Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk

Alpine Arts – The Colorado Showcase

Featuring Paper and Stone Bronze

Alpine Arts is happy to feature one of our favorite, unique lines! Each “Paper and Stone Bronze” is hand made by a husband and wife team. The cold bronze art piece is colored by hand then brushed back and aged with steel, water and acids. They’re UV protected and indoor/outdoor safe. The process of making this light weight wall decor is fascinating! Stop in and take a look!

America Building

Featuring Marcus Stevenson, Gale Whitman, Tiana Graves, Jema Anderson, Elijah Cordova

Come join us this Friday from 6pm – 9pm as we feature 10+ artists among the small businesses within the America building. Featured artists include Gale Whitman, Matthew McHugh, Em Piscopo, Julie Kitzes, Su Wang, Elijah Cordova, Jema Anderson, Marcus Stevenson, Ralph Smith, and more.

Stop by for art, live music, open studios, mocktails from FoCo Academy of Bartending, and some hidden surprises. Check out our website, for the most up-to-date information on First Fridays at the America Building.

First Fridays at the America Building is located between Bloom Floral Boutique and Mac Shack at 155 N College Ave. You can also enter from the alleyway entrance straight from Remington Garage. We hope to see you there!

Bloom Floral Boutique

Featuring Ralph Smith

We are featuring the floral photography of Ralph Smith! www.greendrakephoto.com We will be open, alongside First Fridays at the America Building. We will be projecting a slideshow of his larger body of work in our shop window, and he will be here all night to discuss his work.

CopperMuse Distillery

Featuring Mike McPuff

Mike McPuff is a Fort Collins based painter and muralist, with a distinct surreal and illustrative style. Subject matter ranging from multi-eyed women, to strange landscapes full of bursting stars and polka dots. Check out McPuff on Instagram @mikemcpuff or his website MikeMcPuff.com As always, CopperMuse is offering 10% off your tab if you mention you’re there to see Mike’s art!

Dandelions & Rust

Featuring S.K.Y. Leather Designs and Maria Bush

S.K.Y. Leather Designs

On Friday, May 6th SKY Leather Designs will be hosting a DIY Earring “Bar” at Dandelions & Rust. Stop in anytime between 5pm and 8pm to create your very own pair of earrings. SKY will provide you with everything you need, just bring your creativity!

Maria Bush

Born and raised in Quito-Ecuador, Maria graduated from Universidad Catolica in Quito with a degree in languages, later in CWC in Riverton, Wyoming she attended an AA in Criminal Justice and last but not least graduated from CSU Global in Fort Collins with a BS in Applied Social Sciences.

Maria has worked all her life teaching and learning in different environments and decided one day to support the local Artisans of Ecuador by promoting Tagua, a product from Ecuador known as “organic ivory”.  She started her business selling made products in Colorado and Wyoming. Now she also creates and mixes colors to produce unique pieces of jewelry.

FoCo Cafe

Featuring Su Wang

Our incredible artist that we’ll be featuring at the FoCo Cafe for the month of May is Su Wang! We will have her art inside the Cafe and art from various local artists outside in the garden area (weather permitting). We will have cookies, tea and coffee.

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Featuring Girl Scouts Impact the World exhibit, FREE admission on Saturday, May 7 for Moms and Graduates

In honor of Mother’s Day and graduating seniors, Moms and graduates will enjoy free admission on Saturday, May 7, at the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures.  In the Main Gallery, Girl Scouts Impact the World explores the history of Girl Scouts since the organization’s founding in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low.  The exhibit includes vintage uniforms, historical handbooks and badges, and personal items of the founder.  For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970-221-4600.

Keller Williams Realty – Old Town

Featuring Bridget Aesop, Alice Green and Dierdre Cook

We will be featuring 3 artists who represent the Northern Colorado Potters Guild – Bridget Aesop, Alice Green and Dierdre Cook. These amazing ladies support many local non-profit agencies, including Alzheimer’s Association, Autism Society of Larimer County, Crossroads Safehouse and Boys & Girls Club, with their mission being “Potters with a Purpose”. The Northern Colorado Potters Guild and studio was founded in 2005 by a group of local potters and is limited to 85 members and offers classes and sales at their shop at 209 Christman Drive in Fort Collins. Stop by Keller Williams Old Town office to see the beautiful pottery that they have created.

Locust Cider

Featuring Sarah Moran of GingerPopStudio

Sarah Moran of GingerPopStudio creates colorful art through oil, acrylic, or digital paint mediums. Her print collections are a bright, cheerful take on everyday scenes, landscapes and animals. Her ultimate goal is to use art to bring more smiles and moments of happiness to people’s lives.

Lululemon – The local Fort Collins

Featuring Mallory Steele-Cash

lululemon is more than a place to get gear to sweat in, it’s a community hub where people discuss mindfulness, living a life of possibility, and a place to celebrate what makes each of us unique.

First Friday’s at The Local showcase the work of a local artist as well as a musician. Join us this Friday for our last First Friday before we close our doors. View the vibrant landscapes painted by Mallory. She brings freedom and play to life in her work.

As always, our Educators are available to help with all things to support you living #thesweatlife.

Mugs Old Town

Featuring Katrina Vander Horst and Carlos Barata

Join Mugs Old Town this first Friday and check out the captivating art of Katrina Vander Horst while listening to the incredible sounds of Carlos Barata. Honey Bean Paint is the project of Katrina Vander Horst, student at Colorado State University. She’s always been passionate about exploring art and its ability to challenge perception. Using creative endeavors as a cathartic form of self-expression she’s turned her hobby into a passion business. Carlos Barata is a Portuguese-American solo singer, songwriter, guitarist, performer and Music Therapist – originally from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. With soulful vocals and accessible songwriting, his intimate and alternative style is something simple, sweet, and special that has supported artists like Matt & Kim, Matt Costa, Pete Francis of Dispatch, and more from coast-to-coast.

Museum of Art

Featuring Annual Masks Exhibition

18th Annual Eye Center of Northern Colorado Masks
Exhibition & Online Auction
May 6, 2022 – Closing Day

The annual Masks exhibition is a crowd favorite that over the years has raised more than $1.8 million dollars to support the museum’s mission. During that time, Masks artists, most of whom live in Northern Colorado, have designed and donated more than 3,000 masks. Each year brings new perspectives as the unadorned ceramic forms leave the museum and return as a creative collection of unique masks. Professional artists, whose creativity is their economic mainstay, and recreational artists, who respond to their need to express their creativeness with ingenious styles and materials all create over 220 Masks to support the museum and its programming.
Online auction bidding will open April 1 – May 6. Bidding starts at $50 per Mask.
Masks Auction

Otter Shop

Featuring Scott Klotz

I create fine art paintings for personal and business commissions. Contemporary and Abstract paintings in acrylic and mixed media. My passion with pencil sketches and cartooning has greatly influenced my abstract fine art.  My work recalls to mind master artists from the past – Jackson Pollock. I have taken the abstract style and added a personal touch with polarized glasses to give a deeper depth to the images to make it pop no matter if you are looking with or without the glasses. No matter the subject or medium used, being able to help others color outside the lines and open their minds to new ideas has always been a goal of mine.

Save 10% off in the shop from 6 – 8 pm during Art Walk!

Peacock’s Perch

Featuring Krisanna Raymond

Krisanna Raymond grew up surrounded by arts in Charleston, South Carolina. Her love for animal medicine brought her to Colorado where she graduated from CSU with a bachelor’s in animal science and Spanish before becoming a licensed Hospice CNA, photographer, and artist. Krisanna has always loved the idea that science is art, and that art is science, and works to prove that concept through her combination of the two.

Special giveaway! We are giving away one hand painted dishwasher safe wine glass from the Four Seasons glass set, featuring the “spring” glass this month to the first 12 people who mention Peacock’s Perch post about Art Walk.

Petrichor Collective

Featuring Aerica Raven, Mag Beglarian, Ashley Sullivan, Ingrid Martini, Hannah Simonds, Lorene Martinez, Xavier Pereira, Morgan Lindquist, and Steven Scobee

Every First Friday Petrichor Collective will be hosting an Artist showcase. We will be featuring incredible local artists, serenading your eardrums with music, stuffing your pockets with fun make-and-take art, tickling your taste buds with the finest food and beverages on the block, and so much more!

ART WALK // 6PM – 9PM

Much more than just the start to a good night; stop by during the Downtowns official Art Walk designated time frame to continue the celebration of these incredible artists: Aerica Raven, Mag Beglarian, Ashley Sullivan, Ingrid Martini, Hannah Simonds, Lorene Martinez, Xavier Pereira, Morgan Lindquist, and Steven Scobee. You can find full details and artist works here!

Pinot’s Palette

Featuring Dominique Montano

This month Pinot’s Palette is featuring Dominique Montano. She will be displaying her prints, stickers, pins, patches and her new line of chalk bags which all be available for purchase.

The Bread Chic

Featuring Tom Masters

The Bread Chic will be featuring Flingin Pots, a mobile pottery studio. They come to your location and bring the Clay and Fun to you!

Flingin Pots will be doing a live pot throwing class called Pots & Pies. You can come by and watch or buy tickets beforehand to participate in the class. Tickets can be found here 

The bakery will be open for pies, sourdough, snacks, and drinks.

The Merchant Room at Walnut Creek

Featuring Petrichor Collective show with Aerica Raven, Mag Beglarian, Ashley Sullivan, Ingrid Martini, Hannah Simonds, Lorene Martinez, Xavier Pereira, Morgan Lindquist, and Steven Scobee

Every First Friday we will be featuring incredible local artists. Serenading your eardrums with music. Stuffing your pockets with fun make-and-take art. Tickling your tastebuds with the finest food and beverages on the block.

Located in The Merchant Room 222 Walnut St Fort Collins, Colorado 80524

Trimble Court Artisans

Featuring Mark Porter

For the month of May we have a new collection of handcrafted jewelry from Mark Porter. Stop by to see the elegant display of necklaces and earrings that we are so excited about.

Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House

Featuring “Warm Again, Worm Again” By Indigo Deany

Indigo was born amidst the cornfields of central Illinois, but grew up in Fort Collins. She has since lived in many different places and done many different things. Now, Fort Collins is her home again. Indigo works, gardens, makes things, and sits in the river. When she makes art, she usually just watches her child self as she encounters her life in this world, because she’s usually the most honest and the most forgiving.