Opening Reception: Friday, February 6th | 5PM-7PM
Eternal Echoes brings together the past and present by examining historic death rituals alongside emerging contemporary practices. It highlights artists and death workers who engage with mortality in thought-provoking ways, challenging taboos while honoring traditions and the deceased. Eternal Echoes invites viewers to reconsider how we engage with death, how we honor those who came before us, and how art can offer a bridge between the living and the departed. By confronting death, we do not diminish life; rather, we enrich it. This exhibition seeks to open space for dialogue, reflections, and perhaps even a reimagining of our relationship with the inevitable, transforming fear into understanding and loss into legacy.
Learn moreOpening Reception: Friday, April 10th | 5PM-7PM
Field Notes is a visual love letter to the birds of the Pacific Northwest-an exhibition where art, observation, and reverence for the natural world converge. Inspired by the legacy of John James Audubon and rooted deeply in the unique ecology of this region, the show brings together contemporary artists whose work responds to the presence of birds not only as subjects of beauty, but as symbols of change, migration, resilience, and interconnectedness.
Learn moreJoin us at Port Angeles Fine Arts Center for a treasured annual tradition, Art In Bloom, from Friday, May 8th-Sunday, May 10th. For one weekend only, the Esther Webster Gallery will be filled with living beauty, as floral masterpieces are displayed to complement the current exhibit, Field Notes. Accredited local floral designers will create arrangements inspired by the art in this exhibition and showcase their work alongside the art pieces they drew their inspiration from on Mother’s Day Weekend.
Art In Bloom is a celebration of former Garden Club member and PAFAC board member, Mim Foley. Be a part of this vibrant annual tradition, honor her legacy, and stop by and smell the florals.
Learn moreWe are thrilled to once again partner with the Port Angeles School District, WSU Extension, and the Washington State Arts Commission to bring youth-inspired programming to our community. Join us as we celebrate arts, science and interdisciplinary learning through a pop-up exhibition showcasing the work of more than 250 K-2nd grade students from Franklin, Jefferson, and Dry Creek Elementary.
View their work on display in the Esther Webster Gallery, celebrate a year of arts-integrated learning at our Creative Start Celebration party, and embrace the joy of shared creativity!
Opening Reception: Friday, July 17th | 5PM-7PM
Kinship invites viewers into the wonder of nature and time. Bringing together contemporary artists who work with living materials, ecological processes, and forms drawn from the natural world, this exhibition considers how nature itself becomes a collaborator in shaping artistic expression. Rather than fixed objects, the works here unfold through growth, decay, weather, and care-reminding us that living systems are always in motion.
Nature appears here as both medium and framework. Artists engage with organic structures, ecological cycles, and the quiet intelligence of living things to create works that evolve over time. Light, moisture, gravity, and growth become compositional tools, shaping forms that resist permanence and invite attention to subtle change.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 25th | 5PM-7PM
Paper and Paste is an exhibition about transformation-how something as simple as a sheet of paper can become a world of its own.
Here, artists fold, cut, layer, and glue to push paper beyond its familiar boundaries. Sheets transform into sculptural forms; cutouts open into delicate windows of light and space. Every surface holds the possibility of a new form. In these works, paper becomes both structure and story, both surface and substance.
Paper and Paste invites you to discover how the simplest of materials can be reshaped into imaginative new stories.
The Wintertide Makers Market connects shoppers with locally-made artisan gift items in the peaceful setting of the Esther Webster Gallery. In addition to supporting Olympic Peninsula artists, this event is a vital source of financial support for the arts center. Holiday shoppers can find a wide range of gifts, including art prints and costume jewelry, ornaments and home decor, wearables such as mittens and hats, body care goods, and more!
Apply to be a vendor Past ExhibitsOur series of 2025 exhibitions are brought to you in part by support from the City of Port Angeles Lodging Tax Funds. Learn more about the City of Port Angeles