Editor’s note: To be included in the monthly Art Walk feature, please send information to cmcdaniel@ptleader.com no later than the 15th of each month. Include “Art Walk” in the subject line.

For those who practice the medium, fiber art is all about touch.

“I want something that you can feel,” said Barbara Ramsey, a fiber artist and faculty member of Port Townsend School of the Arts.

“One of the things I have learned since I have taught here is how to do a little bit of felting. Felting has a totally different texture than quilting, which I love. This idea that you can take the hair off a sheep and make it into a moldable moveable surface, to me that is crazy.”

Texture brings a level of tactile reality to an art piece, Ramsey said.

“I think in the beginning I was interested in the literal tactility, but then once you get into it then you can see visual texture even though you are looking at a two dimensional piece,” she said. I am totally smitten by that. I want to make these art objects that are just for contemplation and enjoyment and occasionally they keep you warm.”

Ramsey’s walk will be on display during the Port Townsend Art Walk, set for 5 to 8 p.m. the first Saturday of each month.

Ramsey’s piece on display is dyed with chemical dyes, she said.

“It contains both fabric that I have dyed and fabric that my friend Mary Tyler has dyed.”

Participating venues this month:

The Artful Sailor Whole Earth Nautical Supply, 410 Washington St., will exhibit the fancy knotwork of Jacob Borkowski.

Borkowski is a Seattle based cabinet-maker who has been interested in marline spike seamanship and fancy knots since he was a 14-year-old Sea Scout, according to a news release. Borkowski’s specialty is covering bottles with intricate knotting. Attendees can bring their own bottles to be turned into a sailor’s practical work of art on site.

Bishop Victorian Motel, 714 Washington St., will feature various contributions. For more information, call 360-381-7048.

Coldwell Banker, 234 Taylor St., will feature various pieces.

The Cotton Building, 607 Water St., will feature various paintings.

The Jefferson County Museum of History and Art, 540 Water St., will feature various works.

Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature the paintings of Katy Morse and her work with the Feminine Mysticism.

“I am a student of Feminine Mysticism, reclaiming the feminine face of God and the divine essence of myself as a woman,” Morse said. “I am on a mythical adventure of painting images representing the re-emergence of the wisdom of women, and the unified power of our healing the planet after centuries of abuse.”

Morse said her paintings are intended to ask questions.

“They present possibilities and challenge our preconceived notions about who we are,” she said. “It’s not like a landscape where you can relax into the view. They have a tension that animates the soul. They carry messages from animal spirits and medicinal plants, and they stimulate remembering our connections to the Divine.”

The title of Morse’s current show, “Transformative Archetypes,” springs from the ground of work created by Carl Jung and represented in cross-cultural studies, Morse said.

“Archetypes are universal qualities of the human experience that reveal aspects of our psyche,” she said. “We are all familiar with the ‘Lovers,’ the ‘Hero,’ the ‘Visionary,’ and others as examples of how we describe our various identities. I call these paintings transformative, because they are 80 percent new archetypes — discovered in the act of painting, and not copied from some other source.”

These are transformational paintings because they reveal hidden aspects of the self, and allow something new to emerge, Morse said.

Gallery 9 is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. See gallery-9.com or call 360-379-8881 for more information.

Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., will feature the works of Diane Sarr, Ann Chadwick Reid and Leah Gerrard as part of the “Nature: Black and White” exhibit..

Using the dramatic contrast of black and white, Sarr, Reid and Gerrard create imagery inspired by the landscape of the Northwest, according to a news release.

“Much of my work is influenced by nature that surrounds us here in the Northwest or places I have traveled,” Sarr said. “The mere glimpses of nature in black and white propose contrast and conflict of a season that will be left behind. While the maps give drawings context, they also represent the impact we have on our environment.”

Reid said her work is inspired by the landscape on Samish Island.

“Of most concern is the impact of climate change on this region,” she said. “The contrast of the black cut paper on white help create a straightforward coherent image necessary for the urgency of the message.”

Gerrard said she uses steel wire and basketry techniques to create abstract sculpture that strives to inspire emotion and connection in the viewer through form.

“When creating a piece, I work towards a lyrical quality encouraging one to stop and breathe for a moment,” Gerrard said. “ My process is slow and meditative, my hope is that process informs the viewer’s experience.”

The exhibition runs through April 28th.

Northwind Arts Center is open 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays.

Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will feature the collages of Anne Schneider and original photography of Stephen Cunliffe.

Schneider, of Port Townsend, has developed a craft of mixed media collage art works. Rather than thinking about an art piece using words and logic, she said she creates feelings through visualization.

The pieces currently in the Port Townsend Gallery are examples of a sense of geometry and order within space punctuated with whimsical lines and shapes, she said.

Her works are created through the layering of papers and paints and the positioning of color values throughout until a finished piece emerges.

Each piece tells a story, where chaos meets order, where imagination provides observation, she said.

Stephen Cunliffe moved to the Olympic Peninsula 12 years ago in part to pursue his passion for nature photography, he said.

“Where else could you be so close to the enormous variety of nature — forests, mountains, oceans, rivers and beaches — with all the diversity of wildlife that they contain?” Cunliffe said.

In 2009, Cunliffe won the Canon “Nature Photographer of the Year” award for his photo “Avocet Kiss.”

Cunliffe donates the proceeds of his sales to The Jefferson Land Trust and the Port Townsend Marine Science Center.

“I am able to create value with my photography, and I give that value straight back to the

conservation of nature,” he said.

His exhibit at the Port Townsend Gallery will also include some of his prize-winning work in black and white photography, and some color abstracts.

The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, call 360-379-8110.

Port Townsend School of the Arts Downtown, 236 Taylor St., will feature the “Green Blue Magic” exhibit.

This fiber art installation — created in partnership with the Port Townsend Marine Science Center — expresses the visual and tactile experience of the waterways and foliage of the Olympic Peninsula, according to a news release.

PTSA Faculty art will complement the palettes of earth and sky. The exhibit runs throughout the month.

Over 15 artists from PTSA faculty and the local Surface Design Association are participating in the show, presenting a wide array of texturally designed items including quilts and banners, scarves, felted materials, jewelry and up-cycled assemblages.

Join members of the Surface Design Association during Gallery Walk, along with other faculty-artists to talk about their work and the classes they offer.

Regular gallery hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, or by appointment. For more information, call 360-344-4479.

Two Sisters Gallery, 210 Polk St., on the second floor of the Kuhn Building, will display original works by Lisa Allison Blohm.

Blohm will introduce a new painting, “New Life Brings Hope.” All of Blohm’s orca series will be on display along with other recent works.

Blohm also will also fundraise for orca conservation.