The Seaside First Saturday Art Walk is all about the arts. Visitors wander, meet artists, sip wine or sample appetizers by favorite restaurants or personal chefs. They can view artist demonstrations, listen to an artist talk or enjoy live performances in music. The next art walk is February 6, 2016 from 5:00 to 7:00pm, at businesses, shops, boutiques and dining establishments located between Holladay Drive and Broadway in the historic Gilbert District of downtown Seaside with courtesy parking available on the corner of Holladay and Oceanway.

Featured in March at the Art Walk:

• Fairweather House and Gallery, 612 Broadway
  Celebrating its 10th anniversary with an opening reception for an exhibition titled Above and Beyond, Fairweather House and Gallery offers insightful, timely and relevant works of art about the spring season. Regional artists are selected to acknowledge the coastal flyway habitats and to awaken our senses to nature from the ground up. This month’s artists include Britney Drumheller, Kathryn Delaney, and Rosemary Klein. Photographer Neal Maine will reveal his latest natural history photo journal, and give a lecture at 6:00pm about what is above and beyond “the coastal edge”. Special guest Josh Saranpaa, Executive Director of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast, will speak about promoting compassion, empathy and respect for all life. The ever dashing and handsome Flynn, a resident Kestrel, will also make an appearance.
• Beach Books, 616 Broadway
  Features the entire Green Cab Artist Collective, a working artist group located in Washington County that was created with the goal of encouraging and inspiring one another, sharing artist techniques and information about the business side of art, and sharing work with the public. The “Cabbies” are a synergistic alliance of artists, working in diverse mediums from the greater Portland area. This month’s show includes work from artists Anne E. Brown, Penny Forrest, Barbara Martin,  Jeffery Hall, Helvi Smith, Bruce Ulrich, Jim Zaleski and Elina Zerbergs.