Art showcases, music festivals and a one-woman play highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula.
• The First Friday Art Walk will celebrate with a blue-themed event from 5 to 8 tonight at various venues in downtown Sequim.
Maps for the self-guided tour are available at www.sequimartwalk.com.
Special events in September include:
— Whimsey Park, 130 E. Washington St., will host the Rain Shadow Artisans and Peninsula College’s community education department. The latter will present a performance by the college’s belly dance students.
— The Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., will host a reception for “Nature Nurtures” from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The exhibit will feature nature-inspired artwork by Marilyn Hiestand and Shayna Robnett.
“Nature Nurtures” will be on display from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays throughout September.
For more information, visit www.bluewholegallery.com.
— Sequim’s city arts commission will host an artist reception for its Northwest Expressions Art Exhibit from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the civic center, 152 W. Cedar St.
The reception will include musical entertainment and light refreshments.
The exhibit will feature art inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s towering evergreens, misty coastlines, mountain peaks and rain-washed skies.
Contributing artists were encouraged to explore the theme of the enduring connections between people and places through literal, symbolic or emotional interpretations.
The exhibit will feature paintings in a variety of mediums, sculpture, mixed media, fiber art, photography and pastels.
Northwest Expressions can be viewed from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays until Oct. 20.
For more information, call Sarah Hurt, the city’s arts coordinator, at 360-582-2477 or email shurt@sequimwa.gov.
— Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., will display work by the Peninsula Art Quilters’ exhibit, “Challenging our Creativity,” at the Judith McInnes Tozzer Art Gallery.
The exhibit will feature art quilts and fiber arts from previous exhibits “Inspired by Birds,” “Trees on the Discovery Trail” and “Circles.”
— The A. Milligan Art Studio and Gallery, 520 N. Sequim Ave., will continue to exhibit “Chiaroscuro.”
Chiaroscuro, which means “light-dark” in Italian, is a technique that uses strong contrasts to create a sense of volume, depth and dramatic effect.
The exhibit will feature works by Suzan Noyes and gallery owner Anne Milligan.
— Sofie’s Flowers, 127 W. Washington St., will host artist Jessika Kearns from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Kearns works in oils and watercolors, as well as pen and ink drawings.
• The We Players, a San Francisco-based theater company, will present “The Keeper” at 6 p.m. tonight and Saturday and at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $15 to $45 per person at www.weplayers.org/2025-the-keeper-port- angeles-fine-arts-center.
The one-woman show will feature Ava Roy of Port Angeles as a female lighthouse keeper.
The play, co-written by Britt Lauer and Roy, is inspired by historical figures and includes passages and quotes from literature.
• The Olympickin’ Bluegrass Festival, a one-day fest, is set from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, Quilcene.
Tickets are $30 per person at https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/169601683/olympickin, children 12 and younger will be admitted free.
Camping is available for $15 per person. Parking is $5 per vehicle.
The lineup will feature Union City Council at 2 p.m., Rattlin’ Bones at 3 p.m., Rainshadow Stringband at 4 p.m., Robert Sarazin Blake at 5 p.m., Bex Bee and the Old Growth All-Stars performing for a square dance at 6 p.m., Hemlock Revival at 7 p.m., Sweater Weather Stringband at 8 p.m. and Fog Holler at 9 p.m.
The festival also will include a 25-mile out-and-back bike ride, which will leave the Lantern at 11 a.m. and run to the beach at Linger Longer in Quilcene.
For more information, visit www.sweaterweather stringband.com/olympickin -bluegrass-festival.
• The Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, also will host the Quietly! mini music fest at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The event will feature artists from Zach Alva’s booking company Quietly Music, including Nick Delffs, Westmoreland, Erisy Watt, Jeremy James Meyer, Sharon Silva, St. Yuma, LAKE and Damien Jurado.
The festival will open at noon on Sunday. Tickets are $30 plus fees and can be purchased at tinyurl.com/kbnjakab.
Camping is available for $15 and parking costs $5.
• The First Saturday Art Walk will showcase a variety of artwork in Port Townsend this weekend.
The monthly event will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, mostly in the downtown area.
Among the galleries that will stay open late are Gallery-9 and the Jefferson County Historical Society’s Museum of Art + History.
— Gallery 9, 1012 Water St., will feature oil paintings by Susan Martin Spar and sculptures and ceramic tiles created by Sarah Fitch from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Martin Spar will exhibit a retrospective of her work, including some of her earlier classical pieces as well as some expressionist work and mixed media.
Fitch, a self-taught artist, makes bas-relief stoneware ceramic tiles and sculptures that can be described as earthy folk art with a whimsical and spiritual nature. Her tiles are created one at a time and are stoneware fired to 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit to make them more durable.
Gallery-9 is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
For more information, visit www.gallery-9.com.
— The Jefferson County Historical Society’s Museum of Art + History will remain open until 7 p.m. to allow the public to view two new exhibitions during Saturday’s Art Walk.
The Ferguson Gallery will exhibit “A Practice of Noticing — 1995-2025,” a retrospective display of Kim Kopps’ artwork.
The exhibition, which opened Thursday, will feature works in many different media from Kopps’ more than 35-year art practice.
The Wilson Gallery will open a community-curated show, “The History of Home: Now” on Saturday.
The exhibit will feature infographics designed by the Housing Solutions Network and work curated by Eden Bloom from its Curating Empathy project that launched with Jefferson County Public Health earlier this year.
Curating Empathy utilizes photographs, narratives and objects to highlight the housing crisis in the community through the lens of the unhoused and the agencies that support them.
Both exhibits will be on display from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays for the rest of the year.
For more information, email info@jchsmuseum.com or visit www.jchsmuseum.org.
— The Port Townsend Gallery, 715 Water St., will host a reception for Tom Saknit and Martha Collins from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m..
Saknit, a photographer, and Collins, a wood artist, will be featured at the gallery throughout September.
Saknit will exhibit 10 more pieces of redacted photography from his Pacific Rim suite.
His work leaves only the main elements of a photograph intact. The rest of the picture is reduced to black and white lines.
The new additions are set in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan, as well as Hong Kong and Vietnam.
Collins was trained as a cabinetmaker before he decided to use wood as an artistic medium.
She uses the colors and grain patterns of hardwoods and natural or dyed veneers to make intricate bowls, jewelry and tableware.
Collins uses sustainably harvested hardwoods from around the world and dyed maple veneer to create a block of striped material. The block is then sliced or mitered, rearranged and re-laminated before the new block is put on a lathe and turned into a bowl or bracelet.
The artwork of Collins and Saknit will be on display from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at the Port Townsend Gallery.
For more information, call 360-379-8110 or visit www.porttownsendgallery.com.
• A reception for an art exhibit by Michelle Lindblom will be conducted from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Dandelion Botanical Co., 4681 Sequim Dungeness Way, Sequim.
Lindblom works in mixed-media canvases and monotypes and uses color, texture, movement and shapes to abstractly interpret landscapes, underwater scenes, skyscapes and plant life.
The exhibit will include large and small acrylics, monotypes, unframed work, handmade journals and original notecards, and most of the work will be available for purchase.
Lindblom’s artwork can be viewed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays until Oct. 31.
For more information, email michellerlindblom@proton.me or visit www.michellelindblom.com.
• Music on the Strait will conclude its season with two chamber concerts this weekend.
The Art of the String Quartet series at Maier Hall, which is sold out, will present “The String Quartet II: Bach, Frank and Glass” at 7 p.m. Friday.
The concert will feature Rachel Lee Priday, violin; James Garlick, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; and Efe Baltacıgıl, cello.
The program will include selections from J.S. Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima” by Philip Glass and Gabriela Lena Frank’s 2005 “Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout.”
Frank is Music on the Strait’s composer-in-residence.
Jeremy Denk and friends will perform the festival finale, Frank and Faure, at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.
Tickets are $55 per person, with some seats available as “pay what you want,” at www.fieldhall events.org/tickets.
The concert will feature Denk, a pianist, along with pianist and composer Gabriela Lena Frank; Garlick, O’Neill and Baltacıgil.
The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Duet with two Obligato Eyeglasses Viola and Cello,” WoO 32, Frank’s Sonata Serrana No. 1 for four hands, and Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15.
For more information, visit www.musiconthestrait.org.
• Kitsap Bank will continue its “From Shred to Fed” fundraiser for a sixth year from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The Port Townsend branch, 2312 E. Sims Way, will accept monetary donations for the Port Townsend Food Bank, and the Sequim Branch, 1320 W. Washington St., will accept donations to benefit the Sequim Food Bank.
Members of the public may bring up to 75 pounds of documents per vehicle for shredding along with a cash or check donation.
All funds will be donated to the respective food banks.
The “From Shred to Fed” program has raised more than $110,000 for local food banks.
A fundraiser is scheduled for the Port Angeles branch on Sept. 20.
For more information, visit www.kitsapbank.com.
• The Sequim Branch Library will host a yarn circle from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the library’s temporary location, 609 W. Washington St., Sequim.
The circles are open to knitters, crocheters, embroiderers and cross-stitchers; all experience levels are welcome.
Coffee, tea and cocoa will be provided.
For more information, call 360-683-1161, email discover@nols.org or visit www.nols.org.
• Suzann Parker will present “How to be an Organized Fiber Nerd” at 10 a.m. Saturday during a meeting of the North Olympic Shuttle and Spindle Guild at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1033 N. Barr Road, Port Angeles.
The public is welcome to attend the free meeting.
For more information, email n.o.shuttleand spindleguild@gmail.com or visit www.nossg.org.
• Julie O’Donald will present “Native Plants for Bees, Butterflies and Hummingbirds” at 10 a.m. Saturday in Rainshadow Hall at the Dungeness River Nature Center, 1943 W. Hendrickson Road.
O’Donald’s presentation will celebrate National Hummingbird Day as well as the North Olympic Peninsula’s recent designation as a Community Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.
The presentation is part of the Backyard Birding series sponsored by the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society.
Admission is by $5 donation; proceeds support the society’s education and bird conservation programs.
For more information, visit www.olympicpeninsulaaudubon.org.
• Clallam County Master Gardeners David Rambin, Diane Young, Tom Zingarelli, Kelly Pankau, Jennifer Blackwood, John Stednick and Dave Eberle will present “Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening” at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road, Sequim.
The free presentation is part of the Digging Deeper gardening series.
The master gardeners will discuss types of raised beds, location and design considerations, soil preparation, watering, mulches and attachments.
The workshop also will include a tour of the vegetable garden to showcase various types of framed raised beds, trellises and season extenders.
For more information, call 360-565-2679 or visit https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam.
