10th Annual Fiesta Cultural at the First Friday ArtWalk September 6, 2024 – Presented by Lane Arts Council and City of Eugene Cultural Services

Eugene, OR – Fiesta Cultural returns to the First Friday ArtWalk for the 10th year! The free, family-friendly event is on September 6th, 2024 from 5:30pm-10:00pm at the Farmers Market Pavilion (85 E 8th Ave) in downtown Eugene. Fiesta Cultural is a celebration of cultures and heritages from across Latin America. Enjoy live music, dance performances, a multicultural artisan marketplace, a family zone with activities, local food carts and beer by Xicha Brewing. Fiesta Cultural at the First Friday ArtWalk is presented by Lane Arts Council and City of Eugene Cultural Services. For more information and details including the event run of show check out the Fiesta Cultural webpage.

Start your self-guided ArtWalk at Farmers Market Pavilion, where you can pick up your ArtWalk Guide, shop the Artist Marketplace, and check out all of the Fiesta Cultural event activities 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. Fiesta Cultural programming continues at the Farmers Market Pavilion until 10:00pm.

Images for the September 2024 ArtWalk are available at this link.

First Friday ArtWalk details

Getting to the ArtWalk is easy with a FREE bus pass from LTD! Visit the ArtWalk webpage the day of the event for your free bus pass code.

As part of the September 6th First Friday ArtWalk, the following galleries and art venues will be open from 5:30pm-8:00pm (unless otherwise noted): 

  • #instaballet (540 Charnelton St) Help make a new dance in real time by suggesting moves for local, professional dancers to perform. The choreography will be created by YOU! No dance experience necessary, all ages welcome, fun guaranteed. The final community created piece will be presented at 8:00pm. Bring your friends and family to experience this unique form of community-created art!
  • Allies, LLC (200 E 11th Ave, Ste 13) Check out the new Art Annex! Featured art this month is Group Art. See all original artworks thoughtfully created at Allies by member artists. All work sold goes to benefit the Allies Art Fund.
  • Art with Alejandro(5th St Market Alley, Ste 104) Visit us during the monthly First Friday ArtWalk to see guest art and Alejandro’s newest works on display in our gallery! Come check out Paisley’s new portraits “Goblin” and “Butterfleyes” and Alejandro’s new “Furious Tiger” and “Dragon” paintings among other new works. This month our new feature artist is Plein air painter Jerry Ross featuring two stunning local views.
  • Bumble Boutique (233 W 5th Ave) Vocare is a study of memory, myth, and magic channeled through the lens of artist Aidan Holpuch. Aidan’s mixed-media work offers viewers a dreamscape tale of empowerment and transformation.
  • ColdFire Brewing (263 Mill St) Wings and Strings is a delightful watercolor collection of birds from Jessica Ballestrazze, featuring intricate threading adding a unique and winsome flair. ColdFire is also sponsoring a Kids’ Art Contest during the months of August and September with delightful submissions by Preschoolers through 5th Graders from our community. Please come and vote for your favorite artwork!
  • EMERGE Exhibitions — Inspired by Windowfront Exhibitions, the City of Eugene’s EMERGE Exhibitions continues the artistic activation of window spaces downtown and supports professional exhibition experiences for new and emerging artists:
    • 99 W 10th Ave, south windows – Kiki Boniki’s QUEER FACES OF EUGENE celebrates the intersectionality of queer, trans, BIPOC, gay, gender-nonconforming, drag-loving, sex-positive, interesting citizenry of Eugene and the Pacific Northwest. The vibrant colors in these pieces to show you a tiny glimpse into the rich tapestry of queer people’s lives.
    • 806 Charnelton St – Origins by Julie Bailey Anderson explores themes inspired by the raw elements of the Earth–rock, water, and air–with a nod towards the roots that connect and sustain us, intertwining the natural world with human existence.
  • Good Creative Design (942 Olive St) Good Creative is taking a break this month to welcome the newest team member into the world. Founder Adam Junod and his partner, Emily Little, will be on the journey of childbirth, one of life’s great art forms. Congrats! ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁
  • High Street Tonics (267 W 8th Ave) Thea has a passion for nature, light, and color. The two mediums she will be sharing at High Street Tonics are photography and glasswork. Creations By Thea glasswork is functional beauty using old materials and creating new uses. Her pieces are created to light pathways, use to serve food, or just create interest and light in your garden and life. Thea’s photography respects nature in its own natural beauty and light. They show Mother Nature and her colors as we see them untouched by filters or software magic.
  • Karin Clarke Gallery (760 Willamette St.) Rugged Land and Rocky Shores by Bets Cole is a large series of small- to medium-sized plein air paintings on panel or paper that stands out for the breadth of its geographical scope. It explores how shape, structure, and color vary from one coast to another. Departing from our Western shores, the works journey through the valleys, mountains, and high deserts of Oregon and California, detour through Texas, then proceed to Maine and Ireland.
  • The New Zone Gallery (110 E 11th Ave) ZONE 4 ALL, the non-juried, open show, wonderfully showcases the breadth of our local art scene and its incredible creativity. 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 and live music!
  • One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E 11th Ave) One Wall is showcasing two artists this month. Courtney Stubbert is a visual artist, designer, & musician living in Eugene, Oregon. While his formal training is in graphic design and visual communication, he works across different mediums, investigating the breakdown of systems—whether it be language, sound, or the frailty of ideologies. Image-making allows Courtney to investigate the way we experience and process our beliefs, interpersonal or digital interactions, and the eventual decay of those constructs. His visual vocabulary combines his interests in appropriation, process, pop culture, dad jokes, and platform capitalism. Thomas Pettus-Czar, who created Mark-making and memory markers, says of his showcase: “Took a sunny, summer stroll. Plucked a dandelion, wanted to blow it to bits. A deep breath, then sent the gray-white seeds flying. The fuzzy parachutes floated up into the sky. Watched a few of them fly across the sun. Blinked in the brightness and saw neon lights. These lights are the shapes, colors, and forms that appear in these paintings. Once immediately forgotten, but then recalled from my subconscious (seed) vault when mindlessly sketching while thinking about something else–appearing on paper without intention. Focus and deliberation only comes when these jots are translated to paint on these panels and marks are subtly imparted via brushstrokes.”
  • OSLP Arts & Culture Center (110 E 11th Ave, Ste C) Along with celebrating our huge September Art Auction So Small, OSLP Gallery is opening So Big, an installation showcase featuring six local artists and a collaborative installation by OSLP staff and participants, all exploring the concept of larger than life. From interactive art blocks to big celebrity photo ops to giant size sweet treats, this show will guarantee smiles and Instagrammable moments. Come see the installations, meet the artists, and make art with us for So Small. We will have art supplies available for you to make your own contribution to our favorite event of the year. org/so-small
  • Our 21st Century Renaissance (132 E Broadway, Ste 212) Our 21st Century Renaissance exhibition space will have as its theme for the September ArtWalk A Celebration of the Female Form, a supremely beautiful and life-giving form which, with the addition of Glenn Smith’s plaster Obelisk 2023 and L’Amour Industrielle as exhibited in New Orleans in 1994, we hope to be giving a newly-exalted treatment. Please stop by the historic Miner Building, and prepare to be amazed!
  • Palace Coffee | Bakery (842 Pearl St) Nuestro Jardín – Our Garden is a photography exhibit by children from families participating in Huerto de La Familia con Plaza de Nuestra Comunidad, with art curated by Marina Hajek. Open until 7:00pm; on display through October. Returning venue!
  • PLAY (232 W 5th Ave) Artist Dhira Lawrence says about this exhibition: “Nature has always been an integral part of my art. Legend and myth appear out of the landscape and present themselves to us. My paintings show what is real in energy, what is present in spirit. Dancing lines, layers, shapes, and colors are illuminated when I touch them to the canvas, they go where they want; I am the messenger only.” New venue!
  • Resonance Building (840 Lawrence) Join us for the grand finale of summer programming in our space dedicated to somatic healing, mind-body integration, and cocreation. Our program begins at 5:30 with an opportunity to reflect through Looking At Water, a transmedia art installation by Christine Olejniczak. From 6:30-7:30, participate in an all-ages sensory activation—bring a family friendly sensory experience to share, trade, or sell! Then, from 7:30-9:30, immerse yourself in the Symphony for the Senses, where every moment becomes an instrument for awakening your awareness. And, go even further with a journey through the Elation Station, a collaborative, improvisational activation where music and visuals blend to elevate the everyday into something beyond extraordinary. Family-friendly and open to all! Special event!
  • ShelterCare (449 W 4th Ave) Visit ShelterCare to see art featured by our program participants and our talented staff. ShelterCare’s behavioral health clinic has a weekly art therapy group for individuals to gather and heal together, while using art to explore and process trauma. In addition, we will have several local artists featured from the community! ShelterCare provides housing and behavioral health services for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or on the verge of becoming homeless. New venue!
  • Sparrow Nest Coffee (132 E Broadway) Discover the visual storytelling of Scott Hofford’s Iconoflage. Used in fashion and corporate branding, Scott places the subject under a magnifying glass and shares what he sees through intricate illustration work. From shoes to packaging, with topics ranging from coffee shops to hip-hop artists, you’ll lose yourself in the highly engaging artwork. New venue!
  • Starlight Lounge (830 Olive St) Cassie Genc is a Eugene-based illustrator and painter. Her love of whimsical worlds, surreal spirits, and the Pacific Northwest inspire her work. Her main goal is to offer a lush, rainbow-hued escape amidst the everyday.
  • Urban Canvas Murals — The City of Eugene’s local mural program Urban Canvas presents:
  • 1059 Willamette St – Gertrude, a portrait honoring the memory of a friend’s departed hen by Bayne Gardner
  • 1059 Willamette St – Take Flight by Teak, Capsel Rock, and Eliza Be (Williams) is an extension of Teak’s previous form line murals, representing the traditional Tlingit art from Alaska, already on the building. In this new collaboration, Teak added the Three Sisters Mountain line, coniferous forest, and a sunset, with Eliza and Capsel contributing the colorful figure and osprey.
  • Additional venues include Broadway Commerce Center(44 W Broadway), Cosmic Haus (347 W 5th Ave), Dark Pine Coffee (954 Pearl St), Flux Crystals (280 W Broadway) and Nexus Business Lounge (40 E Broadway).

About Lane Arts Council
Lane Arts Council is a nonprofit organization that works to cultivate strong and creative arts communities throughout Lane County. They provide high-quality arts experiences, engaging people of all ages in arts education and encouraging artistic endeavors.

ArtWalk Program Support
This program is supported in part by grants from Travel Oregon and the National Endowment for the Arts.

     

Fiesta Cultural at the ArtWalk programming is also supported by Law Office of Lourdes Sanchez, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace, and La Que Buena Radio.

Learn more about the First Friday ArtWalk