PORT TOWNSEND — More than 100 new works will be on display during the 11th annual Artist Showcase opening at Northwind Arts Center on Saturday.
The opening reception at the nonprofit gallery at 701 Water St. will be from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. during this Saturday’s monthly Port Townsend Gallery Walk.
“Shadows & Light” is the first opening show for Artist Showcase 2020 which will host 21 returning artists and 11 new artists in the program this year.
Showcase artists work in photography — both color and black-and-white — oils, acrylics, watercolors, digital media, stone, wood, steel, bronze, clay and other media.
“Visual art is the interplay of light and shadow,” organizers said. “A painter captures the evening light in the western sky. A photograph illuminates a single ray of sunlight piercing a dark forest. A carved sculpture looks different from every angle, depending on light, form and space.”
“The Point” by Mark Skullerud
Elisabeth Mention, the guest curator, spent 32 years as a museum professional working in and for major museums in the United States and Europe, organizers said.
As a paintings conservator at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, she specialized in restoring old master paintings, including works by Van Gogh, Monet, Rubens and Gainsborough.
She also has worked at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Yale University Art Gallery and in retirement at the Seattle Museum of Art.
She now lives and paints in Port Townsend.
Exhibit hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays. The gallery is closed Tuesdays.
For more information visit www.northwindarts.org.
Northwind Arts Center also will present “Let’s Play,” a juried show that invited artists to release their inner child, discard their usual practice, take a different approach and experiment.
The opening reception is Saturday.
Art Talk — “Art in Play” — will be at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Juror Marit Berg has taught printmaking for 14 years at Tacoma Community College.
The exhibit will be on display through March 1.
“Snow Capped Pier” by Jason Mullins
Also on Port Townsend Gallery Walk on Saturday are these venues:
• Port Townsend School of the Arts Grover Gallery, 236 Taylor St., will present “Thinking Lines,” an exhibit of contemporary drawings by artists Nonie Gaines, Anne Hirondelle, Carl Jackson and Kim Kopp.
The work in this show “exemplifies the meticulous art of drawing, with a modern aesthetic,” organizers said.
“The artworks in this exhibit push the boundaries of the drawn image.”
The artists will be on hand to talk about their work and the classes they offer at PtSA during Saturday’s Gallery Walk form 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Also during Art Walk, artist calligrapher and PtSA teacher Rebecca Wild will create custom Valentines for gallery-goers. Each hand-calligraphed card can have up to three words and choice of paper color and ink.
PtSA Grover Gallery is open from noon to 5 p.m. daily except Wednesday, or by appointment.
PtSA is a nonprofit education organization located at Fort Worden.
For more information, see www.ptarts.org.
• Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will showcase the art of its 28-member co-op during the annual all members show.
Artists will be available from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
Their work includes photography, jewelry, watercolors, acrylics, weaving, ceramics, wood art, glass, metal, oils, collage, fabric and wood cuts.
“There is art for everyone’s taste and take pleasure in that it is entertaining, idiosyncratic and distinctive,” organizers said.
The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
For more information, phone 360- 379-8110 or see www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• Key City Public Theatre, 419 Washington St., will host “Visions in Motion 2020,” a multimedia production Saturday and Sunday this weekend and the next.
The production begins with a free visual art display in the lobby, available to those on the Port Townsend Gallery Walk.
Inside the theater, artist and director Andrea K. Lawson, granddaughter of blacklisted screenwriter John Howard Lawson (1894-1977), will have a few surprises waiting. They’re about struggle, springtime and renewal, as is “Visions in Motion,” which stirs together theater, poetry, visual art and dance.
The show will take the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday both weekends.
Tickets for the stage show are $15 for students, $20 for adults and $40 for patrons at www.keycitypublictheatre.org. Reservations also can be made via 360-385-5278; remaining seats are sold in the lobby bar up to an hour before curtain time.
