NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, July 8.
PORT ANGELES — Catch a live performance by Three Too Many, view art from local artists and take a stroll through downtown Port Angeles this weekend during the Second Weekend Art Event.
The monthly event, taking place the second weekend of each month, was founded about 10 years ago by the Port Angeles Arts Council as a coalition of downtown Port Angeles businesses and art galleries to bring attention to the culture and variety offered there, organizers say.
Here’s a cross section of events:
■ Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St., at 9 tonight will host local band Three Too Many and local artists Three Too Much, featuring Jeff Tocher, Mike Pace and Lynne Roberson as part of 2nd Friday Art Rock.
“Three Too Many is your principal source for a full spectrum of blues, alternative, rock and modern tunes that you have loved sometime over the past 30 years,” said Dan Lieberman, an event organizer.
Featuring Sharon Thompson on vocals, Three Too Many “will bend your ear and make you want to dance,” Lieberman said.
Performing as Three Too Much, Tocher, Pace and Roberson will capture the 2FAR evening through painting, Lieberman said.
“These three artists have individually and collectively made magic as performers at 2FAR events in the past, [and] are going to combine their talents and improvisational spirits to paint the 2FAR night away.”
Three Too Many and Three Too Much will get the 2FAR dance-party going at 9 p.m. The $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and artists, Lieberman said.
For more information, call 360-797-1999 or visit www.barn9nepa.com.
■ Karon’s Frame Center, 625 E. Front St., this month and in August will exhibit the works of Dorothea Morgan, 91, of Port Angeles.
At age 17, Morgan was taken by the Nazis and for two years was forced to work in sugar beet fields, and for German industrial corporations Siemens and Krups.
When the Germans abandoned their camp in Grüdonnerstag on Good Friday, Morgan was one of the many left to fend for themselves.
“I walked for nine days by myself from the east to the west,” she said.
“And it was martial law, so I had to be sure not to be seen, or I would get caught.”
Donning a dress made from a Nazi flag, Morgan got a job with the Americans in Wiesbaden.
She later found her mother and grandmother outside of Nuremberg and got a job working in Gen. George S. Patton’s unit, where she said she met a G.I. from Tennessee named Brigham Morgan, fell in love and got married.
She and her husband moved around the country with their five sons and one daughter with the Army, living in Massachusetts, Tennessee, Alaska — where she survived the earthquake of 1964 — and then Port Angeles.
In 1980, she went to Mexico, where she studied for two intensive years to earn a master’s degree in fine art from the University of Guanajuato.
After that, she spent time working in Nicaragua during the Sandinista rebellion and taught art in villages ravaged by a civil war.
“The art made such a difference in their lives,” Morgan said.
“Every man, every woman, every child would find time to come down and draw and paint because it took them away from the horror they were seeing all around.”
Karon’s Frame Center is open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. today, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
For more information, call 360-565-0308.
■ Harbor Art Gallery and Gift shop, 110 E. Railroad Ave., known as the “undiscovered gem,” will feature original artwork of Teri Enck and 16 other artists.
The artists will be in attendance at the gallery to greet the public from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
The exhibit will include photography, paintings, block prints, sculpture, wood work, ceramics, glass and jewelry.
Enck creates ceramic art and said she draws inspiration from sea life.
Enck’s interest in art began when she was a young girl, she said. At that time, she said she sewed her own clothes, made jewelry, pot hangers and purses out of rope, painted rocks and sold them door-to-door as lady bug paperweights.
Several years ago, she enrolled in a ceramic class with an idea and the intention of making Christmas gifts for her family.
She fell in love with “playing in the mud,” she said, and hasn’t stopped since.
Most of Enck’s work is hand built with slabs or coils of clay lovingly crafted into what the clay tells her, she said, adding that she leaves a little bit of herself in every piece she makes.
Her goal, she said, is to spread as much love to the world as she can.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/harborartgallery.
■ Heatherton Gallery, located inside The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave., from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight will feature aviation art by Priscilla Patterson of Sequim.
During art walk, Patterson also will be introducing her new CD, “A Wonderful World.” She will sing songs from her CD from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the gallery.
Patterson has been an American Society of Aviation Artists member since 1994 and holds the position of education chair.
Members of the society are selected by a group of their peers on the basis of their abilities and experience.
The society was formed in 1986 to bring together artists who are acknowledged leaders in the field for the purpose of recognizing and promoting interest in aviation art.
Membership currently numbers more than 200 artists and associate members.
For more information, call 360-565-0308 or visit www.PriscillaMessnerPatterson.com.
■ Studio Bob, an art gallery/event space located upstairs at 118 1/2 E. Front St., from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday will host musician Allison Preisinger, a singer, songwriter based in Seattle.
The gallery also will host a “coming out” party at Studio Bob featuring the works of watercolorist Michael Long of Port Angeles from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
“Northwest musicians and fans have described Seattle singer-songwriter Allison Preisinger’s music as raw and honest,” said Bob Stokes, owner of Studio Bob.
“Allison has an eclectic range of influences including Ryan Adams, Cat Stevens, Regina Spektor and Flogging Molly. Her writing and performances provide a combination of the sincerity of an unplugged Eric Clapton with the melodic poetry of a solo Joni Mitchell.”
Preisinger’s third album, the “Jade EP,” was released June 26 at the Royal Room in Seattle.
Long specializes in transparent watercolors, is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society and has won three consecutive places in the National Academy of Design.
He began painting at age 40 after taking a beginning watercolor class on a whim.
After moving to south Whidbey Island in 2002, Long was diagnosed with cancer and began treatment.
As a result, Long said he settled into a less competitive routine. Rather than showing his watercolors at galleries and watercolor competitions he began to “just paint,” he said.
The result is a series of mandalas and abstract watercolor paintings that will be included in his party at Studio Bob.
On display will be Long’s realistic watercolors, a fun, pun-filled series of magazine covers, and a series of abstract paintings that speak to the healing power of art and the creative process.
For more information, call 415-990-0457 or visit http://tinyurl.com/PDN-StudioBob.
