PORT ANGELES — More than 40 quilts destined to comfort Gold Star families at the Captain Joseph House will be on display at Studio Bob during the Second Weekend Art Walk in Port Angeles.
Visitors can also contribute a decorated square for a community art quilt for the house, said Captain Joseph House founder Betsy Reed Schultz.
The free Captain Joseph House Gold Star Veteran Family Quilt Show will open at 5 p.m. Saturday and continue until 8 p.m. at the studio upstairs at 118½ E. Front St. Luck of the Draw will perform from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. A no-host bar and refreshments will be available in The Loom area of the studio.
Those who can’t make Saturday’s main event can see the quilts from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, as well as on the following Friday, May 19, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Schultz is converting her former Tudor Inn at 1108 S. Oak St. into a haven for families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, known as Gold Star families. The plan is to create a retreat and provide an all-expense-paid week-long respite for families of fallen members of the armed services.
The house is named for Schultz’s son, Army Capt. Joseph Schultz, a Green Beret who was killed in action in Afghanistan on May 29, 2011.
Shultz, who is relying upon donations and volunteer work to convert the house, said she doesn’t know when it will open but that the remodeling is “warming up” with the electrical system, insulation and drywall recently finished.
“It looks like a house again inside,” she said, adding that tours will be offered during Memorial Day weekend.
The quilts that will be on display were created by the American Hero Quilt organization from Vashon Island, private quilter Margaret Mifflin, Franklin Elementary School students, Mary Jo Koepke, Esther Chapter-Order of Eastern Star, Peacemakers Quilt Club, Sunbonnet Quilt Club and Sequim Prairie Grange to be used by Gold Star families when they visit the house.
“A Gold Star appliqued on a quilt designates a quilt that will be sent home with a Gold Star veteran family after their respite week,” Schultz said.
Visitors to the display at Studio Bob can contribute to a community art quilt for the Captain Joseph House.
For a donation of $5, a visitor can buy a 6-inch square of material and decorate it by drawing or painting it. Art supplies will be available, Schultz said.
The squares will be sewn together and end up as “one of the quilts that people can curl up in” at the Captain Joseph House.
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.
Also planned this weekend:
• Cabled Fiber &Yarn at 125 W. First St. has a special vintage kimono show and sale from the estate of Julie Krohn.
The kimonos will be on display and available for purchase from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday.
The display and sale will continue through May 20 and pieces will be in the fashion show for the Downtown Association Girls’ Night Out at 8 p.m. May 18.
They include traditional patterns from the Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei periods in a range of fabrics from silk to rayon to cotton and other blends, said Beth Witters of Cabled Fiber &Yarn.
Conditions vary from slightly used to worn and stained and came in bales from Japan, Witters said.
Krohn, who died in 2004, was a textile artist known for woven rugs, quilting and her use of Japanese textiles repurposed into works of fiber art.
She particularly appreciated the kimono, said her husband, Bruce Cully.
“She loved the art displayed in the dying, weaving, embroidery and painting, on the different fabrics and styles,” he said. “To her, the kimonos were pieces of living history embodying the art of the Japanese.”
For more information, phone 360-504-2233 or info@cabledfiber.com.
• Imagine it Framed at 625 E. Front St. will host a reception for Denise Erickson from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Her art and photography will be on display through June 6 during business hours, which are from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Erickson has lived on the North Olympic Peninsula since 2003.
“My walks in the neighborhood includes many gardens whose caretakers have graciously invited me to photograph their artistry,” Erickson said. “This show is a tribute to the gardens they lovingly tend and to the beauty of the Peninsula itself.”
For more on Imagine it Framed, see http://www.imagineitframedwa.com.
• Landing Artists Studio at The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave. will feature the artwork of local artist Linda Stadtmiller during May.
Visitors from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. can view Stadtmiller’s paintings and meet other studio artists. Light refreshments will be served.
In May 2015, Stadtmiller — a past president of the Olympic Peninsula Art Association and past board member and organizer of art shows at the Museum &Arts Center in Sequim — suffered a major stroke and lost much of the use of her dominant left hand.
“Since that time, she has successfully continued to create artwork using her right hand,” said Pamela Dick, studio manager. “She views this as a positive challenge rather than a disability, feeling that changing the hand she creates with has made her look at her art with fresh eyes.”
For more information, call 360-460-1069.
• Harbor Art at 110 E. Railroad Ave. will feature the stone and bronze sculptures of Kevin Willson.
A reception for the artist is set from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Willson co-founded The Art Works Inc. in Langley on Whidbey Island in the 1970s. He has lived in Spain, Italy and Switzerland working with marble, serpentine, alabaster, travertine, granite and bronze.
Harbor Art displays the original work of 14 local artists.
• Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., will host the 2nd Friday Art Rock, “a pre-party and a party all in one,” said Dan Lieberman, 2nd Friday Art Rock spokesman.
At 9 p.m. will be a festival featuring R&B and Band and artists Juan de Fuca Collective, he said.
A $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and artists.
R&B and Band performs a mix of ’50s and ’60s classic rock, R&B, Motown and country, with Tom Svornich and Chuck Easton on drums and bass and Rachael and Barry on guitars and vocals.
Juan de Fuca Collective is a group of artists who have done live painting at the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts and who plan to do the same in a few short weeks at the festival May 26-29. At Bar N9ne, they will paint in bold colors on canvas to the music.
The floral art of artist Denise Erickson will be exhibited at Imagine It Framed.
Linda Stadmiller’s artwork will be on view at the Landing Artists Studio.
