PORT ANGELES –– The faces, places and inspiration of Port Angeles will be featured in downtown’s galleries during this month’s Second Weekend Art Walk.
Bringing the faces will be Pamela Hastings, who will debut an exhibit of collaged faces of “ordinary” people at the Oven Spoonful.
Since 2010, Hastings has captured “ordinary” people in her art, devising an art project while working in health care.
“I started making dolls with a kit my uncle gave me when I was 5 and did princess stories and illustrations in marbled composition books so young I had to dictate the words to my mother,” she said.
Hastings has taught people how to make dolls and creatively collage all over the world and has published five books.
Her book Doll Making as a Transformative Process has been used in art therapy schools in the U.S. and Australia.
Hastings’ work will be displayed throughout the month at the Oven Spoonful, 110 E. First St.
The North Olympic Peninsula’s vivid and more mundane scenery will festoon the walls of The Landing Artists Studio, 115 E. Railroad Ave., as Sequim artist Linda Stadtmiller displays her work as this month’s featured artist.
President of Sequim Arts, Stadtmiller is an active member of the Peninsula arts community and has a unique eye for its barns, cars and boatyards.
She will be on hand from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The studio, home to five other artists, is open 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
The inspiration comes from three local artists who will debut their work touched by the Peninsula in an exhibit titled “Up Close and Personal,” which opens this weekend at Studio Bob, 1181/2 E. Front St.
Merryn Welch has been selling art since she was 8 years old, when classmates traded quarters for her solid pencil drawings on construction paper of koala bears and cats.
Her art has since evolved and captured her brutal, honest and sensual nature, and will be featured beginning this weekend at Studio Bob,
Welch’s steampunk band Band of Thieves plays at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Studio Bob also features the surrealist natural photography of Charles Burnell.
Rachel Ruth McElhose’s photographs of the natural Pacific Northwest scenery will also be displayed at Studio Bob.
An opening reception will be 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
Bob Stokes will grill up his gourmet burgers as a fundraiser for the Port Angeles Arts Council from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
A number of other venues will also debut work this weekend, including:
■ Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., will rock the art of Jeff Tocher with Walter Lee and the White Boys during the Second Friday Art Rock. The painting and music mashup starts at 8 p.m.
The event includes a $3 cover, split between the artist and musician.
■ Heatherton Gallery, 115 E. Railroad Ave., Suite 105, will feature fractal artist Pamela Dick and glass artist Gloria Magner.
Dick, of Sequim, began her digital art career 10 years ago with renderings of fantasy characters. Her fractal art is a graphic representation of mathematics formulas that replicate patterns in clouds, snowflakes, feathers and trees.
Magner specializes in jewelry, design objects and functional pieces. For more than 20 years, she has been perfecting her skills in working with glass.
As a cancer survivor, she used her art to heal, and her imagination took her in new directions, producing a Glamour Girl series of fused glass women decked out in chic dress.
Dick and Magner will display their talents during receptions from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today and Saturday.
■ Karon’s Frame Center, 625 E. Front St., will display the work of Gigi Grinstad, a painter who describes her work as “naturalistic-meets-mystic.”
Grinstad’s use of encaustic painting brings back an ancient technique used in Egyptian tombs that combines beeswax and resin in layers that lend a luminosity to her work, which is then touched off with colorful oil paint.
A reception will be 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight, and her work will show until Oct. 8.
■ The Harbor Art Collective, 110 E. Railroad Ave., will feature newcomer Jodee Force and the bags, belts, totes and gowns she has made out of “upcycled” flat tires.
Force’s exhibit opens with a reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
■ Cabled Fiber Studio, 106 N. Laurel St.: Susan Stumbaugh of Abstract Fiber will open up her trunk for a special show Saturday.
Colored wools and roving made of the hair of several species will be featured during the reception, which begins at 6:30 p.m.
Stumbaugh also will demonstrate the Mawata knitting technique she uses to make silk hankies.
■ Cafe New Day, 102 W. Front St., welcomes Zentangle artist Janie Brackney with a reception at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Brackney will display her elaborate abstract pen and ink creations.
Her work will be available at The Landing Artists Studio.
