ART NOTES.

Byline: The Register-Guard

Riley Grannan will host First Friday Art Walk

Riley Grannan, executive director of the Eugene Ballet Company, will host this month's First Friday Art Walk, which begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the New Zone Gallery, 975 Oak Alley.

The free monthly walking tour of downtown visual art venues spends about 15 minutes at each stop and includes discussions with artists and gallery owners as well as free refreshments at many stops.

The New Zone, an artists' collective, is showing ``House as a Mirror of the Soul,'' an examination of where people live - physically and philosophically. Subsequent stops are:

La Follette Gallery, 931 Oak St. "Essence of Oregon," oils by Craig Erickson.

White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St. Etchings of the Japanese landscape by Tanaka Ryohei.

Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center, Seventh Avenue and Willamette Street. "Australian Series," installations by Eugene artist Mike Walsh.

Opus6ix, 22 W. Seventh Ave. "LOOK! Positive Sexuality in Art," a show sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon.

Oils by Doug Collins showing at DIVA

An exhibit of portraits by Eugene artist Doug Collins, opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday at DIVA, 110 W. Broadway.

Collins is a retired state administrator who studied art at the University of Oregon. His work in oil, acrylic, ink and graphite has been exhibited at the Alder Gallery in Coburg and at Maude Kerns Art Center.

The exhibit, `Mostly Faces,' is composed primarily of oil portraits painted during the past two years in the weekly open painting studio at Maude Kerns Art Center.

Also included in the show are a landscape and still life on large canvases.

Photography exhibit on display at WOW Hall

"Your Mama Used to Dance,' an exhibit of photography by Scott Carver, runs through August in the Lobby Art Gallery of the WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave.

Carver is a 2006 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication and is former editor-in-chief of the Oregon Voice.

`I've been lucky enough to have seen and heard some great music acts while living in Eugene over the last five years," Carver says. "I've photographed some of them, danced until I was dripping sweaty at some of them and missed more great acts than I care to recount."

Artist's exhibit in Salem dedicated to Vietnam vet

Artist Nancy Floyd's installation dedicated to her brother who was killed in the Vietnam War opens Saturday and runs through Oct. 21 in the Study Gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, 700 State St., Salem.

Floyd created the installation, the James M. Floyd Memorial, in honor of her brother Jim, who was killed in 1969. The artist will give a slide show and lecture about her work, including the memorial, at 5 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Roger Hull Lecture Hall at the museum. The lecture is free and open to the public.

A preview reception will follow from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the lobby and galleries downstairs.

The exhibition includes photos and mementos of James Floyd and represents the artist's recollection of a brother who went off to war and came home in a flag-draped coffin.

`I am interested in telling a story different from the ones in history books, or on television, or in the movies,' Floyd says. `Many people don't realize what a family goes through when a loved one is lost. I want the viewer to see the real effect of war.'

Gallery admission is $3 for adults and $2 for seniors and students. Children younger than 12 are admitted free, and Tuesday is an admission-free day.

Carl Hall paintings at Karin Clarke Gallery

Paintings by the late Carl Hall are on exhibit at Karin Clarke Gallery, 760 Willamette St., through Sept. 9.

A reception, with members of Hall's family, will be held at the gallery from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday

This marks the gallery's fourth exhibit of work by Hall, who taught at Willamette University from 1947 until 1986. The show will feature oil paintings as well as works on paper with subject matter ranging from landscapes to nudes.

Japanese printmaker's work at White Lotus

An exhibit of work by Japanese printmaker Tanaka Ryohei opens with a reception from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. tonight and continues through Sept. 9 at White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St.

Ryohei, who lives in Japan, will be at the reception.

His minutely accurate etchings focus on thatched-roof farmhouses and threadlike tree branches that are quickly disappearing from the Japanese landscape.

His work has been collected by the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum, the Portland Art Museum and others.

Reception Monday for Marcia Graham

"Eclectic Images: People, Places and Quirky Things," an exhibit of art by Marcia Graham, has a reception from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at the dental office of Don Dexter, 2233 Willamette St., Building B. Graham's oils, acrylics and mixed media pictures will be on display through Sept. 28.