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First Friday This Month:
August 6, 2004
Featuring a selection of Anchorage youngster's art from the "Art In The
Park" event on
July 31st.
August 6, 2004
Featuring a selection of Anchorage youngster's art from the "Art In The
Park" event on
July 31st.
Your Invitation...
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Artic Rose Gallery would like to invite everyone to step out and enjoy an evening of art in
Anchorage! The First Friday Art Walk, or art “crawl”, as some folks call it, happens on the first
Friday of each month. Artic Rose gallery and over 25 other shops and galleries downtown take part
in the event. Visit the galleries between 6 and 9pm, meet the featured artist, enjoy some hors de’
ouvres, and enjoy the varied art- what a great way to spend an evening!
You can find a walking map in two ways. The Anchorage Press newspaper puts one out on the
Thursday before the event- you can pick up a Press at the airport, in almost any coffee shop,
bookstore, or café, or in bins on streets around town. The Anchorage Daily News also prints a map
of galleries, and you can find that in the “8” magazine pull-out section in Friday’s paper- the day of
the event. The map will show you the locations of all the downtown galleries involved that evening,
as well as a brief synopsis of what art is showing in each of them.
Lately, more people are taking time to look through the galleries, and every First Friday there is
somebody who has never been to one before. And that’s a great thing.
It's wonderful, too, when the artists get to meet the public. It's a treat for the artists to interact with
the public, and the visitors can put a name with a face and shake a hand."
While gallery browsers can simply show up for a couple of hours, munch on goodies and look at art,
for the gallery owners First Friday is a time-consuming event.In addition to planning shows several
months in advance, there is a busy schedule in the weeks leading up to an opening. Some of the
things on to do include talking with the artist to select work, advertising, sending out postcards,
pricing the
artwork, rearranging the gallery, hanging the art and buying and preparing the food.
It's a lot of work, and it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of energy involved in First Friday. I think that's
part of what makes it such a great evening.
Anchorage! The First Friday Art Walk, or art “crawl”, as some folks call it, happens on the first
Friday of each month. Artic Rose gallery and over 25 other shops and galleries downtown take part
in the event. Visit the galleries between 6 and 9pm, meet the featured artist, enjoy some hors de’
ouvres, and enjoy the varied art- what a great way to spend an evening!
You can find a walking map in two ways. The Anchorage Press newspaper puts one out on the
Thursday before the event- you can pick up a Press at the airport, in almost any coffee shop,
bookstore, or café, or in bins on streets around town. The Anchorage Daily News also prints a map
of galleries, and you can find that in the “8” magazine pull-out section in Friday’s paper- the day of
the event. The map will show you the locations of all the downtown galleries involved that evening,
as well as a brief synopsis of what art is showing in each of them.
Lately, more people are taking time to look through the galleries, and every First Friday there is
somebody who has never been to one before. And that’s a great thing.
It's wonderful, too, when the artists get to meet the public. It's a treat for the artists to interact with
the public, and the visitors can put a name with a face and shake a hand."
While gallery browsers can simply show up for a couple of hours, munch on goodies and look at art,
for the gallery owners First Friday is a time-consuming event.In addition to planning shows several
months in advance, there is a busy schedule in the weeks leading up to an opening. Some of the
things on to do include talking with the artist to select work, advertising, sending out postcards,
pricing the
artwork, rearranging the gallery, hanging the art and buying and preparing the food.
It's a lot of work, and it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of energy involved in First Friday. I think that's
part of what makes it such a great evening.
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