PORT TOWNSEND — It’s Gallery Walk weekend again, and downtown’s art venues are ablaze with new works. Admission is free to the various galleries, many of which offer refreshments along with the art displays and conversation from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Here’s a sampling of the stops on the walk.
■ The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., opens its garden with featured artists Mark Henthorn, an acrylic and oil-stick painter, and Melinda Bryden, who works in mosaic and fused glass.
■ Gallery 9, the artists’ cooperative at 1012 Water St., presents “Journeys,” a show highlighting watercolorist Sandra Smith-Poling and ceramist Cindy Elstrom.
■ The Jefferson Museum of Art & History, inside City Hall at 540 Water St., is open with free admission for Gallery Walk. Exhibits include “Hope in Hard Times: Washington During the Great Depression” and “Scapes: 1867-1992,” a display of town-, land- and seascapes.
■ Simon Mace Gallery, 236 Taylor St., presents “Sprung,” a show starring Anne Schreivogl and her playful paintings of birds. Also in this May exhibition, Schreivogl’s partner in life and love, Alfred Currier, is showing his paintings of ravens in deep black, violet and blue.
■ The Red Raven Gallery, 922 Water St., hosts “Dreamscape: Stories from Earth and Beyond,” with featured local painter Jacqueline Chisick. Also highlighted is artist Kim Gordon, who is coming from San Francisco to Port Townsend for Saturday’s opening party.
