First Friday Art Walk
When: 5-8 p.m., Friday, March 4
Where: Downtown Sequim
More info: www.sequimartwalk.com
The March 4 Art Walk will be an evening filled with green apparel and hints of spring sprouting, supportive anticipation, revitalized luck and fresh starts.
March’s First Friday Art Walk Sequim reveals green as the theme color that represents youthful spirits, generous support, new ideas, wellness, nurturing natures and young at heart pursuits. Find works of art and folks supporting the option to decorate and dress in all shades of green for the evening out on the town.
First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a fun and free self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m. Visit www.sequimartwalk.com as your resource to download and print a map, find special events and how to be part of art.
The group’s mission is to create approachable, accessible art and cultural venues that encourage the community to connect and celebrate expression and diversity.
Special events
• Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., Sequim, will host the clarinet quartet Toot Sweet to perform Off Stage during Sequim’s First Friday Art Walk on March 4. The Toot Sweet ensemble includes three B-flat clarinets (Nancy Peterson, Mark Holman, and John Adams) plus a bass clarinet (Vicky Blakesley). The free First Friday performance will feature music from various eras and countries and spanning time from the Victorian age to the 1960s. The one-hour performance will begin at 6 p.m. in the Olympic Theatre Arts Gathering Hall; doors open at 5 p.m.
• The Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County Fundraising The Artistic Door project is presenting several artists at the Sequim Civic Center at 152 W. Cedar St. Artists from all over Washington are submitting stunning creations to be auctioned off at A Taste of the Peninsula in April. The doors will be on display in the communities in which they were created and you will find doors by the Boys & Girls Club, Sequim High School AP Art, Sequim Skate Park Community, Natalie Andrzejeski, Barb Boerigter, Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond, Norm Elder, Kevin James, Heather Neal, Jess O’Dell, Craig Robinson and Jeff the Tattoo Guy in Sequim. Don’t miss your chance to sneak a peek and cast your vote for your favorite! The entire collection will be together for the first time on April 15 for a preview and reception in Sunland.
• Starting at 6 p.m., the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave., hosts a storytelling program by featured artist Richard Jesse Watson and music by Bread and Gravy. Join the artist for an interactive dance of story, art and books with music while he pick ideas from the audience, turn them into quick drawings and create a story together. Bread and Gravy is the husband and wife duo of Jess and Stephanie Doenges. Based on the Olympic Peninsula, their music alternates between powerful rock and soulful blues to smooth bluegrass and good old fashioned Americana. Dynamically diverse and intricately woven, their musical poetry captures the rarest of dichotomies: raw and refined.
Sequim venues
• 1st Security Bank, 114 S. Sequim Ave. Jean Wyatt presents “Art that makes you smile” until 6 p.m. Her acrylic paintings, colored pencil art and journals are colorful, fun, whimsical, unusual and often a little off-beat.
• Hart’s Fine Books, 161 W. Washington St. hosts “Becoming Piper Pan” author Lindy MacLaine who just released Book 2 of her adventurous trilogy set in The Neverland. And, enjoy the music of harpist Paula Lalish.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., presents guest artist Mike McCollum with his art featuring pyramids and totems.
• Mia Bella, 130A N. Third Ave., features art by George Zien, Pat Gordon, Pam Kauffman, Pricilla Patterson, Brim Leal, J.P Lee and Josh Wright.
• R&T Crystals and Beads, 158 E. Bell St., fine jewelry demonstrations.
About Art Walk
To create inclusion between venues, artists, and audience, everyone is 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.
To participate as a venue or artist on the Official First Friday Art Walk Sequim map, listing and website, contact Brock-Richmond at 460-3023 or renne@uniqueasyou.com.
