PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Arts Council will sponsor the Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. this weekend at various downtown venues.
Featured venues include Harbor Art Gallery and Studio Bob.
The Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will showcase the work of fiber artist Lora Armstrong from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Armstrong uses felt and what she describes as a “sprinkle of bling” to create hats, brooches, pillows and slippers from wool and other fabrics.
“Creativity, color and texture are my inspiration,” Armstrong said. “I love the freedom felting gives me to experiment and let the materials lead the way.”
Her exhibit highlights felted wearables and decorative pieces, with their rich colors, layered textures and hints of shimmer.
Armstrong embraces both traditional methods of felting as well as modern innovations like nuno felting, which bonds wool fibers to open-weave fabrics such as silk in intricate textures and patterns.
Armstrong’s fiber art will be on display at Harbor Art Gallery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays during October.
Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host a reception for “Elevated Species” from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The solo exhibition will feature new work by Nathan Shields.
More well-known for his block prints, Shields will exhibit a series of acrylic paintings that dress often-overlooked animals in unexpectedly dignified garb.
“I like to mix the unsettling with the charming,” Shields said. “In a bid to help us to think about why some animals, or people, for that matter, are celebrated and others dismissed.”
Shields also will show some linoleum and woodcut prints and drawings along with a selection of ceramics that continue Shields’ exploration of perception and play.
“Elevated Species” will be on display from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays until Nov. 1.
Elevated Species, a solo exhibition of new work by artist Nathan Shields.
