Dionne haroutunian biography books

Before all, Dionne Haroutunian is an artist. An active member of the Seattle arts community, Dionne works out of her BallardWorks studio in Seattle.

“Outside My Helmet” is a series of prints inspired by a month-long artist in residence in Wyoming.

“Outside My Helmet” is a series of prints inspired by a month-long artist in residence in Wyoming.

I specifically chose pages where his writings were in Armenian mixed with French and English.

Armed with a dozen books, I returned to my studio where I buried myself in a history I was only too familiar with — both my Armenian and Swiss families had been.

It is not organized like a nice history book.

Dionne Haroutunian writes in her letters that she has always been interested in questions of loss, recovery and integration.

You can often meet her and discuss her artwork and travels during the monthly Ballard ARTwalk. She discovered printmaking at the Pratt Fine Art Center in Seattle where she started taking classes in 1989. “I completely fell in love and my passion for this medium has remained unchanged through the years.

I work much like a painter, combining many print techniques – silkscreen, etching, monotype, woodblock, collagraph and others to create one-of-a-kind prints (monoprints). 

Dionne’s motorcycle forays are one of the  sources of inspiration behind her artwork and writing.

Riding a motorcycle is a remarkable mode of travel because it removes the separation between environment and self and increases the probability for chance meetings and unexpected discoveries.  

In the past few years, Dionne has g