantics Artist Collective, a group of seven artists and poets with a focus on realistic work with high emotional content. The group formed to provide an alternative to abstract and modern art.
The gallery is open from 5 to 10 p.m. during First Friday Art Walks, with poetry readings and discussions beginning at 8:30. Founding member Sara Ahern-Sawyer hopes the new location brings more foot traffic to the gallery.
“This is a lot closer to the other Uptown events,” said Ahern-Sawyer, a 30-year-old paralegal and painter from Vancouver. The new space “is beautiful,” she said. “It’s very clean and fresh.”
To learn more about Stray Gallery, visit http://www.straygallery.com.
Bay grad donates kidney
Liz Rolling, a 29-year-old Seattle resident, knows she wants to donate an organ when she dies someday. But the more she has learned about organ donation, the more unlikely it has seemed that the circumstances would be just right for that to happen.
“I figured I might as well do it now when I’m young and healthy rather than wait and maybe not be able to do anything,” Rolling said.
She underwent surgery June 23 at the University of Washington Medical Center to donate a kidney. She doesn’t know the recipient.
“The only thing I could choose is whether to give to an adult or child,” said Rolling, a 1999 Hudson’s Bay High School graduate. “There’s no way I could have made that decision.”
Her parents, Sara and Jerry Rolling, are Vancouver real estate agents.
Liz Rolling said she has made a swift recovery. She planned the donation so it would fall between terms at Edmonds Community College, where she’s studying to be a paralegal.
In three months, the recipient has the option to contact her.
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