Country scenes featured as ArtWalk moseys along.Byline: The Register-Guard This month's First Friday First Friday is a city-wide public event that occurs on the first Friday of every month. The events may take on many purposes, including art gallery openings and social networking. ArtWalk will go from city lights to ranch life in the first two stops. The Lane Arts Council's free walking tour will be led by Douglas Beauchamp, the council's executive director. The tour will begin at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Vivace Gallery, 207 E. Fifth Ave., which is showing neon works by Eugene artists Virginia Sands and Neal Conner and by Tillamook County artist Martin Anderson, creator of the neon horses that once `grazed' alongside Interstate 5. From there, the tour will proceed to the Jacobs Gallery (downstairs at the Hult Center, Seventh and Willamette streets) to check out "BUCKAROO! Art & Artists of the Oregon Ranch." The 33-artist show, curated by Susan Markley, includes buckaroo gear in leather, steel, horsehair horse·hair n. 1. The hair of a horse, especially from the mane or tail. 2. Cloth made of the hair of horses. horsehair Noun , felt, silver and gold, along with sculpture, painting and photography depicting ranch life. Other stops on the tour: Scan/Design, 856 Willamette St., "Tribes and Rituals," new works by Anne Teigen; and mixed-media sculpture by Michael Chadd and Janice Ososke-Chadd; OPN/EFN, 43 W. Broadway, new works by Jorge Hitchcock, presented in partnership with the Alder alder (ôl`dər), name for deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Alnus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), widely distributed, especially in mountainous and moist areas of the north temperate zone and in the Andes. Gallery. Also open Friday night but not part of the art walk: Home ReDesign Studio, 949 Pearl St., "Home Style Serene," wood and fabric screens by Tom Karakalos; White Lotus White Lotus Chinese Buddhist millenarian movement that was often persecuted because of its association with rebellion. The movement had roots in 4th-century worship of the Buddha Amitabha, whose devotional cult inspired Mao Ziyuan to form the White Lotus Society, a pious Gallery, 767 Willamette St., "Ning Xia: The People, Landscape & Culture," oil paintings by Xue-Sheng Her; Circle of Hands, 1030 Willamette St., "Kaleidoscope kaleidoscope (kəlī`dəskōp), optical instrument that uses mirrors to produce changing symmetrical patterns. Invented by the Scottish physicist Sir David Brewster in 1816, the device is usually a hand-held tube, a few inches to as much Cartography cartography: see map. cartography or mapmaking Art and science of representing a geographic area graphically, usually by means of a map or chart. Political, cultural, or other nongeographic features may be superimposed. ," multimedia paintings and prints by Nemo; PhotoZone Gallery, 192 W. 11th Ave., 14th annual Photographic Juried Show Exhibition; La Follette La Fol·lette , Robert Marion 1855-1925. American politician and reformer who served as a U.S. senator from Wisconsin (1906-1925). In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for President on the Progressive Party ticket. Gallery, 410 E. 11th Ave., "Tribute to Vincent II," new paintings and sculpture by George von der Linden; and Temporarily Maude, 68 W. Broadway, "Reminiscences - Color, Sound & Entities," prints by Noelle McClure. |
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