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For the artists hosting the 21 stops on this weekend’s NW Art Beat tour, there is no opportunity to see their colleagues work. That is exactly why artist Dee Doyle organized her three La Conner area colleagues for a preview tour open to the 30-plus Skagit Artists last Wednesday. Thirteen artists, spouses and interns took the Progressive Appetizers Tour, making the socializing better by enjoying provided snacks and beverages.

The group started at Lynn Skordal’s, a paperwork artist on North First Street. Skordal’s work is slightly three dimensional. She invites people to touch it. They...