2013 Spring Art Hop

First Friday, April 5th-5-9pm

This is the big Spring Art Hop

Over 60 businesses stay open late for the fun!

Stroll downtown and enjoy art, wine, music, food and fun as we celebrate our community and the arts.

Keep checking back as we continually update the list of participating businesses.

541 Threads – 112 Minnesota

Live music & drinks!

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Bella Brides – 800 Wall (above North Soles-enter on Franklin)

Prom dresses 10% off during Art Walk

Stop by the shop and join us for a glass of wine!

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Bellatazza – 869 Wall

open late

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Bend d’Vine – 916 Wall

Come support local artist Brenda Irwin tonight at First Friday! Get there early at 5pm to partake in happy hour prices. Plus live jazz from Bend’s Django Band.

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Bend Mountain Coffee - 180 Oregon

Tonight Revive will be at the Bend Mountain Coffee open house with samples and facial coupons. Come down and enter to win a free facial and grab a free facial scrub! (Starting a 6:00pm)

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Bend Premier Real Estate – 550 Franklin (corner of Franklin & Bond)

Please join us for an evening of insightful art by local artist, Keith Sluder.  Keith is an incredibly versatile artist, from realism to a splash of fantasy.  He is a visual master of perception. His clientele includes the some of Hollywood’s most notable characters.

“ To share a talent and enrich someone else’s life is to complete and give purpose to one’s own life.” -Keith Sluder

Enjoy a variety of wines, and beer from one of our local breweries.

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Bend Visitor Center – 750 Lava

Visit Bend’s Pillars of Art Program is featuring Katie Lombardo of Katie Daisy – bringing springtime to Bend just a little early this year! We’ll also have music and other fun vendors. Come see us at Bend’s Visitor Center!

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Bend Your Imagination – 126 Minnesota

We are excited to have a watercolor demonstration by Jude Welter.  Come enjoy her beautiful art and a glass of Sangria!

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Birkenstock of Bend – 836 Wall Street

Dreaming of summer yet? We’ve got a lot of new arrivals, but new styles will continue to come in through June, so keep checking in! In the meantime, be sure to stop by Friday evening between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. to enjoy free beer, wine and snacks and to support Bend Spay & Neuter Project. Pets and your feet — both deserve better!

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The Blvd. – 1024 Bond Street

Art, wine, mixed drinks, treats, music, friends and fashion. It’s always a party at The Blvd!!!

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Boys and Girls Club – 500 Wall Street

Join us as we kick off the annual Blue Ribbon Campaign to Prevent Child Abuse.
Enjoy free food, special speakers and the presentation of our third annual “Prevention Partner of the Year” awards to local partners who have supported preventing child abuse in Central Oregon.
Come and show the children of Central Oregon that you are committed to ending Child Abuse!

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Cascade Cottons – 909 Wall

open late

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Cascade Sotheby’s – 821 Wall

Building a Better Central Oregon First Friday Art Walk in April- Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty will be taking nominations for this great local committee who’s mission is to award individuals for outstanding contributions to the community by renovating or building new residential , commercial or industrial spaces.

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City Hall – 700 Wall

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Cowgirl Cash – 924 Brooks

Please join us for First Friday Artwalk April 5. We have Anne Perce in the store with her pet portraits. Brody is featured here.

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Crow’s Feet Commons – 875 Brooks

Everything ski related is 30% off today through the weekend!!!
Skis, boots, bindings, skins, Mammut clothing, POC helmets and goggles, G3 Skins.

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Dalia’s – 855 Wall

open late

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Deschutes Brewery – 1044 Bond

We hope you’ll swing by tonight during First Friday Artwalk to check out local band Jaccuzi and artist George Lepp.

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Douglas Fine Jewelry - 920 Bond Street #106

open late

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Dream Pebbles Broom Closet – 114 Minnesota Avenue

Dream Pebbles is having another sweep sale, 20% off your entire purchase for Friday’s Art Hop only! Some super cute clothes, accessories & handbags, get em before they’re gone!

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Faveur Boutique – 714 Franklin

faveur is proud to be hosting local musician  Zane Steinert. At just 24 years old Zane is  a talented aspiring vocalist/musician, currently working on his first CD. He will be playing an acoustic set accompanied by other local artist Ann Nicole. His music in the style of Mat Kearney and The Afters ( just to name a few inspirations).
As always, faveur wil be serving complementary champagne and chocolate, as well as a great shopping experience. Special discounts and giveaways just for Art Walk!

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The Feather’s Edge Finery – 113 Minnesota

Great displays of local art, lots of smiles, free sips & other lovely treats!

Come join us! 5-9pm tonight.

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Footzone - 845 Wall

Join us Friday during Art Walk for the Heaven Can Wait kick-off at FootZone from 5-9! Sign-up for Heaven Can Wait, get 15% off pink clothing and accessories and enjoy beer from Worthy Brewing. Help Heaven Can Wait reach their goal of raising $1,000,000 for Sara’s Project this year!

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The Franklin Crossing Building - 550  Franklin

Art in the Atrium at Franklin Crossing, celebrates First Friday with ABSTRACTIONS, a fine art exhibit featuring Sandy Brooke, Erin Kay,
Lynn Rothan, and Margot Voorhies Thompson.

Noi Thai at Franklin Crossing will serve appetizers and wine. The popular Chiringa led by
Shireen Amini performing soulful and irresistible Latin rhythms.

Sandy Brooke, associate professor at OSU-Cascades and A&E April cover artist, exhibits encaustic paintings blending disparate images, concepts and time together in layers of wax.

Lynn Rothan shows varied mediums painted in richly saturated palettes expressing complex
technique and imagery. Broken pointillism combines with stark, heavy solid line to suggest
a map of symbols, some vaguely figurative and others purely abstract.

Margot Voorhies Thompson presents imagery reflecting her interest in calligraphy. Creating her own vernacular referencing historical, contemporary, and futuristic letterforms, the artist encodes literature, historic events and other information beneath the surface for the viewer’s
interpretation.

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Glenroe Antiques & The Jewell Box – 841 Bond

Linda parker is an amateur artist.  She paints what she sees and likes. Linda says “I see possible paintings everywhere I look”. Linda enjoyed drawing from an early age, and took  art classes in college. Most of Linda’s paintings have been commissioned.  She had given many as gifts.  Many of Linda’s paintings hang at the city care clinic in Redmond.  She paints every chance she gets, it is one of her favorite things to do. Stop in and see Linda’s work and have a glass of wine & some chocolate.

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The Goldsmith – 111 Oregon

open late

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Gypsy Soul – 815 Wall

open late

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Hot Box Betty – 903 Wall

Chan Luu Trunk Show
Friday April 5th 10:00-8:00 Art Hop!

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John Paul Designs – 1006 Bond

John Paul Designs. Custom Jewelry + Signature Series. Specializing in unique, one of a kind wedding and engagement rings, pendants, cuffs, earrings, etc.  www.johnpauldesigns.com

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Kariella Clothes Shop – 750 Lava Suite 120 (just up from the Oxford Hotel)

Join us for a wonderful spring evening this First Friday from 4-8pm! We will be serving wine and snacks, plus we will have an exclusive surprise discount on all sale markdowns for the evening! Hope to see you there!

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Let It Ride – Tin Pan Alley, south of Minnesota

open late

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The Loft – 919 Bond

open late

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Lone Crow Bungalow - 937 Wall

open late

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Lone Pine Coffee Roasters – Tin Pan Alley

Fresh art by Nathaniel Praska!

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Lulu’s Boutique – 150 Minnesota

open late

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Mary Medrano Studio – 25 Minnesota (above Thump Coffee)

Local artist Mary Medrano will be showing paintings of local scenes, local people and a few dogs!

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Mockingbird Gallery – 869 Wall Street #100

We invite you to the First Friday Art Walk at Mockingbird Gallery on April 5th from 5 – 9 pm for an Exhibition of New Works by Richard Boyer.  Please join us for a glass of wine, meet the artist and enjoy the jazz sounds of Rich Hurdle and Friends.  The show will continue through the end of April.

Richard Boyer is a realist painter with an edge.  His landscapes reflect a traditional approach to oil painting but are enhanced by rich, textural surfaces infused with beautiful color and light.  His subjects range from studies of human figures involved in their daily lives to busy European scenes of harbors, cafés and quaint villages.  He also paints landscapes of the America West.

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Navidi’s Oil & Vinegars – 120 Minnesota

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North Soles Footwear - 800 Wall

Barbara Coleman from Bright Moon Roving will be at North Soles for first Friday.
She makes Beautiful hand made scarves with local fibers—merino wools and silk.  She makes one of a kind wearable art.

Our featured artists are Amy Royce who does contemporary Encaustic Paintings and Pam Jersey Bird who is a mixed media artist.

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O’Donnell Building – 929 Wall

open late

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Oxford Hotel - 10 Minnesota

Art at the Oxford at The Oxford Hotel celebrates First Friday with VISIONS OF HOPE, paintings and drawings sold to benefit
orphans in the Otino Waa Children’s Village, Uganda. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, April 2 continues through Sunday, April 7 2013.

Retired Bend schoolteachers, Bob and Carol Higgins, have worked for 12 years
in Northern Uganda to build Otino Waa, more like a village than an orphanage, with small
houses for eight children and local widows serving as housemothers. Presently 260 children
live in the village funded entirely from private donations by generous Americans.

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Patagonia – 1000 Wall

Mike Putnam is releasing new prints tonight at Artwalk at Patagonia @ Bend – stop by to check them out!

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Paul Scott Gallery – 869 Wall #104 (through the breezeway)

Paul Scott Gallery is happy to announce new works by Central Oregon artists Valerie Winterholler and Mytchell Mead their exhibition runs April 5 through April 30.
Valerie holds a BS in Art from Southern Oregon University and works in acrylic on panel. She is inspired by the balance and symmetry of nature, using line and color as a way of conveying her love of things that are untouched by the constraints of society.
Mytchell Mead combines patina’d steel and weathered reclaimed wood, Mead takes his inspiration from the high desert and its volcanic plate.

Come meet Valerie and Mytchell and enjoy their new work with us on First Friday Art Walk, April 5 from 5-9pm.

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Pave Fine Jewelry – 101 Minnesota

open late

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Piece of Mind High Desert – 806 Brooks

If you haven’t seen these things in action be sure and come down for First Friday and check them out! Local glass artist Matt Du Bois will be on hand with lots of his Rad Glass!!

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Pure Kitchen -  550 Franklin

GRAND Opening! Tapas Bar-Small Plates-YUM!

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Red Chair Gallery – 103 Oregon

Red Chair Gallery is pleased to present for the second year “Emerging Artists”.  Local High Schools, Mt. View; Summit, Bend and Sisters High Schools are all represented this month with their art students work.  Come see your favorite high school students art, learn what high school students are creating, or get a new favorite artist.   Local art by local artists, the best combination possible

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Sage Custom Framing & Gallery – 834 Brooks

open late

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Silverado Jewelry Gallery – 1001 Wall

Joseph Christensen of JC Lapidary.
Oregon artist handcrafting beautiful jewelry featuring many stones from the northwest.

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Studio Shen – 115 Oregon Avenue #26

open late

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Thump Coffee – 25 Minnesota

This Friday we are featuring local artist Renee Owens in the shop for First Friday Art Hop. Also, come in and welcome back Thump Coffee alum Ellen!

As always, from 1:30 to close we run 50% off traditional espresso drinks. Come and get juiced up for the evening.

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Tower Theatre – 835 Wall

The Tower Theatre – in conjunction with their fundraiser ‘The Bend Follies’ – is filming a ‘Failed Audition’ video on April 5th!

It’s a funny ‘American Idol / America’s Got Talent’ outtake style video to be played the night of the event, the Tower invites anyone to drop into the Lobby on April 5th for more information and a chance to be featured in the video!

No talent?  No Problem!  That’s what we’re looking for!  Bring your own ideas and we’ll provide some as well!  Be a part of the Bend Follies and ‘Show us the Funny!’

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Townshend’s Bend Teahouse – 835 Bond

Townshend’s Bend Teahouse Features Artist Kim Kimerling in April

Kim Kimerling grew up on a farm in Idaho, he has taught in public and private schools through out the Western States and South West United States as well as Oklahoma, Nigeria, Mexico, and Belize.

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The Wine Shop & Beer Tasting Bar – 55 Minnesota

open late

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Velvet Lounge – 805 Wall

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Wabi Sabi – 830 Wall

Art walk this Friday!
Come hear the music of Canaan Canaan. The music will blow your mind.
Also the second part of Seven Samurai will be shown. Starting at 5:00.

Come show your dance moves!
I’m going to drop it like it’s hot.

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