PORT ANGELES — Felines, in art and in person, are about to appear at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in what Mary Beth Wegener calls “a pretty neat deal.”
Wegener, executive director of the Olympic Peninsula Humane Society, will shepherd some animals over for an adoption day this Saturday outside the fine arts center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. There will definitely be cats, she said, while the selection of dogs will depend on which types and temperaments are at the Humane Society’s shelter.
The adoption day is actually part of a day, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., while the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will stay open until 5 p.m. Saturday.
The center has a brand-new show up in honor of animals: “Vulnerable Creatures,” a display of oil paintings by Seattle artist Jean Bradbury.
Goats, sheep, chickens and Bradbury’s beloved cats are all here, alongside her landscapes of organic farms in the Snoqualmie Valley. Bradbury recently finished a series of plein air studies of those fields east of the city.
“I tend to paint images of the gentleness of nature, of nature’s vulnerability,” the artist said in an interview this week.
Bradbury hopes to reflect how “nature is complex . . . and magical.
“My art celebrates the fragility of life,” she added, “and definitely the beauty of life.”
