March Art Walk
Businesses stay open late showcasing art!
Friday, March 4th, 2011 5-9pm
Stroll downtown and enjoy art, wine, music, food and fun as we celebrate our community and the arts.
Need childcare while you enjoy Art Walk???
Check out Drop & Hop, a youth arts & music event where you drop the kids while you check out Art Walk!!!
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Alleda Real Estate
25 Minnesota Avenue #1
First Friday Art Walk features Artist Cindy Briggs. A master of translucent watercolors, Cindy also works in oils and pastels. Her work has been featured in numerous solo, group, invitational, national and regional juried shows, Including the National Watercolor Society Show in 2009 & 2010 and this March in the Northwest Watercolor Society Show in Seattle. You can also find her featured in newspaper and magazine articles, in promotional materials and logos. From a family of professional artists, Briggs earned a degree in design with a minor in art history from BYU—she has also studied with many notable artists. Cindy serves on the NWWS Board and is a Signature Member, she is currently a member of the NWS, WSO, and the High Desert Art League in Central Oregon. She is represented by River Bend Fine Art Gallery in downtown Bend.
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Arts Central
875 Brooks Street
First Friday Art Walk features: An Interpretive Exhibit organized by The Museum at Warm Springs in 2007, sponsored by the Deschutes National Forest Scenic Byways Program, Central Oregon Community College, Bend2030 and hosted by Arts Central. Arts Central is hosting the exhibit as part of its mission to educate and inform the community of relevant cultural events and issues. The exhibit represents Arts Central’s first collaboration with the Museum of Warm Springs.
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Bellatazza
869 Wall Street #101
First Friday Art Walk features Oregon Spirit Distillers. Find us serving up our wonderful coffee cocktails in front of Bellatazza. Come on – get out of the house – bundle up and come down and see us!
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Blue Star Salon
1001 Wall Street #103
First Friday Art Walk features for the last month the work of Jane Marie Lauren. Her painted portraits of Native Americans and Geisha’s are both on display. If you have not yet had the chance to lay eyes on her outstanding pieces then you have been missing out!
There will be an Artists reception from 5:30 to 9pm. Appetizers, beer, wine and N/A beverages will be served.
The girls at Blue Star will also be there to talk about all of your hair needs and to put in Tinsel and Feather extensions.
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The Blvd.
1002 Wall Street
First Friday Art Walk features live music by A Love Like Winter and beautiful art work by Sandy Thompson. Friends, wine, treats, fashion, art, and live music!!! That’s right, you’re in Downtown Bend!!! Don’t miss the party at The Blvd.
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Cascade Cottons
815 Wall Street
First Friday Art Walk features Joni Olsen of Jonio Designs: Now you can support the environment and an Artist at the same time. I will be displaying my gallery pieces along with my great re-usable shopping bags printed with my art at Cascade Cottons on Wall St. in downtown Bend on the First Friday Artwalk on March 4th. I’d love to see you stop by.
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Cascade Sotheby’s International Real Estate
821 NW Wall Street
First Friday Art Walk features Fine Art Photographer Vern Bartley (http://www.vernbartley.com/.) Vern is often asked, “Is this image real?” to which he responds, “It is exactly as I saw it.” Vern Bartley … An Image Creator producing Fine ART images. Meet Vern Bartley and the jazz music of guitarist Warren Zaiger, Andy Armer on Keys, and drummer Georges Bouhey.
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Cowgirl Cash
924 Brooks Street
First Friday Art Walk features local bat maker John MacDougall from MacDougall and Sons Bat Company. John has discovered how to make a better, stronger, better wooden bat and he will be at Cowgirl Cash on Friday March 4th so you can check them out. As always, there will be beer, prizes, and fun. Cowgirl Cash loves a good party!
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Dream Pebbles Bath
1012 Wall Street #170
First Friday Art Walk features “Full Moon Fridays”! Free to the public, Psychic, Tarot Card Readings, Astrology & Numerology charts from 11:30 am to 7:30 PM. It’s a Full Moon Every Friday at Dream Pebbles Bath.
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The Feathers Edge Finery
113 Minnesota Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features Gleena Ceramics.
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The Franklin Crossing Building
550 NW Franklin Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features “Art in the Atrium” at Franklin Crossing from 5-8pm. Watercolors by Helen Brown, Mary Marquiss and Mary Rollins, curaged by Billye Turner, art consultant, who organizes art at the Atrium. Typhoon! will serve wine and Thai appetizers and the Manzanita Strings, local musicians, will perform. Also during the evening, Bend’s Cascades Theatrical Company will present excerpts from Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie”. They will perform scenes at 6:45 and 7:15.
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The Frugal Boutique & Tres Chic Lingerie
206NW Oregon Avenue Street, Suite #1
First Friday Art Walk features: Rare Bird Creations, feathered hair extensions Artist, Samantha Berroth will be doing feathered hair extensions from 4-9 pm. Artist Katie O’Neil has art on display. Champagne and wine will be served.
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High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
First Friday Art Walk features “There and Back,” an exhibition of original paintings featuring work by Central Oregon Artist, Sue Favinger Smith and turned wood vessels by Oregon Artist, Dan Tilden. Meet the artists, enjoy great conversation and refreshments during First Friday Gallery Walk.
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John Paul Designs
1006 NW Bond Street
First Friday Art Walk features John Paul Designs. Custom Jewelry + Signature Series. Specializing in unique, one of a kind wedding and engagement rings in a variety of metals.
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Karen Bandy Studio
25 NW Minnesota Suite 5
First Friday Art Walk features “Ethereal Earth”. Jewelry and paintings by Karen Bandy through March 31st.
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Lester Newell’s PERSPECTIVES
130 Minnesota Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features Faye Taylor’s “Capturing the Spirit”. The journey from art student to accomplished and recognized artist has been rewarding for Faye Taylor. Her unique style of realism has garnered much praise and awards.
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Mockingbird Gallery
869 Wall Street #100
First Friday Art Walk features the “Heart of the West” show, which opens First Friday on March 4th from 5 to 9 pm. Austin Barton, Bob Boomer, Michael Cassidy, Lisa Danielle, Mick Doellinger, Carol Hamilton, T.D. Kelsey and Sally Kimp are eight Mockingbird Gallery artists whose work focuses on Western culture, and they will exhibit together for the month of March. Please join us for a glass of wine and a chance to view these artists’ sculptures and paintings that reflect the “Heart of the West”. Music will be provided by Rich Hurdle and Friends during the First Friday show from 5 to 9 pm. The exhibit will extend to the end of March.
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Nature of Words
224 NW Oregon Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features the High Desert Journal, Bend’s very own literary and fine arts magazine and considered to be one of the finest publications in the west. Reading from the issue 12 print issue will be Bend’s, Anna Roberts and Prineville’s, Nathaniel Dunaway. Dunaway’s poem, Speak, harsh land, was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Also reading from the online edition two women pilots from Redmond, Carol Gift and Fawn McManigal. New editor Charles Finn and founder/publisher/managing editor Elizabeth Quinn will also be on hand pouring wine, answering questions and selling journals.
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Red Chair Gallery
103 Oregon Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features “Spring and Bling” with pastel paintings by Beryl Foust-Hovey and glass work by Debra Borine. We’ll be open Friday 5-9 on March 4th for our reception for these two artists.
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River Bend Fine Art
844 Bond Street
First Friday Art Walk features contemporary works focus on the sum total of what it means to be an artist . . . how the subconscious, awareness, influence and individuality shape visual expression. Enjoy new works from EXPRESSIONS @ River Bend by Natasha Bacca, Pam Jersey Bird, Daemian Hawthorne, Judy Hoiness, Cara Thayer & Louie van Patten and Amy Royce plus Sarkis Antikajian, Kentree Speirs, Carla Spence and Lisa Wachs.
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Riverfront Plaza
Brooks Street at the Breezeway
First Friday Art Walk features A craft fair! Arts Central, Downtown Bend Business Association, and Reclamation of the Arts and Music Project. R.A.M.P. Present: First Friday craft fair in the Riverfront plaza.
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Sage Custom Framing and Gallery
834 NW Brooks Street – behind the Tower Theatre
First Friday Art Walk features Bend artist Anne Perce, who will be the featured artist at Sage Custom Framing and Gallery for the month of March. Working in acrylics, Anne’s style is strong, bold and colorful with a preference for landscape and still life. A reception will be held during Art Walk with the artist present and refreshments served. Sage Gallery is located behind the Tower Theater. 541-382-5884
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Tart Bistro
920 Bond Street
First Friday Art Walk features Night Under the Covers: Nirvana. Come as you are! March 4th, Bend First Friday smells like Night Under the Covers – Nirvana. Featuring local artists covering music from Seattle’s grunge rock masterminds, Nirvana! Benefiting Icon City.
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Thump Coffee
25 NW Minnesota Avenue
First Friday Art Walk features Original surrealist oil and acrylic paintings by Carol Connett. “Enjoy a stroll through the colorful and imaginative landscapes of my subconscious,” invites Connett. Connett describes her paintings as “representational renderings of sometimes comical but always impossible worlds.” Learn more at www.carolconnett.com.
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Wabi Sabi
830 NW Wall Street
First Friday Art Walk features Wabi Sabi’s Grand Re-Opening in their new location! Come by to see their cool Japanese stuff.