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First Friday Art Walk Sequim

When: 5-8 p.m. Nov. 2

Location: Various venues near downtown Sequim

On the web: SequimArtWalk.com

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Get earthy at the next First Friday Art Walk Sequim.

First Friday Art Walk Sequim is a free, self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m. Visit online at SequimArtWalk.com to print a map, find special events and links, and how to be part of art.

Event organizers’ mission is to “create approachable and accessible art and cultural venues that encourage the community to connect and celebrate expression and diversity.”

The Nov. 2 art walk theme is brown — representing fall harvest and abundance, the turning of the leaves and seasonal spicy treats.

Special events

“Transformative Style – Originality, Revolution, & Repute,” a show featuring artist demonstrations and a fiber arts exhibition, is at the Sequim Museum & Arts at 175 W. Cedar St. This juried fiber arts exhibition embracing how attire and fiber artworks reveal spirits in color, action and intent. All fiberworks that explores how apparel influences and makes a difference in historic consequences, altered narratives, and personal evolution. Worn inspiration and reputation, from sublime costumes to heartfelt heirlooms, authenticates individual aesthetics and fuses integrity with fabric, fashion and fate.

“Transformative Style” exhibition artists include Carolyn Abbott, Lora Armstrong, Aleta Lynn Baritelle, Amanda Beitzel, Karen Bright, Renne Emiko Brock, Mary Ann Clayton, Betty Cook, Sally Ann Corbett, Bruce Cully, Anne Davies, Marca Davies, Denise Erickson, Kathey Ervin, Liisa Fagerlund, Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Susanne Foster, MarySue French, Carol Geer, Janet Green, Marilyn Heisted, Erica Iseminger, Estelle Jackson, Michelle Johnson, Susan Kroll, Mary Liebsch, Gladis Marr, Kathy Martin, Seri Mylchreest, Sherry Nagel, Sue Nylander, Patti Pattison, Jennifer Pelikan, Judy Ramos, Gloria Skovronsky, Judith Reandeau Stipe, Jan Tatom, Sue Thompson, Gail Van Horsen, Marla Varner, Karen Weiss, Pepai Whipple, Nancy K Wilcox, Diane Williams, Diane Wolf and Jean Wyatt.

Rainshadow Café, at 157 W Cedar St., hosts performer Dawn Martin with her diverse style and soulful hard-edge vocals that will rock the house. Dawn grew up in a musical family and began playing the piano and singing at age four with her dad W.L. Martin. Her family entertained regularly playing mostly bluegrass and old style country music. She also studied classical piano, competed in concerto competitions and attended San Francisco State University as a piano performance major. Always an entertainer, Dawn played in jazz and rock bands during this time and would slide off to the clubs to sing and play. Dawn recently relocated to Sequim from Vail Colorado where she has been playing regularly as a soloist and with duos, trios and full bands.

At 129 W. Washington St., Blue Whole Gallery’s exhibition “Sound of Waves” features award-winning painters Melanie Burns and Nancy Delgado. Skies to waters, sea creatures to the sound of waves, and the unity of grandmother and her granddaughter, together the two artists present in the front window gallery.

Born and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, a rain forest of mostly blues and grays, Burns is drawn to color. When the clouds finally dissipate and southeast Alaska is blessed with a sunrise or sunset, there is nothing more captivating and overwhelming to her. She loves the color, the way it blends into everything. When she paints in her unique way with acrylics, she first introduces the colors to each other and gets them to talk, then the colors take over, blending as they will and what emerges is a representation of what she sees. Delgado has been a realist since she was old enough to hold a paintbrush, and has been creating art in one form or another all her life in various mediums. In the early 1990s she took a watercolor class from Carol Janda and fell in love with the luminosity and immediacy of the medium while pushing color beyond the pale norm. For the past 11 years, Delgado has been a faux painter on the beautiful luxury yachts and picked up her brushes for the journey of focusing on painting artful and peaceful images of our world.

At 5:30 p.m. Olympic Theatre Arts, at 414 N. Sequim Ave., has Sicilian born concert pianist Giovanni Andolina performing his own work, “Eleonora della Baronia Concerto.” The performance weaves an original piano concerto together with the prose of a classic Sicilian love story. Andolina will be telling the story primarily in English, but also incorporates some of the original Italian into the work. The performance weaves an original piano concerto together with the prose of a classic Sicilian love story. Mr. Andolina will be telling the story primarily in English, but also incorporates some of the original Italian into the work. “It is a legend of a passionate and true love from around the year 1600 in my birthplace of Milazzo, Sicily,” says Andolina, graduate of the Francesco Cilea Music Conservatory in Italy. “I did write the entire piano concerto and I performed it in my home town in Sicily at the Teatro Trifiletti. Since then I have worked in translating the piece to be able to perform it in both Italian and English.” First Friday at OTA is always free to the public, where the snack and beverage bar will be open.

Sequim Community Makerspace Inventing Studio, at 311 W. Turnhere Road, is owned by Brad Griffith, a wood bending designer and creator of Sequim Community Makerspace, who opens his inventing studio to the public for hands on activities and tours. You can also visit the studio of Kelly Griffith, Brad’s wife, who is the designer and maker behind THISTLE. For those of you looking for a gift of unique jewelry for that special someone, look no more. Classy and romantic with a hint of attitude, THISTLE is about adornment which is funky, upcycled, unexpected, and earthy. Free gift wrapping with purchase. Also, the studio / home was Sequim’s first creamery “Dungeness-Sequim Cooperative Creamery” built in 1914, which also can be accessed via West Hendrickson Road across from the Sequim Middle School.

Alderwood Bistro has artwork from the North Olympic watercolorists members on display at 139 W. Alder St. They are a group of artists living on the North Olympic Peninsula who share a love of the watercolor medium. Members represent a cross section of experience ranging from beginners to professionals. Painting together twice-weekly at the Lazy Acres “Studio,” they share ideas, tips, techniques and constructive critiques. These sessions, where each artist paints in their own style, with a wide range of subject matter provide the group with support, encouragement and inspiration.

Wind Rose Cellars at 143 W. Washington St. hosts live music by Cort Armstrong in a solo performance starting at 7 p.m., with award-winning wines and appetizing tidbits available. Armstrong performs a mixture of blues, rock and some folk until 9 p.m.

Jan Kepley will be displaying his fine art photography at Pacific Pantry at 229 S. Sequim Ave. from 5-7 p.m. The show is expression of Kepley’s metaphoric and scenic winter influenced imagery as well as a display of photographic note cards and 2019 calendars.

Experience an evening with Diane Fatzinger of Sticks ‘n Stones Design at Forage Gifts & Northwest Treasures at 121 W. Washington St. Some people use a camera to capture a scene, while Fatzinger uses pebbles, driftwood, sea glass and other natural materials. Some of the materials are from her home state of Montana, some are from long beach walks here on the Olympic Peninsula. A lot of the scenes are of outdoor activities, especially the ones with dogs in remembrance of her dog, Bailey.

The City Arts Advisory Commission’s “Rocks, Gems & Jewels” exhibit is from 5-8 p.m. at the Sequim Civic Center, 152 W. Cedar St. Artists represented are Bob Riley, Gail McLain, Pat Herkal, Kathy Schreiner, Mark Weiss, Eva Kozun, Paulette Hill, Scott Thornhill, David Johannessohn, Barbara Neswald, Katherine Loveland, Evan Miller, Mary Marsh, Randy Radock and Beighle, Nagle and Feigenbutz.

Pondicherri & Handprint is celebrating 25 years all month during November with a kick-off party during the Sequim Art Walk at 119 E. Washington St.

Fiber fun by local artists with handcrafted works and artful up-cycled items at The Bag Ladies of Sequim at 161 W. Washington St. They create colorful usable items from old wool blankets and garments that have otherwise seen their last days. All of their creations are one of a kind items that are handmade. Each item has a unique combination of felting, hand dying, beading, embroidering and appliqueing. Many artists’ works are for sale in their shop.

Also new to the Art Walk is The Dreamer’s Woods chainsaw sculpture and gallery of various artists, at 618 E. Washington St., Tracy Wealth Management at 149 W. Washington St. and Evil Roy’s Elixirs Distillery at 209 S. Sequim Ave.

About Art Walk

To participate as a venue or artist on the Official First Friday Art Walk Sequim map, listing and website, contact Renne Emiko Brock at 360-460-3023 or renne@uniqueasyou.com. Artists of any media are asked to get information to Renne 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.

Download map and learn more at SequimArtWalk.com. Join the Art Walk Facebook page at Face book.com/sequimartwalk.

Concert pianist Giovanni Andolina performs at Olympic Theatre Arts during the First Friday Art Walk on Nov. 3. Submitted photo

Jewelry by Kelly Griffin. Submitted photo

Artist demonstrations and a fiber arts exhibition is on tap with “Transformative Style – Originality, Revolution, Repute,” held at the Sequim Museum Arts at 175 W. Cedar St. on Nov. 2. Submitted photo