Last weekend, Vashon Island Visual Artists launched its Spring Studio Tour, featuring work by more than 140 local artists and craftspeople shown in 43 art galleries and private studios.

The tour continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 10-11 — so now is the time to plan your route. You’ll find art being made and displayed tucked throughout the island, from the town center to outlying farms and shores.

For an interactive map showing the studios and exhibits, visit vivartists.com.

A new addition this year is the VIVA Tour Info Center and Gallery, located at 17816 Vashon Hwy SW and staffed by docents include noted island artists Brian Fisher, Lynn McClain, Ilse Reimnitz and Marla Smith. The center offers tour brochures, public restrooms, a mobile phone charging station, and a display by four island artists: Margi Amstrup, Barbara DiPrete Waterbury, Ben Meeker and Miya Sukune.

Full-color tour brochures can also be picked up at many local businesses.

Jennifer Hawke’s Spring Studio Tour show, at 18531 Beall Road, takes place in a delightful warren of rooms filled with work by Hawke, Mary McGinnis, Lee Cattarin and Brooke Osmet. In this photo, Beachcomber reporter Elizabeth Shepherd models a piece of Osmet’s wearable art, as Osmet looks on. (Courtesy photo)

The studio of WM Henri Design, filled with the artist’s leather accessories, mixed media sculptures and other works, is located in the former Burton Post Office at 23830 Vashon Hwy SW — a space the artist has transformed into a charming and light-filled art spot. (Elizabeth Shepherd photo)