Artists from Sequim will join their Port Angeles colleagues at the first Makers’ Market to open Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

More than a dozen local vendors are laying out their original handiwork for the showcase in the center’s main gallery. Admission is free, and the hours are from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays through Dec. 22.

Participants include Sequim porcelain carver Linda Collins Chapman, wooden-toy maker Joseph Fisk, nature photographer Sue Wolf, jewelry maker Suzan Noyes, dollmaker and collagist Pamela Hastings, and Jan Dove, who fashions handmade journals.

Two painters of silk scarves, Sequim’s Renne Emiko Brock and Port Angeles’ Noreen Gaffney, will offer their wares.

The Makers’ Market is set up as a peaceful space where shoppers are surrounded by natural light and the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park, said Gallery and Program Director Sarah Jane.

Here, “you know you’re directly supporting a local artist and putting money back into the local economy,” she said, adding that one-of-a-kind pieces by professional artists range from $15 to $100 and up.

Arrayed inside the Fine Arts Center gallery, the marketplace will also be open during special events on three December evenings there.

These start with the Wintertide Light Art Experience, an installation of lighted artwork around — and on the roof of — the Fine Arts Center.

This display, in Webster’s Woods right outside, opens with two receptions Saturday, Dec. 14: the PAFAC members and VIP cocktail hour at 4 p.m. — when those who aren’t yet members can sign up at the door — and the general public’s opening from 5-7 p.m.

Visitors will have their first look at the installations of lighted art that evening. Wintertide will then stay up, with free admission, through Jan. 10.

Then come the luminaria-making workshop from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, and the “Fire in the Night” Winter Solstice Celebration from 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21.

For details about Port Angeles Fine Arts Center activities, see PAFAC.org, visit the center’s Facebook page or call 360-457-3532.