NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, April 8.
PORT ANGELES — Downtown Port Angeles venues will be featured during the Second Weekend Art Event.
The monthly event was founded about 10 years ago by the Port Angeles Arts Council as a coalition of downtown Port Angeles businesses and art galleries to bring attention to the culture and variety offered there, organizers say.
Here’s a cross section of events:
■ Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., will host musical guest Joy in Mudville and local artist Regie Saxerud beginning at 9 p.m.
Joy in Mudville features Kim Trennery, Jason Mogi, Paul Stehr-Green and Terry Smith. Their music is rhythmic, harmonic and cleverly arranged.
Saxerud has been a professional artist for 35 years.
Since moving to Port Angeles late in the past decade, she has made her mark in the local art scene, including painting the mind-bending mural surrounding the entrance to Studio Bob and the Loom on Front Street in downtown Port Angeles, organizers said.
Saxerud’s art fights hard against the mainstream, and at 2FAR, visitors will see her continue her quest to provide authentic art to authentic people, organizers said.
The cover charge is $3.
For more information, call 360-797-1999 or visit www.barn9nepa.com.
■ Heatherton Gallery, located inside The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., features the works of Janet Piccola and Hideko Goecker from 5 to 7:30 this evening.
Piccola moved to the Peninsula with her husband 11/2 years ago from Jackson, Calif.
Piccola uses a unique form of heating to burn unusual shadows of various items onto her art pieces, which include bowls, pierced vases and hanging plaques with painted designs.
Hideko is a sumi-trained painter on silk, rice paper and canvas. Her collages of Asian designs utilize colorful paper or fabrics.
■ Karon’s Frame Center, 625 E. Front St., features photographs by Anthony Richards.
Richards will be on hand from 6 to 8 tonight to talk about his photography.
Richards, 26, of Port Angeles has been an artist all his life.
As far back as he can remember, Richards says, he has been hooked on the arts, beginning with sketching and painting, before taking on digital mediums in high school.
He says his passion for photography grew throughout the years and in 2009, he helped establish AirshowStuff Magazine, now AirshowStuff.com.
Today, Richards continues to shoot and design graphics for AirshowStuff while practicing drone photography, video editing and graphic design in his spare time.
■ The Landing Artists Studio, located inside The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., Suite 103, from 5 to 7:30 tonight will host Susan Cleaves, a Lampwork bead and jewelry artist.
Cleaves creates beads by melting glass onto a welding rod, which she holds in a torch flame and turns slowly. She adds additional glass to create decoration and texture.
Cleaves sells both finished jewelry and beads, and will be on hand to show her bracelets, necklaces and beads on Friday Art Walk. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information, call 360-670-9971.
■ Cabled Fiber and Yarn, 125 W. First St., on Saturday will host an exhibit of Kasuri, Ikat dyed textiles.
During the event, textile collector Nita Lynn will give a presentation about her travels to Japan, collecting Kasuri fabric and her fascination with the dying process and the Japanese use of indigo color in dyeing.
Kasuri is a traditional folk textile produced in Japan since at least the middle of the 18th century. Kasuri patterns have distinctive fuzzy edges and look as if they were splashed onto the fabric.
The display will be available for viewing all day Saturday with a reception beginning at 4 p.m. and short talk by Lynn beginning at 4:30 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, visit www.cabledfiberstudio.com or call 360-504-2233.
■ Harbor Art Gallery and Gift Shop, located at 110 E. Railroad Ave., on Saturday will feature the original work of 16 local artists, includes photography, paintings, block prints, sculpture, woodwork, ceramics, glass and jewelry.
An artist reception will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/harborartgallery.
■ Studio Bob, an art gallery/event space located upstairs at 118 1/2 E. Front St., on Saturday will present Blues Crew, a new five-piece band featuring Johnny Rollston on guitar and Corey Crozier on harmonica.
There’s no cover charge for the music set to start at 8 p.m.
The Blues Crew’s sets will follow the opening reception for “Far Out and Up Close,” the current photography exhibition at Studio Bob.
The reception is free to the public from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
“Far Out and Up Close” showcases more than 100 photographs from across the Olympic Peninsula and around the world, from the cameras of Diane Urbani de la Paz and Phil Lusk.
The show will have another free reception from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, call 415-990-0457 or visit http://tinyurl.com/PDN-StudioBob.
