PORT TOWNSEND — Four painters from the faculty of Port Townsend School of the Arts will bring their recent exhibition from the Phyllis Lamphere Gallery in the Washington State Convention Center Seattle to show at PtSA Downtown, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday during Gallery Walk.
The exhibit at 236 Taylor St., opens today and runs through Aug. 25.
During Gallery Walk, the artists and other faculty members will be available to talk about their work and the classes they offer.
PtSA faculty Meg Kaczyk, Kim Kopp, Linda Okazaki and Julie Read teach fundamental and innovative techniques for approaching contemporary art.
The WSCC exhibit includes their varied works on paper and canvas in acrylics, mixed media and watercolor. Also on display will be sketches and examples from class curriculum.
Kaczyk was educated as an illustrator and designer at Kendall School of Design Grand Rapids, Mich., and worked as a creative director, educator and fine artist in Portland, Ore., for 25 years before relocating to the Olympic Peninsula.
She exhibits at Northwind Arts Center and PtSA Downtown in Port Townsend, and was recently awarded an artist residency at Centrum Arts in Fort Worden.
Kopp is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a 2013 recipient of a fellowship at Jentel, an artist residency program in Wyoming.
In 2005, Kopp was an EDGE Professional Development participant and in 2002 she was awarded a GAP from Artist Trust in Washington State.
Okazaki is a Washington State University graduate who taught fine arts at WSU and The Evergreen State College.
The Port Townsend Film Festival selected her work for the 2018 festival poster art.
Her paintings are included in collections at the Seattle Art Museum, Microsoft, Washington State Art Collection, Jefferson Museum of Art & History and in private collections in NYC and abroad.
Read became inspired to pick up a paintbrush after encountering the Vermont folk artist Richard Chalmers, who lives in her father’s old family home.
However, it was under the tutelage of one of PtSA’s founders, Max Grover, that she launched her first solo show and painting career.
Her acrylic technique classes are among the most popular offered at PtSA, said organizers.
For more information, go to ptarts.org.
Also during Gallery Walk:
• Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will feature the work of Mitchel Osborne and Barbara Ewing.
The public is invited to meet the artists from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday during Gallery Walk.
Osborne is a professional photographer who has been a contributor to international travel guides, travel magazines, books and major editorial publications.
Most of his photography career was in New Orleans before he moved to Port Townsend in 2006.
In Port Townsend, he began photographing many of the maritime subjects and discovered a new appeal in the beauty, craftsmanship and preservation of the boats in this historical setting.
Ewing has been involved in the ceramic arts since her high school days many years ago.
She attended Alfred University in New York, a ceramic arts college. She also has attended many workshops over the years and participates in Port Townsend Gallery and local artist events.
Her functional pottery — in the form of vases, wall sconces, platters and bottles — is uniquely patterned using stamp, stencils and found objects.
Each piece is slab-formed and fired using commercial, low-fire stoneware clays and cone 6 glazes. There are similarities in form and design but each piece is entirely unique.
For more Gallery information, phone 360-379-8110 go to www.port townsendgallery.com.
• Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., opened a new show, Van Gogh’s Yellow, in the Artist Showcase on Thursday.
Three painters and one jeweler who often have bright, sunny yellows in their works were chosen for the show and given free rein to create work in that theme.
An opening reception is slated for 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. during Gallery Walk.
The exhibition runs through Sept. 1.
For information, call 360-379-1086, email info@northwindarts.org or visit www.northwindarts.org.
The Port Townsend Gallery will feature Mitchel Osborne’s photography such as this photo of a wooden boat.
