Whether you’re looking to create art or appreciate others’ art, this weekend has you covered with several different options. 

Sunday, June 8 will see Port Townsend artist and teacher Meg Kaczyk host an informal “Art Journaling through Change: In Community” class at the Northwind Art School at Fort Worden State Park.

This session is open to everyone, with no prerequisites, from 2-3:30 p.m., although participants are asked to sign up on Northwind Art’s website.

Kaczyk touted art journaling — using any blend of collage, words, paint, pencil or mixed media in a sketchbook — as a process that can “illuminate your life,” “open up one’s sense of an emerging self” and “become a habit that feeds the soul.”

To help keep the art journals going, Kaczyk’s class is designed to support art journalists through “sharing, learning and discovery,” as well as personally tailored guidance for wherever each person is at in their process, complete with prompts to feed new directions. 

Kaczyk is also offering a “Mindfulness Practices for Art Making” class through Northwind on June 10, while art educator Aliina Lahti will teach “Nature Mantras and Mandalas: In the Woods!” on June 14, and quilting teacher Barbara Ramsey will host the open sew and quilt on June 22.

Into the woods

And artist Patricia Hagen will deliver a public talk at her “Into the Woods” one-woman exhibition over at Northwind Art’s Jeanette Best Gallery, at 701 Water St. in Port Townsend, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 8.

The show features more than 40 paintings and ceramic works depicting the natural world, including local waters and forests in Port Townsend, Chimacum and beyond, many of which were painted en plein air.

Admission to Hagen’s talk is free, and everyone is invited to join the conversation about nature, inspiration and the creative process.

Centuries of folk

Also on Sunday, June 8, at 2 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 1020 Jefferson St. in Port Townsend will be hosting “Folk Song from Three Centuries: Renaissance Psalms, Scottish Baroque and Folk” for suggested donation admission for adults, and children 18 years and younger admitted for free.

“Folk Song from Three Centuries” is a new program, expanding on research conducted for last year’s program, based on popular and folk music including Renaissance Psalms of the 1620s, Irish and Scottish baroque of the 1720s, and folk music as interpreted during Beethoven’s lifetime in the 1820s.

The concert features American guitarist, lutenist and musicologist Oleg Timofeyev and Jeffrey Cohan, artistic director of the Salish Sea Early Music Festival.