PORT ANGELES — Studio Bob will present the inaugural “Bring Your Own Erotic Art” show for Second Saturday weekend.
The show at 118½ E. Front St., was planned for February, but was canceled because of bad weather.
Artist receptions are scheduled for 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. A no-host bar and refreshments will be available in The Loom next to the studio.
This is a community art show with an erotic theme, said Bob Stokes, Studio Bob owner.
It is open to all artists: professional, student, first-timers and “nervous-never-shown-befores,” Stokes said.
Art submitted must be done by the artist or a family member.
The cost to show art is $5 per piece with no commission and there is no limit on the number of art items submitted.
Artwork will be displayed throughout the month of March.
Art for the show can be dropped off at Studio Bob between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. today.
For more information, call Stokes at 415-990-0457.
Kicking off Second Saturday will be the 2nd Friday Art Rock (2FAR) at Bar N9NE, 229 W. First St.
The show is dressed for the season, organizers said in a press release. Beginning at 9 p.m., Bar N9NE will offer a toasty 2FAR event featuring artist Jeff Tocher and new Olympic Peninsula band Sweater Weather String Band.
The $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and artist.
Tocher is known for creating big, bright and whimsical paintings. He will paint and be inspired by the live music.
Sweater Weather String Band is a new regional band playing old time, honky tonk and original acoustic music.
The band memebers are Port Angeles, Sequim, Seattle and Bellingham musicians Collin McAvincy, Joey Gish, Will Jevne, Richard Vinh and Adam Amr.
Also scheduled during Second Saturday:
• Harbor Art Gallery at 114 N. Laurel St. will feature artist of the month Tracy McCallum.
McCallum will be on hand to meet and talk with visitors during the Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
A lifelong artist, McCallum hung out with a Sumi painter and Chinese calligrapher named Doc of Chinatown, New York City in the early 1960s and was inspired to go to art school at San Francisco City College and the San Francisco Art Institute, where he studied oil and acrylic painting.
After a restless period of travel, he settled in Taos, N.M., for 40 years, where he built two homes, created and showed his landscape work and held down a day job as a librarian for more than 20 years.
A decade ago McCallum moved to the Olympic Peninsula and felt an urge to expand into three dimensions, and a desire to work with natural materials, so he took up turning wood into bowls as his primary art focus.
• 1 of a Kind, in The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., plans a book signing with Pam Fries and her granddaughter, along with live music, wine and food from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Fries will sign copies of her new children’s book “Something’s Eating the Garden.”
The book launch was postponed from February because of bad weather.
The gallery’s artists of the month are Lee Leddy and Northwest Beach Works.
