The Edmonds Third Thursday Art Walk combines live music with art and is an appetizer for the upcoming Edmonds Arts Festival, planned for Father’s Day weekend starting June 19.

The Edmonds Art Walk is from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday throughout downtown Edmonds with rainbow spinners marking the path. Maps are also available at various locations.

There’s live music throughout the art walk along with demonstrations of wearable art, weaving and watercolor painting.

DYVA: “Delicate Yet Vibrant Art” or DYVA, is the name of the art show under way at Arts of Snohomish gallery.

“Delicate Yet Vibrant Art” is a group show that features a gathering of award-winning artists of the Northwest Pastel Society.

A reception to meet the artists in this show is planned from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the gallery, 105 Cedar Ave., Snohomish. There will be refreshments and live music.

Visitors can watch the artists in action. They will create a “roundabout” and the finished painting will be auctioned at the end of the evening. It’s a chance to see an original work of art in progress.

DYVA runs through June 30.

History in photos: A new exhibit at the Edmonds Museum intrigues visitors with 30 photographic panels that illustrate the handiwork of the Works Progress Administration in Washington.

During the Great Depression in the 1930s, the U.S. government created the WPA, which supplied jobs for millions of out-of-work Americans.

In the city of Edmonds, workers graded and paved streets, installed water and sewer lines and improved the city park.

The organization also helped create a new athletic field in Edmonds and the art-deco high school auditorium that is now home to the Edmonds Center for the Performing Arts and the Edmonds Boys &Girls Club’s building.

“WPA: Works Progress Administration in Washington” is a traveling exhibit from the Washington State History Museum. Text for the exhibit was written by historian Carlos Schwantes.

The free exhibit is on view through Aug. 30 at the Edmonds Museum, 118 Fifth Ave. N., Edmonds.

“Kind of out there”: Young, self-taught artist Dylan O’Neil said he is inspired by illustrators like Maurice Sendak, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein and “stuff that is kind of out there and whimsical.”

The Edmonds Arts Commission is presenting a display of O’Neil’s artwork starting Monday and on view through Aug. 31 in the Young Artists Display Case at the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St., Edmonds.

O’Neil is the recipient of a 2009 Edmonds Arts Festival Art Scholarship and will attend Pacific Lutheran University in the fall.

Pursuing another passion: Dr. Robert M. Small retired from Lynnwood Group Health in 2002 and then pursued his other passion: the art of raku clay.

Small has since created enough clay artworks for an exhibit of his own: the Dr. Robert M. Small Raku Clay Exhibit at the Mountlake Terrace Library, 23300 58th Ave. W., Mountlake Terrace. The show runs through June 30.

Small had previously done some painting in oils and watercolors, but his true attraction was the vibrant color and spontaneous variety found in the art of raku. Raku clay, which originated in Asia in the 1600s, is a ceramic firing process that uses fire and smoke to create patterns and designs on pottery.

Theresa Goffredo: 425-339-3424, goffredo@heraldnet.com.