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May 8 Noon to 8 p.m. ASTORIA — The Second Saturday Astoria Art Walk will be held from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturday. Attendees are expected to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines. 1. Lower Columbia Q Center, 171 W. Bond St. Yuji Hiratsuka in his studio. Featuring several new and local artists within the LGBTQIA+ community. 2. West Coast Artisans Gallery, 160 10th St. Featuring the exhibit, “Finding Calm,” including a new series of abstracts by Oscar Nelson. Art created by Chris Bryant, Crystal Neher, Cat Loyd, Mariko Maita, Robin Davis and others will also be fea- tured. Information about the gallery’s new fine art printing service will also available. 3. McVarish Gallery, 160 10th St. Featuring the new show “Out the Win- dow or Take the Stairs.” Featured art- ists include Colette Calasione, Colin Chil- lag, Jill McVarish, Marjorie Scholl, Sam Vaughan and friends, Casebeer, Tom Giesler and Morrison Pierce. 4. Angi D Wildt Gallery, 106 10th St. Featuring art by Americana folk artists Bill W. Dodge. He will be present during art walk to meet visitors and personal- ize copies of his print, “Hungry Humbert’s Used Cars.” 5. Paul Polson Studio Gallery, 100 10th St. Featuring new oil paintings by Paul Pol- son, featuring the North Coast and Astoria. Polson’s Strata and Pipe Series will also be displayed. 6. Treasure Alley, 77 11th St. Featuring pottery created by Linda Perme, whose work includes textured and under-glazed pieces like bud wall vases, hanging hearts and butterflies, salt con- tainers with spoons, heart rattles and tiny bowls. Also featured inside Treasure Alley is the Los Andes Shop, which features alpaca, cotton and wool products. 4 // COASTWEEKEND.COM One of Yuji Hiratsuka’s pieces. 7. Astoria Institute of Music and Center for the Arts, 1159 Marine Drive Featuring acrylic paintings created by art- ist Jenny Coccorese in the show “Anti-Her- oines,” which portrays “wild feminine archetypes created to be evil in false nar- ratives through history when in fact they had a strong positive light.” Also featured are ceramics made by TKO; Mexican Lot- tery card art by Paul Gagnon; surreal paint- ings and mixed media art by Lisa Ackerman; and more. Live music will be performed and piano lessons are available. Call 503-395- 1221 for an appointment outside or art walk hours or to participate in projects. 8. Brumfield Gallery, 1033 Marine Drive Featuring artists Yuji Hiratsuka and Mor- gan Brig. Hiratsuka’s show is titled “Finding Beauty Through the Synthesis of Japanese Tradition and Globalized Western Consum- erism.” His work communicates a personal narrative through a carefully crafted visual language of symbolism and metaphor. His pieces express the accumulated experience of his cultural heritage, which is a synthesis of See Page 5 One of the piece’s from Oscar Nelson’s show, ‘Finding Calm,’ featured by West Coast Artisans.