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After being canceled terminal yr due to COVID-19, the 2021 Art in the Woods studio tour volition exist taking identify at venues across North Kitsap this weekend.

The consequence gives local artists the chance to showcase and sell their piece of work while offering groundwork and insight about their creations.

The issue is sponsored by nonprofit Cultural Arts Foundation Northwest and is a self-guided studio tour, according to their website. Studio sizes range from single-creative person to groups in larger venues. In that location will be xviii fine art studios participating, ranging from Poulsbo, Kingston, Suquamish and Indianola. All studios will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to v p.thou. each day Friday through Sunday.

Consequence coordinator Leigh Knowles said "the please of visiting studios, meeting artists, seeing what they practise and asking them questions about process" is the purpose of the tour. "Hopefully finding things of dazzler that they get home with. It's not but about selling, information technology'south about sharing."

The tour has been effectually for most 20 years, Knowles said. The idea for the tour was conceived by Wally and Wendy Hampton of Poulsbo. Wendy was a ceramic creative person and Wally was a lensman. They have since retired.

Knowles and her Knowles Studio in Poulsbo has been a tour site for over 15 years. She shares the space with painter Robin Weiss. For this year's bout, Knowles said she will be converting the studio into generally printmaking such every bit etching, woodcutting, lithography and monotype. Too, Knowles and Weiss, other artists who will exist featured at Knowles Studio are ceramic artist Wanda Garrity, metallic sculptor Dick Strom, silk artist Rebecca Parker, printmaker Tina Juvonen and painter Ruth Maupin.

Knowles said she and her husband congenital the studio in 2002. "This is our labor of beloved. It's open generally all the time," she said.

Ane of the perks of the tour is that it allows folks to peruse the studios at their leisure. Knowles said over the years there are often people who try and visit all of the studios over the three days.

"That's the fun of information technology," she said. "They tin can just toodle around in their cars. They tin can visit as many or as few as they wish. I would say it would be really difficult to visit all the studios in ane day."

Knowles said a big allure is that it occurs so close to the holidays, and people are looking to purchase art gifts. She said many studios take told her that sales and overall interest in their work improve each twelvemonth the tour is held. "Even some of the smaller studios have seen 250 to 300 people in a weekend."

Another central element is that near of the studios are located in rural areas of North Kitsap that don't run across as much traffic equally others in more centrally located areas like downtown Poulsbo. Knowles said some of the studios are besides homes of the artists.

"It is really about bringing people to the artists," she said. "People come up dorsum year after year; they just love to visit."

Of the studios, Knowles said the fine art will consist of two-dimensional such as painting, drawings, printmaking, photography and collages, while three-dimensional fine art will consist of ceramics, glass, jewelry, metallic sculptures, stone sculptures and mosaics.

The studios include:

•Kingston: Mud Club Pottery, 21994 Seatter Rd; Bob Wahr Creations, 11152 NE Tulin Rd; Kingston Artist Tree, 8690 West Kingston Rd; Ray Hammar Industrial Arts Studio at Brutal Plants, 6810 NE Hwy 104; Magdalena Studio, 5941 NE Timberland Dr; A 47-6-West Photography, 29403 Gamble Pl NE; Two Dogs Studio, 28015 Hansville Rd NE; Kingston Woodworking, 12540 NE Marine View Dr.

•Indianola: Fern Street Pottery, 20505 Fern St; Fernwoods Studio, 21072 Fern St.; Indianola Pottery, 20649 Main Sam Wilson Way NE; Joi de Vie, 22450 Miller Bay Rd NE; Miller Bay Clubhouse, 22125 Sunridge Way NE; Spirit Bird Studio, 22425 Sunridge Fashion NE.

•Poulsbo: Water ice House Studio, 2889 NW Parris Route; Knowles Studio, 20432 Noll Rd NE; Studio Wide Oral cavity Frog, 3577 NE Lincoln Rd.

•Suquamish: Rosie Creek Studio, 6421 NE Middle St.

Local ceramics artist Wanda Garrity has been in the studio tour for many years and will be again this year.