Don your finest blue & green gear and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. This week, the Seattle Seahawks will travel to Lincoln Financial Field to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, November 24 with a kickoff at 5:20PM to battle for the week 12 win. Come cheer on your team on game day at Taps! We're talking to YOU 12's!

Our event is currently SOLD OUT, but we invite you to try one of our other culinary events happening at Fort Worden. Make sure to book early next year. --- We on the Olympic Peninsula live in abundance year round. With a rich history, bountiful soil & water, and an inspiring arts & education presence – Fort Worden is grateful to play a role in your everyday life. We invite you – the heartbeat that keeps this community going - to break bread with us this Thanksgiving, to celebrate & hon...

  Don your finest blue & green gear and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. This week, the Minnesota Vikings will travel to Centurylink Field to take on the Seattle Seahawks, Monday, December 2 with a kickoff at 5:15PM to battle for the week 13 win. Come cheer on your team on game day at Taps! We're talking to YOU 12's!

A 5 day retreat with Michael Molin-Skelton & Susan Harper. In this 5-day retreat, we explore the relational capacity of the heart. We engage a multi-faceted movement range, deepen in ritual and dare to love, weep, laugh, and meet the splendor and 'terrible beauty' experiences that come with the river of life. Moving through the portals of Soul Motion®, we will dance with the grace of our belonging and the struggles of our exclusion. Through organismic movements and primordial sounding, in t...

Tackle the unmitigated challenges of Portraiture in this weekend workshop for beginners! Bring in photos of the person(s) you'd like to paint, and Julie will provide the rest! Learn how to plan your composition, study proportions, mix skin tones, use brushes to create effective marks, prime and finish surfaces for painting. If you like to dive head first into the pool of art making, this is great class for you! Materials Fee: $25, check or cash made payable to the instructor on the first day of...

A letter is the most generous gift you can give. Within the gift of a letter is a moment to pause and exist within the space and connection between letter-writer and recipient. The holiday season is a wonderful time to slow down and connect. In class, we will develop systems for writing letters, create our own personalized stationery sets, and spend time together designing holiday stationery for those dear to us. Each student will leave with very beautiful supplies, but more importantly, studen...

  Don your finest blue & green gear and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. This week, the Seattle Seahawks will travel to the Los Angeles Coliseum to take on division rival the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, December 8 with a kickoff at 5:20PM to battle for the week 14 win. Come cheer on your team on game day at Taps! We're talking to YOU 12's!

Presented by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center Sunday, December 8 3 p.m. The Fort Worden Chapel Admission: $5 (students & teachers FREE) FREE admission for Octopus and Orca Donor Circle Members Become a PTMSC  member today! Carla Stehr National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, retired Carla Stehr’s artist statement: I use cloth, paint and stitch to express my fascination with aquatic life and natural patterns. My work is inspired by a life-long obsession for expl...

Join us for a day of stirring up your artistic ideas in collage. We will explore more use of colors and materials. Be prepared to create many pieces to experience what is possible In collage work without judging them as finished pieces. It will be time of turning yourself loose to have fun with the possibilities in collage work. We will create both abstract and abstracted images. This is a good workshop for those who have participated in other collage/mixed media classes and to use those papers ...

We invite you to join us for true Cape Dutch hospitality where good food and wine is never in short supply. We are creating a ‘Cape Farm Table’ dinner with a collection of flavors and a celebration of Cape wine and cultures. Enjoy six perfectly paired South-African wines from several Cape wine farms with a five course dinner prepared by Executive Chef Donald Cobb Jr. $120 per person. Seating starts at 6 pm at the Fort Worden Commons. Please reserve online or call 360.301.8326 to secure you...

Nick Dumas (of The Special Consensus), Chris Luquette (of Frank Sollivan & Dirty Kitchen), and Andrew Knapp (of The Warren G. Hardings) return to Rainshadow Recording for an evening of award-winning bluegrass. In September, 2018, Special Consensus won IBMA's Instrumental Recorded Performance of the Year and Album of the Year, as well as a 2019 GRAMMY nomination for their newest record, "Rivers & Roads". In 2016 Dirty Kitchen received Instrumental Group of the Year" and also have received a GRAMM...

  Don your finest blue & green gear and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. This week, the Arizona Cardinals will travel to Centurylink Field to take on the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, December 22 with a kickoff at 1:25PM to battle for the week 16 win. Come cheer on your team on game day at Taps! We're talking to YOU 12's!

  Don your finest blue & green gear and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. This week, the San Francisco 49er's will travel to Centurylink Field to take on the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, December 29 with a kickoff at 1:25PM to battle for the week 17 win. Come cheer on your team on game day at Taps! We're talking to YOU 12's!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJmSKV7G9Jlco-kCVtKyYMSo Rainshadow Recording is pleased to welcome back Sway Wild, featuring Mandy Fer, Dave McGraw, and Thom Lord, with their wonderful new album in tow! Sway Wild’s songs navigate the corners of rock, folk, pop, jazz, prog, and funk. At its nucleus, it is music saturated in gratitude for well-lived lives and sympathetic to our shared humanity. McGraw says, “We want to make music that allows people to feel what they need to ...

$300.00 FRIDAYS, JANUARY 10, 17, 24, 31, 1-4 PM I’ve been approached by many folks who say they would like to learn how to paint in oils, but are stymied by the cost of materials, worry about toxicity and are intimidated by “how much there is to learn”. This is a class for absolute beginners who want to take the leap. Materials will be provided so you don’t have to sink $300-$400 at the outset. In this class we will be working absolutely non-toxically. The first session will discuss pig...

$108.00 SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 10 AM-3 PM Using light watercolor paper, acrylic paints, and acid free glues, we will create landscape collage-paintings. In the first part of the workshop we will chose our own colors to paint with, exploring some abstract free painting practices to free up your creative expression. In the second half of the workshop we will tear the papers intentionally and make our LYRICAL LANDSCAPE Paintings, using Acid Free glue to affix the strips of paper onto both plyw...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you...

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JANUARY 16-17, 9 AM-4 PM In this workshop, Donna Lark will introduce you to the wet felting technique, Nuno Felting.  Students will be able to create two nuno felted scarf during the workshop.  The Nuno Felting technique involves learning how to construct silk and wool fabric, the building block for all manner of projects from simple scarves to table runners, upholstery fabric and wall hangings. Workshop participants will learn the history of felting and how to evaluate the...

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJlX3g38ewRGSf0W_bZ3ZdaH “Chuck Brodsky can sing, fingerpick, and strum with the best of ’em...a storyteller, and a riveting one at that... an underlying tone of warmth and compassion runs through all his carefully observed narratives." -Acoustic Guitar Magazine Chuck Brodsky is a storyteller, songwriter, troubadour, and a modern day bard. With only his acoustic guitar and his voice he’ll draw you in with genuine, down-to-earth warmth and his...

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JANUARY 16-17, 9 AM-4 PM In this workshop, Donna Lark will introduce you to the wet felting technique, Nuno Felting.  Students will be able to create two nuno felted scarf during the workshop.  The Nuno Felting technique involves learning how to construct silk and wool fabric, the building block for all manner of projects from simple scarves to table runners, upholstery fabric and wall hangings. Workshop participants will learn the history of felting and how to evaluate the...

$300.00 FRIDAYS, JANUARY 10, 17, 24, 31, 1-4 PM I’ve been approached by many folks who say they would like to learn how to paint in oils, but are stymied by the cost of materials, worry about toxicity and are intimidated by “how much there is to learn”. This is a class for absolute beginners who want to take the leap. Materials will be provided so you don’t have to sink $300-$400 at the outset. In this class we will be working absolutely non-toxically. The first session will discuss pig...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 & 19, 10 AM-3 PM Each day of this two day class we will tackle one of the anatomical features that send artists running.  Hands and feet are avoided, painted loosely, shoved in pockets, or just ignored in drawing because artists are afraid of rendering them incorrectly. We will learn anatomy and starting with bone and moving out through muscle and fat for both the hands and feet. Then we will learn multiple tricks to render hands and feet so they don’t come out loo...

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, NOON-4 PM Lightroom is the go-to non-destructive “post-processing” software for today's photographers. But Lightroom provides more than just image processing. It is also a powerful tool to organize your images. This class will provide an overview of the Lightroom interface, including catalog preferences, importing files into Lightroom, and how to use Lightroom to organize your images within the Library module. We will cover the Development and Print modules in some depth, ...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 & 19, 10 AM-3 PM Each day of this two day class we will tackle one of the anatomical features that send artists running.  Hands and feet are avoided, painted loosely, shoved in pockets, or just ignored in drawing because artists are afraid of rendering them incorrectly. We will learn anatomy and starting with bone and moving out through muscle and fat for both the hands and feet. Then we will learn multiple tricks to render hands and feet so they don’t come out loo...

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene. You'll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you'll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil past...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene. You'll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you'll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil past...

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you...

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21-23, 10 AM-1PM Break the ice of photorealism into the delight of color and form that is abstraction at its best. We will embark on a distillation process that eliminates non-essential details, arriving at a piece of modern art that joyfully expresses the basic nature of subject and scene. You'll begin by drawing small, from a photo or realistic image. Then you'll put away the original source and get larger and looser, using water-based paint and oil past...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 & 26, 9 AM-4 PM PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend . Limited to six students only. Creating one-of-a-kind prints with pigmented beeswax and paper on a professional heated aluminum palette; this modern off-shoot of encaustic artwork involves touching a warmed plate with chunks of colored beeswax, manipulating the strokes in a huge variety of ways and then laying paper down to absorb the wax.  Once lifte...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25-26, 10 AM - 4 PM Work from a photograph or build your own still life from objects you love at home. This weekend workshop is for ambitious beginners, but fun for anyone! Study objects, mix colors, plan compositions, and look shadows and highlights right in the face and tell them who's boss! If you've never used acrylic paints, this is a great way to introduce yourself to the medium. Julie provides all the materials and will have you ready to embark on a kit of you...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 & 26, 9 AM-4 PM PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend . Limited to six students only. Creating one-of-a-kind prints with pigmented beeswax and paper on a professional heated aluminum palette; this modern off-shoot of encaustic artwork involves touching a warmed plate with chunks of colored beeswax, manipulating the strokes in a huge variety of ways and then laying paper down to absorb the wax.  Once lifte...

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JANUARY 25-26, 10 AM - 4 PM Work from a photograph or build your own still life from objects you love at home. This weekend workshop is for ambitious beginners, but fun for anyone! Study objects, mix colors, plan compositions, and look shadows and highlights right in the face and tell them who's boss! If you've never used acrylic paints, this is a great way to introduce yourself to the medium. Julie provides all the materials and will have you ready to embark on a kit of you...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you...

This class will expand the art of making monoprints without a press.  We will be using Gelli art plates and acrylic paints with the additions of stencils, masks, natural materials and stamps to create original papers for use in collages. Layers and layers of interesting colors, patterns, and textures will enhance the creation of original monoprints. On the second day students will integrate these unique papers with paint to create abstract art on a canvas.  This class is open to all levels.

This class will expand the art of making monoprints without a press.  We will be using Gelli art plates and acrylic paints with the additions of stencils, masks, natural materials and stamps to create original papers for use in collages. Layers and layers of interesting colors, patterns, and textures will enhance the creation of original monoprints. On the second day students will integrate these unique papers with paint to create abstract art on a canvas.  This class is open to all levels.

  Don your finest blue & green gear REGARDLESS of whose battling for the 54th Annual Super Bowl and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. More details to come - save the date!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJl_0gquY3vXA7Fveuehu8ga "The road goes on forever..." - Robert Earl Keen That line, from the great Robert Earl Keen song, certainly applies to the seemingly, endless wanderings of Ray Bonneville. Every now and then, you run across someone with a library’s worth of stories to tell. But unlike the raconteurs who regale friends with well-embellished versions of their exploits, these storytellers have lived so much, they reveal chapters of their...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you...

World renowned jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and flutist Scott Cossu returns to Rainshadow Recording with his groundbreaking style to celebrate the release of his 16th recording, continuing his longtime studio association with Neville Pearsall. One of the prominent artists on the Windham Hill label for thirteen years (1981 - 1994), Scott's music is a unique blend of jazz, classical and world music styles. An ethnomusicologist who has studied with musicians from around the world, Cossu bri...

$200.00 TUESDAYS, JANUARY 14-FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-NOON In this workshop, we will be learning about the Japanese aesthetic wabi-sabi and how it relates to photography. We will learn to notice, appreciate and be inspired by the beauty of mundane, everyday life; while keeping this aesthetic of transience and imperfection in mind. “In our photography, we can start exploring this aesthetic by getting closer to the shapes, colors, textures and patterns all around us. Stains on an old kitchen pot....

In February, we are fortunate enough to have the winemaker from Podere Ruggeri Corsini in Monforte d’Alba, Nicola Argamente, join us straight from Italy. We invite you to fall in love with traditional Italian flavors for our February wine dinner. Chef Donald Cobb Jr. will thoughtfully prepare several courses to pair with Podere Ruggeri Corsini's Nebbiolo, Dolcetto, Barbera & more! Be our guest on Thursday, February 27 at Reveille at the Commons to listen, learn, eat and drink in the ambiance of ...