Sequim Gazette staff
It’s May Day and aqua is the color theme during the Art Walk for the Sequim Irrigation Festival “Where Water Is Wealth.”
The color aqua captures sustainable elements of cool fresh water, abundant salty seas, renewing rain and sunny skies.
Art inspired by natural resources and positive and playful partnerships are included with the May 1, First Friday Art Walk Sequim. Besides the color theme of aqua, everyone is encouraged to dress up in amusing and whimsical outfits for the Irrigation Festival’s “Crazy Daze”!
The art walk is a fun and free self-guided tour of local art venues in Sequim on the First Friday of every month from 5-8 p.m.
Visit online at www.sequimartwalk.com to download and print a map, find special events and learn how to be part of art. The event is sponsored and produced by unique as you/Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond.
To create inclusion between venues, artists and audiences, everyone is encouraged to participate in the Art Walk’s monthly themes as a fun community activity in any creative form they wish to express it. January is silver, February is red, March is green, April is pink, May is aqua, June is white, July is purple, August is yellow, September is blue, October is orange, November is brown and December is gold.
To get listed for the First Friday Art Walk, contact Brock-Richmond at 460-3023 or renne@uniqueasyou.com.
Special events
• New to the Art Walk! Cedarbrook Lavender Farm Gift Shop is open for special events at 134 1/2 W. Washington St.
• Sequim Museum & Arts, 175 W. Cedar St., features the Sequim Arts Juried Show with artists from several locations and various talents.
• Hart’s Fine Books, 161 W. Washington St., Sequim, hosts Lindy MacLaine, author of “The Curse of Neverland,” from 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 1. Come meet the imaginative writer who has updated Neverland and brought Peter Pan’s 11-year-old granddaughter to life.
• Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave., will feature a singer and songwriter Kate Lily during the First Friday Art Walk from 6-7 p.m. in the Gathering Hall. She will offer a variety of tunes from different eras, including her own original works.
Sequim venues
• Colors of Sequim, 139 W. Washington St., Maryann Proctor, artist and photographer, reception from 5-8 p.m. Friday, May 1, with music by Victor Reventlow.
• Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St., with featured artists Margo Hankel, accomplished watercolorist, and Joyce Volmut, award-winning sculptor, in “Love of Birds and Nature” exhibit.
• Gallery on the Walls, 128 E. Washington St., showcases artists Sally Cays and Patricia Taynton. No reception
• Gallery at the Fifth, 500 W. Hendrickson St., jewelers Jack and Linda Parcell, 1-3 p.m. Sunday, May 3.
• Bank of America,, 114 S. Sequim Ave., the art of Avis (Irene) Loghry, through May during regular business hours. No reception.
• Strait Financial Advice, 193 W. Cedar St., Scott Erickson’s photographic scenes of Southwest Alaska, North Olympic Peninsula and other locations in the U.S. are on display during normal business hours. No reception.
Port Angeles venues
Second Friday/Saturday
• Heatherton Gallery, 115 E. Railroad Ave., featured artists are Ines Epperson, oils; Rebecca Grady, beaded jewelry; and Sandra Kasper, encaustics and abstracts. Reception 5-7 p.m. Friday, May 8.
• Cabled Fiber Arts, 125 W. First St. Reception 4-7 p.m. Saturday, May 9.
• Studio Bob, 118½ Front St., artists’ reception 4-7 p.m. Saturday, May 9.
