NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, May 8.
PORT ANGELES — Art in Bloom, a special Mother’s Day exhibition, opens today to stay the weekend at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Admission is free to the show, while donations to the fine arts center are welcome.
In this event, 10 floral designers from across the North Olympic Peninsula and Seattle will create flower arrangements to go with the fine arts center’s current exhibition.
That show, titled “Underwater,” features mixed-media sculptures by Oregon artist Shannon Weber.
The arrangements, each as a response to a particular sculpture, can be made of just about any flower or foliage, from calla lilies to lobelia and fern.
This year’s designers are traveling from far and near with their shears, vases and wire.
Among them are Bernice Cook, Tina Cozzolino, Linda Nutter, Mary Lou Paulson, Mary Lou Waitz and Patty Wheatley from Port Angeles; Billie Fitch from Nordland; Judi McClanahan from Forks; Marian Meany from Port Townsend; and Betty Wren from Seattle.
They intend to finish their floral displays in time for Art in Bloom’s opening at 11 a.m. today, so lovers of art and flowers can come see the show between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. today through Sunday.
This is the 12th annual Art in Bloom, an event honoring the late Mim Foley, who founded it in 2004.
Since Foley’s death in an automobile wreck in 2010, her family and her collaborators Waitz and Cook have organized the show every Mother’s Day weekend.
For information about this and other Port Angeles Fine Arts Center activities, see www.PAFAC.org or phone 360-457-3532.
