Featured Artists July

BIRDS by Christine Wasankari and Sarah Leonard.
July’s Featured Artists for Gallery 9
Opening at the July Port Townsend Art walk
July 5th, from 5:00-8:00pm

Christine Wasankari and Sarah Leonard are showing an array of vibrant
paintings and sterling silhouette jewelry about birds. What started this theme? Both artists love birds and bright colors.



Christine Wasankari "History" Mixed Media


Christine loves working in mixed media. She uses hand made papers, found objects sandy textures and loves to experiment. It's like playing with paints when we were all little, only now no one can tell her to quit being so messy. :-)

Christine’s paintings are bright and rich like a blue jay, fun like a kingfisher and witty like a crow. Inspiration from living amongst the trees at the edge of the Olympic Forest has also prompted the desire to paint our feathered folk.



Christine Wasankari - "Never Meant to Be" Mixed Media



Sarah Leonared - Sterling Silver Neclace

Sarah Leonard work reflects the fun silhouettes and shapes of birds. She enjoys looking and listening to birds everyday. Trying to reflect the nature of the birds in silver by using accent stones for the eyes, cutting out the silhouette, texturing the wings and tail on both sides to create an enjoyable and wearable piece.



Sarah Leonared - Sterling Silver Neclace and Earrings


Reception coincides with gallery walk from 5 to 8 on July tth and continues through the month of July. Gallery 9 is located at 1012 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA. 360.379.3381

Sights and Sounds of the June Gallery Walk

Welcome back to the blog. Here are some of the sites and sounds of this June's Gallery Walk Featuring Michael Kenney and Jeff Tocher.

Jeff shared the video you see down at the bottom.

Thanks so much to all who came in, Enjoy!



Come on In, The Gallery is open!



"Otter Road" - Jeff Tocher


Michael and his jewelry


Mena and gallery walk visitors


Balcony View


Jeff speaking with an early gallery walk visitor

Featured Artists June

Gallery-9 Presents “Cross Sections”

A collaboration by featured artists Jeff Tocher and Michael Kenney.



Jeff Tocher paints a cross-section of layered thoughts. These usually involve a local site and out of place animal and Iconic Imagery. Whether it’s God explaining string theory to Bob the Dog or a relocated elk working at Wal-Mart, it’s bound to make you think and smile.





Jeweler Michael Kenney meanwhile physically cuts cross-sections of rare and ancient materials. Such as Mammoth Ivory, from tusks buried in the Alaskan permafrost for 10 thousand years capturing beautiful earthy colors. Dinosaur bone, turned to agate over 150 million years has a warm red glow. Meteorites, traveling through space for over 7 billion years before being caught by Earth’s gravity, speak of the beauty of the cosmos. These slices of life joined by precious stones and metals form the pallet for the new creations for this special show.


Reception coincides with gallery walk from 5 to 8 on June 7th and continues through the month of June. Gallery 9 is located at 1012 Water Street, Port Townsend, and WA.