Art Walk takes place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 2. Many of the artists are to be on hand to talk about their work throughout the evening.

BEE’S KNEES TATTOOING

210 Taylor St.

The artists of Bee’s Knees Tattooing are to open their private studio to visitors during Art Walk. The evening includes a live tattooing event as well as an art show and reception. Artists Cassidy Muckleston and Gin Grímsdóttir are to be available to book clients at the event.

Muckleston founded Bee’s Knees three years ago. She has a background in abstract painting, studied anthroposophy and has a bachelor’s degree in art. Her current focus is tattooing as a spiritual and transformative process. Her tattoo work primarily (but not limited to) features natural themes and lush botanicals, and can be seen on many locals and visitors.

Grímsdóttir works as an illustrator, designer and craftsperson as well as licensed apprenticed tattooist at Bee’s Knees. Her work can be viewed on bulletin boards, band shirts and shop windows throughout Port Townsend. Grímsdóttir describes her work as “primarily figurative, dreamlike, meticulously detailed, and laced with body horror, mythical archetypes and chimeric entities.”

‘IN PRAISE OF BOATS’

Gallery 9, 1012 Water St.

Gallery 9 celebrates boats during the month of September with work by painter Michael Hale and baidarka (kayak) builder Mitch Poling.

Hale, whose work has been featured on several Wooden Boat Festival posters, is known for his large-scale paintings of wooden boats in harbor and on the water. “I paint boat paintings because I love their architecture,” said Hale. “We live in an area where boats are really appreciated, and it’s my way of showing that appreciation.”

Poling learned to paddle in the traditional three-man baidarka in Alaska, and spent many hours alongside his father in the boathouse where they were built. His boats are built with the traditional sinew lashings and with a nylon covering, which resembles the original material of translucent sealskin. "The baidarkas have evolved over thousands of years, and seem almost alive,” Poling said. “Paddling one is like becoming a sea mammal, a very special experience.”

‘FLOATING STEEL/FLYING SPARKS’ &

KATHLEEN SECREST

Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St.

Northwind Arts Center presents “Floating Steel/Flying Sparks,” featuring large-scale industrial photographs by Harry von Stark and sculptures by Karsten Boysen.

The black-and-white photographs document the story of a complete build from start to finish of a fishing trawler bound for the Bering Sea. This exhibit is the culmination of von Stark’s three-year journey to visually document how steel is made to float.

Boysen’s sculptures emulate nature. “Art is all about mystery, stealth and transformation,” the artist said. “The materials I use are selected by a twist, a bend, a crumple – almost as if returning to a natural state.”

Northwind’s Showcase Artist of the Month is Whidbey Island oil and pastel painter Kathleen Secrest. Secrest said she has always been fascinated by the lines that occur in the environment – the crisscross of branches, the curl of a dead leaf and the lines in a spider’s web. The observations she makes while painting outdoors and the treasures she collects are jumping-off points for her abstract art.

MITCHEL OSBORNE & STEVE FROGGETT

Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St.

Port Townsend Gallery presents photographer Mitchel Osborne and watercolor painter Steve Froggett.

Osborne, who spent the majority of his photography career in New Orleans before moving to Port Townsend in 2006, specializes in travel and editorial subjects. Locally, he has been photographing maritime subjects, and said he has been captivated by the beauty, workmanship and preservation of boats in this historical setting. The subject of his September show is reflections on the water.

Froggett focuses on the people and scenes of Port Townsend. In his work, he said, he aims to reveal the emotion that underlies the image – a simplification of nature that distills the human essence of the moment. It’s more like paraphrasing than quoting, he said. His painting method exploits the natural characteristics of the transparent paint. He uses no black pigment, and the white is provided by the paper itself.

HAROLD NELSON

The Old Alcohol Plant, 310 Hadlock Bay Road, Port Hadlock

The Old Alcohol Plant in Port Hadlock presents collage art by Harold Nelson through the end of the month. Nelson retired to Port Townsend in 2005, and has been showing his work at the Old Alcohol Plant all summer.

CLAUDE MANNING

Taps at the Guardhouse, Fort Worden

Claude Manning continues his show at Taps at the Guardhouse at Fort Worden through September. His exhibit serves as a benefit for Friends of Fort Worden, with 20 percent of proceeds from sales of his oil paintings going toward the Friends organization, of which he is a board member. Manning has been painting in oils for more than 20 years. His work includes representational landscapes, studies and portraits in an impressionistic style.

‘PAT AND PETER SIMPSON’

Jefferson County Museum of Art & History, 540 Water St.

This is the last chance to see the exhibit “Pat and Peter Simpson: Collectors and Patrons,” at the Jefferson County Museum of Art & History, during Art Walk. The exhibit features art collected by the Simpsons in the 1970s and 1980s paired with recent works by the same artists, including Thomas T. Wilson, Linda Okazaki, Stephanie Lutgring, Anne Hirondelle, Stephen Yates, Ed Cain, Galen Garwood, Jo Ann Alber and Kate Jenks.

Compiled by Leader arts editor Katie Kowalski.