WEEKEND: Port Townsend Library hosts showing by Northwind Arts Center

Published 12:01 am Friday, January 23, 2015

Today and tonight signify Friday, Jan. 23.

PORT TOWNSEND — The new Art in the Library exhibit, a showcase of work by artists across the North Olympic Peninsula, opens today with a free reception at the Port Townsend Library.

This public party from 5:30 p.m. till 7 p.m. this evening celebrates all of the art up in the library’s two houses: the Carnegie Building at 1220 Lawrence St. and the Charles Pink House, aka the Library Learning Center at 1256 Lawrence St.

“We’ll be offering cider, cheese, veggies, and nuts in the Carnegie Reading Room, and dessert, coffee and tea in the Pink House,” promised Polly Lyle, a volunteer with the Northwind Arts Center, which is collaborating with the library on the exhibit.

Northwind, newly located in the Waterman-Katz building at 701 Water St., is closed for renovations until early February.

So it’s using the library as a venue for this display of work by more than a dozen local artists, including:

■ Susan Martin Spar of Port Angeles.

■ Donna Snow of Port Ludlow.

■ Richard Jesse Watson, Alicia Caruso, Jason Gould, Nancy Rody, Loran Scruggs, Luke J. Tornatzky, John Earl and Dave Lindsay and of Port Townsend.

■ Cynthia Thomas of Sequim.

Visitors also can see a large vintage-1980s piece by Diane Mayers, framed for the first time, plus a piece young library patrons created especially for the show, to stay up through April 17.

For more information, phone 360-385-3181 or visit PTPublicLibrary.org.