The Oct. 3 First Friday Art Walk celebrates its eighth-year anniversary this month. The color theme is orange — one of the brighter colors in fall as summer fades away.
The Ninth Annual North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival launches during the Art Walk (see story, page B-10). Find works of art and folks supporting the option to dress in shades of orange or sugar and spice smiles as they enjoy an evening on the town with friends and family.
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 online at www.sequimartwalk.com as a resource to download and print a venue map, find special events, links and how to be part of art. First Friday’s mission is to create approachable, accessible art and cultural venues that encourage the community to connect and celebrate expression and diversity. This encouraging and educational arts event is sponsored and produced by unique as you/Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond.
To create inclusion among the 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.
Special events for Oct. 3:
• The Laff Pack Clowns will be bringing smiles and creating joy on the art walk. Find them about town and enjoy bits of magic and balloon artistry; they do events for charity, children, nursing homes and the elderly.
• Union Bank at 901 W. Washington St., near the Costco roundabout, is hosting an exhibition of the Olympic Peaks Camera Club where you can view their photography, learn about the club and mingle with the artists.
• To help celebrate the Fiber Arts Festival, A Dropped Stitch at 170 W. Bell St. welcomes you to discover its shop full of fiber, yarn, tools, classes and inspiration to create something out of fiber from the heart.
And more …
The following fine arts events and ongoing art displays are on the North Olympic Peninsula in October. Any questions about the following should be forwarded to Janie Brackney, editor of Sequim Arts newsletter at moonmother13@yahoo.com or 681-8449.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St. “Transformation and Adventure” through October. Featured artists are Robert Bowling and Terianne Stratton. Meet the artists from 5-8 p.m. Oct. 3.
• Colors of Sequim, 139 W. Washington St. Janie Brackney’s multi-media and Zentangle method art will be on display during October. Meet the artist from 5-8 p.m.
Special classes are being offered this month and the Sequim Arts newsletter has all of the information. See Sequimarts.org or www.colorsofsequim.com.
• Gallery at the Fifth, 500 W. Hendrickson Road. The October featured artist is photographer Judy Larimore. Meet the artist from 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 5.
• Rainshadow Roasting Company, 157 W. Cedar St. Sample gourmet and exotic coffee brewed from beans roasted and ground on premises. Open First Friday 5-8 p.m.
• Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave. Pat Taynton’s photography and oil paintings featured through December. Artist’s reception from 5-8 p.m.
• Sequim Museum & Arts Center, 175 W. Cedar St. The theme for both October and November is fiber arts, open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. First Friday artists’ reception from 5-7 p.m.
• Sunshine Café, 145 W. Washington St. A special secret menu of wonderful culinary treats. The great, late Tim Quinn’s art is on display and artwork by Amy Weber and Jan Kepley.
• Wind Rose Cellars, 143 W. Washington St. Local artists. Open to 9 p.m. on First Friday with wine tasting and late evening entertainment.
• LARC Gallery, 425 E. Washington St. Meet the artists from 5-8 p.m.
• Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave. Improvisational group “Tweaking Reality” at 6:30 p.m. First Friday in the Gathering Hall.
• Gallery on the Walls, 128 E. Washington St. Art by Sally Cays and Patricia Taynton inside the Sequim Vision Center.
• R&T Crystals and Beads, 158 E. Bell St. Fine jewelry demonstrations from Paulette Hill and Gail McLain.
• Pacific Pantry, 229 S. Sequim Ave. Fine art photography and greeting cards of Jan Kepley.
Other venues
• Bank of America, 114 S. Sequim Ave. The beautiful watercolor art by Judy Priest will be featured at the Bank of America for October and November.
• Strait Financial Advice, 193 W. Cedar St. Scott Erickson exhibits his striking photographic scenes of the Southwest, Alaska, North Olympic Peninsula and other U.S. locations on a rotating basis.
Secondly …
Second Weekend Art Walk, Port Angeles 5-8 p.m. There will be a Second Weekend Art Walk in Port Angeles with some venues participating on the Second Friday and some venues participating on the Second Saturday and some venues participating both evenings, as follows:
• Heatherton Gallery, 115 E. Railroad Ave.: Second Friday, Oct. 10. Oriental brush artist Hideko Kano Goecker will be the October Artist of the Month. A meet and greet reception with the artist will be from 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11, at the gallery.
• Karon’s Framing: Second Friday, Oct. 10
• Harbor Art: Second Saturday, Oct. 11
• Studio Bob: Second Saturday, Oct. 11
• The Landing Artists Studio: Oct. 10-11, 115 Railroad Ave. A working studio with live art demonstrations. Come for a visit and meet the artists: Pamela Dick (fractals), D.S. Walsh (fine jewelry), Linda Stadtmiller (acrylics), Jennifer Bright (silk scarves and pottery), Janie Brackney (Zentangle Method Fine Art, whimsical canvases, and metal wall hangings), and Bill Crozer (canoe/kayak builder). Open daily from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
