Kate Scott always did like a good party. Now, after years of giving her own efforts and talents to good causes and Lopez Islanders needing help, she will get a good party of her own. Everyone is invited.
Scott will be officially honored by the 2016 Dolly and Andy Holland Lopez Spirit Award at a potluck dinner and party on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 5 p.m. at Lopez Center. Please bring a potluck dish and your own plates and tableware. In addition to the Lopez-style potluck, the evening will include three bands (Scott loves music) and as many stories and roasts as the evening will hold. Appropriately, planners are trying to generate as little trash as possible.
The emphasis on music at the celebration is appropriate for a party honoring Scott. She is a music enthusiast of long standing and plays drums (self-taught) in the recently formed island band Desolation Sound, which will play their first public set at the party (watch for the Scott-style drum solo). Other performers include “The Field Boats” and Hawk Arps and friends.
Over the years, Scott has created many logos, labels, signs, t-shirts and vast numbers of posters for island causes. She mostly donates the design and art creation efforts. In 2011, when Lopez faced losing control of its waste facility and much-valued “Neil’s Mall,” she dove into the successful “Take Back the Dump” movement, then spent four years on the “SWAP” board, the fund-raising part of the Lopez Solid Waste group. She came up with and designed the original “Junk Bond,” a way for islanders to financially support Lopez’s own waste facility.
Scott is known as an unapologetic liberal (“bleeding heart,” she says) and fierce debater of her political views plus a generous neighbor and loyal friend. She said she was a fervent political ideologue even as a high school kid on Bainbridge Island. She then left to live in California but moved back up the coast to Lopez Island in 1989. After meeting helpful artists Christa Malay, Corwin Martin and Shirley Wright on Lopez, she learned the framing and art preparation skills necessary to become a professional artist.
Scott is well known as a skillful artist who puts her outlook and heart into her art pieces. No one else creates art like Scott, mostly in finely rendered pencil, but at times in painting and construction media. She is part of a Lopez Artist Guild show that is on display in the Community Center gallery.
Appetizers, main dishes and desserts are welcome. Please bring your own plates and tableware. No host bar is available; admission is free – come celebrate with Kate.
