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A&E briefs - Sept. 22, 2021
Sequim Gazette | September 22, 2021
PAFAC art sale, exhibit end Sept. 26
Sale of artwork from the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s exhibition “Resilient & Creative” ends on Sunday, Sept. 26.
The exhibition features 70 artworks by 42 different artists, including numerous local artists — including Port Angeles artist Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, who was recently selected for ArtsWA’s Public Artist Roster.
The artwork varies in medium and style; visitors will find pieces of photography, collage, watercolor, oil paint, pencil and ink, fused glass and other creative mixed media.
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Numerous events to enjoy during the last
weekend of summer
Peninsula Daily News | September 17, 2021
The free art exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, titled “Resilient & Creative,” showcases more than 70 works by 42 artists from across and beyond the North Olympic Peninsula. Ranging from photography to collage to watercolors to fused glass, the pieces express emotions sparked by this time in history.
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Weekend arts events set on Peninsula
Peninsula Daily News | August 26, 2021
An outdoor knitting circle, jazz live in a castle courtyard, classical music in and around a barn: They’re happening tonight through Sunday on the North Olympic Peninsula.
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Autumn dreams: Plan a fall trip to the Olympic Peninsula
The Seattle Times | August 18, 2021
Visit the mural trail, and near the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, explore metal, stone and wood figures amid the foliage at the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park. Downtown Port Angeles is chock-a-block with funky arts and home-supply stores, bookstores, and clothing boutiques.
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Where art and science meet
Peninsula Daily News | August 17, 2021
Jasmine Paul, 9, left, and John Hall, 10, put together a habitat diorama in which animals might live in nature after gathering materials in Webster's Woods at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
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ArtSEA: Going for gold on the Olympic Peninsula
Crosscut | July 29, 2021
...there is a great place for arts exploration at the edge of town, in the Olympic foothills: the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. Formerly a residence and artist studio designed in 1951 by Northwest architecture legend Paul Hayden Kirk, the Esther Webster Gallery hosts rotating shows in what was once a mod, curved living room with a soaring view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Presentation inspired by Conservation from here
Peninsula Daily News | July , 2021
Twenty-five cougars. That’s how many individual cats have been tagged from “around Sekiu to as far east as Palo Alto Road [near Sequim],” said Kim Sager-Fradkin, a wildlife biologist with the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. There are probably more, she said.
Sager-Fradkin is one of the speakers in a new kind of presentation at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) on Thursday: “Civic Minds + Creative Hearts,” at 6 p.m. in the courtyard of the center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
It’s an evening inspired by “Conservation from Here,” the large-scale art show on display in the adjacent Esther Webster Gallery.
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Port Angeles Fine Arts Center welcomes new executive director
Sequim Gazette | July 22, 2021
With more than 20 years of nonprofit leadership, Christine Loewe is the new executive director for the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
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Saturday Celebration offers outdoor art, music
Peninsula Daily News | June 18, 2021
A free, open-air art show, self-guided tours, live music from three solo performers, nature art projects and a courtyard “poetry cafe” are among the things to do and listen to in the Summertide Solstice Art Festival this Saturday.
The place is the Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park, the 5-acre swath of forest and meadow wrapped around the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., and there’s no charge for any of the activities from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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