NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Nov. 6.
PORT TOWNSEND — Saturday night in downtown Port Townsend, you can come face to face with live owls.
You can also see new paintings and glasswork — and meet the local artists — during the free monthly Gallery Walk from 5:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m.
Here’s a cross-section of Saturday’s offerings.
■ An aviary of owls — small to large — will arrive at Conservatory Coastal Home, the decor store at 639 Water St., along with Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue director Cindy Daily.
You’re invited to behold the birds and learn about the rescue center’s work in and around Port Townsend.
Snacks and drinks will be served too.
More information about Discovery Bay Wild Bird Rescue, which has treated more than 500 birds, also is available via 360-379-0802.
■ Painters Mike Biskup and Shirley Rudolf, and photographer Beverly McNeil — a nature observer who does not use Photoshop — will be on hand at the Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St.
Art lovers are invited to meet the three new gallery members during a Gallery Walk reception Saturday evening.
■ The Diane Ainsworth Retrospective and New Works Show is open now at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., so a reception is part of Gallery Walk.
A painter who has lived and worked in Tulsa, Okla., and Taos, N.M., before moving to Port Townsend, Ainsworth is known as both an expressionist and an impressionist.
She’s showing her work at Northwind through Nov. 29, where gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays.
At 1 p.m. this Sunday, Ainsworth invites art lovers to her free talk about the show.
■ Glass artist Nancy Rody displays the many possibilities of mosaics and stained, fused and draped glass at Gallery Nine, 1012 Water St.
Rody will discuss these with visitors during an opening reception as part of Gallery Walk on Saturday.
■ “Tom Jay: Artist & Artisan,” a major exhibition of more than 30 sculptures by Jay and his foundry clients such as Tony Angell, Hilda Morris, Philip Levine, Marvin Herard, Sara Mall Johani and David Eisenhour, graces the Jefferson Museum of Art & History.
Admission is free this Saturday to the museum in the old City Hall at 540 Water St., where the art show will also be open for Gallery Walk on Saturday evening.
