While this year’s Port Townsend Wearable Art Show has been canceled, a new art project, open to all ages with no entry fee, has been born from its ashes.
The 2020 show was originally set for …
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While this year’s Port Townsend Wearable Art Show has been canceled, a new art project, open to all ages with no entry fee, has been born from its ashes.
The 2020 show was originally set for May 9 at Fort Worden’s McCurdy Pavilion, but was canceled in mid-March, and the event’s organizers have since pivoted to serving another need in the community.
The Face Mask Contest, an invitation to make artistic masks, invites participants to submit one original entry per day through midnight on April 26. Each submission should include a title and a photo or video of a person wearing the mask.
The public will be invited to vote for their favorites on the site from April 27 through May 8, and winners will be announced May 9. Cash prizes include $1,000 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third.
Organizers encourage those with sewing skills to make and share medical masks with those who need them, with patterns available on the Port Townsend Wearable Art Show’s Facebook page and the Jefferson County site at co.jefferson.wa.us under “community mask project.”
“We value artists and want to support them any way we can,” organizers stated in the website entry form. “In these trying times, art can help us stay connected and inspired, so go wild. Let your creativity shine.”
The Port Townsend Wearable Art Show, the main fundraiser for the Jefferson Community Foundation Fund for Women and Girls for the past decade, has been rescheduled for May 8, 2021.
“When the Wearable Art Show was canceled this year, we’d already generated more than $12,000 in ticket sales that were generously donated by ticket-buyers, instead of refunded,” said Tina Flores-McCleese, chair of the Wearable Art Show. “The Fund for Women and Girls has directed those donations to the Jefferson Community Foundation Emergency Fund instead.”
Community members can always contribute to the Fund for Women and Girls, which makes grants to local organizations such as Dove House and the Benji Project.
For more information on the Fund for Women and Girls, visit fundforwomenandgirls.com, and on the Jefferson Community Foundation, visit JCFgives.org.
