SEQUIM — The Sequim Irrigation Festival’s “where water is wealth” inspires the aqua color theme celebrating cultivation and culture during tonight’s Sequim Art Walk.
“The color aqua expresses responsible, sustainable elements of cool, fresh water, abundant salty seas, renewing rain and bright sunny skies,” said Renne Emiko Brock, organizer of the art walk.
“From our inventive cultivating irrigation ditches that make our valley abundant to our future forward-thinking ideas are highlighted at the Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair,” she said.
“Besides wearing the color theme of aqua, everyone is encouraged to dress up in amusing and whimsical outfits for the Irrigation Festival’s Crazy Callen Weekend. And, remember it is Star Wars May the Fourth Be With You Day, too.”
First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a free, self-guided tour of art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Special events
• Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St., will house the Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair’s First Friday Art Walk Sequim Patron Preview.
This year is the 28th year for the Arts and Crafts Fair that provides an opportunity for vendors to sell their handcrafted wares. Recycle, reuse and repurpose is an underlying theme of the Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair, which will have creative demonstrations throughout Saturday and Sunday, as well as an Innovative Reuse Showcase and Contest.
See more at http://www.irrigationfestival.com/.
• Throughout the town, artwork created by local students for the 2018 Irrigation Festival Button Contest will be on display at several Sequim businesses.
• Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., will welcome Ken Lillagore’s “Accordion My Way” performance beginning at 5:30 p.m.
“When you hear ‘accordion,’ the first thing that comes to mind is polka or Lawrence Welk,” Lillagore said. “I don’t play that music. I play the music I enjoy, like show tunes, ballads and standards.”
First Friday at Olympic Theatre Arts is always free to the public where the snack and beverage bar will be open.
• Rainshadow Café, 157 W. Cedar St., will host live music with Bread and Gravy from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The full menu will be available, as well as small plates paired with local wine and beer.
• The Museum and Arts Center, 175 W. Cedar St., will feature Shirley Mercer’s “A Story to Tell II – Local Sights in Watercolor” exhibition.
This is the second installment of her “A Story to Tell” series and has new paintings of the Olympic Peninsula local vistas
A demonstration by the artist, Photo to Finished Painting, is set at 1 p.m. Saturday.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will feature Shadows of the Past with digital artist Marilynn Evans.
The gallery will also present a silent auction window by the member artists in support of the scholarship for Sequim High School students.
• Forage Gifts & Northwest Treasures, 121 W. Washington St., will exhibit blown glass art by Megan Schmidlkofer of Molten Mama Hot Shop.
For more information, see http://www.sequimart walk.com/.
To participate in the First Friday Art Walk Sequim, contact Brock directly at renne@uniqueasyou.com or through Facebook.com/sequimart walk.
