Port Townsend Art Walk steps out from 5 to 8 p.m. the first Saturday of each month, offering you a mixture of styles and media on display as you duck into local galleries and other venues.

Jefferson Museum of Art and History, 540 Water St., features prints by Lockwood Dennis in the Ferguson Family Gallery.

Dennis, known primarily as “Woody,” painted and made prints throughout his life, creating 400 prints with 385 of those in editions of twenty or more, and hundreds of paintings.

Although he lived in Port Townsend and captured many of local scenes in paint, when he started exhibiting and finding a market for his work in Seattle, the work shifted to urban imagery from his visits to the city and other locales around the world.

For more information, call 360-385-1003 or visit jchsmuseum.org.

Northwind Arts Center, 701 Water St., features “Van Gogh’s Yellow” in the Artist Showcase in August, as well as Expressions Northwest, a juried regional art exhibit.

“Van Gogh’s Yellow” consists of three painters and one jeweler who often have bright, sunny yellows in their works. The artists were chosen for the show and given free rein to create work in that theme, according to a news release.

Meg Kaczyk, one of the painters, works with the paint to drip, flow and add dimension with layers of pattern and line.

“My subject matter presents transient reality captured with a quick and keen eye, but above all with love and affection,” Kaczyk said.

Another painter, David Willis, relocated to the Pacific Northwest from southern Florida five years ago, and was immediately inspired by the rich, colorful palette of the area.

Willis said he is constantly aware of his surroundings, seeing art almost everywhere he looks. His intent is to fill the page with emotional expressions such as joy, serenity, playfulness or freedom.

Working in a non-objective style creates an element of excitement and surprise for

Wanda Mawhinney. Her love of color and texture allows her to create bold compositions.

She said she chooses colors, then intuitively allows the painting to evolve, building layers and letting them create their own energy.

Mawhinney uses oil and cold wax on board and as she works scraping and scratching through many layers.

For most of her career Susan Grant painted large, colorful, abstract canvases as well as hand-painted art-to-wear. But in recent years she said she has fallen in love with making glassjewelry.

Now her one-of-a-kind, multi-layered, fused glass pendants are bold statement pieces that translate the energy of her paintings into wearable works of art that fit in the palm of your hand.

Expressions Northwest is a multi-disciplined exhibit that includes artists from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia and Alaska.

Juror David Sessions has selected pieces to include in the show from artists’ submissions.

Artists chosen for the exhibit are David Allen, Marilyn Bergstrom, Mike Biskup, Shari Bray, Philip Carrico, Denise Champion, Vivian Chesterley, Stephen Cunliffe, Brian Fisher, Ernie Flowers, Margaret Gibbs, Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, Sue Hamilton, Steve Jensen, Kip Kania, Steven Kennel, Kari MacKenzie, Leslie Newman, Scott Pascoe, Nick Payne,

Elizabeth Reutlinger, MaryAnn Royer, Kathleen Secrest, Kim Simonelli, Donna Strathy, Randy Sturgis, Roger Travis, Diane Walker, Helga Winter, Perry Woodfin.

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

Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., features the works of Mitchel Osborne and Barbara Ewing.

Osborne is a professional photographer who has been a contributor to international travel guides, travel magazines, books and major editorial publications. The majority of his photography career was in New Orleans before moving to Port Townsend in 2006, according to a news release.

He has concentrated on the travel industry extensively photographing locations worldwide. In New Orleans, Osborne specialized in editorial and commercial photography, Mardi Gras and steamboats of the Mississippi River. He has published books, guides and calendars on the South, New Orleans, steamboats and Mardi Gras.

Osborne was also a contract photographer for the Associated Press based in Johannesburg, South Africa, covering breaking news there.

Living in Port Townsend, Osborne began photographing many of the maritime subjects and discovered a new appeal in the beauty, craftsmanship and preservation of the boats in this historical setting. Soon he extended his maritime interest to publish the Wooden Boat Festival calendar featuring his photographs.

Osborne’s photography continues to document and display the result of the challenge to express his unique vision of the diversity of maritime subjects. The August show features his signature reflection series and boats of the Wooden Boat Festival.

Ewing has been involved in the ceramic arts since high school. She attended Alfred University in New York, a well known ceramic arts college. She has also attended many workshops over the years and participates in Port Townsend Gallery and local artist events. She has also taught ceramics in Scotland and the U.S.

Her functional pottery, in the form of vases, wall sconces, platters and bottles, etc. are uniquely patterned using stamps, stencils and found objects. Each piece is slab-formed and fired using commercial, low-fire stoneware clays and cone 6 glazes.

The Port Townsend Gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, call 360-379-8110.

Port Townsend School of the Arts Downtown, 236 Taylor St., features the paintings of four faculty members who recently have shown in the Phyllis Lamphere Gallery in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. The exhibit opens Aug. 2 and runs through Aug. 25.

The faculty members are Meg Kaczyk, Kim Kopp, Linda Okazaki and Julie Read, who teach fundamental and innovative techniques for approaching contemporary art, according to a news release.

The exhibit includes their varied works on paper and canvas in acrylics, mixed media, and watercolor.

Also on display will be sketches and examples from class curricula.

Kaczyk was educated as an illustrator and designer at Kendall School of Design and worked as a creative director, educator, and fine artist in Portland, Oregon for 25 years before relocating to the Olympic Peninsula.

“My work expresses the splendid reality of living,” Kaczyk said. “I work with the paint to drip, flow and add dimension with layers of line, color, texture and pattern. My paintings are fluid experiences standing as frames of life.”

Kopp is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a 2013 recipient of a fellowship at Jentel, an artist residency program in Wyoming. In 2005, Kopp was an EDGE Professional Development participant and in 2002 she was awarded a GAP from Artist Trust in Washington State.

“I integrate into these multi-layered paintings memories from my frequent walks in the woods near my studio,” Kopp said. “I endeavor to bring personal impressions into physical form, where light, season, time, beauty, and sense of place become the essence of my work.”

Okazaki is a Washington State University graduate who taught fine arts at WSU and The Evergreen State College. Port Townsend Film Festival selected her work for the 2018 festival poster art.

Her paintings are included in collections at the Seattle Art Museum, Microsoft, Washington State Art Collection, Jefferson Museum of Art and History and in private collections in NYC and abroad.

Read said she became inspired to pick up a paintbrush after encountering the Vermont folk artist Richard Chalmers, who lives in her father’s old family home. However, it was under the tutelage of one of PtSA’s founders, Max Grover, that she launched her first solo show and painting career.

“My love of all things kitsch is evident – if not celebrated – in much of my work,” Read said. “Kitsch, plants, animals, and distant family relatives are suspended in surreal, intricately detailed environments. In other pieces I approach the macabre with bright, cheerful colors. My hope for all of my paintings is that they be put on a wall that has garish wallpaper. Dare I say it in an artist statement, but I aim for a beautiful, well done tacky.”

Join these artists and other PtSA faculty-artists during Art Walk to talk about their work and the classes they offer.

PtSA Downtown is open noon to 6 p.m. seven days a week or by appointment.

Quimper Sound Records, 1044 Water St., features colorful prints about music and culture by Remedios Rapoport. With the old world look of Victorian scrolls and pop color of the 70s, these prints can take you into a Yellow Submarine space and other sublime places.

Two Sisters Gallery, 210 Polk St., on the second floor of the Kuhn Building, displays original works by Lisa Allison Blohm. She will also fundraise for the nonprofit Orca Network and Center for Whale Research.

Useful-to-reader information was not submitted for these Art Walk stops: The Artful Sailor Whole Earth Nautical Supply, Bishop Victorian Hotel, Coldwell Banker, The Cotton Building, and Gallery 9.

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