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PORT ANGELES Profile
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Profile The Center is located at 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., near the Jones Street water tank. Works by more than 500 artists, principally from the Northwest, have been featured in exhibitions curated by the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center staff and, on occasion, by guest curators.
Jake Seniuk, Director. A photo composite of two self-portraits made more than a quarter century apart, the image encompasses the time span of the Center's history and Seniuk's tenure as its director/curator. Click photo to view larger image size. Lectures, concerts, readings, and other special programs complement the changing exhibitions of visual art. PAFAC hosts the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts each Memorial Day weekend. History In celebration of how much art had added to her own life, she bequeathed her entire estate to the City of Port Angeles to establish a fine Arts Center for the enjoyment and enlightenment of the community and its visitors. Gallery The circular Webster House, designed in 1951 by innovative Northwest architect Paul Hayden Kirk, sits on the crest of Beaver Hill. Sweeping vistas of the city, the harbor, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the horizons of Canada's Vancouver Island frame the artistic visions in the gallery. Art Outside New works by twenty Northwest and Canadian artists will be premiered bringing the total of artworks populating the Center's Webster's Woods Art Park to more than 110 sculptures and site works. From its grand opening in 2000 with works by forty Northwest artists, the population of this singular art park has increased every season. While over the years some pieces have been returned to their creators or succumbed to the elements, the net presence of art in the park has grown steadily through gift, entrenchment and extended loan. There is a playful and not-always-distinct border between the artists' creations and the flora and natural features of these beautiful woods, which we are privileged to use as a living laboratory. Artists are stimulated by our sublime setting and excited to be able to try out their ideas with the amount of freedom accorded to them. I don't know of any other opportunity quite like it in the Northwest." Many works have been donated by the artists, acquired through gift purchases by patrons, or simply melted away back into the landscape," explains Seniuk. "The collection, like the living landscape itself, is changing and growing and takes on new aspects with the passing of the seasons." For more information about this exhibit, please visit the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center webpage: http://www.pafac.org/exhibitions/art-outside.html Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Managed creatively and safely, Home | Government | Services | Residents | Business | Visitors | News | Search  "PORT ANGELES - THE AUTHENTIC NORTHWEST" 321 East 5th Street - P.O. Box 1150 / Port Angeles, WA 98362 Phone: 360-457-0411 / TTY: 360-417-4645 General City Email: information@cityofpa.us or Web Site: webmaster@cityofpa.us Disclaimer & Social Media Policy
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The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is the legacy of Esther Barrows Webster - artist, publisher and philanthropist. 
The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is open year round and presents exhibits of visual arts in all media. Gallery exhibitions average two to three months in duration and feature both well established and significant emerging artists from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
"We try to find a balance between works that are sculptural objects in themselves and works that are site interventions in the natural environment," says Seniuk. "The greatest charm of Webster's Woods , no doubt, is the whimsical interplay between artists' ideas and the self-perpetuating landscape. 
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