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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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Breathing fire
Keith Thorpe, Peninsula Daily News (photos) December 12, 2022 Members of The Fractal Phase, from front, Nova Cain, Pumba Burns and Ahnrix Bishop, breathe fire and perform dances with flames during Saturday’s Wintertide Festival of Light at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.....................Continue Reading |
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Makers Market open in Port Angeles
Keith Thorpe, Peninsula Daily News (photos) December 10, 2022 Molly Brown of Port Angeles, and her children, Lucy Brown, 3, and Oliver Brown, 5 months, examine a display of locally-produced art items for sale as gifts on Thursday during the holiday Makers Market at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center...................Continue Reading |
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Festival of Lights offers art in many forms
Peninsula Daily News December 09, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host the second annual Wintertide Festival of Lights on Saturday. The festival at the center at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., will include outdoor artworks in the 2022 Light Art Experience, food and drink vendors, shopping at the Makers Market, live performances and interactive light art stations and activities for all ages..................Continue Reading |
What to do in Washington in December
Allison Williams, Seattle Met
December 01, 2022
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center puts on an illuminated event in their woodsy back yard, leading a community lantern walk through lit forest paths and doing glow in the dark art. A gift market from local makers...................Continue Reading
Allison Williams, Seattle Met
December 01, 2022
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center puts on an illuminated event in their woodsy back yard, leading a community lantern walk through lit forest paths and doing glow in the dark art. A gift market from local makers...................Continue Reading
Holiday bazaars set this weekend
Peninsula Daily News
November 26, 2022
Makers Market continues today and Sunday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Esther Webster Gallery at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The Makers Market will run through Dec. 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays and extended hours until 8 p.m. each Friday..................Continue Reading
Peninsula Daily News
November 26, 2022
Makers Market continues today and Sunday at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Esther Webster Gallery at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The Makers Market will run through Dec. 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays and extended hours until 8 p.m. each Friday..................Continue Reading
Wintertide, skating among entertainment this weekend
Peninsula Daily News
November 25, 2022
Makers Market and Light Art Experience at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center open today to kick off Wintertide, a month of festivities and celebration..................Continue Reading
Peninsula Daily News
November 25, 2022
Makers Market and Light Art Experience at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center open today to kick off Wintertide, a month of festivities and celebration..................Continue Reading
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Fine Arts Center offers lights, art day after Thanksgiving
Peninsula Daily News November 19, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will open its annual Makers Market and Light Art Experience on Friday, Nov. 25, to kick off Wintertide, a month of festivities and celebration.................Continue Reading |
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Paper Lanterns
Keith Thorpe, Peninsula Daily News (photos) November 14, 2022 The free activity was hosted as a public outreach event by the Juan de Fuca Foundation and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. Workshops are planned Tuesday and Nov. 30 before the Wintertide Festival of Lights on Dec. 10.................Continue Reading |
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Lantern workshops set at PAFAC
Olympic Peninsula News Group, Peninsula Daily News November 12, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is hosting adult and youth-friendly workshops throughout the month of November, each as part of the lead up to the Wintertide Festival of Lights................Continue Reading |
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Lantern workshops kicking off at PAFAC
Sequim Gazette November 09, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is hosting adult and youth-friendly workshops throughout the month of November, each as part of the lead up to the Wintertide Festival of Lights.................Continue Reading |
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PAFAC to host family-friendly festival
Peninsula Daily News October 20, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host the Celebration of Shadows Fall Festival, a family-friendly event, on Saturday, with one workshop set Friday................Continue Reading |
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PAFAC to host family-friendly festival
Sequim Gazette October 19, 2022 This second annual event marks the return of pumpkin carving workshops, followed by free evening festivities that include a pumpkin walk and contest through Webster’s Woods, a spooky reading in the courtyard, the opportunity for an evening visit to the gallery for the latest exhibition Turning Point, and an outdoor screening of the movie “Coco” in the meadow...............Continue Reading |
"Spring Wind" by Hannah Klaus Hunter
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Fine arts center to host opening reception for 'Turning Point'
Peninsula Daily News September 15, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Art Center will host an opening reception for Hannah Klaus Hunter's "Turning Point" on Friday. The Whidbey Island artist will be on hand for the reception...............Continue Reading |
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Opportunities for artistry
Sequim Gazette September 13, 2022 Local artists have three opportunities to participate in Port Angeles Fine Arts Center programs this fall and winter. The center will host...............Continue Reading |
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Submissions requested for spooky reading, light art, Makers Market
Peninsula Daily News August 27, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Art Center has three open calls for artists as it heads into the fall and winter programming...............Continue Reading |
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Civic Minds + Creative Hearts series continues
A & E Briefs - Aug. 10, 2022 Sequim Gazette August 10, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Art Center hosts the next presentation in the Civic Minds + Creative Hearts series from 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11, at the center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Boulevard, Port Angeles ...............Continue Reading |
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Sixkiller displays artwork based on the Cherokee water spider
Lindsey Bark | Cherokee Phoenix July 26, 2022 Cherokee Nation citizen and artist Karen Sixkiller displays her first metalwork piece, a bronzed sculpture of the water spider titled “Ember,” which is part of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Summertide 2022 New Growth Open Air exhibition. The piece will be displayed for one year. ...............Continue Reading |
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A new Sixkiller seen on the Peninsula
Peninsula Daily News July 16, 2022 Cherokee artist Karen Sixkiller recently installed a large public sculpture at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. "Ember" features a bronze Water Spider character from Cherokee Legend. The bronze spider peers from...............Continue Reading |
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Summerfest celebrates longest day of year
Paula Hunt | Peninsula Daily News June 20, 2022 The Summertide Solstice Art Festival at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center celebrated the longest day of the year — which falls on Tuesday — with art, live music, poetry readings and family friendly activities...............Continue Reading |
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Outdoor art festival to celebrate Summer Solstice
Olympic Peninsula News Group | Peninsula Daily News June 17, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will host the Summertide Solstice Art Festival on Saturday with art, music and poetry.The family-friendly celebration on the longest day of the year will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., to mark the summer solstice and salute new artwork and poetry to Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park..............Continue Reading |
Photo by Jordyn Owen Photography
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Outdoor art festival to celebrate Summer Solstice
Sequim Gazette Staff June 16, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles) will host the Summertide Solstice Art Festival, a free, family friendly event on from 1-5 p.m. Saturday, June 18, to celebrate the longest day of the year and welcome new artwork and poetry to Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park.............Continue Reading |
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Blooming Artists Exhibit combines art, science
Peninsula Daily News June 8, 2022 Elementary students are blooming with creativity in an exhibit at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. The Blooming Artists Exhibit will be on display from 11 a.m. to 5 p.,. Thursdays through Sundays beginning this Thursday............Continue Reading |
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Fine Arts Center moving on with new exhibit after burglary
Paula Hunt | Peninsula Daily News June 7, 2022 A beaver skull. A fossil of a bivalve preserved in a rock from the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona. A taxidermy pangolin. One-of-a-kind artist's books. A microscope.............Continue Reading |
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Mother's Day remembered with art, music, flowers
Peninsula Daily News May 6, 2022 Art in Bloom will be on display in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s Esther Webster Gallery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is free............Continue Reading |
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Art in Bloom set at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
Diane Urbani de la Paz | Peninsula Daily News May 4, 2022 A flower bar, a pansy-planting station and a brand-new mural will be a part of Art in Bloom, the annual exhibition to open this weekend at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center...........Continue Reading |
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Port Angeles Fine Arts Center burglary hits traveling exhibit
Ken Park | Peninsula Daily News April 21, 2022 Police on Wednesday continued to investigate last weekend’s burglary of the Esther Webster Gallery at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center while center management issued a plea for information about the objects stolen...........Continue Reading |
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Olympic Peninsula Authors releases its fifth anthology, set launch for Sunday
Sequim Gazette April 19, 2022 The book will be available following the launch at Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St. in Sequim, and the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center...........Continue Reading |
Photo: "Flow of Water" by artist An Gates
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A&E briefs
Sequim Gazette April 13, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Art Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., hosts the next presentation from their Civic Minds + Creative Hearts series from 6-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 14. Held in partnership with the Feiro Marine Life Center, the event invites community members to come together for an interactive evening of art, science and education...........Continue Reading |
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Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Feiro to host programs for children, adults
Diane Urbani de la Paz | Peninsula Daily News April 12, 2022 Attendees will learn about the ecological vitality of local waterways from Olympic National Park coastal ecologist Steve Fradkin. He’ll provide an overview of current watershed monitoring projects and will share his perspective...............Continue Reading |
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Inaugural Squatchcon features comics, arts, cosplay
Diane Urbani de la Paz | Peninsula Daily News April 7, 2022 Squatchcon 2022, Port Angeles’ Inaugural Comics & Arts Convention, begins today with a schedule of varied events through Sunday..............Continue Reading |
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Sailboat regatta, music, art await this weekend
Diane Urbani de la Paz | Peninsula Daily News March 25, 2022 “Science Stories,” the multimedia exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, marries art books with inquiries into the natural world.............Continue Reading |
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'Science Stories' brings together multiple worlds
Diane Urbani de la Paz | Peninsula Daily News March 10, 2022 Life-size watercolor trees. Lichens under a microscope. Make-and-take art books. The new “Science Stories” exhibition at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center brings these together, marrying art with the natural world............Continue Reading |
"Pangolin Pandemic" by Gabby Cooksey
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A&E briefs
Sequim Gazette March 9, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., hosts an opening reception for “Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists,” from 5-7 p.m. Friday, March 11. All community members are welcome............Continue Reading |
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Poetry collides with photography in this ekphrastic poetry reading
Hannah Rooke | Digital Camera World February 22, 2022 Ekphrastic poetry vividly describes a scene, a work of art, or in this case, photography. Poets from the North Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA, have been invited to take part in ekphrastic poetry reading hosted by Olympic Peninsula Authors, where they will collaborate on a photography project undertaken by students at Port Angeles High School.............Continue Reading |
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Poets to interpret student photography
Peninsula Daily News February 21, 2022 Poets from around the North Olympic Peninsula plan an ekphrastic poetry reading at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center in conjunction with a show of student photography, The World on Pause: Youth Perspectives on a Generation-Defining Experience.The free reading will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m............Continue Reading |
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'World on Pause' exhibit open through Feb. 27
Sequim Gazette February 16, 2022 “The World On Pause,” an exhibition of original photography by students from Port Angeles High School that explores a youth perspective on a generation-defining experience, is on display at the Esther Webster Gallery at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., through Sunday, Feb. 27.............Continue Reading |
LETTER: Delightful experience
Peninsula Daily News, Letter to the Editor
February 6, 2022
If you haven’t made the trek to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center to see the current exhibition, you are missing a truly delightful experience. The current exhibit features a group of local teenagers who are presenting to the public some of their favorite photographs............Continue Reading
Peninsula Daily News, Letter to the Editor
February 6, 2022
If you haven’t made the trek to the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center to see the current exhibition, you are missing a truly delightful experience. The current exhibit features a group of local teenagers who are presenting to the public some of their favorite photographs............Continue Reading
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'The World on Pause' illustrates teen experiences during the pandemic
Peninsula Daily News | Diane Urbani de la Paz January 14, 2022 “The World on Pause” has been many months in the making — starting with the grant-writing process, then moving forward with hours upon hours of Zoom classes, and finally the youngsters taking photos of their pandemic worlds ............Continue Reading |
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A&E briefs
Sequim Gazette January 12, 2022 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) will kick off the year with a reflective look back on the past two years under the pandemic with the center’s latest exhibition, “The World on Pause: Youth Perspectives on a Generation-Defining Experience.”............Continue Reading |
Author group seeking writers for interpretive event
Sequim Gazette Staff
December 22, 2021
The Olympic Peninsula Authors group (OPA) and Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) are kicking off the New Year by matching interested writers with captivating photography............Continue Reading
Sequim Gazette Staff
December 22, 2021
The Olympic Peninsula Authors group (OPA) and Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) are kicking off the New Year by matching interested writers with captivating photography............Continue Reading
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PNW Book Artists Tackle Ecological Issues in New Exhibition
Rebecca Rego Barry | Fine Books Magazine December 21, 2021 The Collins Memorial Library at the University of Puget Sound in Washington is pushing the boundaries of art and science. The brains behind its current exhibition, Science Stories--.............Continue Reading |
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Seasonal activities planned on Peninsula
Peninsula Daily News | Diane Urbani de la Paz December 17, 2021 This is it: the final weekend for the Wintertide Makers’ Market, a locally focused emporium at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center. Artists and craftspeople from across the North Olympic Peninsula have laid out their creations ............Continue Reading |
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Tickets available for Wintertide Festival of Light Event at PAFAC
Sequim Gazette | December 5, 2021 Tickets available for Wintertide Festival of Lights event at PAFAC ... The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, along with premier sponsor DA Davidson, hosts ............Continue Reading |
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Art, drama, dance on tap this weekend
Peninsula Daily News | Diane Urbani de la Paz December 3, 2021 The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Makers Market hosts 31 artisan vendors at the center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd. The market is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays until Dec. 19, with extended hours on some evenings..........Continue Reading |
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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 |