PORT TOWNSEND — Gallery-9 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.
• Art Wave will kick off in both the Uptown and Downtown historic districts during Art Walk and continue throughout May.
Student work from Salish Coast Elementary, Blue Heron Middle School and Port Townsend High School will be on display at more than 40 businesses.
The program is a collaboration between the Port Townsend Main Street Program, local merchants and PT Artscape.
PT Artscape is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting art education in Port Townsend schools.
Donations to Artscape help fund art supplies, teaching artist programs and free community art experiences like the Bunker, a Friday night teen program on Fort Worden.
For more information, including a complete list of participating businesses, visit www.ptartscape.com.
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature the jewelry of Roberto Costa Ribeiro and the paintings of Janice Pastor during May.
Costa Ribiero learned the basics of silversmithing from a friend in Brazil, where he was born and raised, and he has been making jewelry for nearly 30 years.
Ribeiro likes to take advantage of the quiet time during the Port Townsend winter to work on the production of jewelry for his business. He will showcase a selection of earrings, rings, pendants, bracelets and necklaces that he created this winter.
Earrings are made in strikingly meticulous matching pairs.
Pastor paints in a representational style with a touch of expressionism and will showcase some of her newer works featuring flowers in stunning color and light.
Pastor grew up in a small town in Ohio with the colors and textures of the countryside that still inspire her art. She has studied under John Heath in Marquette, Mich., and attended classwork at the Parson School of Design in New York.
“There is no greater joy for me than ending a day on a good painting session,” Pastor said. “My art is an expression of my inner self, an outward interpretation of both my inner world and my perception of the outer world. I am an artist because I need to be one.”
The art of Ribeiro and Pastor will be on exhibit from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays during May at Gallery-9.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
• The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Cathy Weir and Brian Iverson from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Weir and Iverson are the gallery’s featured artists for May.
Wier, a self-taught weaver, recently was introduced to shibori, the Japanese art of resist dyeing. Since then, she has incorporated dyeing and pleating into her woven pieces and silk creations.
Weir draws inspiration from the ocean, wild rivers, forests and gardens; her weavings are abstract bursts of carefully planned color.
One of Weir’s weavings was included in Interpretations 2025, an international juried exhibition at the Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego.
Iverson, a lifelong Washington resident, works as a glass artist in Jefferson County. Lately, he has been focusing on illustrating themes of rebirth and bright, energizing colors. His work includes a variety of large, fluted bowls, colorful paperweights and gazing balls as well as lampworked sculpture.
In addition to exhibiting at Port Townsend Gallery, Iverson is a weekly vendor at the Jefferson County Farmers Market.
The fiber art of Weir and the glasswork of Iverson will be on exhibit at the Port Townsend Gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsend gallery.com.
Cathy Weir’s fiber art piece, “Seeking Light,” is on exhibit at the Port Townsend Gallery during Saturday’s Art Walk.
