First Fridays Art Walk to light up Broad Street
The eighth season of the First Fridays Art Walk is ready to kick off. With galleries and store fronts lit up by multimedia displays, Broad Street closed down by police and the mass pandemonium of thousands of art-goers roaming the area, what possibly could be of more interest to the thrill-seeking VCU student? Beer bongs? $9 subs? James River parasites?
The truth is, the Art Walk is Richmond. Every month, the dregs that are the downtown area between Belvidere and Second streets come to life like no other time to show case what makes Richmond nationally renowned as an art town. Shops, restaurants, galleries and theaters illuminate the faces of every connoisseur and plebian alike.
Whether you’re in it for the art, music, food, crowds, VCU artists or shock value, there is something for you. Here is a handy guide to let you know what is happening where on the first day of this series of magical monthly Fridays.
INLIGHT RICHMOND: Mixed-media installations and performances within the 100, 200 and 300 blocks of West Broad Street, celebrating the 30th anniversary of 1708 Gallery.
1708 GALLERY: Seductions: Rebecca Murtaugh and Matthew N. Gehring (mixed-media installations).
319 W. Broad St.
ART6 GALLERY: Thomas Daniel (photography) and Margaret Porter-Daniel (engraving, silkscreen, litho crayon, wallpaper and other materials).
Real People, Real Recovery: a juried exhibition featuring art inspired by recovery from addiction. Open to all Virginia artists, professional and nonprofessional, in recovery or not.
Also featuring the signing of Daniel’s latest book, “The Southern Cause: For the Love of Dixie.”
Music by The Slack Brothers Bluegrass Band. 7:30-9 p.m., as well as an appearance by Civil War reenactors at 7:15.
To The Earth dance troupe will perform outside of the gallery.
6 E. Broad St.
GALLERY 5: Power & Vulnerability: Courtney Johnson (photography).
Music by Marshall Costan’s Awesome Few and The Nice Jenkins. 8:30-10 p.m.
200 W. Marshall St.
GHOSTPRINT GALLERY: Barry Bruner (digital illustration), Neal Iwan, Danny Robbins, Chris White (oil on canvas).
Thea Duskin presents “Night Shade,” a processional featuring Balinese influenced shadow puppets and music by members of the Gamelan Raga Kusuma. Processional begins at 10:15 p.m. on West Broad Street.
220 W. Broad St.
LIFT COFFEE SHOP: Exploring Spontaneous Color: Douglas Lawlor (abstract color illustrations in mixed media on paper).
218 W. Broad St.
QUIRK GALLERY: Jumpsuit: Kristin Caskey (mixed-media installation).
Vault Project: Elizabeth Turrell.
Shop Show: Adam Juresko.
311 W. Broad St.
RICHMOND PUBLIC LIBRARY – MAIN BRANCH: The Wrapping of Pont Neuf: Margo Blank (photography).
LANDSCAPE VIBRANCY/CREATED AND NATURAL: Carmen Bendersky (real and impressionistic oil on canvas).
From Brummana to Birmingham: A Lebanese American Family: Amy Joseph (black-and-white documentary photography).
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES: Iris M. Ruisanchez (oil on canvas).
101 E. Franklin St.
SOUND OF MUSIC STUDIO: New art and music in conjunction with InLight Richmond.
321 W. Broad St.
STUDIO/GALLERY 6: Leonard Pearlman (neon sculpture/installation), Todd S. Hale (mixed media), Dylan (photography).
6 E. Broad St.
TARRANT’S CAFÉ: New works by Foust, with continuing exhibition by Barry Bruner and Vicki Bruner.
1 W. Broad St.
THEATRE IV EMPIRE THEATRE: Refreshments, light displays and a movie screening on the Empire stage. Admittance is free and open to the public. Featuring rotating video presentations by Richmond Moving Image Co-Op, The Best of Flicker; Gilberto Martinez, El Alacrán (The Scorpion); Pyramid Studios, Ledger; Art 180, World Views; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Teen InSight.
114 W. Broad St.
TRANSMISSION: Mythmaker: Kate Horne (sculptures and prints).
321 Brook Road
VISUAL ART STUDIO: Painting in Shape: Jack Reilly (acrylic polymers and metallic pigments on shaped canvases).
208 W. Broad St.
