Art, blugrass on tap at Art Blast

PORT ANGELES — Fresh art and bluegrass music will be offered free to visitors to the Port Angeles Library tonight.

January’s Art Blast at the library at 2210 S. Peabody St., will combine an artist’s reception for a new exhibit with the music of The Lowest Pair.

Seattle artist Derek Gundy will be in attendance beginning at 6:30 p.m. for the opening reception for his show that will be on display until April 18.

At 7 p.m., The Lowest Pair, a bluegrass duo from Olympia, will perform.

Refreshments will be offered and limited library services will be available during this after-hours event.

Found their roots

The Lowest Pair found their roots together in 2013 after meeting on the banks of the Mississippi.

Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee both studied roots music and traditional banjo techniques.

They recorded their first album, “36¢,” after playing together for only a month. Their sound evolved with the addition of harmonica, drum, bass and violin, as can be heard in two new albums, “Uncertain as it is Uneven” and “Fern Girl and Ice Man.”

Gundy earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.

He later worked with such Maine artists as Andrew Wyeth, Alan Magee and Jeff Colquhoun, who each inspired his craft.

After moving to Seattle in 2003, two Pacific Northwest themes emerged in his work — wine and salmon.

Gundy also teaches drawing and watercolor and acrylic painting in a variety of settings in addition to managing Artists’ Edge, an art supply store and custom framing shop, in Seattle.

The Art Blast is a quarterly event, celebrating the opening of the new Art in the Library show.

Art in the Library is a collaborative library-community art project which celebrates the talents of regional artists through a series of rotating visual art exhibits and Art Blast events.

The Art in the Library program is supported by the Port Angeles Friends of the Library.

For more information, phone 360-417-8500 or email Discover@nols.org, or visit www.nols.org and select “Events,” and “Art in the Library.”

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