It's First Friday Art Night in
Grants Pass, Oregon!
First Friday Art Walk 
October 5, 2007

ART ALONG THE ROGUE >>

Click here for details of last October's First Friday Art Night celebration, including SPIRIT OF THE ROGUE at the Firehouse Gallery


 

 
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
“Spirit of the Rogue” featuring Elizabeth Black 
October 3-27, 2007

A juried art exhibit that seeks to capture the multi-faceted essence of life along the Rogue River in painting, photography, sculpture and fiber art. Artists include Jack Bingham, Elizabeth Black, Gwen Childs, Ann DiSalvo, Gene Drake, Bob Eding, Dianne Erickson, Dan Harper, Barbara Hochberg, Paul Jordan, Cindy Kahoun, Linda Killion Smith, Thomas Kirchen, Claudia Marchini, Janette Merriman, Mike Murphy, Curtis Otto Samuel Santi, and Darci Spetter. Spirit of the Rogue runs in conjunction with the Art Along the Rogue Street Painting and Music Festival in downtown Pass, October 6 & 7. Join us for a street painting demonstration in front of FireHouse Gallery on First Friday Art Night.


GRANTS PASS MUSEUM OF ART
229-A SW G Street 479-3290
October 2 - November 23
Grants Pass Museum of Art presents Fire & Light, a Heritage of Glass. Glass Collection by Leo Oaks. Art Glass by Teresa Madison. Lecture by Neil Williamson & Mimi Raskin October 12 7-9pm. Art Library Open House at the Museum 1st Friday


HARPER – HOWELL GALLERY
229-B SW G Street 956-9278
Opening Friday night October 5th and continuing for the month: “2nd annual Owners’ Show” featuring new work by David Richard Howell, Naomi Harper and Dan Way Harper. In addition, new work will be presented by many of the more than 30 outstanding regional painters, sculptors and photographers represented by Harper Howell. Come meet the artists and enjoy complimentary light refreshments while listening to live music by Larry Cavalier.

THE CREATIVE ALTERNATIVE
229 SW G Street, Suite A 472-0643
Donna Walsh, original art work in oils and prints. Her work is also seen at www.hipart.com

 

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

LA BELLA CASA DESIGN
233 SW G Street 472-9292
Artist Sherrill Brumbach is a local artist who specializes in pastel and watercolors. Her styles and content are as versatile as her talent.

BLIND GEORGE’S NEWS STAND
117 SW G Street 476-3463
Bonnie Hunt is a long time resident of Grants Pass and will be presenting her first art show featuring acrylic and 3-D paintings.

EVANGEL PARABLE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE
201 SE 6th Street 476-5125
National Award Winning wildlife oil paintings by artist Jeanne Thompson.

GRANTS PASS POST OFFICE & CITY OF GRANTS PASS
Main downtown Post Office
Artwork from: “Take a Walk on the Rogue” Art Show by City Officials, City Employees and their families.   

KING JEWELERS
221 SE 6th Street 476-3777
Award winning Brazilian Embroidery design instructor, Jinx Kirkpatrick-Shearer.

ROGUE VALLEY FUDGE & FINE CHOCOLATES
229 SE 6th Street 955-5225
Ginger Ravencrof’s “Truth captured Photography” 

PLAZA SEWING CENTER
311 SW 6th Street 479-5757
Lee Farmer, a local cross stitch artist and owner of Uniquely Yours will be showing some of her hand cross stitched items and teaching how to do this beautiful hand art.

BOOK LORE AND MORE
122 SE H Street 471-4945
A division of Spark Enterprises“Where imagination becomes reality.”
Scott Gantenbein of Mindseye Multimedia Studio. See the difference between photo and Mindseye’s photographic art

ETHEREAL CAFÉ
208 SW 6th Street 472-0807
Brian McPartland watercolor botanicals, figurative drawings and some oils. Brian is new to Southern Oregon and has shown his artwork in many San Diego area galleries. Wayne Watanabe and Friends will perform soft rock and jazz music.

HEARTSONG
224 SW 6th Street 471-6394
Wolfgang Nebmaier exhibits art depicting his reverence of Woman, her beauty, her power, and her natural spiritual authority. Wolfgang’s work consists of original acrylic and photographic Imagery digitally integrated to create unique and extraordinary pieces.

LISTEN HERE MUSIC
234 SW 6th Street 479-6131
Tamra Hutchings will be showing her original monoprints and acrylic paintings as well as her very limited edition Lithographs. In her paintings, she has gone back to nature in both subject and hue. However her prints create a striking emotional response using the human form, velvety black and white

BEAD MERCHANT & YARN SUPPLY
300 SW 6th Street 471-0645
Gourd Jewelry & Art by Vera K

TREASURED MEMORIES
420 SW 6th Street 479-5982
Del Hearn's most recent paintings featuring local landmarks and events including Marie's Restaurant and the back to the 50's Car Cruise.

HOME ECONOMICS: 
household goods, vintage & otherwise...
426 SW Sixth Street 476-7096
"alpha numeric" 
Come see what the "a8d9Fs0&*M%L" is all about...

JOSEPHINE COUNTY HISTORIC SOCIETY
508 SW 5th Street 479-7827
(Corner 5th & J Street)
“Awesome Abundant Beauty”
Landscape photographer Dennis Ruga brings a fresh perspective to familiar Southern Oregon locales. A reception is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. A brief tour of the landmark Schmidt House is also available by request. 

SHOPRIVERROCK 
(Located upstairs at Hellgate Excursions)
966 SW 6th Street 956-5260
Dennis Kirkland, award-winning and published freelance nature and wildlife photographer.

PARK PLACE ANTIQUES AND INTERIORS
290 South Pacific Hwy. 472-0781
Japanese woodblock prints, sculptures and objets d'art.

WISEMAN GALLERY, RCC
3345 Redwood Highway 956-7339
Leighton McWilliams
“Photo Constructions”
September 24 – October 31, 2007
McWilliams creates small-scale photographic constructions that fuse together the seemingly disparate realms of chance, mechanics, humor, architecture, eroticism, death, kitsch, construction and aviation.
In the Annex…
Women’s Crisis Support Team presents a Domestic Violence Awareness Month Exhibit



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.

 

 

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 Walk, 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 

 

 

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!