Fourth Occasional Surfing, Art & Culture of the Salish Sea

Join us at the library for an evening of surfing stories and surf art. The Fourth Occasional Surfing, Art & Culture event will feature distinguished writers and story-tellers including, Greg Tindall, Drew Kampion, Tim Nolan, Dana Terill and Erwin Dence. A crew of local surf artists will be present showing their work. Artists include, Nam Siu, Stephen Davis and Reggie Smart. The event may also debut filmmaker, Anne Fergerson's Surf Villain short-documentary on Erwin Dence.

Greg Tindall
Although Greg Tindall has written for the UK-based Surfer's Path, the US-centric Surfer's Journal and Australia's equivalent, White Horses, and while he has covered surf contests for Surfline and hurricane-surf seasons for ESPN, his true passion is telling stories in-person.  From the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, as a Florida Voice, to the Surfing Heritage And Cultural Center (SHACC) in San Clemente, from the Tuckerton Seaport in New Jersey to the Libby Little Theatre in Montana, Greg now has the privilege of telling some good ones to his friend and mentor, Drew Kampion.

Drew Kampion is a former editor of SURFER (1968-72), SURFING (1973-82), WIND SURF (1982-89), and WIND TRACKS (1996-99) magazines. He was Editorial Director for the Patagonia clothing company (1990-91) and Associate Editor for NEW AGE JOURNAL (1992). He founded, published, and edited the ISLAND INDEPENDENT (1993-96), an award-winning “bioregional magazine in newsprint,” serving the “maritime rainshadow” islands of Washington State. For his work with the INDEPENDENT, he received first prize for editing a periodical with a circulation under 50,000. Until recently, Drew was the American Editor of THE SURFER'S PATH, world’s first “green” surf magazine. His episodic parody, THE TEACHINGS OF DON REDONDO: A SURFER’S WAY OF KNOWLEDGE (as illustrated by artist Tom Threinen) was a regular feature of the magazine. Full bio here.  

Erwin Dence is a writer and visual artist residing in Quilcene. He is well known for his regional surf-centric essays on his website realsurfers.net. Erwin is also in the final stages of the surf novel, Swami's. His visual art is vivid, surreal and at times hypnotic. His art will be on display at the event. 

Tim Nolan, renowned boat designer, has turned his skills toward an evocative mix of watercolors and photography.

Stephen R. Davis works in oil and acrylic, capturing waves, and whales, and people with a combination of ultra-realism and impressionism, often on the same canvas.

Reggie Smart blends indigenous Northwest themes with hip surf graphics. The preferred medium for Erwin Dence is pen-and-ink, moving between the kinetic and the calm.

Nam Siu, a marine scientist, presents from-life images of Northwest fish, seaweed, other items dipped and pressed. 

Artists's Website

Erwin Dence
Nam Siu 
Reggie Smart 
Stephen Davis 
Tim Nolan