This weekend on the Peninsula features art, music and activities.
• Mary Franchini and Sheri Whetsine will open their joint exhibit “Fire and Water” from 4 to 7 tonight at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Whetstine, a former firefighter, works in glass often using a kiln to transform it into her art.
Franchini works in acrylics and mixed media, using the local beauty to inspire her creativity.
“Fire and Water” will be on display at the gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays.
For more information, visit www.bluewhole gallery.com.
• The First Saturday Art Walk is a self-guided tour of arts venues from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
Featured this month are:
— Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will host Nancy Rody and Gary Rainwater from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Rody and Rainwater are the gallery’s featured artists for July.
Rody has worked with stained glass and jewelry for 29 years, initially as a way of playing with bright color and light.
She combines glass with metal and crystals using a variety of techniques and materials including stained glass, fused glass, sterling silver, metal leaf, copper and beach glass.
Her display during July includes fused earrings, bracelets, pendant necklaces, illuminated night lights, glass sculptures and stained glass hangings as well as mosaic tabletops and containers.
Rainwater is a self-taught artist working primarily with oil paints but also with wood carvings.
After retiring from the Los Angeles Fire Department, he rebuilt a Danish fishing boat, the S.V. Ladyhawk, and sailed to the Pacific Northwest with his wife.
Rainwater’s oil painting capture the contrast of light and dark, and feature a variety of subjects, including boats, nature and animals.
This month’s exhibit will showcase a giclee made from “The Gathering,” an oil painting of monarch butterflies.
The display will also include a carving of bison on a redwood slab.
The artwork of Rody and Rainwater can be viewed at Gallery 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays during July.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
— The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Melissa Bixby and the gallery’s 3-D artists from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Bixby, Alaskan-born and raised, connects to the ocean and its creatures through her tide pooling, cold plunging and other aquatic-based hobbies.
She tries to communicate the importance of protecting the oceans through her batiks and photography.
The gallery’s 3-D artists will display outerwear fabrics, ceramics with Celtic stamps, Ndebele-style beaded jewelry, collages, wood constructions, glassware, beaded fabric critters, laminated wooden bowls and Japanese-style handbags.
Also, metal sculptures and art glass will be on display in the outdoor garden patio.
The 3-D art and Bixby’s batiks and photographs will be open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily throughout July.
For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.port townsendgallery.com.
— The Museum of Art + History, 540 Water St., will host Timothy O’Connell III during Free First Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
O’Connell will work on a new painting from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the museum’s Ferguson Gallery while sharing insights into his creative process.
Visitors will also be able to view “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights” at traveling exhibit that opened in the newly renovated Fire House Gallery earlier this month.
The exhibit, curated by the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, explores a moment in U.S. history when people with disabilities occupied a government building to demand their rights.
The exhibit delves into the historic journey of disability advocacy, celebrating the individuals who fought for change.
The Fire House Gallery renovations include a widened entrance and an ADA-compliant ramp to make it easier for visitors to enjoy the exhibition.
“Patient No More” will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays until August 31.
For more information, visit www.jchsmuseum.org/museum.
• Pacific Northwest Impressions will display works by Len Zeoli, Michelle Lindblom and Linda Tilley from 5 to 8 tonight during a Fourth of July open house at the A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim.
Len Zeoli has worked with wood for more than four decades, first as a woodworker then a sculptor.
He has made furniture, boats and architectural elements but now has shifted his focus to its pure form.
Michelle Lindblom uses acrylic paintings and monotypes to interpret the natural world that surrounds us.
She holds advanced degrees in the fine arts, taught visual arts at the college level, served on community arts committees and has been a gallery coordinator and exhibition juror.
Linda Tilley uses oils to create representational works of landscapes.
She likes to paint en plein air to capture the intensity of color, light, atmosphere and the energies of the world outside.
From her home in Port Townsend, Tilley has traveled both regionally and to Europe following her passion for plein air painting.
Visitors are also welcome to take a look into Anne Milligan’s pastel studio for any works that might be in progress and see some of her finished pieces on display in the digital studio.
• Tuff Puffin will perform for a free, late-night dance party at 9 tonight in the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts and Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• The Librarians will present “Free Jazz Sunday: The Music of David Lynch” at noon Sunday in the Sunset Lounge at Field Arts and Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles. No cover charge.
• Camas Prairie Park, 1948 Blaine St., Port Townsend, will launch Free First Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays through December.
Visitors can enjoy disc golf, the PT Cornhole Club, walking through park, music and a free driving range for kids.
For more information, call the clubhouse at 360-385-4547, email contact@ptgolfpark.org or visit www.ptgolfpark.org.
