SEQUIM — The First Friday Art Walk will feature fiber art, paintings and music from 5 to 8 tonight.
The self-guided tour of Sequim’s art venues will this month have as its theme the color brown, said Renne Emiko Brock, who organizes the tour.
“Brown is the color of warm acceptance, fall harvest and abundance, the turning of the leaves and seasonal spicy treats,” she said.
“Art lovers will find works of art and folks supporting the option to dress in shades of bountiful brown or representations of warm hearth and harvest as they enjoy an evening on the town with friends and family.”
New to Art Walk this month are The Dreamer’s Woods chainsaw sculpture and gallery of various artists at 618 E. Washington St., Tracy Wealth Management at 149 W. Washington St. and Evil Roy’s Elixirs Distillery, 209 S. Sequim Ave.
Gallerygoers are invited to go to SequimArtWalk.com to download and print a map.
Here is the lineup for tonight’s walk.
• Sequim Museum and Arts, 175 W. Cedar St., will feature artist demonstrations and the fiber arts exhibition “Transformative Style – Originality, Revolution and Repute.”
“The juried fiber arts exhibition focuses on how attire and fiber art works reveal spirits in color, action and intent,” organizers said.
“Transformative Style” exhibition artists include Carolyn Abbott, Lora Armstrong, Aleta Lynn Baritelle, Amanda Beitzel, Karen Bright, Emiko Brock, Mary Ann Clayton, Betty Cook, Sally Ann Corbett, Bruce Cully, Anne Davies, Marca Davies, Denise Erickson, Kathey Ervin, Liisa Fagerlund, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Susanne Foster, MarySue French, Carol Geer, Janet Green, Marilyn Heisted, Erica Iseminger, Estelle Jackson, Michelle Johnson, Susan Kroll, Mary Liebsch, Gladis Marr, Kathy Martin, Seri Mylchreest, Sherry Nagel, Sue Nylander, Patti Pattison, Jennifer Pelikan, Judy Ramos, Gloria Skovronsky, Judith Reandeau Stipe, Jan Tatom, Sue Thompson, Gail Van Horsen, Marla Varner, Karen Weiss, Pepai Whipple, Nancy K Wilcox, Diane Williams, Diane Wolf and Jean Wyatt.
• Rainshadow Café, 157 W. Cedar St., will host performer singer and pianist Dawn Martin.
She has studied classical piano, competed in concerto competitions and attended San Francisco State University as a piano performance major.
Martin also has played in jazz and rock bands. She recently relocated to Sequim from Vail, Colo., where she has been playing regularly as a soloist and with duos, trios and full bands.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will feature award-winning painters Melanie Burns and Nancy Delgado in “Sound of Waves.”
Born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska — a place she described as a rain forest of mostly blues and grays — Burns paints with acrylics, allowing them to blend as they will. What emerges is a representation of what she sees, she said.
Delgado has been a realist since she was old enough to hold a paintbrush, and has been creating art in one form or another all her life in various mediums, she said.
For the past 11 years, Delgado has been a faux painter on luxury yachts and picked up her brushes for the journey of focusing on painting artful and peaceful images.
• Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., will host Sicilian-born concert pianist Giovanni Andolina performing his own work, “Eleonora della Baronia Concerto” at 5:30 p.m.
The performance weaves an original piano concerto together with the prose of a classic Sicilian love story. Andolina will be telling the story primarily in English, but he also incorporates some of the original Italian into the work.
“It is a legend of a passionate and true love from around the year 1600 in my birthplace of Milazzo, Sicily,” said Andolina, a graduate of the Francesco Cilea Music Conservatory in Italy.
“I did write the entire piano concerto and I performed it in my home town in Sicily at the Teatro Trifiletti. Since then I have worked on translating the piece to be able to perform it in both Italian and English.”
First Friday at OTA is always free to the public and the snack and beverage bar will be open.
• Sequim Community Makerspace Inventing Studio, 311 W. Turnhere Road, is owned by wood-bending designer and creator Brad Griffith, who opens his studio to the public for hands on activities and tours.
The studio-home was Sequim’s first creamery. Dungeness-Sequim Cooperative Creamery was built in 1914 and can be accessed via West Hendrickson Road across from the Sequim Middle School.
• Alderwood Bistro, 139 W. Alder St., will have artwork from the North Olympic Watercolorists members on display.
The the North Olympic Watercolorists are a group of artists living on the North Olympic Peninsula who share a love of the watercolor medium.
Members represent a cross section of experience ranging from beginners to professionals.
Painting together twice weekly at the Lazy Acres Studio, they share ideas, tips, techniques and constructive critiques.
• Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., will host live music by Cort Armstrong in a solo performance starting at 7 p.m. with wines and appetizing tidbits.
This local musician will perform a mixture of blues, rock and some folk music until 9 p.m.
• Pacific Pantry, 229 S. Sequim Ave., will display the fine art photography of Jan Kepley from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
This show will be an expression of Kepley’s metaphoric and scenic winter-influenced imagery as well as a display of photographic note cards and 2019 calendars.
• Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., will be the venue for the City Arts Advisory Commission’s Rocks, Gems and Jewels exhibit from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The artists represented are Bob Riley, Gail McLain, Pat Herkal, Kathy Schreiner, Mark Weiss, Eva Kozun, Paulette Hill, Scott Thornhill, David Johannessohn, Barbara Neswald, Katherine Loveland, Evan Miller, Mary Marsh, Randy Radock, and Beighle, Nagle and Feigenbutz.
• Pondicherri & Handprint, 119 E. Washington St., will celebrate 25 years of business all month during November with a kick-off party during the Sequim Art Walk.
• The Bag Ladies of Sequim, 161 W. Washington St., will exhibit fiber and handcrafted work.
They create colorful, usable items from old wool blankets and garments that have otherwise seen their last days.
All of their creations are one-of-a-kind items that are handmade.
“Transformative Style exhibition 1” will be on display at Sequim Museum & Arts tonight.
