Women Painting Women is the theme of this month’s First Friday. Pend Oreille Arts Council has commissioned thirteen local artists to create portraits of women who have made significant impacts on the history of Bonner County. The exhibit of their work will open with an artists’ reception at Pend d’Oreille Winery (301 Cedar Street) on Friday, March 6 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Utilizing research materials and photographs from the Bonner County History Museum, artists have put together an amazing compendium of portraits which, along with historical photos from the museum’s collection will be on display through March 27.

This exhibit is in celebration of Women’s History Month and the national centennial of women’s right to vote. Who’s painting who? Jenni Barry is painting Minnie Lafond; Peggy Tessema Compton, Nell Shipman, Lesley Gadsby, Amanda Nesbit-Stebbins; Diana Schuppel, Hazel Hall; Gail Lyster, Olinda Wolters; Barbara Cannon, Elmira Markham; Maggie Dawson, Delta Merritt; Terrel Jones, Bertha Huey Johnson; Daris Judd, Nell Irion; Mary Maio, Rugna Sund Reynolds; Karen Robinson, Dr. Ethel Page Westwood; Karen Trueblood, Leata Judd, and Alison Barrows-Young, Selma Barker.

POAC will offer these portraits for sale at $200 each. For more information contact the POAC office at 208-263-6139 or at 110 Main Street or go to the website artinsandpoint.org.