ARTjam set for lavender weekend

SEQUIM — ARTjam 2022 artists will share a variety of expressions of art at Rock Hollow Farm on Sequim Lavender Weekend.

Rock Hollow Farm at 505 E. Silberhorn Road will host 12 artists working in paint, wood, clay, collage, metals and pastels in and around a restored barn from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, July 15-17.

The event is free and open to the public. The farm is handicap-accessible.

Performers will be seen all day offering dance, spoken word and music on the Apple Tree Stage.

Visitors can paint their own masterpieces at the Community Paints tent, walk the labyrinth or stroll the paths at Rock Hollow Farm. New this year is Ross Brown’s Sky Viewing Gazebo, set up in the Hollow.

Guests to be welcomed include Milia Nelson, a student artist from Sequim, and Karin Anderson of Santa Fe, N.M., who makes multimedia creations.

Mike McCollum will show his new wood and resin boxes and 2D works. Terry Grasteit, abstract painter, will also join in as a guest artist.

Last year the Barn People painted a chair that was auctioned off at ARTjam to benefit the Sequim Food Bank. Each artist painted a part of the chair ‘blind’ — not knowing what everyone else would do. Nearly $800 was raised.

This year, the artists painted a drop wing side table. Each artist was given a piece of the table to decorate as they wished. This years’ finished piece will again be auctioned at ARTjam, with the funds going to the Sequim Food Bank .

The Barn People are Susan Gansert Shaw, who works in paint and pastel; Lynne Armstrong, who “draws” with paint; Mary Franchini, painter; Brian Buntain, a silver-and-goldsmith: Stephen Portner, who mkes fine woodwork; Ross Brown, sculptor and “sky viewing expert;” Sharman Owings, a figurative painter who ws the first-place winner in the 2022 CVG Show; and Linda Collins Chapman, a ceramicist.