For February and March, Café Luna will feature Wendra-Lynne’s collection of work inspired by, and painted with, coffee. The artist will be out of town for Friday’s opening but will host a painting-with-wine class from 5 to 7 p.m. at the café on the first Friday of March. Registration for the class begins Feb. 5 at Café Luna.
Painter Miya Sukane will display her work at the Hastings-Cone Gallery. Influenced by classical realism, Sukane plays with light and shadow, using an alchemy of traditional painting and drawing — line, form, value and color — to create reality through illusion.
Raven’s Nest will present the Shotridge Collection’s newest design, “Hummingbird & Fuchsia,” created by Tlingit master artist Israel Shotridge. Limited edition art prints in a variety of formats and sizes, from large to miniature framed archival giclées and art cards, will be available. Shotridge will sign the prints on Friday, and a door prize will be offered.
Islander Ralph Moore’s wooden cutting boards will be featured at S.A.W. The artist has lived on Vashon since 1979 and has made hundreds of cutting boards, each one a unique size and combination of woods. Moore uses wood collected from the island, including madrona, holly and vertical-grained Douglas fir, combined with sustainable hardwoods from Central and South America.
The Hardware Store restaurant will show still life photographs by island artist Valerie Willson. A longtime oil painter, Willson started photographing flowers to record the ephemeral nature of the plants and then began experimenting with floral still life arrangements against a black backdrop. Though shot with a digital camera, the images are not digitally altered or enhanced.
Valise Gallery will exhibit a show called “Beach Dialogues,” featuring 16 artists working in a variety of mediums, including oil paint, ceramic sculpture, photography and metals. The show was curated by Eric Heffelfinger, a goldsmith and Valise member.
Vashon Allied Arts Gallery will feature two artists who use light, shape and color to express movement and emotions. The exhibit will showcase paintings by islander Allison Crain Trundle and stone sculptures by Jon Schmidt, an artist who lives in Everett.
Vashon Community Care will exhibit watercolors by 12 island artists. This will be the first showing for most of the artists, all of whom have taken watercolor classes from Geri Peterson at the Vashon Senior Center.
Vashon Intuitive Arts will show mixed-media work by Swan Eagle Fitzgerald.
Karlista Rickerson’s vibrant underwater photographs will continue to be shown at the Vashon Senior Center.
Voice of Vashon will open its Storefront Studio on Friday with a ribbon cutting at 5:50 p.m. by Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jim Marsh. Following the ceremony, the studio will hold an open house and special First Friday live broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. The studio is located between The Glass Bottle Creamery and Zombies on Vashon Highway.
