PORT TOWNSEND — The “Artful Jewelers” are at it again, as are a herd of creative types arriving in downtown Port Townsend this Saturday night. Here’s a cross-section of the venues hosting free receptions during the monthly Gallery Walk from 5:30 p.m. to about 8 p.m. Saturday.
■ Gallery 9, the artists’ cooperative at 1012 Water St., presents “Drums and Drawings,” featuring painter Marcy Gordon and drum maker Tom Stewart and their new works. These include Gordon’s large rose watercolor and Stewart’s yoga props and Zen-garden pieces. See www.gallery-9.com or phone 360-379-8881 for more information.
■ The Northwind Arts Center, 2409 Jefferson St., has just mounted its “Alchemy of the Abstract VI,” a show juried by Young Chang of Seattle. Open to all media, this exhibition attracts a broad range of artistic styles. Awards have already been presented, including the Best in Show prize to Susan Gansert Shaw of Sequim.
■ The Simon Mace Gallery, 236 Taylor St., presents “Dreamed into Being,” with sculptor Christopher Wagner of Portland, Ore., and the Port Townsend debut of Skagit Valley painter Todd Horton. Wagner carves figures from reclaimed lumber and driftwood and finishes them with abraded milk paint; Horton uses graphite to draw and then squeegees wet oils through his images.
■ The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., hosts the “Artful Jewelers” group show, starring Beau and Shani Barrett, Jo Beachy, Andrea Guarino-Slemmons, Victor Judd, Mary Lynn Maloney, Shirley Moss and Kristen Wade. While the Barretts, with their lamp- and flameworked jewelry, are the gallery’s newest artists, Moss is the “Chainmaker,” well-known for her silver chain mail-like creations.
To find out more about the artists, phone 360-379-8110 or visit www.PortTownsendGallery.com.
■ The Jefferson Museum of Art & History, inside the old City Hall at 540 Water St., offers free admission during Saturday’s Gallery Walk. Exhibitions there are “Scapes: 1867-1992,” a show featuring landscape, seascape, and townscape paintings, and a traveling show of photographs and stories titled “Hope in Hard Times: Washington During the Great Depression.” For details, phone 360-385-1003 or visit www.JCHSmuseum.org.
