SEQUIM — The color theme for tonight’s First Friday Art Walk is aqua, inspired by the Sequim Irrigation Festival’s theme — where water is wealth.
Besides wearing aqua, all are encouraged to dress up in costume for the Crazy Daze Breakfast, said Renne Emiko Brock, who organizes the Art Walk. The breakfast is at 7 a.m. today in the clubhouse at Sunland Golf & Country Club, 109 Hilltop Drive, Sequim.
First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Go to www.Sequim ArtWalk.com for a map.
Special events
The Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair will launch the First Friday Art Walk Sequim Patron Preview at the Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St.
It will be open from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
This is the fair’s 29th year that features vendors selling handcrafted wares.
Attendees are invited to take part in the Community Creativity Activity by coloring small parts of the 2019 Irrigation Festival logo to make a giant logo mural that will be on display at Coastal Farm & Ranch, Brock said.
She also urges people to bring DIY reused, recycled and repurposed creations to win prizes tonight or Saturday morning. Enter to win in the People’s Choice Awards in four categories: Wearable, Functional, Decorative, and Kids 15 and younger.
For details, go to www.IrrigationFestival.com.
Throughout the town, artwork created by local students for the 2019 Irrigation Festival Button Contest will be on display at several Sequim merchants.
Other venues on the Art Walk tonight are:
• Design2Scan3D, 207 W. Spruce St., a new Art Walk venue, will feature 3D printing, 3D scanning and ceramics classes.
Brock said that Sequim Mayor Dennis Smith agreed to let himself be scanned for a ceramic figurine atop an earthenware vessel that they made together in the studio.
• R&T Crystals and Beads, 158 E. Bell St., is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.
Along with a sale, treats from Sequim Fresh Catering will be served.
• Tracy Wealth Management, 149 W. Washington St., will host members of North Olympic Watercolorists who are displaying their watercolors.
Participating artists are Carol Wilhelm, John Wilkinson, Jim Gift, Beverly Beighle, Rita Heywood, Roger Huntley and Shirley Rudolf.
• Pondicherri, 119 E. Washington St., will host artist Monica Gutierrez Quarto.
Her artwork ranges from paintings and monotypes to woodcuts. Quarto hosts local workshops in Sequim and Port Angeles. Art Walk guests will receive special pricing on her upcoming workshops just in time for Mother’s Day.
• Sequim Museum & Arts, 175 W. Cedar St., will host “Discoveries and Abstractions” with photographer Jerry Fagerlund and fiber artist Liisa Fagerlund.
The photographs and collages represented in this exhibition reflect the wide range of environments the two have experienced in their years together.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host “Art in an Aqua Tone,” an exhibition that features artists Carol Janda and Stacey Martin-Lopez.
Janda is known for her two- and three-dimension artwork and will showcase her paintings including waterscapes and stoneware pottery with a touch of nature.
Martin-Lopez will exhibit paintings, revealing her long-standing expertise in gouache.
Janda also will offer Art Talk from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday in the gallery. She will discuss her thoughts, techniques, ideology, developing abstract images and the various types of abstract expressionism.
• Olympic Theatre Arts Gathering Hall, 414 N. Sequim Ave., with host the Saxologists at 5:30 p.m.
The Sequim City Band Saxologists is a saxophone ensemble composed of members of the Sequim City Band, with current instrumentation a quartet of saxes — soprano, alto, tenor and baritone.
First Friday at OTA is always free to the public, where the snack and beverage bar will be open. • Peninsula Taproom, 210 W. Washington St., Suite 4, will offer springtime brews and hand-crafted spirits at Evil Roy’s Elixirs Distillery, 209 S. Sequim Ave.
• Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., will host artist Carolyn Votaw and live music with Hannah and Christian.
“Far Shores: New works by Carolyn Votaw” is an exhibition of monotype impressions of natural treasures collected from the far shores of the Olympic Peninsula and also features a selection of miniature linocut prints inspired by the Pacific Northwest through May.
• Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St., will be the venue for the Olympic Peninsula Art Association’s Member Art Show, Sale and Silent Auction.
For more information, go to www.sequimartwalk.com or www.facebook.com/sequim artwalk.
