It's First Friday Art Night in
Grants Pass, Oregon!
First Friday Art Walk 
November 2, 2007

 


 

 
RoguePlanet has been providing 
 Grants Pass First Friday Art Night information since 2002!
(and on Captain Belchfire's Geocities Website, albeit intermittently, since 1997!!!)

First Friday Art Walk 
Gallery & Exhibit Schedule

  
FIREHOUSE GALLERY, RCC
214 SW Fourth Street 956-7339 or 956-7489
Karl Brake “High Spirits" 
October 31-November 21
The Rogue Community College Art Department's newest faculty member presents a series of expressionist landscape paintings from the Northwest's high desert, integrated with classical human figures.
In the Community Exhibits Room: "The Salmon Project," wood cutouts created by art students at Lincoln Savage Middle School and Hidden Valley High School.

GRANTS PASS MUSEUM OF ART
229-A SW G Street 479-3290
 October 2 - November 23
Art Glass by Teresa Madison. 

HARPER – HOWELL GALLERY
 229-B SW G Street 956-9278
 Curtis Otto
A retrospective show featuring four decades of the artist's work, along with a narrative interview describing each period.  This will be a celebration of one of Grants Pass' truly great artists.  Join us for light refreshments and the music of Larry Cavalier.

THE CREATIVE ALTERNATIVE
229 SW G Street, Suite A 472-0643
Nina Bindi's abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings from her Lyrical Landscape series.  Bindi's art is an expression of the Soul's journey, and is inspired by movement, color, the sensuality of texture and inner landscape of feeling.

 

THE GLASS FORGE GALLERY & STUDIO
501 SW G Street 955-0815
Glass blowing demonstrations. Stop by for an entertaining evening!

GIFTS TO REMEMBER
202 SW 6th Street 955-9197
Local artist Janet Gogue specializes in Tuscan and old-world scenes from original photographs. Beautiful artwork and luscious still life.

ETHEREAL CAFÉ
208 SW 6th Street 472-0807
Landscape photography by Maria Trejo.  The Illinois Valley String Band will perform 21st Century Back Porch Music.

THE KITCHEN COMPANY
212 SW 6th Street 955-5311
Focus on Pasta!
Elaine Hertel and friends make homemade pasta. 
Try a sample with one of our gourmet sauces!

LISTEN HERE MUSIC
 234 SW 6th Street 479-6131
Local artist Dennis Hatch will be showing some of his latest figure work.  His use of strong, descriptive line and sharp contrast both emphasizes the subject matter and lends a sense of immediacy to the work.
 "Ringo, Paul, George and John O' Lantern" 
by John Granacki


TREASURED MEMORIES
 420 SW 6th Street 479-5982
A Painting Party.  Donna Walsh has prepared a special evening. "Bring your children for they are our honored guests!"

HOME ECONOMICS: 
household goods, vintage & otherwise...
426 SW Sixth Street 476-7096
"Form, Fit and Function"
Sculptural lighting constructed from vintage mannequins, dress forms and found objects.  Each piece is one-of-a-kind and sheds light, literally, on figurative sculpture that serves a function...come meet the models.

SAVANNAH FAIRE
311 SE 6th Street 479-4808
Quilts and watercolor paintings by artist Elizabeth Hurst.  Quilting was first for Elizabeth, but she is now a watercolor artist who incorporates her love of quilts into her paintings—of quaint country settings with quilts flowing through them.

KING JEWELERS
221 SE 6th Street 476-3777
Phyllis Nelson Gordon's love of beauty in nature has evolved from gardening and traveling to creating drawings and paintings with an appreciation for realism and detail in unique and interesting ways.

EVANGEL PARABLE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE
201 SE 6th Street 476-5125
Marge Clapp will be showing her handmade greeting cards.

SHOPRIVERROCK 
(Located upstairs at Hellgate Excursions)
966 SW 6th Street 956-5260
The watercolor and pastel works of Sherrill Brumbach.  Since her move to the Rogue Valley in 2001 she has given her full attention to painting and has studied under several Valley artists. 

WISEMAN GALLERY, RCC
3345 Redwood Highway 956-7339
Patricia Arnold  “Night Edge”
 November 5 – December 7
Arnold alters time in her photographs by layering exposures and painting through from one layer to the next. In the Annex: Encaustics from the Visiting Artist Series workshop

November 20 - December 7
RCC Student Artist's ~ Holiday Art Sale!!!

Click here to revisit last month's First Friday Art Night celebration!
 ...and don't forget the Saturday Artisans and Crafters Market, 
every Saturday  through October in the streets of downtown Grants Pass!

 

 

Interested in Being a part of First Friday?
JUST DO IT!
Your thing, that is...  
Then find a willing merchant with a wall and/or floor space to display it.  
Then call Pat Sheets if you want to be in the brochure ~ 787-0910

e-Mail ME, John Granacki, if you have a late entry to post on this website,
or additional information (i.e. digital photos, links to other websites, etc.)

This website is about ART, and consequently does not post purely commercial information nor include
non-arts events held on First Friday Art Night for the promotion of any commercial,  religious, or political agenda.
(If that's your thing, Pat Sheets can get you into the merchants' brochure for a small sponsorship fee)

 

 

Shopping for quality antiques and vintage collectibles?  Its a good thing you live in or near Grants Pass!  The Jewel of the Pacific Northwest, we boast not only the finest climate, the best fishing, and the most fantastic First Friday Art Night, but we also have the highest per-capita concentration of antique dealers on the West Coast--and that's just counting ONE of our antique malls! 

 Grants Pass Antiques              Southern Oregon Antiques            Antiques Street Fair 

 

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John Granacki, Master of Space & Time  I, John Granacki, created this webpage.  You can see some of my paintings by clicking here.
This website is funded on a donation model. If you see me out and about on Art Night, 
feel free to just walk up and hand me money!