PORT ANGELES — Nathan Shields will open a new exhibit from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday during the Second Saturday Art Walk in downtown Port Angeles.
Shields’ exhibit will be on display at Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St.
Shields, a teacher at Crescent School in Joyce, is displaying recent drawings and prints that focus on irrational fears.
“Maybe I have an affinity toward creepy-crawlies because they’re unjustly cast as villains,” Shields said. “The really scary things are not snakes and spiders; they’re illness and addiction and war and loss.”
Shields collaborated with his middle school art students on one of the pieces, “Bad Dreams.”
“We talked about what used to frighten us and what still does. I gave them my linocut print and asked them to fill in the darkness,” Shields said. “They came up with really cool ideas.”
A number of student collaborations will be on display. Proceeds from “Bad Dreams” will go toward classroom art materials at Crescent School.
Shields’ artwork will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays in the gallery’s Featured Work Room throughout March.
