PORT TOWNSEND — Gallery-9, the Museum of Art + History and the Port Townsend Gallery will be among the venues to participate in the monthly Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will host Nancy Rody and Gary Rainwater from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Rody and Rainwater are the gallery’s featured artists for July.
Rody has worked with stained glass and jewelry for 29 years, initially as a way of playing with bright color and light. She combines glass with metal and crystals using a variety of techniques and materials, including stained glass, fused glass, sterling silver, metal leaf, copper and beach glass.
Her display during July includes fused earrings, bracelets, pendant necklaces, illuminated night lights, glass sculptures and stained glass hangings as well as mosaic tabletops and containers.
“I explore new directions in art glass, working and combining glass and metal with different materials in unique ways that I have developed myself,” Rody said. “Experimenting becomes play. Pieces do not always reflect my original concepts but may take a different direction as I work with them.
“Over the years, I gradually developed and learned new ways of working with glass in many forms. I have been inspired by training at Pilchuck glass school and Bullseye Glass, where I learned glass engraving, painting and fusing design from well-known guest Italian glass masters.”
Rainwater is a self-taught artist who works primarily with oil paints but also with wood carvings.
After he retired from the Los Angeles Fire Department, he rebuilt a Danish fishing boat, the S.V. Ladyhawk, and sailed to the Pacific Northwest with his wife.
Rainwater’s oil paintings capture the contrast of light and dark and feature a variety of subjects, including boats, nature and animals.
This month’s exhibit will showcase a giclee made from “The Gathering,” an oil painting of monarch butterflies. The display also will include a carving of bison on a redwood slab.
The artwork of Rody and Rainwater can be viewed at Gallery 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays during July.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
• The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Melissa Bixby and the gallery’s 3-D artists from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Bixby, Alaskan-born and raised, connects to the ocean and its creatures through her tide pooling, cold plunging and other aquatic-based hobbies. She tries to communicate the importance of protecting the oceans through her batiks and photography.
The gallery’s 3-D artists will display outerwear fabrics, ceramics with Celtic stamps, Ndebele-style beaded jewelry, collages, wood constructions, glassware, beaded fabric critters, laminated wooden bowls and Japanese-style handbags.
Also, metal sculptures and art glass will be on display in the outdoor garden patio.
The 3-D art and Bixby’s batiks and photographs will be open for viewing from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily throughout July.
For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• The Museum of Art + History, 540 Water St., will host Timothy O’Connell III from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
O’Connell will work on a new painting from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the museum’s Ferguson Gallery while sharing insights into his creative process.
Visitors also will be able to view “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights,” a traveling exhibit that opened in the newly renovated Fire House Gallery earlier this month.
The exhibit, curated by the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University, explores a moment in U.S. history when people with disabilities occupied a government building to demand their rights.
The exhibit delves into the historic journey of disability advocacy, celebrating the individuals who fought for change.
The Fire House Gallery renovations include a widened entrance and an ADA-compliant ramp to make it easier for visitors to enjoy the exhibition.
“Patient No More” will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays until Aug. 31.
For more information, visit www.jchsmuseum.org/museum.
A glass parrot by Nancy Rody is part of July’s exhibit at Gallery 9 in Port Townsend.
“Monarchs,” a giclee made from a Gary Rainwater oil painting, is part of the exhibit at Gallery 9 throughout July.
