PORT TOWNSEND — Gallery-9, the Museum of Art + History, the Port Townsend Gallery and Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery will be among the venues which will participate in the monthly Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday in downtown Port Townsend.
• The Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St., will host two new exhibits during First Saturday Art Walk.
The exhibits will be Meg Kaczyk’s “Notes from Next to the Bed: A Caregiving Love Story in Words and Pictures” and Timothy O’Connell’s “(I was Far Away But Now I’m Here.)”
The exhibits will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays throughout April.
For more information, visit www.jchsmuseum.org/museum.
• Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature the wood turnings of Jon Geisbush and the driftwood carvings of Melissa Moller from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Jon Geisbush is a native Washingtonian who took up wood turning during his retirement.
“The art of wood turning starts with the source of wood, and when I first started turning, I lived in an arid part of the country where the most available wood was dimensional wood such as that available in lumber yards,” Geisbush said. “Whether turning a handle for a tool or a bowl or platter, dimensional wood was glued together and turned. I quickly learned about different species and starting forms of wood provided different presentations.”
Upon returning to Western Washington, he was happy to discover the wood from local trees and to meet other wood turners with whom to discuss technique.
Melissa Moller works with stained glass and driftwood and is inspired by the flow of light in reclaimed materials.
Moller finds the movement of her creativity while working with driftwood, reclaimed woods, resin and stained glass.
“I get lost in the direction the wood takes me to bring its beauty to the surface and create a new purpose,” she said.
Moller learned the art of stained glass in the early 2000s and began doing large projects like doors, sidelights and stained glass fountains.
When she started putting glass with driftwood, she began to notice the flow of light illuminated in the wood.
Geisbush’s wood turnings and Moller’s carvings will be on exhibit at Gallery-9 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays throughout April.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
• The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Sue Stanton and Phil Carrico, April’s featured artists, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Carrico creates prints using a progressive process that starts with a sketch. He uses colored pencils and lists the colors, from lightest to darkest, before transferring the sketch to a block of wood.
Carrico then carves away part of the block and applies the lightest color to the print.
As he continues to remove part of the block, he applies more colors, sometimes as many as 20, until he finishes the darkest one.
Carrico must decide how many copies he wants to make of any print at the outset since the process of creating subsequent layers of color destroys the block.
Stanton creates artwork by wrapping rocks. She also draws detailed pen and watercolor pieces and three-dimensional wooden art.
Stanton began with oil painting before working through watercolors, pen and ink and acrylics. She often incorporates pen and ink into her watercolor paintings.
Recently, she began to explore wrapping stones, drawing upon her inspiration of texture and dimension.
Children’s whimsical perspectives inspire her 3-D work, which often incorporates acrylic painting, wood burning, wirework and other added finds.
Stanton’s wrapped rock art and Carrico’s prints will be on exhibit 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.porttownsend gallery.com.
• The Jeanette Best Gallery, 710 Water St., will open “A Closer Look” during the Art Walk.
The exhibit highlights works by Port Townsend-based artists Elissa Greisz and Maxwell Yakush.
“A Closer Look” will be on display from noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays until May 19.
For more information, visit www.northwindart.org.
Jon Geisbushs turned wood will be on display throughout April at Gallery 9 in Port Townsend.
Sue Stanton will display her wrapped rock artwork at the Port Townsend Gallery this month.
