Peninsula Daily News
PORT TOWNSEND — A full-sized mosaic mannequin will adorn the Port Townsend Gallery garden during Saturday’s Port Townsend Gallery Walk.
The gallery at 713 Water St., is launching the garden season with the showing of Madeline, a 1940s resin and plaster mannequin with over 5,300 pieces of cut stained glass tiles by Sue Garlinghouse of Port Townsend.
The Port Townsend Gallery Walk is a free, self-guided tour of galleries in Port Townsend, held from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. the first Saturday of each month.
This exhibit of Madeline will be on view in the garden only for Saturday’s gallery walk.
In addition, Garlinghouse will show a selection of her mosaic art and wall hangings.
Also at the Port Townsend Gallery will be the featured artists for July: Stephanie Johnson and JoAnn Raines.
Artists will be at the gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the gallery walk.
Johnson is a classically trained artist and graduate of the Aristides Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle.
“Her oil paintings invite viewers to experience the glow and mystery of the old masters,” said Mitchel Osborne of the gallery.
Johnson entered her first gallery, Artisans on Taylor in Port Townsend, at the age of 12.
In the exhibit at Port Townsend Gallery, Johnson said that it was her goal to “to bring the techniques of the Dutch Masters into a contemporary setting. “
Raines created art in a number of ways over the years, but felt there was a “watercolor painter within” that needed to be developed, so she began to study her favorite medium with local and regional teachers through classes and workshops.
She paints in an impressionistic style to express her subject matter which ranges from still-life renderings to people in everyday settings to cherished landscapes — both local and beyond.
When not sketching and painting “en plein air” (outdoors), she is rarely without a camera using it to collect reference photographs from which to paint in the studio.
The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
For more information, phone 360-379-8110 or see www.porttownsendgallery.com.
Other exhibits to be open for the Port Townsend Galley Walk include:
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature painter Gary Rainwater and jewelry-maker Nancy Rody.
The two will discuss their art at the gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Rainwater paints in oils in an array of themes stemming from his diverse interests, which include old wooden boats, nature and rustic scenes, said Meg Kaczyk of the gallery.
Since 1956, he also has built and re-built large boats, working as a painter and woodcarver along the way.
Rody has been exploring new directions in her work, using sea glass treasures to create jewelry.
“How can I make it different and make it my own?” is at the heart of the new direction for this long-time Gallery 9 artist, Kaczyk said.
Making use of what she discovers, Rody worked with her collection of sea glass and tiny shells found on the beaches of Washington and Hawaii for a unique series of necklaces, Kaczk said.
Rody also will be showing one-of-a kind copper earrings and necklaces in Port Townsend. See gallery-9.com or call 360-379-8881 for more information.
For more information, see https://gallery-9.com/, call 503 679 6782 or contact Kaczyk at meg.kaczyk@gmail.com.
• Port Townsend School of the Arts gallery, 236 Taylor St., will debut a rotating series of Maker Square artists, with the initial month’s exhibit highlighting ceramic work by the faculty.
Port Townsend School of the Arts (PTSA) has expanded its gallery footprint into the adjacent space – opening the door to community art possibilities beyond the walls of its Fort Worden home campus classrooms, said Teresa Verraes, executive director.
“The vision for this expansion aligns with the school’s commitment to the Fort Worden campus Makers Square leadership and innovation,” she said.
In addition to the focus on Maker art, the school’s downtown gallery space will continue to exhibit work by other faculty artists. For the month of July, the gallery will show art by Mike Biskup, Meg Kaczyk, Linda Okazaki, Shirley Mercer, Chuck Moses, Julie Reed, Jeff Smith, and Chris Witkowski.
Many of these artist-teachers will be on hand to talk about their work and the classes they offer at PTSA from 5 p.m . to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Van Gilder was an early supporter of PTSA, and among the first to teach at the school. His experience includes serving as dean of the Kansas City Art Institute, and with his wife Mary O’Shaughnessy, running a leading Chicago gallery for many years.
His work encompasses both functional and sculptural forms, and he recently launched the school’s first ceramics offering with a popular hand-building technique class, held in partnership with Wilderbee Farms.
Jim Romberg, ceramicist and Raku master, is a new faculty member at PTSA who will offer a number of ceramics classes starting this month.
Romberg had his early ceramics training at Pottery Northwest Seattle and went on to head the ceramics programs at Southern Oregon University, and more recently the Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanities.
Regular gallery hours are from noon to 6 Thursday through Sunday or by appointment.
For more about the school, which is at Fort Worden, see https://ptschooloft hearts.org/.
