PORT ANGELES — Images of the North Olympic Peninsula, in paint and photography, are among the attractions of this weekend’s Port Angeles Art Walk.
Peninsula newcomer
A newcomer to the Peninsula, David Massey will exhibit his artwork at Imagine It Framed, formerly known as Karon’s Frame Center, with a reception from 6 to 7:30 tonight at the shop at 625 E. Front St.
Refreshments will be served.
The show is the first time that Massey — a recently retired high school teacher from Glendora, Calif., who now lives in Port Angeles with his wife, Millicent — has exhibited publicly.
Massey creates in pencil, charcoal, oil pastels, oil paint, ceramics, wood and watercolor.
The monthly self-guided Second Weekend Art Walk was founded about 11 years ago by the Port Angeles Arts Council as a coalition of downtown Port Angeles businesses and art galleries to bring attention to the culture and variety offered there, organizers said.
Art event signs are up at participating hotels, bed-and-breakfasts, restaurants and galleries.
Visitors also can take strolls through the collection of outdoor sculptures around Port Angeles’ downtown and waterfront called Art on the Town.
Studio Bob, upstairs at 118½ E. Front St., will present “Westward Ho! A Vermonter’s Art in the Olympic Peninsula” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
The exhibit will display paintings and glasswork of the late Lynn Rupe and photography of her husband, Graydon Wilson, which includes recent work on the North Olympic Peninsula.
A reception is planned from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, with a no-host bar and refreshments in The Loom, next door to the gallery.
Those who can’t make Saturday’s main event can see the show at Studio Bob from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
For nearly 40 years, Rupe created art — paintings, sculptures and glass — in Vermont. Her art won awards from the National Endowments for the Arts, the Puffin Foundation and the Barbara Small Memorial Award, and earned her fellowships at the Hambridge Center, Johnson State College and the Vermont Women’s Studio Workshop.
Afflicted with slowly but steadily progressing multiple sclerosis for more than a decade, she was no longer able to withstand the severe winters or the sweltering summers of Vermont. And so it was that she found the Olympic Peninsula.
In April 2013, she and Wilson bought a home in Sequim on the bluff near the Dungeness Spit. She looked forward to making art there. Ovarian cancer stole that dream away from her.
Wilson’s photography includes images of the Olympic Peninsula.
Originally from New Orleans, his first foray into photography was in 1965 when he was in the ninth grade. He was on a small tour boat cruising the Mississippi River and adjacent swamps, using a Polaroid Swinger camera that he’d bought a week earlier for $20. It felt like a big deal, he said.
Nature photography is Wilson’s predominant interest. The Olympic Peninsula affords an abundance of opportunities, and Wilson keeps two cameras mounted on semi-permanent tripods at home, one in the bedroom facing west and one in the great room facing east.
Both are easily removed, of course, and Wilson carries them with him as he drives around the Olympic Peninsula and elsewhere. Trips to Saskatchewan, to the Caribbean, to New Orleans and to China are scheduled for later this year and will add to the portfolio.
Other events planned on the Second Weekend are:
• Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., at 9 tonight will bare its teeth with a performance by The Crocs and artists John Christenson and Jeff Tocher.
The Crocs feature Jason Mogi on banjo, Mike Pace on guitar, Paul Stehr-Green on bass and Terry Smith on drums playing a mix of upbeat blues, rock, reggae, Americana and funk.
Christenson, a longtime resident of the Peninsula, and whimsical Tocher will team up to produce paintings while the beat goes on.
A $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and artists.
For more information, call 360-797-1999 or visit www.barn9nepa.com.
• Harbor Art, 110 E. Railroad Ave., plans an artist reception from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. The featured artist this month is ceramic artist Terri Enck.
Relatively new to Port Angeles, Enck hails from San Diego. She creates sculptures of sea life overtaking what might be thought of as land objects — a bowl landing on the bottom of the ocean and being covered in sea life, a simple piece of driftwood or even a stone.
Nothing is safe from being overtaken by the sea, she says. Nature is constantly adapting to its surroundings.
Harbor Art shows the original work of 16 local artists that includes photography, paintings, block prints, sculpture, wood work, ceramics, glass, felting, and jewelry.
• Heatherton Gallery, at The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., is featuring three artists through March: Janet Beers, watercolorist; Janet Piccola, potter; and Sky Heatherton, painter.
The next artists’ reception will be the second Friday in April where the gallery will announce the artists who will be featured for the next two months.
The gallery is inviting artists on the Peninsula to submit art pieces or sculptures of orcas, humpbacks or the flukes for its “Whale of a Tail” art show scheduled for April and May.
Terri Enck’s ceramics depict images of the sea at Harbor Art.
Terri Enck’s ceramics depict images of the sea at Harbor Art.
David Massey’s artwork will be on view at Imagine It Framed.
David Massey’s artwork will be on view at Imagine It Framed.
