Local and Native American artists featured at Thursday art and wine event

Suzanne Zahr's gallery will feature Mercer Island artist Elissa Eng and 12-year-old harpist Carla Mory at Thursday's monthly art and wine event, to be held from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 4.

Suzanne Zahr’s gallery will feature Mercer Island artist Elissa Eng and 12-year-old harpist Carla Mory at Thursday’s monthly art and wine event, to be held from 4:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 4.

Clarke & Clarke is also participating this month, and will celebrate the works of Native American artists of the Northwest and Southwest with its “Original Indigenous Artworks” show during the month of August. The first Thursday art walk will be the opening night for the show, which features pottery, textiles, paintings, crafts, prints and jewelry, including one-of-a-kind polished steel and fiber neck pieces from the New Delhi design collection “En Inde.”

Clarke & Clarke will also have “bubbly, bonbons and a special new dessert sampling from Roberto’s.”

The Islander will be pouring wine tastings paired with seasonal bites at SZ Gallery, and Zahr will be offering a $200 SZ Gallery art credit and two free day passes to the 2016 Seattle Art Fair in this month’s business card raffle.

Eng’s oil paintings, along with paintings by European artist Gitte Peters, will be featured in Zahr’s gallery, which opened in March. Five percent of all art sales go to Art with Heart.

Mory will perform “Les Adieux du Menestrel au Pays Natal” by John Thomas. She has been learning the harp for nearly five years. In Paris, she studied under Isabelle Marie, and since moving to Mercer Island, has been taking classes with Valerie Muzzolini through Benaroya Hall.

For more, see www.suzannezahr.com and www.ethnoarts.com.