EVENT SPONSORS

May ArtWalk Sponsor: Mountain Rose Herbs

Mountain Rose Herbs offers high-quality organically grown herbs, spices, teas, essential oils, and botanical goods. Since 1987, they have been known for their uncompromising commitment to organic agriculture, fair trade standards, and sustainable business practices. The company’s core belief that people, plants, and planet are more important than profit guides everything they do. Learn more about Mountain Rose Herbs at www.mountainroseherbs.com.

May ArtWalk Sponsor: Eugene Ballet

Eugene Ballet’s world premiere of Toni Pimble’s Peter Pan features a newly commissioned score by Kenji Bunch, played live by Orchestra Next. Bring your family on a fanciful flight through Neverland May 17th-19th at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. $15 youth tickets are available for all performances, and adult tickets start at just $25. https://eugeneballet.org/performances/peter-pan/

ARTWALK GUIDE PICK-UP

Farmers Market Pavilion
(85 E 8th Ave)

Pick up your guide and explore all the Pavilion happenings:
• Artist Marketplace pop-up shops feature art for sale by local artists across multiple mediums and styles.
• WildCraft Cider Works and Red Five Hotdog Company is on hand to fuel your evening of ArtWalk fun!

AGAIN THIS MONTH: ArtWalk After Hours, 7:30pm-9:30pm
The fun continues after the galleries close with ArtWalk After Hours. End your evening at the Farmers Market Pavilion, and dance into the weekend with a live performance by Eugene’s own Natsukashii Soul.

Natsukashii Soul is a high energy jazz/funk/neo-soul quintet from Eugene, Oregon and has been gaining attention with its distinctive musicality.  The band has performed over 60 live shows in Eugene, Corvallis and Portland. Natsukashii Soul is led by vocalist Autumn Rose with trumpeter Frank Visconti, Vincent Panero on keys and guitar, Greg McKelvey on bass and Sam Hayward on drums.

NEW VENUES

A. Downtown Hound
(245 W 8th Ave)

Please join us for a night of fun with local music by, “Bad Nanners” and fun and funky art by Oregon artist Jay Hill. Jay Hill makes beautiful and one of a kind artwork on recycled canvases that features many interesting and abstract portraits of animals.

B. Rooted Remedies Apothecary
(271 W 8th Ave)

Ripple Design House is a husband and wife collaboration founded on love, creativity, and having fun. Elise hand draws intricate, nature inspired, visionary mandala & plant medicine art. Steve takes her art and expertly cnc lasers it onto wood & leather. Ripple is named after their favorite Grateful Dead song but also encompasses the compelling effect that art has to greatly move us as individuals, family units, communities, and cultures.

SPECIAL EVENTS

C. Food for Lane County- Empty Bowls Sale
(5th Street Public Market, 550 Pearl Street, 4:30pm-7:00pm)

Come see innovative products made by local middle and high school students in a unique apprenticeship with professional design artists. Products include fashion, graphic design, 3D modeling, digital art, biomimicry, and more. Meet the student designers and learn about their creative process at this interactive showcase sponsored by Connected Lane County. Hear more about the program with opening remarks at 6:00pm!

Image: Empty Bowls Sale 2023

D. #instaballet
(Capitello Wines, 540 Charnelton St) 

Help #instaballet make a new dance in real-time by suggesting new moves for the dancers to perform. This event features local dancers Sarah Ebert and Shannon Mockli, as well as Siobhan Nickell and Katherine Wolfenden from the Eugene Ballet. The choreography will be created by YOU! We’ll also kick off our ArtWalk season with live music from Casanostra. No dance experience is necessary, all ages are welcome. Stop by anytime between 5:30 and 8pm to be a part of the creative process. The final community-created piece will be presented at 8pm. FREE!

Image: #instaballet performance 

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)

Visit us during the monthly First Friday ArtWalk to see guest art and Alejandro’s newest works on display in our gallery!

Image: Art by Paisley Mae

3. Broadway Commerce Center
(44 W Broadway)

A new series of paintings by Esteban Camacho Steffensen reflect his mixed identity, ethnic backgrounds and homelands. This work seeks to find the balance between stylized and realistic imagery, and it explores some philosophical ideas of our cohabitation with other living beings. He reaches for a healthy equilibrium between the empirical view of ecosystems and animals, and their animistic roles and the spiritual significance to our human world. In this exploration, he is learning and working towards rebuilding community through his artwork and art practices.

Image: “Barred Owl” by Esteban Camacho Steffensen

4. Bumble Boutique
(233 W 5th Ave)

Erick Wonderly Varela is an illustrator, muralist, and teaching artist based in Eugene, Oregon. Central to their work is exploration of joy & connection, and draws from both nature illustration & Central American folk art.

Image: work by Erick Wonderly Varela 

5. 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

6. Coldfire Brewing
(263 Mill St)

Lael Salaets layers color and tones to maximize depth, creating both realist and impressionist works that suggest narrative, develop form, and highlight the passage of time.

Image: “Japanese White Egret” by Lael Salaets

7. Flux Crystals
(280 W Broadway) 

Pieces of You by Gloria Udosenata is an invitation into shadow, through the portal, and into the depths. This collection explores connections between flesh, fauna, and spirit using acrylics and canvas to express and translate visions from beyond the veil.

Image: “Pieces of you” by Gloria Udosenata

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

Visit this newly opened venue, a place for jewelry lovers to learn, shop, create, and connect. Check out the FUSE showroom, displaying collections by local jewelry designers as well as thoughtfully curated, small-batch gift items. Take a tour of the FUSE Classroom, learn about our newest metalsmithing workshop offerings, and enter our Class Raffle for a chance to win a FREE workshop!

Image: Work by FUSE Jewelry Collective

9. Good Creative Design
(942 Olive St)

Engage with an interactive graphic design studio and see ART as a living, breathing experience. YOU are ART, WE are ART. This is ART. Lights, lasers, music, lively conversation, and art styles represented include watercolor, abstract illustration, woodcut designs, mixed media, and more. Special live DJ set by Avitar Virgonian. Recognizing May Bike Month, indoor bike parking will be available.

Image: Art by Good Creative Design

10. Karin Clarke Gallery
(760 Willamette St)

Florae Animalia, a fresh spring exhibit featuring new work by Claire Burbridge, Matthew Dennison, Marjorie Taylor, and Olga Volchkova.

Image: “Saint Foxglove” by Olga Volchkova

11. Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA)
(555 High Street)

Planet Vs. Plastics, an Earth Day art challenge featuring over 70 young artists making art from upcycled materials. The vision is to encourage and engage participants in the process and joy of art making using diverted waste materials. The artists implement various techniques from paint and collage to 3-D applique. This exhibit is the culmination of their ingenuity and artistry.

Image: Planet vs. Plastics by MECCA Artists

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

In addition to the eclectic mix of art created by the New Zone members, there are four special shows during the month of May: Random Thoughts and Retrospective, watercolor paintings by Robin Marks-Fife, expressing the joy and beauty the world around us offers; Hegemony by Ralf Huber, an assemblage art installation discussing the real reasons behind wars fought in the name of freedom, security, and democracy; CMA2 International Mosaic Exhibition, a juried show featuring 38 diverse mosaic artists from 13 States and three countries; art created by students from ECCO High School, visually exploring about their desire and potential to succeed; and live music with Steve Goodbar.

Image: “Hoisted Hulls” by Michelle Sider

13. Oregon Art Supply
(1020 Pearl St)

Jenny Gray explores the anomalies of growth and change through repeating shapes representing organisms or segments of time. Her inspiration is wide ranging— from years of designing for commercial printing to human behavior, cell science and computer glitches. She imbues each work with a bit of the human spirit. This body of work is made with acrylic on raw canvas that is then cut apart and collaged.

Image: “Flowers Forever” by Jenny Gray

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

Image: “Mind Over Matter” by Ellen Weider

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

Spring Showcase, featuring art created during our fall and winter studio classes, including shadowboxes, mosaics, cardboard creatures, paintings, and jewelry. Also featuring a celebration of the life and artwork of local artist Larry Hurst.

Image: OSLP Arts & Culture Center storefront

16. Starlight Lounge
(830 Olive St)

A dreamy exploration of creativity by Tiana Buckner, this exhibit encompasses evolutions of ideas that come to life as they take form in digital illustrations and mixed media. These works invite the viewer to explore a more creative side of life and observation. Ages 21+.

Image: “Be Yourself” by Tiana Buckner

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

Progress by Marcus Fischer and Lisa Ward examines the varied definitions of “progress” in the ongoing effort to witness, tend to, and historicize human intervention in places often considered unleveraged.

Image: Art by Lisa Ward

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

• 18. 945 Olive St Alley – “A Springtime Gathering,” the latest iteration of Erick Wonderly Varela’s Fresh Paint Initiative mural, featuring colorful, stylized hummingbirds and rhododendrons to celebrate the incoming spring and summer weather.
• 19. 941 & 957 Willamette Alley – Murals by Wayde Love and Mural Mice Universal
• 20. 1059 Willamette St – Community Sunset in Eugene by Teak

Image: “I Got You Something” by Erick Wonderly Varela

Windowfront Exhibitions
Empty storefronts become galleries!

• 21. 824 Charnelton St – Liminal bridges street and gallery art with paintings by street artist Lambtown42 on salvaged wood panels and vinyl LPs.
• 22. 260 W Broadway – Brilliant & Resilient, curated by Mobility International USA (MIUSA), is a collection of photographs featuring the personal stories of 30 disabled women activists representing diverse countries, cultures, and disabilities: physical, visual, hearing, and cognitive.
• 23. 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: “Liminal” by Lambtown42