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Have you read the news? Here's what people are saying about The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
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Fine Arts Center highlights artists with market, winter lights
Peninsula Daily News | Diane Urbani de la Paz November 26, 2021 The Makers Market, with handmade gifts prices from $10 to a few hundred dollars, opens today and continues through Dec. 19. On this opening weekend, its hours are extended from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and Saturday..........Continue Reading |
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Music, drama, art offered on Peninsula
Peninsula Daily News | November 19, 2021 ...A star luminary sculpture workshop set for Dec. 4-5 at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles, is open for registration now.........Continue Reading |
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Music, improvisation, fossils on tap for this weekend
Peninsula Daily News | November 12, 2021 ..."Chasing Shadows," a multifaceted exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles, is in it's final days.........Continue Reading |
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PAFAC to kick off light-themed workshops
Sequim Gazette Staff | November 11, 2021 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host a Cocoon Lantern Workshop — the first of six light themed workshops — from 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14th at MOSS, 120 W. First St., Port Angeles. ........Continue Reading |
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A fine fall time at 'Celebration of Shadows'
Sequim Gazette Staff | November 3, 2021 Transformed with festive lights, decorations and a grand walkway of pumpkins, the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Webster’s Woods heralded in the Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival on Oct. 23. ........Continue Reading |
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Carving some great pumpkins
Peninsula Daily News | October 26, 2021 Also, Tziporah Chastain, 4, of Port Angeles peers inside as she scrapes the inner contents of a pumpkin she is about to carve. The event was part of the center’s Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival, which included carved pumpkin judging, a shadow puppet theater workshop and the “Chasing Shadows” gallery show. ........Continue Reading |
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Arts center to host fall festival Saturday
Peninsula Daily News | October 22, 2021 The art of the carved-and-lighted-within pumpkin is about to take center stage at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. This Saturday brings the Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival, replete with activities, warm drinks and a gallery show, all at the center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. ........Continue Reading |
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A&E briefs - Sept. 29, 2021
Sequim Gazette | September 29, 2021 Members of the PAFAC are invited for a first look at the new artwork on opening day from ... ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |
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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. .........Continue Reading |
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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. .......Continue Reading |
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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. ........Continue Reading |