First Friday Art Walk celebrates July with purple theme

By Sequim Gazette Staff • June 30, 2021 1:30 am
Craig Robinson is the featured artist at Sequim Habitat Boutique Store during the First Friday Art Walk on July 2 with pieces like “Fields of Lavender.” Submitted art
Craig Robinson is the featured artist at Sequim Habitat Boutique Store during the First Friday Art Walk on July 2 with pieces like “Fields of Lavender.” Submitted art

The Sequim First Friday Art Walk Color Theme on July 2 is purple — the color of Sequim’s famous lavender blooms and the color purple represents mesmerizing potential, magical camaraderie, thoughtfulness, cultivated dignity, supportive spiritual significance, and impressive extravagance. Those sweet lavender flowers come in purple, violet, mauve, orchid, lilac, indigo, amethyst, plum, pink and white.

Find works of art and folks supporting the option to dress in tints and shades of purple as fellow Sequimmers prepare for Sequim Lavender Season. Come out and celebrate what makes Sequim so special!

The First Friday Art Walk Sequim has returned while respecting the COVID health and wellness guidelines of masks, social distancing, and limited capacity. Enjoy the arts and culture of Sequim safely.

We are starting out small; not all venues are open fully with the slow start of the return of the evening activities of Sequim Art Walk, so please visit them when they are open.

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

Initiated in 2006, the Art Walk is an encouraging and educational arts event sponsored and produced by Renne Emiko Brock with a mission to create approachable, accessible art and cultural venues that encourage the community to connect and celebrate expression and diversity.

Special events

Celebrate a new venue on the Sequim Art Walk! A Stitch in Time Quilt Shoppe, 225 E. Washington St., will display local quilters’ work that corresponds with the monthly color theme. A Stitch in Time encourages people, if they have a quilt they made that coincides with the color designated for the Art Walk, to drop them off at their shop the day of the walk with their label and info attached to their quilt.

Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St., hosts members of NOW (North Olympic Watercolorists) with a display of the group’s artwork. Participating artists are Beverly Beighle, Barb Falk-Diekfuss, Connie Drysdale, Wendy Goldberg, Roger Huntley, Allyne Lawson, Shirley Rudolf, Randy Washburne and Carol Wilhelm. Enjoy award-winning, artfully crafted wines and appetizing tidbits at Wind Rose.

Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., features “Color and Light” with glass sculptor Deborah Harrison and watercolorist Jolene Sanborn.

Sequim Museum & Arts, 544 N. Sequim Ave., is hosting the exhibition “Artists’ Adventures” by Beverly Majors. Masks required and museum capacity limits apply. “The face of nature, mystery of earths’ sky, historic places and a multitude of everyday items gives me an ever changing array of subjects,” Majors says. “The hardest choice to make is, ‘What do I paint?’ or ‘Do I do a scratch art piece?’”

Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County’s Sequim Habitat Boutique Store, 213 E. Washington St., is showcasing local artist and advocate Craig Robinson.

Pacific Pantry, 229 S. Sequim Ave., is open until 7 p.m. and is featuring cougar photos by photographers Mark Elbroch, Sebastian Kennerknecht and Dave Shreffler. The exhibit is a fundraiser for ongoing research being conducted by Panthera.org and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe on cougars of the Olympic Peninsula.

That Takes The Cake, 171 W. Washington St., is open until 6 p.m. and the perfect place to start your stroll with a sweet cupcake!

Sequim Spice and Tea, 139 W. Washington St., is open until 8 p.m. with creative tea blends, colorful and fun teapots and cups and many more culinary gifts.

Forage Gifts & Northwest Treasures, 121 W. Washington St., always has local artists’ creations and Olympic Peninsula related gifts.

For more

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.

Join the Art Walk Facebook page at facebook.com/sequimartwalk.

“Little Miss June” by Beverly Majors, the featured artist at Sequim Museum & Arts’ exhibition, “Artists’ Adventures.” Submitted art

“Little Miss June” by Beverly Majors, the featured artist at Sequim Museum & Arts’ exhibition, “Artists’ Adventures.” Submitted art

“Iris” is by Wendy Goldberg, a North Olympic Watercolorists member whose artwork is on display during the July 2 First Friday Art Walk at Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St.

“Iris” is by Wendy Goldberg, a North Olympic Watercolorists member whose artwork is on display during the July 2 First Friday Art Walk at Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St.