October First Friday Art Walk
Posted by: Lincoln Arts Council
Architecture Etcetera
Friday, October 1 from 4:00 - 8 PM
Location: 2436 N 48th Street
Architecture Etcetera presents the work of Nebraska Wesleyan University art students.
International Quilt Study Center & Museum presents "The Quilted Conscience: Dreams and Memories" from September 14-October 17. The exhibition features a story-quilt made by 16 Sudanese-American young women under the guidance of quiltmaker Peggie Hartwell, a founding member of the "Women of Color Quilters Network." The young women use the American story-quilt form, a tradition of their new country, to share the tribal stories and customs of their families' old homeland with their multiethnic Nebraska neighbors. Several of the Sudanese-American students will participate in a panel discussion led by John Sorensen, the director of the Abbott Sisters Project, on Friday, October 1, at 5:30 pm. A pre-release screening of a rough-cut documentary film of the quilt project, being produced for Nebraska Educational Television, will follow the program.
Sheldon Museum of Art
First Friday Reception in the Great Hall celebrating Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month.
LUX Center for the Arts
Friday, October 1 from 5:00 - 8 PM
Location: 2601 N 48th Street
LUX Center for the Arts presents "Secrets from the Stockyard" by nationally known potter, Bernadette Curran, October 1-November 27. For this exhibition, Curran creates images of quirky rodents and barnyard animals on paper and pottery that she calls "sweet and sentimental while also representing a sense of humility and heroism.""Unsettled" by acclaimed textiles artist, Xia Gao, continues through October 30. Gao uses fabric, screen-printing, and light to tell her story of relocation and adaptation to Nebraska from her native country, China. This exhibition is in collaboration with the Textile Society of America conference.
Rotunda Gallery in the Nebraska Union
Friday, October 1 from 5:00 - 7 PM
Location: 1400 R Street
"Excess Access: works by Spenser Albertsen and Ella Durham"
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Elder Gallery
Friday, October 1 from 5:00 - 7 PM
Location: Inside the Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 50th Street and Huntington Ave.
The American Tapestry Alliance presents an international juried exhibition every two years. The ATA¹s newest exhibit opens at Elder Gallery. More than 60 tapestries (large and small) by 54 artists will be on display. Artists hail from the United States, France, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom, Germany and Peru. The exhibit was juried by Rebecca A.T. Stevens, consulting curator of contemporary textiles at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.
Friday, October 1 from 5:00 - 7 PM
Location: 2649 N 48th Street
Mo Java Café presents the artwork of a local artist. Live music will be performed by a local musician.
Salt Creek Potters Workshop
Friday, October 1 from 5:00 - 9 PM
Location: 2722 N 48th Street
Salt Creek Potters Workshop presents the ceramic work of guest artist Janet Chung. Her functional and sculptural pieces are inspired by her garden. The work of the Workshop Artists: Larry Brown, Chad Davis, and Peg and Larry Pelter will also be on display. The "A Street Band" will perform acoustic, traditional, folk, and contemporary music from 6-9 p.m.
Haydon Art Center
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 8 PM
Location: 335 North 8th Street, Suite A
Stitch: Modern Embroidery celebrates the traditions of the thread and needle and uses them to explore contemporary issues of domesticity, gender roles & feminist perspectives. Artists Jenny Hart, Wendy Huhn, Elizabeth Ingraham, Lauren McEntire & Maggy Rozycki fill the gallery with colorful stitched works that drape from the ceilings, hang on the walls, and fill the room with sculpture. In participation with Lincoln's city-wide TSA Conference taking place in October, this exhibition was curated by Jennifer Graham & Tina Koeppe of Lincoln. On behalf of Haydon, local fiber artist Lora Rocke will be teaching an outstanding educational program that pairs children and elderly to create embroidered portraits. Adorned with fine craft and clear messages, Stitch: Modern Embroidery leaves viewers with a new appreciation of contemporary embroidery.
Grand Manse Gallery
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 9 PM
Location: 129 N 10th Street
It's our Grand Opening event at the Grand Manse Gallery, and we are pleased to feature Larger Than Life- Still Life by Mark Marcuson. "In his newest show, Marcuson explores a simplified, contemporary expression of the still life-and the possibility that the colors and contrasts of the everyday may assume a sacramental importance on the canvas". Come out and enjoy live music, refreshments, and give-aways as we make our Grand Entrance to the Lincoln Arts Scene!
the lichen
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 9 PM
Location: 2810 N 48th Street
the lichen presents "Forced Progress" by the lichen co-founder Samuel B. Rapien. He will work on large ink drawings in the galley space to continue his "dysfunctionation" series. Guests can view the progress of Rapien's drawings throughout the month of October during regular gallery hours: Saturdays from 10am to 2pm. The show will conclude with a closing reception on Friday, October 29 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., to display finished work.
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 9 PM
Location: (New Location) 2701 N 48th Street, Suite #1
Heart of Gold Jewelers presents the pottery of Pam Huckins. Come celebrate their new location.
9 Muses Studio
9 Muses Studio presents the work of comic book artist Justin Lewis. He has shown and sold work at sci-fi conferences across the midwest and is the creator of the web comic, "Eye-Eighty." Lewis in releasing a new comic book in hard copy entitled, “White Cell.” Lewis will accompany the dancing of Troupe Sicorae with digital music at 7 p.m.
Drift Station Gallery and Parallax Space
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 9 PM
Location: 1745 N Street
"Live Soundtracks" will feature performances by artists whose work fluidly shifts between the visual and the auditory, existing in and borrowing from experimental music, performance art, indie rock, sculpture, sound art, and computer programming. In all the works, there is an interest in creating a poetic and experiential connection between sound and listener, image and viewer, and sound and image through an artistic practice that focuses on the unexpected collision of the visual and sonic through improvisation. Drawing from such diverse visual sources as plastic bags, painted animations, and science fiction films and sonic materials like contact mics, handmade instruments, and laptops, "Live Soundtracks" will be an evening of strangeness and beauty.
6:30-7:00pm: Angeles Cossio
Live video experiments featuring Ziplock bags, spray bottles, and overhead projectors
7:00-8:00pm: Mighty Vitamins with guest Vitaminic VJ Burton
Performing their piece "Ducking All Issues", a live musical performance with live animation remixes by Michael Burton
8:00-9:00pm: Jeff Thompson
Live droning soundtrack for the cult science fiction film "Zardoz" with electric guitar, custom-written software, handmade instruments, and 4,200 jingle bells
The 815
Friday, October 1 from 6:00 - 9 PM
Location: 815 O Street
The 815 continues to partner with Open Studio's Artists on the Edge in their street level space to give Lincoln an opportunity to enjoy art from outside the lines. Artists on the Edge is a group of over 200 artists with a passion to create and a desire to further the discussion of Outsider Art. The lower level of The 815 will feature photography by Rob Liliedahl, paintings and sculpture by Ryan Labenz, in addition to the "musical stylings" of local guitarist, Luke Sticka. Rob was one of our initial artist for our first First Friday Art Walk in April and we are please to have him show again.
Noyes Gallery
Friday, October 1 from 6:30 -9 PM
Location: 119 South 9th Street
Featured in the Focus Gallery are:
Julie Lemons Pastels
Carrie Strope Glass Jewelry and art glass
Donna Pozehl Gourd Vases
Jan Pippitt Mixed Media
Connie Backus-Yoder Fabric Art
Featured in the Main Gallery are:
Giv Neal Paintings and Assemblages
Julia Noyes Abstract Paintings
Tina Mileriel Mixed Media with Ink
Gallery 9
Friday, October 1 from 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Location: 124 South 9th Street (in the historic Mission Arts Building)
Gallery 9 will feature "Unravelling" new work from painter Rachel Smith. The show will hang from September 29 through October 31. Also showing will be Needlepoint by Stephen Beal of the Textile Society of America.
Modern Arts Midwest
Friday, October 1 from 6:30 - 9 PM
Location: 800 P Street, Suite 300
Transformed Traditions in Ikat Contemporary American artists Polly Barton, Virginia Davis, Wendy Weiss and Mary Zicafoose offer their uniquely different interpretations of the process of warp and weft face ikat.
Michael James: Recent and New Work James' wall quilts use digitally printed fabric imagery to evoke the dual physical/metaphysical aspects of reality. October 1–October 30.
two groups of work by artist Anna Von Mertens.
"Surrounded" featuring Lillian Elliott Awardees:
Frances Dorsey, Marcie Miller Gross and Soonran Youn
Burkholder Project
Friday, October 1 from 7:00 - 9 PM
Location: 719 P Street
Photographers Sam Swartz and Matt Elwood, will have a Grand Opening to celebrate their new studio space at the Burkholder Project. Please join them in Studio 9 on Oct 1st, 6 - 9 pm.
Screen Ink.
Join us as we host the opening reception of "The Rabbit Hearted Girl". Artwork of Meghan Stratman. Live screen printing by Screen Ink.
| Date: | Friday Oct 01, 2010 | 04:00 pm |
| Cost: | free |
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