The enticing artistic creations of some of the Olympic Peninsula’s best and brightest is on display at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery for the 2022 Artist Showcase.

Each year, Northwind Art hosts an Artist Showcase program featuring some artists from the previous year to continue on and some new artists to join the art nonprofit.

For 2022, all of the artists — returning and new — were selected by a panel of jurors viewing anonymous submissions.

Northwind Art’s 2022 showcase, “A New Year, New Beginnings,” is now on display at the Jeanette Best Gallery on Water Street. The exhibition will continue through December 2022. 

The exhibit presents a curated collection of local artists in a traditional gallery format. Local artists showing in the exhibit are Vivian Chesterley, Larry Crockett, Stephen Deligan, Jeanne Edwards, James Ferrara, Brian Goodman, Joyce Hester, Francesca Campbell Hulick, Roberta Krause, Aliina Lahti, Donna LaHue, Wanda Mawhinney, Evan Miller, Jacki Moseley, David Noble, Sandra Offutt, Elizabeth Reutlinger, Egor Shokoladov, Kim Simonelli, Jolene Sunding, and Linda Tilley.

Art mediums on display include oils, acrylics, watercolor, photography, mixed media, and sculpture.

New work is always being added, and several shows during the year feature themes related to the Pacific Northwest region.

The Artist Showcase is not a co-op gallery. Artists are not expected to staff the gallery, nor do they have dedicated “walls” or spaces. The showcase space beyond the front exhibition space of Northwind’s Jeanette Best Gallery — in the historic 1885 Waterman-Katz Building — shifts and changes with the seasons, with new work being added on a continuing basis.

To learn more, go to northwindart.org.