Skagit Community Band Presents “You Can’t Be Serious!” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at Maple Hall, La Conner; and 3 p.m. Feb. 8 at Brodniak Hall, Anacortes. The Skagit Community Band performs music from the satirical to the sublime. Featured works include Rodger and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma,” “The Mikado Highlights,” arranged by Robert Russell Bennett, and “Second Prelude,” by George Gershwin. On the lighter side, they will perform the music of Peter Schickele’s P.D.Q. Bach. The SCB featured soloist will be flautist Valerie Smith performing “Rhapsody for Flute.” Band members come from all over Whidbey and surrounding areas. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors/students, $30 for families and free for children under 12 when accompanied by adult. www.skagitcommunityband.org
JUDY SKINNER is Penn Cove Gallery’s featured artist for the month of January. Pastel artist Skinner will be at Penn Cove Gallery Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015, to demonstrate her pastel methods. Skinner finds inspiration in the rolling wheat fields and rural scenes of Eastern Washington, where she grew up, and the tall firs and shorelines of her present home on Whidbey Island. Penn Cove Gallery on Front Street in Coupeville. 360-678-1176. www.penncovegallery.com
The art displayed in Oak Harbor’s CITY HALL for January and February is the work of advanced-placement students under the guidance of teacher Kit Christopherson at Oak Harbor High School. Artists and their artwork are: Irene Gribble, “Irene’s Sister”; Joey Tirrado, “Growth”; Angelique Guina, “Blue”; Yuki Betcher, “Peacock Prince”; Aaron Kelley, “Owl in White”; and Alana Acosta, “Girl with the Smile!”
AKEMI WALKER is Penn Cove Gallery’s featured artist for the month of February. Walker, a jewelry designer, will be at the gallery from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, to demonstrate her work and methods. Walker’s special love is art clay silver, a mixture of fine silver and organic material, which, when fired, becomes fine silver sculpture pieces. She uses freshwater pearls, semiprecious stones and Baltic amber with sterling silver to finish her designs. Living on Whidbey Island, her sculptured fine silver pieces are inspired by the nature that surrounds her. www.penncovegallery.com
WHIDBEY PLAYHOUSE?S “Monty Python’s SPAMALOT” is on stage Feb. 6 through March 1. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 2:30 p.m. Sundays. The musical is lovingly ripped off of “Monty Phython and the Holy Grail.” Show features sumptuous sets and costumes, a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, a killer rabbit and more madcap mirth than a headless knight. For tickets and more information, visit www.whidbeyplayhouse.com
Rob Schouten Gallery presents “Adornment, the Jewelry Show,” Feb. 6 to March 2. A Sunday afternoon reception is 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8, at the gallery. During this month of valentines and romance, find something special for yourself or for your sweetheart at Rob Schouten Gallery’s February show, Adornment, featuring the work of four jewelry artists, Morgan Bell, Barb Mundell, Mary Ellen O’Connor and Tammi Sloan. Adornment with jewels is a 7,000 year-old practice that has developed through all the greatest civilizations. From the great queens of Egypt and the Roman Empire to today’s contemporary European houses of fashion, jewelry has played its part in a woman’s ability to express herself in a visual way. Whidbey Island artists are creating beautiful pieces of jewelry that continue to burst with new ideas of form, color and design in this diverse and decorative art form. www.robschoutengallery.com
