Port Townsend is an Artist Community

As can be expected of a town with so many gifted people producing art, galleries are easy to find.

With such a consentration of artists even local event posters end up being collectors items, and are found in the collections of many art lovers.

 

Centrum for the Arts
www.centrum.org

2008 will be a summer of amazing and enriching musical performances at Centrum and Fort Worden State Park, including blues, jazz, slide and steel, and fiddle tunes festivals, chamber music performances, and a rock and roll show featuring the Queen of Rock, Wanda Jackson. Centrum and Fort Worden State Park thrive in mutual commitment to life-long learning experiences, and Centrum performances are the culmination of week-long residential workshops in which aspiring, amateur and pre-professional artists from around North America live, work and play with world-class artist faculty. Curated by such artistic directors as Dirk Powell, Helen Callus, John Clayton, Phil Wiggins, and Orville Johnson, these workshops are the heart of the Centrum experience. Centrum’s mainstage shows take place at McCurdy Pavilion, a, 1,200-seat World War I-era balloon hangar that has been renovated into a concert hall. Smaller, more intimate performances and readings take place at the 280-seat Joseph F. Wheeler Theater. In addition, every Friday at noon between June 27 and August 6, Centrum will present free performances on the lawn in front of the Fort Worden Commons. Tickets to Centrum performances are available online at www.centrum.org or by calling Centrum at 800-733-3608 or 360-385-3102, x117. Tickets may be purchased in person in Port Townsend at the Centrum office at Fort Worden State Park; at Quimper Sound, 230 Taylor Street; and at The Food Co-op, 414 Kearney Street. Tickets may also be purchased at individual events, but availability is not guaranteed.
www.centrum.org