Fiber arts festival set

It’s another fiber arts frenzy on tap at the 17th-annual North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, with several events scheduled to celebrate the craft in October and November.

The exhibit, which comes with the theme “Interlaced Lore — Adventure, Fellowship, & Perseverance,” will be featured at Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., from Oct. 1-Nov. 26.

Community members can view this free exhibit 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. All ages are welcome.

Meet the artists and learn about their adventures at the fiber arts exhibition’s opening reception set for 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2, at the museum.

During the First Friday Art Walk Sequim (5-8 p.m. on Oct. 7), visitors are invited to see fiber artists demonstrating how they create their detailed artwork, and try out fiber methods themselves, too.

Participating artists also host a Fiber Arts Market during the Nov. 4 First Friday Art Walk from 5-8 p.m., and a Small Business Saturday sale from 11 am.-3 p.m. on Nov. 26.

“The North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival is an opportunity to experience positive inclusion, creative expression, encouraged education, the economic enterprise of art, and fostering fiber arts,” said Renne Emiko Brock, director of the North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival.

“This fiber arts exhibition embraces fantastical and very true stories of endurance and friendship through heroic efforts, tests and trials, collaborations, and leading by example,” she said.

“Gather fabric stashes, skeins of yarn, courageous companions, and wise mentors to prepare for this everlasting journey of fiber art. What legends of dedication, commitment to bound connections, intertwined myths, and persistence weave stories within your art?”

Exhibiting artists include Lora Armstrong, Libby Ballard, Lynn Baritelle, Holly Bliss, Renne Emiko Brock, Donna Lee Dowdney, Liisa Fagerlund, Susanne Foster, Jennifer Harris, Estelle Jackson, Lee E. Johnson, Susan Kroll, Robin Nelson, Jennifer O’Brien, Betty Oppenheimer, Pauline Schultz, Peggy St. George, Marla Varner, Chandra Wu, and Jean Wyatt.

Find more details at FiberArtsFestival.org and facebook.com/northolympicfiberartsfestival.

17th-annual North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival

Exhibit dates: Oct. 1-Nov. 26

Location: Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave.

Hours/days: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday

Cost: Free

Website: FiberArtsFestival.org