PORT TOWNSEND — A variety of artwork will be on view during the First Saturday Gallery Walk in Port Townsend.
The monthly walk is from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., mostly in the downtown area.
Among the galleries staying open late for the walk are Gallery-9, Port Townsend Gallery, Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery and the Grover Gallery.
Gallery-9
Gallery-9, home of the North Olympic Artist Cooperative at 1012 Water St., is featuring Michael Hale and Debbie Cain during the month of January, with artists expected during the art walk on Saturday.
Hale will display acrylic paintings while Cain will show ornamental gourd carvings.
Hale, who was born in the Pacific Northwest, particularly enjoys painting the buildings and boats of Port Townsend.
He moved to Port Townsend in 2000 and found “there was just too much of everything to paint here,” he said.
He majored in architecture and minored in fine art at Washington State University but switched to a commercial art program at the Burnley School of Professional Art in Seattle.
After three years in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, he went back to school at The Museum Art School in Portland, Ore., where he resumed his studies in commercial and fine art, and later started an architectural rendering business, first in the Northwest and then in the Phoenix area.
Moving to Los Angeles in the early ’90s, Hale became a scenic artist for various movie and scenic production studios before moving to Port Townsend.
Cain has been working with 3D gourd art for about 15 years. She said she is inspired by the possibilities of using the gourd as a multi-dimensional canvas.
She uses wood burning, carving by micro-carver and painting by hand. She has recently incorporated the use of pine needles for rims and adding resin to some of the finished gourds.
Images on her gourds include animals, flowers and landscapes, many with a Native American motif. She also likes to embellish the gourds with feathers and beads.
Gallery-9 is open six days a week with winter hours from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., except on the first Saturday of the month, when it is open until 8 p.m. The gallery is closed on Tuesdays.
For more information, call 360-379-8881 or see https://www.gallery-9.com/contact.
Port Townsend Gallery
Port Townsend Gallery, at 715 Water St., will continue to highlight all of its 26 artists during the art walk on Saturday.
It will be closed on Sunday for a week for annual maintenance.
Exhibited are fine art jewelry, art creations, ceramics, photography, watercolors, Japanese-styled hand bags, collages, abstracts, oils, woodcuts, pastels, metal work, mixed media, layered hardwood miniature bowls, handspun wraps and luxury scarves, Temari art balls, Batiks, pen and inks and carved wood items.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, as well as by appointment.
For more information, call 360-379-8110 or see www.porttownsendgallery.com.
Grover Gallery
Grover Gallery, at 236 Taylor St., features the Quimper Arts Life Drawing this month, with artists to be available during the gallery walk on Saturday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Light refreshments will be served.
Tracy Grisman, an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on portraiture, will exhibit work, along with Max Grover and his abstract paintings, Larry Crockett’s Favorite Places & Things and Julie Read’s show of paintings called “Sincerely.”
The Grover Gallery and Quimper arts will collaborate on a special life drawing session from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday. A live, clothed model will pose in the Gallery. The free event is open to the public. Those who want to draw are asked to RSVP to thegrover gallery@gmail.com, and plan to bring their own drawing supplies, drawing horses and easels, as well as a tip for the model.
Jeanette Best Gallery
Many of the 37 artists represented in “Burst of Color,” an exhibition of 70-plus quilts, indigo overalls, textile sculptures and wearable art at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St., will be present at the First Saturday Art Walk.
More information about “Burst of Color” and other Northwind Art activities can be found at https://northwindart.org.
Others said to be open for First Saturday hours include Earthenworks Gallery, 702 Water St.; Forest Gems Gallery, 807 Washington St.; Pacific Traditions, 637 Water St.; Little Wing Gallery, 924 Washington St., and Grover Gallery, 236 Taylor St.
