Jeanette Best Gallery

701 Water Street
Downtown Port Townsend
Open 12 noon to 5 PM Thursdays through Mondays

Jeanette Best Gallery memorializes a well-loved local artist and arts organizer and features two large, light-filled exhibit spaces.

Exhibits

Small Expressions

an exhibition for the giving season  

November 22, 2024 - January 6, 2025

This juried exhibition brings together 40 artists from across the Pacific Northwest — each working within the parameters of 16 inches in all directions.

The Small Expressions artists have created work in a wide range of media, from stained glass to block prints, from oil paintings to handwoven fibers, and from pinhole photography to jewelry inspired by nature.

This year's artists, who bring more than 200 works to the show, come from Port Townsend, Seattle, Port Angeles, Sequim, Bainbridge Island, Hillsboro, Oregon, Port Hadlock, Port Ludlow, Nordland and other communities around the region.

The best-in-show prize

Our Small Expressions jurors — Jaiden Dokken, Northwind Art Exhibits Coordinator, Port Townsend designer and teaching artist Shannon Kidd and artist and Creative District manager Mitzi Jo Gordon — have chosen Anna Moore's "Glacier Rocks" for the Jurors' Award. This piece is a Risograph-printed photo artist's book inspired by Moore's travels to the Arctic Circle.  

Gallery hours: 12-5 PM Thursdays through Mondays 

Pictured above: Graceful White Tulip by Kelly Haejung Paik

 

 

 

Showcase 2024

Featuring Small Works

November 15 - December 30, 2024

The Showcase Small Works exhibit has arrived. Showcase 2024 artists — all of them local— have brought in new creations for this annual event.
Their art ranges from abstract oil paintings and jewelry to unusual photography and mosaics.
These works are compact and ideal for the giving season.  
 

2024's mix of Showcase Artists includes:

Jewelry makers Sarah Calautti, April Ottey and Elyse Garling; fiber artist Isabel Esquivel; printmakers Kelli MacConnell and Kira Mardikes; mosaicist Shelley Jaye; photographers Kathy Fridstein, Patrick Slattery and Jeff Sweet; painters Joyce Hester, Wendy Higgins, John Holm, Corinne Humphrey, Donna LaHue, Marian Morris, Roger Morris, Sandra Offutt, Elizabeth Reutlinger and Linda Tilley; mixed-media artists Leslie Newman and Egor Shokoladov; woodworker Evan Miller and sculptor Kim Simonelli.  

 

 

Open 12-5 PM Thursdays through Mondays

First Saturday Art Walk: December 7, 5-8 PM

Pictured above: jewelry by April Ottey