PORT TOWNSEND — Short, free stories, small paper buildings and recycled materials are all part of Saturday night’s Gallery Walk, downtown Port Townsend’s monthly art party.
The walk runs from 5:30 p.m. till 8 p.m. or so, and includes these highlights.
■ “Paper Transformed,” the new exhibition at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., is a diverse show of artist books, sculpture, jewelry, baskets and other paper imaginings.
Cotton, linen and Japanese Kozo paper are all here, shaped into creatures by Dona Anderson, Mary Ashton, Danielle Bodine, Zia Gipson, Lois James, Dorothy McGuinness, Jean-Marie Tarascio and Sande Wascher-James.
Art lovers are invited to Saturday evening’s reception as well as to the artists’ presentation titled “Why Paper?” at 1 p.m. Sunday, July 12.
Workshops for adults are also slated: “Paper Vessels” with Danielle Bodine on July 11, “Western Papermaking” with Mary Ashton on July 18 and “Asian Papermaking” with Ashton on July 19.
For details, see northwindarts.org or phone 360-379-1086.
■ “Places in the Heart” is a showcase of oils and pastels from Susan Spar and jewelry by Michael Kenney at Gallery Nine, 1012 Water St.
While Spar’s paintings revel in light, Kenney’s creations use unconventional materials such as a fossilized mammoth tusk.
The artists will be on hand during Saturday evening’s opening party.
■ The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., presents Sylvia White’s free-form vessels and wall hangings, creations made out of Venetian blinds, computer parts and other recycled stuff, plus Kay Harper’s enhanced photographic portraits of flowers and seashells.
■ PT Shorts, Key City Public Theatre’s free series of literary readings, offers a program titled “An Old-Fashioned Fourth” this time around.
Lovers of stories read aloud are invited to hear Louisa May Alcott’s “A Jolly Fourth,” Harriet Beecher Stowe’s fable “Hen that Hatched Ducks” and that mother of all Fourth of July texts, the Declaration of Independence, this Saturday and next Tuesday.
Both PT Shorts performances will start at 7:30 p.m. at the Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., and both will feature actors Diane Thrasher, Emily Huntingford and Michelle Hensel.
Key City Public Theatre’s Mara Lathrop is the director of the readings.
To find out more about this and other Key City activities, visit keycitypublictheatre.org or phone 360-379-0195.