“Today” and “tonight” signify Friday, Nov. 14.
PORT ANGELES — Hand-painted silk, hand-pounded copper and repurposed books are a few of the contents of “Art Convergence,” the juried show and sale now open at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
A $1,000 Best in Show prize and another $800 in awards to two- and three-dimensional entries in Art Convergence will be announced Saturday afternoon as the exhibition’s jurors, Karen Hackenberg and Margie McDonald of Port Townsend, give an opening talk.
Their presentation will start at 2:30 p.m., to be followed by an artists’ reception from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The jurors’ talk, the reception and the show, which will stay up till Jan. 9, are free to the public.
Thirty-nine artists from across and beyond the Olympic Peninsula have contributed to this convergence.
And since the show is a holiday season fundraiser for the fine arts center, each piece is for sale.
The variety dazzles. Port Angeles copper sculptor Clark Mundy has entered “Ancient Light,” a burnished copper face, and Karen Sistek has contributed “Lori,” one of her hand-painted silk canvases. Lynne Armstrong of Sequim brought “Spring in the Orchard,” one in a series titled “Blooming/Fruiting,” into the exhibition.
And Helga Winter has “Healing Fissures,” a work made of reused books, beeswax, waxed thread and copper thread.
“It refers to the knowledge and wisdom we carry inside us and are not necessarily aware of,” said Winter, who is from Port Townsend.
David Murdach of Tacoma, who won the Best in Show prize in last year’s “Art Convergence” for his mixed-media sculpture titled “Drone (Magnificent Killing Machine),” has entered another.
This year’s model is “Queen’s Snuff Box,” an elaborate creation made from various lamp parts.
The politically irreverent Murdach said the sculpture represents “the extravagance of royalty in storing the Queen’s precious sniffing compounds, whatever they may be.”
Other artists represented in this show are Ernst Ulrich-Schafer, Tammy Hall, Jack Galloway, Melissa Penic, Pamela Dick and Pamela Hastings of Port Angeles; Linda Okazaki and Stephen Yates of Port Townsend; Karen Rozbicki Stringer of Sequim and Robert McCormack, who divides his time between Dallas and Port Angeles.
Their creations run from driftwood assemblage to abstract canvases to fractal art, priced from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.
“Art Convergence” fills the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s indoor gallery, open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.
And for lovers of the outdoors, the 5-acre Webster’s Woods art park wrapped around the center is open every day of the year from dawn till dusk.
For more about other activities at the arts center — including the Andre Feriante concert Nov. 23 — see www.pafac.org or phone 360-457-3532.
