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Gallery Walks are a favorite here in Port Townsend. Occurring the first Saturday of every month from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., galleries and venues in the downtown waterfront district show off the work of local artists. Informal and enticing, the Gallery Walks encourage exploring the many nooks and crannies of the town's historic center. The walks are sponsored by the many galleries and venues, and a consortium of artists. A truly unique happening and all you do is show up downtown and start walking!

For November:

Noa Piper at Undertown Coffee and Gallery

Paintings and prints by Seattle and Port Townsend artist Noa Piper will be exhibited at Undertown, Port Townsend's new coffee and wine bar located at the corner of Water and Taylor in downtown Port Townsend. Piper's exhibition, Current Act, will run from November 1st to December 4th with a Port Townsend Gallery Walk reception on Saturday, November 7th from 6 to 8 p.m.

As a painter and printmaker drawn to abstract expressionism, Piper's work is an investigation of emotion and how it connects one's self to the world as a whole. In the tradition of Susan Rothenberg, Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, Piper uses connotative imagery to leave emotional footholds so that a hint of an ear of a body's twist directs the viewer's psyche to a private understanding of the particular and intimate drama unfolding in each canvas, watercolor and print. A fifth-generation artist, Piper moved to Port Townsend from Venice Beach, Los Angeles, in 1983 with her Mother, a sculptor and art teacher. After attending Whitman College and the University of Washington, Piper joined the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts community in Seattle's Pioneer Square in 2004 and now divides her time between Seattle and Port Townsend. For more information on the Artist visit www.noapiper.com.

The Undertown's hours are SUN-MON 6:30a.m.-5p.m. TUE-THU 6:30a.m.-8p.m. FRI-SAT 6:30a.m.-10p.m. Phone 360-385-1410

Artisans on Taylor Gallery presents the works of painter Laura Popenoe, and sculptor/painter Michael Phillips. This show, titled, “Two for the Show”, is a vivid display of light, love, and life…evident in the works of Popenoe and Phillips, as well as in their love for one another. Laura Popenoe, a resident of Port Townsend for over 25 years, has participated in a rich and full career as an artist, jeweler, and teacher throughout this country and internationally, for the last sixty years. Her education and training began in the 1940s in New York City, where she attended the High School of Music and Art as well as Parsons School of Design. From this training, Popenoe, launched a successful career that included travel and exhibitions in prestigious galleries and museums within the United States and internationally in London and Malaysia. She has shown in over 20 one woman shows and 40 group shows.

Phillips will present a body of abstract paintings and vessels which play with space as much as they do light. His small abstract paintings are the study of color, space, and interaction while his large abstract vessels play with the similar concepts of space and interaction, with the result being, how do space and light interact? Through the bending and binding of small branches of bamboo and other woods, Phillips accomplishes a beautiful harmony in absence through alluding to what the shape is, but allowing the space around to fill it. Phillips’s life, like Popenoe’s, is truly displayed through his work. It is done with a twinkle in his eye, but with a quietness and balance through his actions. Also on display will be a collaborative piece by Popenoe and Phillips. Through their love story which spans 33 years, they have never before created a piece together, Artisans on Taylor is honored to present this tender work of love and talent to the community.

An artist’s reception for Popenoe and Phillips will be held at Artisans on Taylor Gallery, during Gallery Walk on November 7th from 6 to 8pm.

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Port Townsend Shorts, presented by the Port Townsend Arts Commission, are monthly readings of short stories. Talented local actors read aloud from selected works every Gallery Walk Saturday at 7:30 p.m., in the Pope Marine Park Building next to City Dock. Local artworks on display, free admission! (donations are accepted).

ART ROUTE: A self-guided tour of art studios in Port Townsend and Jefferson County. Each of the 22 artists featured in the brochure represents a unique type of visual art. The brochure includes a map, a brief description of the art, artist, phone, and address is available at the Northwind Art Center, the Visitor's Center, hotels, B&B's, many other stores.