PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Arts Council will begin its 2025 Second Saturday Art Walk season from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at various venues in downtown Port Angeles.
The council is planning for monthly Art Walks featuring local artists at various downtown businesses through September.
Some of the special events this month include:
• The Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., will host a reception for Nancy McFaul from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
McFaul, a painter, will display her new series, “It’s a Checkerboard World,” in the gallery’s Featured Work room.
In the series, McFaul cuts apart old canvases then weaves them together to create new abstract paintings.
McFaul studied design in San Francisco and Berkeley, Calif., before moving to Seattle, where she ran a specialty bakery at Pike Place Market.
While living in Seattle, McFaul continued to study art by taking drawing and painting classes at Gage Academy of Art.
Jodi Riverstone, a fellow artist, praises McFaul’s work, describing it as “vibrant and uncontrived, with an immediacy that draws the viewer in. Her pieces evoke memories, stir the heart and ignite the imagination, inviting personal interpretation and metaphor. Her work is luscious, sometimes gritty, but always real.”
McFaul’s artwork can be viewed from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays at Harbor Art Gallery throughout January.
• Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., will host a reception for the opening of its 26th Bring Your Own Art Show from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The annual show, which features artwork submitted by local artists and community members, will be on exhibit through Feb. 1.
During the reception, Tin Sandwich will perform live music.
For more information, call the studio at 360-775-2160 or visit www.studiobob.art.
• Cabled Fiber and Yarn, 125 W. First St., will host “Beyond Quilting, Crochet and Knitting” from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The exhibit will provide hands-on demonstrations of weaving without a loom, cardboard weaving, felting, embroidery, using the knitting loom, embellishments, locker hooking and punch needlework.
“We’re excited to share the wealth of possibilities in textile-based artwork, decorative fiber works and sculptural fiber creations,” said MarySue French, co-owner of Cabled Fiber. “In fact, we’d love for the public bring their own art form and demonstrate with us.”
Attendees will see a variety of new and traditional techniques and tools.
For more information, call 360-504-2233, email info@cabledfiber.com or visit www.cabledfiber.com.
• The Art Walk includes a passport system. Visitors can collect stickers from participating businesses and submit their passports into a drawing for a prize from a local business.
This month’s prize is two tickets to an event, chosen by the winner, at Studio Bob.
Other local businesses participating in Art Walk include One of a Kind Gallery, All In Arts Gallery, the Naval Elks Lodge, PN Wonderland Wine, The Hub, J Ryan Salon, Odyssey Books, Anime Kat, The Great Northern Coffee Bar, Cabled Fiber and Yarn, Field Arts & Events Hall, Moss and Kindred Home Collective.
For more information, visit www.portangelesartscouncil.org.
