Port Townsend’s First Saturday Art Walk takes place 5:30-8 p.m. on Aug. 5. Wander the galleries and shops for fresh exhibits of art. Many of the artists are to be on hand to talk about their work.

JoAnn Raines & Anne Schneider

Port Townsend Gallery

715 Water St.

A painter and a collage artist are featured at Port Townsend Gallery this month.

Watercolorist JoAnn Raines uses an impressionistic style to reflect her subject matter, which ranges from still lifes to people in everyday settings to favorite landscapes, local and beyond. When not sketching and painting outdoors, Raines photographs scenes to paint in the future.

Anne Schneider brings acrylic paints and collage papers to the canvas, and employs whimsical qualities and dynamic movement as she tells a story in her art, the artist stated. She creates collage papers by making monoprints, using acrylic paints with stencils, masks, lines, stamps and textures. She layers these and other papers with acrylic paints on substrates of canvas, wood board or paper. Following the layering, a process of excavating through the layers and adding transparent layers begins. After many layers of paint and papers, a balance and dimensionality merge in the work, according to a press release.

‘A Sense of Place’

Gallery 9

1012 Water St.

Paintings and jewelry that celebrate a sense of place are featured at Gallery 9 this month. For painter Meg Kaczyk and jeweler Michael Kenney, their expression is rooted in the places they call home, and the subject matter and materials they choose to work with reflects that.

Kaczyk sketches the water, boats, mountains and sky, incorporating watercolor, and from these loose watercolor sketches paints expressionist scenes in liquid acrylic on panels.

“I like to take the initial sketch beyond the realm of realism, to capture the feeling, the motion and the heart of a scene,” said Kaczyk, who trained at Kendall College of Art and Design, and also works in oils, cut paper, monoprints and watercolor.

Kenney, a founding member of Gallery 9, often uses rare and unusual materials with ancient origins in his jewelry designs. For August, he features jewelry made with fossil ammonite shells and agatized dinosaur bone.

‘Expressions northwest’

Northwind Arts Center

701 Water St.

‘Expressions Northwest,’ which brings together artists from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, British Columbia and Alaska, is part of the 19th annual Art Port Townsend Festival, which takes place all month. The 65-piece show is at the gallery through Aug. 27. A reception is at 5:30 p.m., Aug. 4. This year’s juror is Susan Warner, who is set to give a lecture at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 5. Other events at Northwind throughout the month include an opportunity for writers to respond to the art show on Aug. 8 and a reading on Aug. 24 at 7 p.m. Port Ludlow Players are to read Noel Coward’s “Nude with a Violin” at 4 p.m., Aug. 20. On Aug. 25, guitarist and songwriter Simon Lynge is to perform at 7 p.m. The final event of the festival is a free Artist Studio Tour which will take place on August 26-27.

Northwind also presents photographer Brian Goodman as its artist of the month. For more than 50 years, Goodman’s photography has spanned the globe, capturing landscapes, characters and studies using a wide variety of methods and media.

“Our ability to think clearly, critically and creatively is largely dependent on our will to create space for these processes to occur,” said Goodman, who discusses his current body of work, “Solace of Space,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 13 at Northwind.

‘Cabinet of Curiosities”

Jefferson Museum of Art & History

540 Water St.

There’s great art and creepy artifacts on show at the Jefferson Museum of Art & History, which is open for Art Walk. On temporary exhibit at the museum are “Pat and Peter Simpson: Collectors and Patrons,” featuring art collected in the 1970s and 1980s, paired with recent works by the same artists; and “Cabinet of Curiosities,” featuring an exhibit of rare, weird and creepy artifacts from the Jefferson County Historical Society collection.

(Compiled by Leader staff writer Katie Kowalski.)