PORT ANGELES — New artists will be featured at two galleries during Second Weekend Art Walk in Port Angeles.
Sheila Shanti is new at Harbor Art, 110 E. Railroad Ave., while Kathy Flemens and Gary Robertson will be introduced at The Landing Artists Studio in The Landing mall at 115 Railroad Ave.
Harbor Art features the original work of 14 local artists working in photography, paintings, block prints, sculpture, woodwork, ceramics, glass and jewelry.
An artists’ reception is set from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
Shanti has explored a variety of mediums with an emphasis on drawing, painting, dye work and weaving.
Originally from the Boston area, Shanti came to Port Angeles by way of Port Gamble, Seattle, Maine, Arizona and California.
The Landing Artists Studio will introduce its new members between 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Light refreshments will be served.
Flemens of Port Angeles is a rock painter who specializes in painting land animals, marine life and local scenes.
She accepts commission work. Her rocks, including Valentine rocks, are on display now.
Robertson of Sequim has been a sign painter for years. He also does sketches of local attractions and has produced posters of Port Townsend and Port Gamble.
Robertson created the utility panel poster on the corner of Washington Street and Fifth Avenue in Sequim.
The Landing Artists Studio is a working studio, open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Six full-time and five part-time artists create on-site and the public is welcome to watch.
Also this weekend will be other attractions.
• Studio Bob, upstairs at 118½ E. Front St., will welcome “the 365 Show,” with a year of art by Garret S. DelaBarre, also featuring woodworking by Richard Shaw and Norwegian Rosemaling by Nancy Powers.
Mitch Granlund’s music will be played on the Alle Stage during opening night Saturday.
An artists’ reception is set for 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. that day with a no-host bar in the neighboring “Loom.”
The show also will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
DelaBarre was born in California. He studied art in Fresno beginning in 1980.
He worked many jobs — the mill, furniture mover, carpet cleaner, sign painter and finally settled on being a builder — all the while thinking that some day soon he would be able to return to art.
Several years ago, after closing his construction business, he struggled with getting back into his art until his “very, very patient wife” Amy suggested that he just do something each day. There it began, said Bob Stokes, studio owner.
DelaBarre started by meeting with his mother, Powers — whose art also is featured — to learn the art and discipline of her Norwegian folk art.
Then he bought a couple of rolls of butcher paper and rather than cut it, left it intact. Shaw — also an exhibitor at Studio Bob — created a drawing table that would allow for rolling the paper from one spool to the other.
DelaBarre found that the daily discipline has offered conceptual drawings for future sculptures and other projects.
Shaw began life in New York and came to Port Angeles via Vietnam, Southern California and an epic road trip around the country.
It was in Southern California that he traded boots for flip-flops and began building custom art furniture and interiors, a skill he has brought with him to Port Angeles.
• Bar N9NE, 228 W. First St., will host an educational event during its Second Friday Art Rock.
The evening will feature performers who also work at Stevens Middle School in Port Angeles; SuperTrees band will include guest musicians Ed Donohue, Vicki Helwick and Clark Driese, and the artists will be Evelyn Ellsworth and Kathy Greer.
The party will start at 9 tonight.
The $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and artist.
SuperTrees’ musical mix will be augmented by guest musicians Donohue on trumpet, Helwick on vocals and Dries on guitar.
“These three will not be the only guest musicians,” said Dan Lieberman, organizer, in a news release.
“As always with SuperTrees, you become part of the high-energy, rhythm-driven rock ’n’ roll when you write lyrics and play percussion with the band at 2FAR.”
In addition to helping educate the community’s youth, Evelyn Ellsworth and Kathy Greer also make blankets and quilts. Greer will display some of her quilted creations, while Ellsworth will have an interactive blanket-making area set up where attendees can help craft blankets for donation to Project Linus.
For more about Project Linus, see www.projectlinus.org/.
For more about SuperTrees, see their Facebook page.
• One of a Kind Gallery, The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., will celebrate Valentine’s Day on Saturday with potter Janet Piccola, the featured artist, working on her potting wheel at the gallery, throwing clay as visitors watch.Beginning at 3 p.m., visitors can have their photographs taken with their sweeties in a Valentine’s Day setting. At 5 p.m., the gallery will offer wine and chocolates as visitors stroll around and listen to music.
Rock art by Kathy Flemens of Port Angeles now graces The Landing Artists Studio.
Gary Robertson is pictured in 2014 with his three-piece watercolor art wrapped in vinyl around a utility box at the corner of Washington Street and Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner in Sequim. He is a new member of The Landing Artists Studio.
Traditional Norwegian folk art is created by Nancy Powers.
