Spring Art Hop!
First Friday, April 1st-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.
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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875 Brooks Sreet (541) 749-2291
The exhibit is titled ‘Image After Image’. The concept of printmaking extends many centuries into the past – Atelier 6000 brings it forward into the now…Monotypes, Monoprints, Collagraphs, Chine Collé, Ghosts, Drypoints, Solar Prints, Etchings, Woodcuts, Linocuts – image after image of original hand-pulled prints imprinted with imagination and creativity.
The opening of the exhibit will be on First Friday April 1st from 4-8pm and be on display at Arts Central for the month. Regular exhibit hours: Wed – Sat (11am-4pm).
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147 Minnesota Avenue (541) 388-0116
Blue Star Salon
1001 Wall Street #103
Blue Star Salon will be featuring the quit work of local artist Pat Pease. She has won awards for her work and is part of a quilter’s guild.
” I am a Bend-area fiber artist. Color is my main interest, and I continue to study its theory and history. I like to combine unusual colors, patterns and textures, and find that part of the joy in putting a piece together is finding that unique piece of fabric that is just right.
I am currently working on a series of string quilts, made with strips (strings) of fabric sewn together. I prefer to use irregular shapes that produce a more random effect. When I add the machine stitching, I feel I am adding my mark on the piece. I might use 50 different threads of varying weight just to get the right texture to appear on the fabric.
When not working, my time is spent with my husband and the three best dogs in the world, Ruby, Frida, and Lola”
Blue Star Salon will be hosting an Artist’s reception Friday from 5 to 9 and will be serving wine, beer, appetizers, and non-alcoholic beverages. The Blue Star Stylist will also be on hand to answer any of your hair questions and will be doing walk in Feather Extensions (the biggest selection of colors!) and Tinsel Strands.
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The Blvd.
1002 Wall Street
We will have beautiful Photography by Sandy Thompson. Art, friends, wine, treats, and fashion!!! That’s right, you’re in Downtown Bend!!! Don’t miss the party at The Blvd.
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150 Oregon Avenue (541) 639-5546
rise up presents…
shireen amini’s blue genies fundraiser: a concert and community experience to bring shireen’s second album to life! all ages welcome.
friday, april 1st (first friday art walk in downtown bend)
7-8pm community music-making featuring students of westside village magnet school
8-10pm shireen amini band with special guests
$5 after 8pm…with a donation of $20 or more, sign on for a blue genie package ranging from album pre-order to album sponsorship which include many special gifts (click on the blue genie icon on the website www.shireenamini.com)
special blue genie t-shirts for sale by rise up!
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Cowgirl Cash
924 Brooks Street
Join Cowgirl Cash for a fun filled Art Hop, art (as seen above), jewelry, beer, prizes, fun-what ELSE could you ask for?
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Dalia & Emilia
855 Wall Street (541) 728-0344
Thank you for supporting our shoppe making Art Walk on First Friday truly fabulous. It has been so much fun to treat everyone to a delicious chocolate truffle paired perfectly with a glass of red wine and featuring a local musician monthly.
Incredible consignment arrives daily by frequently traveling to clients homes as far away as California bringing back hand selected, fun Spring and Summer wear showcased at Dalia & Emilia.
We have Beautiful Home Interior and Gifts that have been carefully selected for their uniqueness, featuring several local artisans that we love supporting.
Don’t forget to try our handmade, hand dipped Truffles. “Chocolate is always a good idea,” a great gift for any occasion.
Mark your calendar for the First Friday Art Hop, April 1st. No fooling, it will be fabulous!
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920 Bond street #106 (541) 389-2901
Guest Artist: Tom Norr at www.zazzle.com/tomart
Jazz Musicians: Lisa Dae & Robert Lee
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The Feathers Edge Finery
113 Minnesota Avenue
Many new items have arrived for spring at The Feather’s Edge. Handmade, eco-friendly, affordable, quality. Hope to see you for April First Friday.
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Firehall Building
5 NW Minnesota Ave, Suite 106
Local artists, Bruce Jackson, Reuben Valdivia, Marty Stewart and Clayton Warburton will be displaying their art in suite 106 (in between Tangerine and Thump) at the Firehall building for this April’s First Friday Art Walk. Beer from Ten Barrel Brewery and food from Bourbon Street will be provided. Weather permitting, live music outside be provided as well. First seventy five attendants will get a free Firehall-Bourbon Street pint glass (full of beer if you if you like).”
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The Franklin Crossing Building
(Space next to Lululemon Athletic)
550 NW Franklin Avenue
Steven and Laurel Knight of ArtbyKnight.com will be displaying their realist original fine art paintings, archival prints and sculpture, Friday April 1st at the Downtown Art Hop beginning at 5:00 pm, and also Saturday April 2 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. They will be in the space, next to Typhoon! in the Franklin Crossing building. Sculptures will be shown in various stages of creation. Oil painting demonstration by Laurel Knight. Original paintings will range in size from 3″x 4″ miniatures to 40′x70″. Subjects range from classical figurative, portraiture, equine, western, wildlife, landscapes and more. The artists will be introducing a very exciting program called the Patron’s Package, which is a great opportunity to participate in the arts, as well as acquire fine art at a discount.
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The Franklin Crossing Building
(in the main lobby)
550 NW Franklin Avenue
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The Frugal Boutique & Tres Chic Lingerie
206NW Oregon Avenue Street, Suite #1
First Friday Art Walk features: Artist Katie O’Neil has art on display. Champagne and wine will be served.
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841 Bond Street #1 (541) 385-8858
Lorette blends a variety of organic essential oils to create beautiful bath oils
and body sprays to calm the nerves, refresh the spirit and enhance ones
overall sense of well being. We will be offering Lorettes creations for sale at
wholesale prices at our Spring Art Hop on April 1st. Come and have a glass
of wine and a taste of chocolate @ The Jewell Box & Glenroe Antiques 841
NW Bond St.
Offered by Lorette Simonet, author, weight & health management consultant
and yoga instructor.
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High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
Come celebrate with us as we host “High Beams,” an exhibition of original paintings and original monoprints by nationally recognized Central Oregon artist, Paul Alan Bennett. “High Beams,” runs from March 31, 2011 through May 3, 2011 at High Desert Gallery’s downtown Bend Oregon art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford. Custom framing is provided by High Desert Frameworks!, an award-winning custom framing studio located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue and only one-half block from High Desert Gallery.
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841 Bond Suite 5 (Bond Street Barber Building)
GRAND OPENING NEW BUSINESS DOWNTOWN!
Our featured brand is our own jewelry company Joelle Lenay Designs. Locals may be familiar with us from our involvement with the Central Oregon Saturday Market.
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871 Wall Street (541) 382-7475
Anita Johnson finds her artistic roots in the Wild West, as a Central Oregon local for more than 30 years. She’s always had a flair for creativity and crafting, and her more recent foray into painting reflects her artistic influences from years of working with fabrics as a seamstress, creative crafting, and years as a professional hairstylist. Seen through her perspective as a cowgirl, Anita’s acrylic and mixed media artwork show her attention to detail and often playful and lighthearted look at her subjects.
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John Paul Designs
1006 NW Bond Street
John Paul Designs has created a series of special Hearts for Japan dog tags for the cause. We’ll also have limited edition Help Japan prints for sale by super rad graphic designer Carlos Perez. All proceeds from the sale of the dog tags and the prints will go directly to the Global Giving Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund.
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Karen Bandy Studio
25 NW Minnesota Suite 5
Please join me to see new jewelry made from Drusy, a natural gem from the earth. Also see a new series of paintings called “Of the Earth”. You’ll enjoy how the jewelry and the paintings complement each other, and don’t forget to check out the sale rack!
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920 Bond Street
We are proud to feature the artistic talents of Bridget McGinn.
Please join us for wine and cheese from 5:30-9:00
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Mockingbird Gallery
869 Wall Street #100
Mockingbird Gallery presents our April show entitled “A Deeper Clarity” which includes new works by Edwin Koch. The exhibit opens First Friday/Art Hop on April 1st from 5 to 9 pm. Please join up for a glass of wine and a chance to meet Edwin, and to view his meticulously detailed still life oil paintings. Music will be provided by Rich Hurdle and Friends during the First Friday Gallery Walk from 5 to 9 pm. The exhibit will continue through the end of April.
Oregon artist Edwin Koch is a realist, and some have described his style as Super Realism. Through the use of oil on apple wood panels, Edwin strives to use classical values to guide his picture making decisions such as objectivity, formality, balance, simplicity, dignity, restraint and austerity. His still life paintings have an almost luminescent clarity. Upon closer examination, the viewer finds a deeper clarity – a subtle world of intricate and unusual harmonies, which seems to transform disparate shapes into a single enchanting pattern. Edwin spends a lengthy amount of time 250 to 500 hours per painting to achieve striking effects through a combination of painterly techniques, artistic intuition and a meticulous attention to detail.
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Nature of Words
224 NW Oregon Avenue
Celebrate Poetry Month with readings from local poets, enjoy words art displays and participate in a community poem. 5-8 pm.
Featured readers are:
Peter Lovering
John Kvapil
John Martin
Don Kunz
Larry Jacobs
Ellen Waterston
Carol Barrett
Judy Montgomery
Marion Davidson
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Lester Newell’s PERSPECTIVES
130 Minnesota Avenue
First Friday April 1, 5 – 9 pm presents new works by Debra Fisher and Katie O’Neil.
Debra Fisher’s Nature Spirit Masks are keepers of nature’s beauty and are meant to be joyful reminders of our connection with nature, deepening our appreciation for this beautiful planet. They first appeared to her in dreams and have always felt like sparks of the original fire. Each mask is hand cast in an original sculpted mold, using high quality wheat paste and paper made from recycled materials. They are each dressed lovingly with natural elements, handmade and decorative papers. After they have completely dried they are accented with acrylic paints and sealed with a moisture resistant permanent protective finish. She says “It is a privilege for me to create and send each mask into the world. May it bless and bring you years of light and love.”
Katie’s O’Neil’s watercolor work highlights the intimate and everyday landscapes of rural Oregon. She grew up East of Portland in the soggy Columbia River Gorge and moved to the skin-splitting Central Oregon four years ago. With every painting she aim’s to make it beautiful enough to put on the living room wall, unique enough to grab someone’s attention away from the TV, and complex enough to hold that attention once she has it. But, of course, this intention only happens in the photographic stage of the process. Once she captures and stills the conceptual moment in time, she lets her intuition take over and literally lets the paint fly out of her hand. Watercolor, then, has been a natural fit because it’s a medium that lends itself to fast, intuitive work. Not having a formal education in art has forced her naive hand to learn its own techniques when breaking down new images to paint. For her, this has always been a benefit in disguise because she’s never been locked into technical boundaries by others. In this way, she feels great freedom while she paints, and she believes that whatever she feels while she paints goes directly into her work and back out into the world. She says, “I look to my painting to help show the world what our many “Oregonians” can feel like.”
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On Point Community Credit Union
950 Bond Street (541) 749-2224
Come experience outdoor living with our Fireplace while listening to the sounds of LINO. We will be featuring artist Jason Waldron known for combining his passions for art, nature, and outdoor activities such as hiking and rock climbing. Jason has taken a unique approach to wood sculpting. He uses juniper, sage and pine – piecing together or carving forms and figures that speak of their origin and gesture toward their purpose. With a decade worth of experience as a sculpture in multiple mediums – a genuine desire to create a positive impact on the world around him.
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Red Chair Gallery
103 Oregon Avenue
April’s Featured Artists include Dorothy Eberhardt, Nature Photographer and Jacqueline Newbold, Watercolorist & Fine Jewelry. Be sure to come in April 1st to see all that is new, we guarantee you will be glad you did!
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River Bend Fine Art
844 Bond Street
Join us for a one-man show of nationally-recognized oil artist Mitch Baird, of Portland, Oregon.
Artist Reception: First Friday, April 1 from 5 to 8 pm
Baird’s paintings are a realistic representation of visual space wonderfully rendered in a loose painterly style. Preferring to paint ‘en plein air’ (literally, in the open air, or outdoors), the artist has mastered depth and atmosphere possessing an understanding that ‘less is more’ – all in a bold style without fear of color.
Recent accolades include recognition in Southwest Art magazine’s ’21 over 31 Emerging Artists’ in the November 2010 issue; in 2009 Baird was awarded Best of Show & Southwest Art’s Award of Excellence at the American Impressionist Society Exhibition, the Founder’s Award in the international ‘Blossom – The Art of Flowers’ traveling museum exhibition as well as having two paintings in recent National Parks ‘Paint the Parks – Top 100’ traveling exhibition. He is represented by galleries in Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
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Sage Custom Framing and Gallery
834 NW Brooks Street – behind the Tower Theatre
“Views of Central Oregon and Beyond” This is a photographic collection that represents three years of photo exploration through the eyes of Paul Carew. It is a brief glimpse into some of the visual wonders of the Central and Pacific Northwest.
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1000 Wall Street (541) 388-1972
Tumalo Farms, a local artisan cheese maker will be showcased at sportsvisionbend April 1, 5-8pm during the downtown Art Hop. Taste their newest creations paired with wine and enter to win a cheese basket.
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St. Clair Building
corner of Bond & Oregon
This First Friday Night Under the Covers will feature local artists covering music from cultural revolutionists The Beatles! Benefiting Icon City and BeRemedy Bend. Free show Friday, April 1st in the St. Clair Building/Tart Bistro Lobby. 21+ 5-9p—
• Benefiting Icon City and BeRemedy Bend | www.iconcity.us
Artist Lineup:
500-600 Strawberry Fields (Beatles Instrumentals)
600-615 Jason Schweitzer
615-630 Chris Evans
630-645 Lauren Kershner
645-700 Poor Man’s Roses
700-715 Anastacia Trio w/ Joe Leonardi
715-745 One Hot Mess
745-800 Tim Bach
800-815 Murder of Crows
815-830 Brad Bailey
830-845 Kevin Griffin
845-900 An Interesting Name
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856 Bond Street (541) 388-7558
Master Artist Keith Sluder will be showing his artwork, THE LOVE INSIDE, in downtown Bend at tbdloft … 856 NW Bond Street, Suite 2 … on April 1 First Friday Art Walk. The theme this month is SECURITY.
“As we walk this earth, we all try to learn how to reason with the many hands life deals us. The security we feel will change from one hand to another.
The word SECURITY is a non-tangible concept with a thousand meanings. However, it is usually linked with feelings of non-fear, safety, and trust.
Security changes as we grow and sometimes fear will trump safety and trust. We then scramble to find ways to get it back through love, job, money or even forgiveness.
Security can be your steady wingman one day and become an illusive smoke-filled pipe dream the next. It needs to be thought of with respect as we never know how long it will be our companion.
Security only has an obligation to pay a debt one time and that is when a new life comes into this world. As a newborn, we are helpless and the only security we know is the warmth of being held in the arms of one who loves us and the heartbeat on our tiny face as we go to sleep; without fear, full of trust, and secure.
This graphite rendering, THE LOVE INSIDE, celebrates the birth of my new granddaughter Feyona.” Keith Sluder
For more information, contact Keith Sluder at 541.388.7858 or www.keithsluder.com
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Thump Coffee
25 NW Minnesota Avenue
Photography by Caitlin Ducsik is the featured art exhibit throughout April at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Thump Coffee also will be open late for First Friday Art Walk, April 1.
“In nature, I find inspiration and happiness,” says Ducsik. “Through my camera’s viewfinder I seek to capture life’s simple truths with the magic of light and the beauty of landscape.”
Originally from Massachusetts, Ducsik received a Bachelors Degree in Photojournalism from Ohio University, as well as studying documentary photography in Scotland. She has taught nature photography classes in the Catskills, her work has published in various newspapers and magazines both domestically and abroad, and she has participated in art walks and festivals in Colorado. Since 2008, she has made Bend her home.
With her images, Ducsik hopes to “portray a reverence for the outdoors, with focus on small details that are important components of the big picture.”
See more at www.caitlinducsik.com.
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 541-388-0226.
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842 Wall Street (541) 318-5663
TOPOLINO will be showcasing John Sweet, a glass artist (from Bend) who can transform a child’s artwork into a beautiful glasss masterpiece.
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1024 Bond Street (541) 207-7477
835 Wall Street (541) 317-0700
It’s time again to sample the best buffet of Central Oregon’s decadent desserts at the Tower Theatre’s annual Tour du Chocolat, Friday, April 1. Once again the centerpiece of downtown Bend’s First Friday events, the 2011 Tour starts at 5 pm with a “first taste” for Tower members. Then doors open wide at 6 pm to welcome the general public. A modest $5 entry fee gives you four sweet tastes and a complimentary beverage. All proceeds benefit the Tower Theatre Foundation.
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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.
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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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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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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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Cowgirl Cash
924 Brooks Street
First Friday Art Walk features Join Cowgirl Cash for a fun filled Art Hop, jewelry, beer, prizes, fun-what ELSE could you ask for?
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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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