Friday Art Walk goes aqua for first Irrigation Festival weekend
Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 1, 2019
First Friday Art Walk Sequim
When: 5-8 p.m. May 3
Where: Various venues in, near downtown Sequim
On the web: www.sequimartwalk.com
The Sequim Irrigation Festival’s — “Where water is wealth” — inspires the aqua color theme celebrating cultivation and culture during the Sequim First Friday Art Walk on May 3.
Besides wearing aqua, all are encouraged to dress up in amusing and whimsical outfits for the Irrigation Festival’s “Crazy Daze Breakfast”!
First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a fun, free, self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m. Go to www.SequimArtWalk.com for a map, find special events and links, and to be part of art.
Special events
The Irrigation Festival Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair launches the First Friday Art Walk Sequim Patron Preview at the Sequim Civic Center Plaza, 152 W. Cedar St. This is the fair’s 29th year that features vendors selling handcrafted wares. Participate in the Community Creativity Activity to color small parts of the 2019 Irrigation Festival logo to make a giant logo mural that will be on display at Coastal Farm & Ranch. Bring DIY reuse, recycle, repurpose creations to win prizes on Friday night or Saturday morning. Enter to win in the People’s Choice Awards in four categories: Wearable, Functional, Decorative and Kids 15 and under.
Recycle, reuse and repurpose are an underlying theme of the Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair that has creative demonstrations throughout Saturday and Sunday, as well as an Innovative Reuse Showcase and Contest you can enter on Friday night and Saturday morning. Enjoy entertainment and food as well on May 4-5! Find details at www.IrrigationFestival.com.
Innovative Arts and Crafts Fair vendors include 3D Wood Maps, Ansley Art & Images, Art to Suit You, Beyond Caricature, Creative Iron Works, CR Wearables, DJ’s Pens, Full Moon Rising Body Care Co., Generations Boutique, Gypsy Bound, hue are you?, I Found Treasurers, Lazy Soul, Lil’ Log Cabin Creations, Misty Hollow Woods, Moments in Time and Design, Inc., New Dungeness Light Station Association, Olympic Peninsula Authors, Paperwings Studio, Peninsula Friends of Animals, Phoenixx Fibers, Pop’s Sausage Grill, PNW Arts & Treats, Sassy Glass, Sativa Valley Essentials, Sequim Bee Farm, Sharray Originals, Snow Creek Leather, The Shepherd’s Fold, The Tangled Gourd, Tsunami Bat Company, Uniquely Designed Jewelry, Welfare for Animals Guild and Your Old Silver.
Throughout the town, artwork created by our local students for the 2019 Irrigation Festival Button Contest will be on display at several Sequim merchants.
New Art Walk venue! Design2Scan3D, 207 W. Spruce St., features 3D printing, 3D scanning and ceramics classes. Mayor Dennis Smith agreed to let them scan him and make him into a ceramic figurine atop an olla that they made together in the studio. Design2Scan3D plans to present this olla to the mayor and City of Sequim in the studio to celebrate the Art Walk and Irrigation Festival.
R&T Crystals and Beads, 158 E. Bell St., is having its 10-year anniversary celebration. Along with a sale, treats from Sequim Fresh Catering will be served.
Tracy Wealth Management, 149 W. Washington St., hosts members of North Olympic Watercolorists, who are displaying their watercolors. Participating artists are Carol Wilhelm, John Wilkinson, Jim Gift, Beverly Beighle, Rita Heywood, Roger Huntley and Shirley Rudolf.
Pondicherri, 119 E. Washington St., hosts artist Monica Gutierrez Quarto. Her artwork ranges from paintings and monotypes to woodcuts. Nature is an obvious theme in her pieces with magic and whimsy mixed in. She hosts local workshops in Sequim and Port Angeles. Art Walk guests will receive special pricing on her upcoming workshops just in time for Mother’s Day! Sign up during Art Walk required. Quarto states of her work, “Nature plays an integral role in all of my artwork, as does the interaction between human beings and wildlife. I’m attempting through art to help revive the soul and change the hearts of the people who have lost the balance with nature and have become numbed to its essential elements.”
Sequim Museum & Arts, 175 W. Cedar St., hosts “Discoveries and Abstractions” with photographer Jerry Fagerlund and fiber artist Liisa Fagerlund. The photographs and collages represented in this exhibition reflect the wide range of environments the two have experienced in their years together. Travel interests and career advancement gave them the opportunity to live and work in a number of different and fascinating places including Nigeria, Utah canyon country, France, New York and the Pacific Northwest. Liisa is inspired by the natural world including the wonderful colors and patterns of landscape and the human environment. She began focusing on art after retirement to Sequim, taking classes in drawing and painting, employing sewing skills in creative ways to make art quilts, fabric collages and wearable art. She benefits from the vision of her husband and his photography, learning to look and really see the world around her. Many of her collages are inspired by photographs he has taken.
The “Art in an Aqua Tone” exhibition at the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., features artists Carol Janda and Stacey Martin-Lopez. Janda is known for her two- and three-dimension artwork, and will showcase her paintings including waterscapes and stoneware pottery with a touch of nature. Martin-Lopez will exhibit paintings, revealing her long-standing expertise in gouache. Her selection of pieces for the window also includes an aqua tone. These veteran artists are eager to talk about their art with art supporters of the community. Martin-Lopez states, “I prefer working with graphite and the vibrant colors of gouache as well as printmaking.” ( Janda also will offer Art Talk from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in the gallery, talking about her thoughts, techniques, ideology and developing abstract images and the various types of abstract expressionism.
Check out the Saxologists in their upcoming performance at Olympic Theatre Arts Gathering Hall, 414 N. Sequim Ave., starting at 5:30 p.m. The Sequim City Band Saxologists are a saxophone ensemble composed of members of the Sequim City Band, with current instrumentation a quartet of saxes – soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. The sound is both warm and edgy and the range of music covers everything from classical to pop, ragtime to smooth jazz. Each instrument has an opportunity to shine in solo melodic lines as well as blending into the overall sound of the quartet with full, rich ensemble moments. The Saxologists are community ambassadors for Sequim City Band. Performing in venues more intimate than those that can accommodate the entire band, they introduce young and old to the joy of live musical performance. First Friday at OTA is always free to the public, where the snack and beverage bar will be open.
The Peninsula Taproom, 210 W. Washington St., Suite 4, offers springtime brews and hand-crafted spirits at Evil Roy’s Elixirs Distillery, 209 S. Sequim Ave.
Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., hosts artist Carolyn Votaw and live music with Hannah and Christian. “Far Shores: New works by Carolyn Votaw” is an exhibition of monotype impressions of natural treasures collected from the far shores of the Olympic Peninsula and also features a selection of miniature linocut prints inspired by the Pacific Northwest through May. Hannah and Christian are a wife and husband duo with a mixture of songs from the 1970-1990s. Partner live music, art, and award winning artfully crafted wines and appetizing tidbits at Wind Rose.
Visit the Olympic Peninsula Art Association’s Member Art Show, Sale and Silent Auction at the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St.
Robin’s Place, 300 E. Washington St., is displaying Tami Wall’s artwork.
More about Art Walk
Initiated in 2006, First Friday Art Walk Sequim is an encouraging and educational arts event sponsored and produced by Renne Emiko Brock. The mission is to create approachable and accessible art and cultural venues that encourage the community to connect and celebrate expression and diversity.
To participate as a venue or artist on the Official First Friday Art Walk Sequim map, listing and website, contact Emiko Brock at 360-460-3023 or renne@uniqueasyou.com. Artists of any media are asked to get your information to her for publicity and opportunities.
To create inclusion between venues, artists, and audience, all are encouraged to participate in the Art Walk’s monthly themes as a fun community activity in any creative form they wish to express it. January is silver, February is red, March is green, April is pink, May is aqua, June is white, July is purple, August is yellow, September is blue, October is orange, November is brown and December is gold.
