NEXT FIRST FRIDAY ARTWALK – April 5, 2024

Celebrate Eugene’s vibrant art scene during the First Friday ArtWalk! Start your self-guided tour at Farmers Market Pavilion (85 E 8th Ave), where you can pick up your ArtWalk Guide and shop the Artist Marketplace before exploring the many galleries and art venues of Downtown Eugene. The monthly First Friday ArtWalk is from 5:30pm-8:00pm and is always free.


Image: Visitors at the opening for Museum of Techno Art (December 2023)

   

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
This program is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust.

This project has been funded in part by a grant from Travel Oregon.

GET A FREE BUS PASS TO THE ARTWALK!

Download the Umo app, create an account, select the menu button and select “Redeem Benefit Code.”

Code available the day of ArtWalk.

Prior to boarding,  go to your “wallet” and select the pass.
This code only works the day of the ArtWalk.


EVENT SPONSORS


March ArtWalk Sponsor: Eugene Concert Choir

Join the Eugene Concert Choir on a global musical journey as they conclude their 49th season with two captivating concerts. First, immerse yourself in the beauty and poignancy of Asiatic music at Asian Fusion performed by Eugene Vocal Arts. Then, experience the grandeur of two pagan masterworks from Germany, Carmina Burana & Walpurgis Night, performed by the 100-Voice Eugene Concert Choir & Eugene Concert Orchestra. Tickets and info at EugeneConcertChoir.org

Participating ArtWalk Galleries & Businesses

As part of the First Friday ArtWalk,  galleries and art venues will be open from 5:30pm-8:00pm (unless otherwise noted). See this month’s ArtWalk map and information below:


ARTWALK GUIDE PICK-UP


Farmers Market Pavilion
(85 E 8th Ave)

Join us at the Farmers Market Pavilion to pick up your ArtWalk guide, and begin the First Friday ArtWalk!

  • Artist Marketplace pop-up shops feature treasures and gifts by artists of many mediums.
  • Capitello Wines and Pizzeria DOP offer delicious food and drink to fuel your evening of ArtWalk fun!

Featured collaboration & performance: #instaballet, 5:30pm-8:00pm
Join #instaballet to help choreograph a new dance to a song by two-time GRAMMY® nominee Tracy Bonham. #instaballet brings dance out of the theatre and into the community, translating audience ideas into movement to create brand new dance works. No dance experience required. Fun guaranteed! This #instaballet creation will be featured as part of Eugene Ballet’s April 6th & 7th show at the Hult Center with Bonham and her band performing live onstage.


NEW VENUES



A. Capitello Wines
(540 Charnelton St)

Colorful: A Happy Collection of Vibrant Abstracts showcases work by local artist and flower farmer Cindy Ingram. Explore intoxicating textures and unabashed reflections of light in this fresh addition to Capitello’s tasting room, with new works rotating in regularly.

Image: “Purple Cone Flower” by Cindy Ingram


B. Coldfire Brewing
(263 Mill St)

Visit Coldfire Brewing to enjoy the vast and varied scenery of Oregon through the lens of local birder and photographer Joshua Little. His work will give you a renewed appreciation for this beautiful state we call home.

Image: “Crater Lake Sunset” by Joshua Little


C. Good Creative Design
(942 Olive St)

Enjoy all original art spanning multiple generations and mediums on rotating display from artists across the globe. Every month is something new, interactive, and lively.

Image: Art by Good Creative Design


RETURNING VENUE



University of Oregon Center for Art Research (CFAR)
(510 Oak St)

A History by Tarrah Krajnak and Ryan Pierce examines our relationships with, criticism of, and building upon the legacy of fore-thinkers of environmentalism and the oft-cited canonical artists engaged in depicting landscapes in the West.

Image: “Flash Flood” by Ryan Pierce


ARTWALK VENUES


1. Allies, LLC
(200 E 11th Ave, Ste 130)

Check out the new Art Annex! See all original artworks thoughtfully created at Allies by member artists. All work sold goes to benefit the Allies Art Fund.

Image: Art by an Allies, LLC member

2. Art with Alejandro
(5th Street Market Alley, Ste 104)

Explore Art with Alejandro’s winter exhibit featuring intuitive nature art by Sammy Lee and surreal visions by Ivan Beauvalet. Discover new pieces by Paisley Mae and Alejandro Sarmiento. New location!

Image: Art by Paisley Mae


3. Broadway Commerce Center
(44 W Broadway)

{Khaostasis: Archetypical Messengers} by David Placencia exhibits a large array of paintings including winged creatures, landscapes, and surreal abstracts. DJCassieCandles and appetizers. Khaostasis.com

Image: “Year of the Dragon” by David “CP” Placencia


4. Flux Crystals
(280 W Broadway) 

Divine Dreaming – Awakening the Goddess Within, a new collection by Alysse Hennessey, explores concepts of repairing the divine in each of us, astral travel, extra sensory states of being, and the helpers we meet along the way.

Image: “Divind Dreaming” by Alysse Hennessey


5. FUSE Jewelry Collective
(112 E 13th Ave)

Visit this newly opened venue, a place for jewelry lovers to learn, shop, create, and connect. Stop by to enter our Community Casting Studio Fundraiser Raffle for a chance to win a FREE casting class! Live cello music by Ben Hamilton.

Image: Work by FUSE Jewelry Collective


6. Karin Clarke Gallery
(760 Willamette St)

The Northwest Landscape is a large invitational exhibit featuring some of the PNW’s most dynamic contemporary and historical landscape painters: Mark Clarke, Margaret Coe, Bets Cole, Carl Hall, Hart James, David McCosh, and Erik Sandgren.

Image: Art by Margaret Coe


7. The New Zone Gallery
(110 E 11th Ave)

ZONE 4 ALL, a non-juried, open showcase, highlights the breadth and incredible creativity of our local art scene. Over 150 artists fill the gallery with eclectic work from traditional to experimental, paintings to 3D and assemblage, and everything in between. Expect a feast for the eyes! Live music.


8. One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds
(30 E 11th Ave)

All the Day Longing, new work by Scott Beck and Benjamin Terrell. Sadness is always present in the birthing room of longing. Human temporality and the emotions thus inspired are fruitful soil shared by artists Benjamin Terrell and Scott Beck. Poetically pared down, these small-scale paintings explore intimacy and belonging both in a wider world and in our relationships.

Image: Art by Scott Beck


9. Oregon Art Supply
(1020 Pearl St)

Jan Lintz will have a solo exhibit of her highly textured, multi-layered, abstract oil and cold wax paintings during March and April. She has created multi-layered textured abstract pieces suggesting balance, vessels, arches and landscapes for this exhibit. Artist talk at 6:00pm.

Image: Art by Jan Lintz


10. OSLP Arts & Culture Center
(110 E 11th Ave, Ste C)

OSLP Arts and Culture Center continues Absurd is the Word, a community art show celebrating all that is odd, silly, ridiculous, and strange. This exhibit features original work by local artists and participants from our studio classes. Eugene Printmakers will also be on site for a printmaking workshop! Come and see the art, enjoy refreshments, and learn about what OSLP offers!

Image: OSLP Arts & Culture Center storefront


11. Starlight Lounge
(830 Olive St)

Casstellations (Cassie Bates) creates fun, vibrant, bold pop-art with a signature flare. Her passion for painting has taken her coast-to-coast as she spreads joy and hype for life through her work. Instagram: @artbycasstellations. Ages 21+.

Image: “Swipe from the Heart” by Casstellations


Urban Canvas Murals
The City of Eugene’s local mural program Urban Canvas presents:

  • 12. 120 W BroadwayCelestial Migration by Valentina Gonzalez (VRGNZ)
  • 13. 1038 Willamette St Snow Birds by Alejandro Sarmiento

Image: “Snow Birds” by Alejandro Sarmiento


Windowfront Exhibitions
Empty storefronts become galleries!

  • 14. 824 Charnelton St – Liminal bridges street and gallery art with paintings by street artist Lambtown42 on salvaged wood panels and vinyl LPs.
  • 15. 260 W Broadway – Brilliant & Resilient, curated by Mobility International USA (MIUSA), features photos and personal stories of 30 disabled women activists.  Join MIUSA for a pop-up gallery from 5:30pm-8:00pm in celebration of Women’s History Month! Step inside Windowfront Exhibitions and experience this important body of portraits of international women leaders.
  • 16. 99 W 10th Ave South Window – Forced Perspective by Agnese Cebere uses light and perspective to examine the trope of the cowboy, popularized through motion pictures and advertising, as a one-dimensional fiction.

Image: Art by Agnese Cebere

First Friday ArtWalk video highlight from Travel Lane County: