By Mitzi Jo Gordon
Mary O’Shaughnessy and husband Charlie Van Gilder, both artists, left Chicago in 2014 to move to Port Townsend, where Van Gilder lived in the late 1970s.
In 2021, O’Shaughnessy expanded her local art studio and created a public-facing gallery space. The couple’s Aurora Loop Gallery quickly gained a dedicated following for showing creative work from Olympic Peninsula artists.…