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 ph...

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 o...