PAL’s new Art in the Park show includes paintings, pyrography and prizes
Oct 14, 2024The Art in the Park show helps inaugurate PenMet Parks’ new headquarters building — and its partnership with Peninsula Art League.
A candid discussion of mental health struggles and seeking help, in recognition of Suicide Prevention Month
Sep 24, 2024Reader warning: This article contains discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and self-harm. Heather Arneson is the artist behind LIVEeachmoment Art, a small, mental health-focused art business Arneson opened in 2020. Arneson has struggled with her mental health for more than 15 years, and this decade-and-a-half’s worth of personal experience informs her work. In
Photos | Rotary Club of Gig Harbor Midday’s 20th Harbor Hounds
Sep 08, 2024It was more like paws than boots on the ground at the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor Midday’s 20th annual Harbor Hounds Community Dog Festival and Charity Fundraiser on the green grounds of Skansie Brothers Park on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. The few hundred canine attendees who filtered in throughout the day were treated to
Plein air group paints the great art-doors
Sep 02, 2024Sunlight lazily sparkles through the trees, cresting its honey summertime slowness over the handful of artists scattered throughout Rosedale Gardens. “Isn’t she cute?” painter Barbara Best whispers, as she looks up towards a fellow artist, Liz Nordlund, as she settles a bright blue bucket hat on her head. Best looks down again at her sketchbook,
ArtWalk off for September, and its future is in doubt
Aug 21, 2024Asked if ArtWalk would have continued if Gallery Row had not closed, Lea Basile-Lazarus’ first instinct is to say, “No.” But the more she thinks about it, she mused in a recent interview, the more she realizes this isn’t true. “When I really think about it, if we still had one more gallery, and we
Our Fisherman, Our Guardian remains broken, with mold growing
Aug 14, 2024Mark Anderson’s voice is a bit crackly on the phone and sometimes drops in and out — the reception isn’t great where he is. But his voice is clear when he says: “‘Our Fishermen, Our Guardian’ — this was a community-based effort and community-funded, and a cooperation with the Puyallup Tribe to remember the first
Photo Gallery | Summer Art Festival
Jul 20, 2024Photos from the 38th annual Summer Art Festival, this year at Sehmel Homestead Park in Gig Harbor.