Port Angeles Fine Art Center
Past Exhibition Highlights
Hidden World: Jennifer Angus
April 25 - July 6, 2025
Hidden World: Jennifer Angus is an immersive exhibition by Madison-based artist Jennifer Angus that transforms the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center into a living tapestry of nature, using preserved insect specimens to create intricate patterns that dance across the walls. Through her art, she reveals both the delicate beauty and the fragility of our ecosystem, offering a thoughtful reflection on our relations with the natural world.
Water Connects Us All
February 7 - April 6, 2025
Water Connects Us All delves into the bonds created by water, explores the intersection of art, science, and marine conservation, and celebrates the role that creativity plays in inspiring us towards meaningful action. The exhibition features seven artists who are combining their creative ingenuity with ocean science research to inspire a more sustainable future.
Reimagining the Intersection of Art & Environment- Exploring Natural & Repurposed Materials
April 5 - May 26, 2024
A solo exhibit with artist Jyoti Duwadi curated by Barbara Matilsky exploring natural and repurposed materials. Jyoti’s wide-ranging approach to making art calls attention to nature’s beauty and the precarious relationship between humans and the environment. This exhibition spotlights his repurposed sanding belts marked by the trees of Pacific Northwest Forests. Jyoti transforms this industrial material with earth colors and “visual poetry,” calligraphic writing defined by Ayurvedic medicine.
Terminus
July 7 - September 3, 2023
"Terminus" is a breathtaking exhibition that immortalizes the glaciers of the Olympic Mountains through the diverse artistic range of 40 artists from around the world. Together, these original artworks commemorate the glaciers of this landscape and ignite conversations about climate change. This exhibition is presented in partnership with Olympic National Park, with funding from Washington's National Park Fund and Discover Your Northwest.
Science Stories: A Collaboration of Book Artists and Scientists
March 12 - May 29, 2022
Science Stories is a unique project that brings together Pacific Northwest scientists and book artists to create engaging and unique artists' books that offer new ways to interpret science and to tell a story. The Science Stories projects are divided into broad topics: water, ice, mountains, flora, fauna and human health.
Creating a Scene: The Legacy and Vision of Esther Webster
February 13 - April 25, 2021
Displayed in the space where Esther herself once lived and worked, the exhibit includes a wide-ranging collection of original paintings, drawings, collages, and prints from across her six-decade career. Alongside completed works of art, visitors will find a selection of the artist's informal notes, sketchbooks, and original printing blocks. Alongside a handful of key artifacts, these items offer and intimate glimpse into Esther's life and creative work.
Undersea Garden: A Voyage of Wonder and Imagination
September 12 - November 15, 2020
Presented by Tangled Fibers, a collaborative group of four Olympic Peninsula fiber artists. Using fiber, color, texture and whimsy, the Tangled Fibers artists will create kelp, tide pools, octopus, sea stars, nudibranchs, jellyfish and other forms of life found under and over its shores.
Earth: An Abstract
April 18- June 28, 2020
Honoring the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, this exhibit features 50 abstract artworks that reference the natural world: celebrating the earth's beauty and diversity, exploring the science of the natural world, and addressing the environment's very real vulnerability.
Other Virtual Programs
The Light Side of Art
Fundraiser
What is The Light Side of Art? It is the art that makes us laugh out loud, that delights us with its beauty, that sparks our own creativity, and that illuminates the things we value most. The light side of art is earnest and generous, and yes, sometimes it’s a little bit cheesy. This is the art that reminds us – even in hard times – that truth, goodness, and beauty still have the power to move us at our deepest being.
Quarantine
Crafts
Short videos geared toward a younger audience showing how to make art using regular household items or things found in nature. These instructional videos will emphasize "artist thinking" to teach that humor and creativity help us see new possibilities, even when we feel limited or stuck.
Webster's Woods
Virtual Tours
Follow along on a casual walk through Webster's Woods as previous Gallery and Program Director, Sarah Jane shares observations about select artworks and the park's history or enjoy a video of a silent, meandering walk through the park's five acres of second-growth Olympic forest.