KarenLee Eaton and Nancy Rody will be the featured artists at Gallery 9 in July, the gallery has announced.

Eaton’s photography will be on display this month at the gallery, home of the North Olympic Artist Cooperative, along with glass jewelry and stained glass sculptures by Rody.

Eaton was born and raised in Port Townsend. Her history behind the lens comes from the discovery of her dad’s old 35mm Pentax SLR when she was 7, and her pleas for him to teach her how to use it. After many years of photographing with film she went digital, and in 2017, completed the University of Washington’s Certificate in Photography program where she began a deep love with photographing the night sky and chasing down hummingbirds.

For her featured artist show in July, Eaton returns to her photographic roots of Pacific coastal scenes and forests. 

Eaton will also be exhibiting her signature night sky work and a collection of hummingbird images reflecting every season. 

Rody began as a traditional stained-glass artist 27 years ago, and gradually developed and learned new ways of working with glass. She has been inspired by training at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington and Bullseye Glass in Portland, where she learned glass and related material design and construction from a number of well-known guest glass masters.

This month, the gallery will present Rody’s contemporary glass and china mosaic art pieces. Mosaic art — made up of cut fragments of glass, stone, or other materials — has been created since at lease 4000BC, first known in Greece and Rome. 

In her new mosaics, Rody uses adhesives to apply tiles, cut glass, and broken ceramic pieces to items such as glass forms, terra cotta planters, and vases. Colored grout is used to fix the pieces in place, and the resulting pieces are built to last and are safe and sturdy for display both indoors and outdoors.

This work is an extension of her explorations of new directions in art glass, working and combining glass with different materials in unique ways that she has developed herself.

Gallery 9 shows a wide range of paintings and artisan crafts and is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays. The gallery is located at 1012 Water St., Port Townsend.