September's Art Walk features a wide range of mediums, with something for everybody, from jewelry to ceramic work and Native American art.

Multiple galleries scattered throughout Port Townsend invite you to come, take a look and possibly enjoy a glass of complimentary wine, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 3. Each artist is available for discussion at the gallery displaying their work.

The Art Walk comes to life on the first Saturday of every month.

‘Two Michaels’ at Gallery 9

Gallery 9, at 1012 Water St., presents “The Two Michaels” throughout September: Michael Hale, whose art is featured on this year's 40th annual Wooden Boat Festival poster, and artisan jeweler Michael Kenney.

Hale has lived and painted in Port Townsend for 17 years. The gallery is displaying two new, large acrylics on canvas, along with a few smaller pieces of his, all related to boats. The festival poster also is on display at the gallery, and is [prints are?] available at the Northwest Maritime Center. The festival's 40th anniversary poster is Hale’s second festival poster painting.

Kenney, who has been immersed in the art of jewelry for 45 years, views his jewelry as his art, and the wearer as his gallery. He cuts his own stones using diamond lapidary tools, seeking to bring out the natural beauty within each stone.

Fitch's fish featured at Red Dragonfly

Undertown's Red Dragonfly welcomes “home” Port Townsend sculptor and stoneware artist Sarah Fitch with a special installation of new work for Art Walk.

Fitch is one of the original founders of Red Raven Gallery, an artist co-op that became Red Dragonfly in June. Today, she is the proprietor and artist-in-residence at Rolling Raven Studio, a stoneware and ceramics workshop in Port Townsend.

Drawing on inspiration from both the mystical and the natural world, Fitch creates sculptural tiles and larger wall sculptures from clay. The exhibit includes a number of Fitch's illuminated fish wall sculptures, shown for the first time at Red Dragonfly, along with a collection of smaller sculptural wall tiles.

Red Dragonfly is located in Port Townsend's Undertown, located down the stairs at the pergola on the corner of Water and Taylor streets.

Simon Mace hosts Grover

Celebrated Port Townsend artist Max Grover makes his Simon Mace Gallery debut this month, together with ceramic artist Sara Swink, for the September and October show “Anything Goes.”

Grover is not only one of Port Townsend’s best-known artists – with collectors far and wide – but he and his late wife, Sherry, planted the seed that became Simon Mace Gallery.

“Being able to exhibit his work at the gallery feels like a wonderful goal realized,” said gallery co-owner Christina Mace. The gallery is to showcase more than 100 of Grover's pieces, to be sold directly off the wall.

Swink, a ceramic sculptor from Portland, is a continual favorite of Simon Mace Gallery visitors, and her creations are the perfect 3-D complement to Grover's work. Swink expresses her dreams, fantasies, memories and ideas through human and animal forms, with a dash of humor and occasionally a bit of edginess.

Both artists are expected to be in attendance during Gallery Walk. The gallery is located at 236 Taylor St.

Last chance to see ‘Persistent Vision’

Labor Day weekend is the last chance to see “Persistent Vision: Northwest Native Art” at the Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St. Admission to the museum is free to county residents on Sept. 3.

The exhibition of contemporary Native American art by tribal artists is complemented by historical pieces from the Jefferson County Historical Society’s collection.

From noon to 4 p.m., before the start of Art Walk, the drawings of 12-year-old Aloura Remy are to be on display at the museum.

Other museums open for free on Sept. 3 are the Commanding Officer’s Quarters at Fort Worden, and the Rothschild House Museum, at Franklin and Taylor streets.

Pippa's to host Quimper Arts

Port Townsend's figure-drawing group, Quimper Arts, showcases its members' work at Pippa's Real Tea, 636 Water St., through the end of October.

The group's members meet weekly to hone their skills through drawing or painting from a live model. “Although much of my artwork is abstract or illustrative, I like to practice figure drawing, because it keeps my drawing skills sharp,” said member Kelly Drake. “Once you’ve mastered the human figure, I believe there is nothing you can’t draw. It gives me the confidence to tackle difficult subjects.”

Quimper Arts has been a staple of the local arts community since 1991, when it was founded by a loosely organized figure-drawing group of 70 artists. Starting in October 2015, Quimper Arts moved its Monday sessions to the Masonic Lodge on Jefferson Street in the Uptown District, after holding sessions at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds for decades.

‘Make.Believe’ at Northwind

Three award-winning Kitsap artists give their imaginations free rein in “Make.Believe,” the September show at Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.

Friends for many years, James Adams, Diane Haddon and Steve Parmelee have each developed unique ways of combining materials to create vivid, evocative works.

Adams studied painting as an art student, but went on to explore many other mediums, from cast paper to collage. His most recent work uses Venetian plaster, a thick mixture of limestone dust, combined with painting and collage to create multilayered abstract images. While he has always been entranced by abstract patterns, Adams' current work evokes trees, landscapes and cities.

Haddon has studied fine art, basketry, jewelry and printmaking, but her current work evolves from her relationship to objects with a history. Her works include assemblage of found objects as well as drawing and painting. Much of her imagery comes from vintage photographs.

“I love to transform common, well-loved, cast-off objects into something whimsical and thought provoking,” Haddon said.

Parmelee studied graphic design, but found his passion in “old, loved things” and the stories they tell. His works are sometimes triggered by the objects themselves, and sometimes from a word or phrase. “Much of my found material comes from estate sales, where I often make acquaintances with the deceased, who can only speak to me through the keepsakes in junk drawers and cellars. Estate sales can be a spiritual place, as well as a treasure trove of everyday relics.”

The show runs through Sept. 25, with an opening reception during Art Walk and an art talk at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 4.

Actors read Eggers for PT Shorts

Key City Public Theatre, in collaboration with Northwind Arts Center, presents PT Shorts on Sept. 3-4, featuring readings of pieces by Dave Eggers, whose work straddles the growth of postmodernist literature into post-postmodernism.

Eggers, a Boston native, began his career working in newspapers while serving as a caretaker for his younger brother, an experience that became the fuel for his landmark memoir, “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His 2012 novel, “A Hologram for the King,” was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was made into a film starring Tom Hanks, released earlier this year.

Eggers is the founder of the independent publishing house McSweeney's, and the cofounder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness.

Among those reading are locals Don White and Susan Scott. Readings are at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday and 5:30 p.m. on Sunday at Northwind, 701 Water St.

PT Gallery hosts Osborne, Biskup

Port Townsend Gallery this month features maritime photographs by Mitchel Osborne and abstract landscapes by Mike Biskup.

Osborne has contributed photographs to international travel guides, travel magazines, books and major editorial publications. He spent most of his career in New Orleans before moving to Port Townsend in 2006. Here, he began photographing maritime subjects and discovered the appeal of the beauty, craftsmanship and preservation of the boats in this historical setting.

Biskup is a contemporary watercolor painter of imaginary landscapes and abstractions. His paintings can be found in the collection of Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette and many others around the world. He is curating and participating in an upcoming international exhibition at Northwind Arts Center in April 2017, which explores how artists use social media to inspire each other daily, around the world, in a way that has never before been possible. The Port Townsend Gallery is located at 715 Water St.

Elevated showcases Gatheringplace art

About 30 works from Gatheringplace artists are to be on display at Elevated Ice Cream Co. through September in a show titled “Boats, Mermaids and Other Sea Creatures.”

Contributing artists include Michael Bradel, Rachel Canavor, Jennifer Dubois, Dawn Fay, Megan Ferris, Debbie Griffiths, Gail Jangaard, Robert Komishane, Spencer Ott, Craig Rogers, Lindsay Starr, Adam Stillwell, Max Urbani and Blaine Wheeler. Their works includes paintings, drawings, assemblage and collage in honor of the Wooden Boat Festival. Most of the works have never been shown, but some were entries at the Jefferson County Fair, where a few won blue ribbons.

Gatheringplace is a nonprofit that provides enrichment programs to adults with disabilities.