Our mission is to bring an ongoing and ever-changing art exhibit to Downtown Port Angeles. ART on the Town, now in its eighth season, is a year-long outdoor art gallery showing in the heart of Downtown Port Angeles. Since inception, 27 artworks valued in excess of $250,000 have been purchased or commissioned through the exposure provided by ART on the Town.

The outdoor venue showcases the artists’ work in an inviting, family-oriented, pedestrian-friendly environment. Display sites include the waterfront, Downtown sidewalks, and pocket park areas. ART on the Town promotes the multi-faceted artworks with regularly scheduled guided tours and other events. Self-guided walking tours are also promoted with easy-to-use sculpture tour maps.

The diversity of the public viewing the works annually, creates a valuable market for the promotion and sale of the featured artwork.

Congratulations to Us!

This excerpt appears in the August, 2006, issue of Sea magazine. It tells us that our hard work is paying off!

“Downtown Port Angeles is within walking distance from either marina…. In town, you’ll find interesting clothing, outdoors and sporting goods shops, bookstores, boutiques and art galleries. We enjoy exploring “PA’s” downtown streets, with their hanging baskets and boxes overflowing with flowers. Some of the town’s vintage buildings have been restored and painted with colorful murals depicting Port Angeles’ history. Sculptures, some with a nautical theme, can be found here and there. When you get hungry, you won’t have any trouble finding a restaurant to suite your taste—” AND

These are excerpts from the 6-page center section of the July, 2007 issue of the magazine Nor’westing. “Shopping is a memorable experience in old town Port Angeles. We found tattoo parlors, bookstores, artist supply shops, a movie theater, a shop selling fly tying materials, second-hand stores, a community department store, and a host of other unique shopping experiences. Anybody willing to admit to being as old as I am will remember a TV commercial from the 1950s, and know that “half the fun of having feet is Red Goose Shoes!”… I wasn’t aware that Red Goose shoes were still in production, until I noticed the freshly painted or restored Red Goose on the wall of a shoe store in downtown Port Angeles… Public art is absolutely everywhere. It’s nearly impossible to walk half a block through the old town district without encountering sculptures and murals depicting the natural environment of history of Port Angeles. Perhaps at the end of an afternoon in Port Angeles, climb the steep stairway between First and Second streets, just above the mural depicting the Olympic Mountains. You will find yourself atop a cliff, and standing where generations of settlers and Natives have undoubtedly stood in the past to behold Port Angeles Harbor. The sun may pry the clouds apart long enough to slant in over your shoulder and energize the stars and stripes of Old Glory, snapping at the town flagpole below. You will see spread out before you a rare sight in this day and age: a genuine place with an independent identity. Established by hardscrabble loggers, expanded by idealistic socialists, and populated today by industrious people who may not bother to precisely define where the sea ends and the town begins, or the exact margin of the forests beyond. You will need to puzzle for yourself whether the utopian dream died out entirely here, or whether there are vestiges remnant in the pragmatism, the optimism, and the cheerful adaptability of her residents.”

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