Yellow Pages
A number of noteworthy exhibits open this week and the Anacortes Schools Foundation hosts a fundraiser during the First Friday Gallery Walk, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday.
Hand-turned bowls by longtime Anacortes resident Mike Young and wooden Mitercraft items from local artists Ron and Julie Flint will be featured at the Depot Arts Center Friday night in a sale that benefits a new Anacortes Schools Foundation emergency fund for needy students.
The opening of the Petite Pieces show at Insights offers proof of the inexorable advent of the holidays. The popular annual show features exquisite stocking stuffers — works on a smaller, more affordable scale by the gallery’s stable of talented artists.
Eric Wiegardt returns to the Scott Milo Gallery with a colorful collection of nautical canvases, beachscapes and florals in watercolor. The show opens with a reception during the Gallery Walk.
The public is invited to meet resident artist Gregory Kargel at Texture Gallery, 804 Commercial Ave., an artist’s studio and gallery that joins the Gallery Walk this month. Featured at the gallery are heavily textured two and three-dimensional works on panel.
Anchor Art Space opens Tangle, an exhibit of new work by Kathryn and Ron Glowen. A reception is 4-7 p.m. Saturday.
Tangle’s lively and complex work in a variety of materials draws inspiration and reference in the unbounded and messy disorder of the natural world, even clouds, brambles and dust bunnies.
Kathryn Glowen is drawn to the texture of printed language, particularly dictionary pages, maps and paper ephemera, while her visual language is derived from the universal, as in the night sky, and the particular, such as the structure of a leaf or a wasp nest. She was recently part of a show at the Museum of Northwest Art.
Ron Glowen, a semi-retired art critic and writer, occasionally collaborates with Kathryn. He has exhibited drawings, paintings, architectural works in solo and group exhibits.
Other Gallery Walk participants:
• Opulence Hair Salon and Day Spa, 902 Commercial Ave., features the works of several Pacific Northwest artists. Opulence offers beautiful art, exceptional hair design and a day spa.
• Anne Martin McCool Gallery, 711 Commercial Ave., presents blown glass by Alison Brubaker, turned wood bowls by George Way and work by gallery artists McCool, Teri Silva, Debbie Aldrich, Kathleen Faulkner and Carole Cunningham.
• Adrift, 510 Commercial Ave., is showing new work by regional artists.
• Scott Milo Gallery, 420 Commercial Ave., also features abstract mixed media by Renate Trapkowski, color photographs by Randy Dana, oils by Joanne Shellan and new jewelry, sculptures, glass and crafted wood tables.
• The Depot Arts Center Gallery, 611 R Ave., has no exhibit in November, but presents the Nutcracker Gift Show Nov. 12-15 and the Holiday Farmer’s Market Nov. 21. Photographs by Valley Camera Club are on display in the Baggage Room Gallery.
