Enhance Your Birding Experience Through Scientific Journaling
Date: Friday April 17, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Price: $40
Limit: 15
Join staff, artists, and community birding experts from the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center for an afternoon exploring scientific journaling as a way to enhance your birding experience. Participants will take a private tour of the Esther Webster Gallery to explore the exhibit Field Notes with PAFAC Gallery Curator Lindsey Shepherd. They will then join PAFAC education staff and our neighborhood birding expert on an interactive walk of Websters Woods Sculpture Park where participants will have a chance to observe wildlife, learn about the incredible variety of birds unique to this patch of woods, and practice the principles of scientific journaling modeled after scientist, educator and author John Muir Laws. All participants will receive their own journal and will have the opportunity to demo an Art Toolkit, a unique system meant for wild spaces. All art supplies will be provided. Worried about your artistic capabilities? No need, we got you! This workshop is meant for all skill levels.
About the Exhibit: Field Notes is a visual love letter to the birds of the Pacific Northwest—an exhibition where art, observation, and reverence for the natural world converge. Inspired by the legacy of John James Audubon and rooted deeply in the unique ecology of this region, the show brings together contemporary artists whose work responds to the presence of birds not only as subjects of beauty, but as symbols of change, migration, resilience, and interconnectedness.
About Port Angeles Fine Arts Center: The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center is a gallery, arts center, and sculpture park all in one! As a non-profit, our mission is to honor the legacy of Esther Webster by connecting people to the arts. By combining creative programming with our unique natural surroundings, we aim to build the bridge of connection between art, nature, and science. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center Gallery, originally the private residence of Esther and Charles Webster, was designed in 1951, by Paul Hayden Kirk, as both a residence and artist’s studio. The Webster house is a plate-glass-and-timbered classic of modern Northwest architecture and is surrounded by five acres of second growth forest and trails where more than 100 works of outdoor art are on display.