PORT TOWNSEND — Gallery 9, the Port Townsend Gallery and Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery will be among the venues which will participate in the Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will display the handmade jewelry of Michael S. Kenney, one of its founding members, during the art walk.
Kenney collects and cuts natural stones to reveal their colors and patterns, then creates settings to present each stone in a manner that showcases its beauty.
Kenney will display an array of hand-cut jewelry from stones that have been collected over the past 40 years. Kenney’s jewelry will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays throughout December.
• Sandra Smith-Poling will sign copies of her new book, “A Life of Art, Medicine and Adventure: an Illustrated Memoir,” at Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., during Saturday’s art walk.
Smith-Poling’s memoir chronicles a life in medicine, art and sailing.
Smith-Poling has sailed on the Adventuress, a 131-foot gaff-rigged schooner, as both the ship surgeon and as the ship’s artist, and she has trained as an officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle, a 295-foot square-rigged bark often called “America’s Tall Ship.”
Her painting of the Eagle is on display in the officers’ wardroom on board the ship.
She also served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and retired from McChord Air Force Base’s 446th Aeromedical Staging Squadron in 2009.
Smith-Poling has used art to balance her life, and her art has been influenced by her father, Craig Smith, as well as Arthur Beaumont, navy artist Sir William Russell Flint and John Singer Sargeant.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
• The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for December’s featured artists from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Kristen Wade creates pendants and earrings using topaz, peridot, green amethyst, garnet, citrine and purple amethyst.
Wade also designs sterling silver earrings, pendants and bracelets that feature botanical prints.
Martha Collins creates jewelry out of dyed maple veneer and sustainably sourced hardwoods from around the world.
Collins’ bangle bracelets come in different sizes that contain 26 to 1,000 individual pieces of wood from seven to 12 different species. Her jewelry has been shown this year at the Smithsonian Craft Show and the Philadelphia Craft Show.
Andrea Guarino-Slemmons uses sheet silver and other metals to create earrings and bracelets. She uses lapidary equipment to create an array of beads in different sizes and styles.
Beverly Saito makes beaded glass jewelry using traditional techniques, including an African-derived stitch called Ndebele and a right angle weave to make beaded beads.
The jewelry of these four artists will be featured from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Port Townsend Gallery. For more information, call the gallery at 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• The Jeanette Best Gallery, 710 Water St., will feature fresh artwork in its Small Expressions show during the Art Walk.
Forty artists from across the Pacific Northwest will participate in the show, and the Art Walk is a time to meet and talk with them.
Small Expressions includes a variety of media, including photography, jewelry, papier-maché, oil pastels, handwoven-fiber creations and ceramics.
Most of the artists are from Port Townsend, although there also are participants fromPort Angeles, Sequim, Seattle and Oregon. The gallery also is exhibiting Showcase 2024, which showcases works by 20 local artists.
“These two exhibitions are designed for the giving season,” said Diane Urbani, a spokesperson for Northwind Art. “When a piece is purchased, a fresh one is rotated into the show from the participating artists. So this is an especially dynamic time at the gallery.”
For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.
Other venues participating in Saturday’s art walk include Aurora Loop Gallery, 971 Aurora Loop; Bazaar Girls, 647 Washington St.; The CoLab, 237 Taylor St., second floor; GreenPod Gallery, 1531 W. Sims Way, Grover Gallery, 236 Taylor St.; Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St.; KALMA, 926 Water St.; Little Wing Gallery, 924 Washington St.; Low Fence, Horse Sense Gallery, 57th Street, between Hill and Jackman streets; Mara’s Gallery; 839 Water St.; Jeanette Best Gallery, 701 Water St.; Pacific Traditions, 637 Water St.; Pendragon’s Labyrinth, 840 Water St.; Polk Street Salon, 213 Polk St.; The Artist Within, 929 Water St., underground; The Sunroom, 929 Water St., underground; and Zee Tai Collective, 918 Water St.
For more information, visit www.ptcreativedistrict.org/artwalk.
