This month’s “First Saturday” Art Walks, and announcements of new featured artists, include at least one relatively new venue, featuring an extremely experienced artisan.

Jim Tolpin at Chums

Jim Tolpin, one of the founders of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, will be meeting the public during the Art Walk from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, at “Chums: A Shop by the Sea,” at 103 Hudson St. at Point Hudson in Port Townsend.

Chums will display Tolpin’s sketches of classic wooden boat designs, as well as at least one of the vessels he’s crafted from those drawings, sitting on the porch of the mini-market, providing a glimpse into Tolpin’s creative process, from the initial concept sketches to the finished seaworthy vessels.

Select and hand-tipped prints, as well as artist proofs, will be available.

Chums owner Lori Hanemann acknowledged that her recently opened shop isn’t a typical venue for the monthly Art Walks, since it specializes in basic sundries for boaters and RVers, but she’s proud to give visitors an opportunity to interact with a man whom she deemed a “legend” in local woodworking.

PT Gallery

The Port Townsend Gallery at 715 Water St. has selected Susan Hazard and Rebekah Cadorette as its featured artists for June, with whom the public can meet during the Art Walk Cadorette, a long-time Port Townsend resident, has been showing her work at the Port Townsend Gallery since 2013.

Cadorette’s handwoven garments and linens will feature the Japanese folk art of temari, which was historically constructed from recycled materials, such as remnants of old kimonos.

Cadorette saw temari while living in Japan as a teenager, but it wasn’t until 2012 that she began to study the art form in earnest, and she’s currently working toward her third level of proficiency certification, as recognized by the Japanese Temari Association.

Cadorette’s temari are made with loom leftovers, composed 95% of recycled and repurposed materials.

Hazard returns to the Port Townsend Gallery after a hiatus of traveling in Ireland and Italy, and she’s bringing with her paintings in oils, with a palette knife technique, as well as acrylics with mixed media.

Floral subjects are Hazard’s favorite for expressing color, energy and movement, and the thick palette knife application of oil paint aims to create an Impressionistic appearance, as the physical surface of the painting catches the light differently as the existing light changes over the course of the day and night.

Hazard graduated from the University of California Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree, has taught classes in the United States and Ireland, and is currently living in Sequim.

Gallery-9

And the Gallery-9 North Olympic Artist Cooperative, at 1012 Water St. in Port Townsend, has selected founding member Michael S. Kenney and sumi-e painter Ann Arscott as its featured artists for June.

Kenney’s handmade jewelry showcases the rare and beautiful gemstones he came to appreciate from rockhounding with his grandfather during his childhood.

Kenney collects and cuts his own stones using diamond lapidary equipment to reveal their colors and patterns, before crafting precious metal settings to present them properly.

Kenney will be showcasing gemstones of the Olympic Peninsula, having spent more than 40 years rock-hunting locally.

Arscott entered her first art competition around age 5, and returned old soda bottles for money to buy paint.

Arscott’s art has been inspired by her travels around the world, to 125 different countries, and she always packed a tiny art kit on her family’s backpacking excursions into the wild.

Arscott’s painting and drawing were shaped by her time at the China Institute in New York, the connection she made to nature through her studies in geology, and teaching at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Arscott has worked in sumi-e, which translates to “black ink painting” in Japanese, in which painters strive to express the essence of forms, rather than their realistic appearance.

Arscott noted her children have been living in Japan, and acknowledged the sumi-e influence has crept into her other work.

“We came to the Olympic Peninsula about 20 years ago, and I still can’t get enough of the astonishing beauty,” Arscott said.