Activities & Events

More than 100 small works of art are gathered in this 22nd annual exhibition at Northwind Art’s downtown gallery. Local artists have contributed beaded sculptures, plein air paintings, jewelry, mixed-media pieces and more. Come and celebrate the local art community by shopping this exhibition, which is designed to encourage art buying during the gift-giving season. The gallery at 701 Water St. is open noon to 5 PM Thursdays through Mondays.

Join expert teaching artist Diana Gipson to discover the traditional art of Itajime Shibori! In this workshop, you’ll get an in-depth look into this fold-and-clamp dyeing technique. After folding and clamping, the silk fabric can be dipped into multiple dye colors. Each dip reveals a unique pattern, rhythm,  full of colorful nuance. Your dyed fabric will certainly be full of surprises! The registration fee covers silk fabrics, needles, threads, silk scarves and dyes.

In this workshop with artist and digital photography pioneer Brian Goodman, photographers of all styles get to explore the many techniques used to “make” a photo rather than just “take” one. The two-session class is part of the York and Goodman Photography Series at Northwind Art School at Fort Worden. This series invites photographers to stretch and reimagine how they capture the world with a camera. It all starts with a discussion during the first one-hour session Dec. 10, then moves into a photo assignment, and wraps up with sharing of images and affirming feedback in the second one-hour session Dec. 17. The image here is one of Brian Goodman’s photographs from his “Solace of Space” series, in which he blurs the lines between photography and other forms of art such as painting.

Port Townsend Marine Science Center presents the Future of Oceans lecture series

“Sea Otter Stories – history, ecology & conservation”
James Bodkin
U.S. Geological Survey

Fort Worden Chapel
Sunday, December 10
3 p.m.

Over the course of about 250 years, beginning about 1750, perhaps a million sea otters were harvested for their fur throughout their range. When the harvest ended 13 small populations remained, all but one along their northern range. Today more than 150,000 sea otters occupy more than half their original range. Other sea otter stories Jim will tell include their relation to the locally abundant river otter, their ecology, predators and other research on sea otters in the wild.

To keep this series accessible to all, regardless of the ability to pay, there is no set charge for the event; however, donations are always welcomed and appreciated.

See the full lecture series on our website at ptmsc.org/lectures.