June’s First Friday celebration will feature local authors and painters at participating Haines businesses. The monthly art walk starts at 5 p.m. June 2.

Haines Arts Confluence will display gyotaku, Japanese fish rubbings, by local artist Lindsay Johnson. Johnson is a commercial fisherman in summer months, and works in winter with husband Graham Kraft at Fairweather Ski Works.

She started making prints of fish one summer after she’d broken a leg and couldn’t go fishing. All the fish she prints she either caught or ate.

“It’s a different way of looking at fish, and it’s a challenge,” Johnson said this week. “I’m never totally satisfied with how they match up. There are so many amazing colors in a fish.”

Residents are accustomed to seeing salmon gyotaku, but Johnson has attempted capturing other species as well. “Some creatures work better than others. Starfish are hard. Sharks are hard because they have a papery skin.

Caroly Tuynman, director of Haines Arts Confluence, calls gyotaku “a way of honoring magnificent marine life… Each creature is washed and painted before pressing cloth or rice paper over it, preserving its spirit for eternal life above the surface.”

Johnson mounts prints by stretching them over boards or fusing them to wood with epoxy for use as designs on skis and snowboards.

Skipping Stone Studios will feature the work of Haines author Judy Hall Jacobson, who has penned several guidebooks about Alaskan plants.

Jacobson wrote a five-volume series of books about Alaska mushrooms.

Her other Alaska titles include “A Naturalist’s Guide to Haines, Alaska,” “Native Plants of Southeast Alaska,” “Common Wildflowers of Alaska: including Ferns and Fern Allies.” She also has written a book about Hawaiian plants.

First Friday is the start of two major events at Haines Sheldon Museum: opening night of the Portrait Society of America Alaska members show and the opening of the Haines Archives and Research Center.

Haines Brewing Company will display portraits by Skye Posey. Port Chilkoot Distillery will feature paintings by Hannah Bochardt. Alaska Rod’s will feature beaded bracelets by Natalie Helms.

The Hammer Museum and Caroline’s Closet also will be open for First Friday.