A self-guided tour for the art lover in everyone!
Every 1st Friday of Each Month
Art Walk is a monthly self-guided walking tour that celebrates creativity, culture, and community in Downtown Fort Collins on the first Friday of every month! From fine to funky, Art Walk showcases a spectrum of artistic styles to entertain and engage amateurs and art aficionados of all ages, interests and backgrounds.
Details
Date: First Friday
Time: 6 – 9 pm (please check with businesses for updated hours)
Location: Downtown Fort Collins, CO
Cost: Free!
May 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

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.
I came from China to Colorado 5 years ago. My arts are traditional Chinese painting, also I can do all “finishing work” by hand to make the art look like a finished product, because Chinese painting use special paper which is very soft and thin.
My main arts are of Colorado nature, animals, peony and bamboo.

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.

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.
Are you an artist? Are you interested in displaying your work for First Friday Art Walk?
Please fill out this form to be added to the list of artists we share with Art Walk businesses.
*Please note: Artist selection is at the discretion of individual participating businesses.
ART WALK PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES
Alpine Arts
Alpine Arts is proud to be a local and family owned business. We have been located in the same historic Avery ...
112 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
America Building
On the first Fridays of each month, the America building transforms from business as usual to celebrate the creative...
155 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Bas Bleu Theatre Company
Our goal is to enrich the cultural life of the region and, in so doing, add to the common experience that bonds ...
401 Pine Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Bloom Floral Boutique
Cindy's Daughter-in-Law Brenna joined as Manager after spending several joyful years studying floral design in New York ...
153 North College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
CopperMuse Distillery
Hard work and the best ingredients don't mean a thing without inspiration. From Shakespeare to Satchmo, every ...
244 N. College Ave., Suite 105 Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Dandelions & Rust
Dandelions & Rust is a thoughtfully curated space featuring over 30 local vendors packing the store with a ...
119 West Oak Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA
FoCo Cafe
Offering a hand up, not a hand out. FoCo (Feeding Our Community Ourselves) Cafe is a non-profit lunch restaurant ...
225 Maple St, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Global Village Museum of Arts & Cultures
The Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures strives to become an internationally renowned center for the ...
200 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Keller Williams Realty – Old Town
Jennifer Kelly has been successfully selling real estate in Northern Colorado since 2006, and she continues to be in ...
401 Linden Street #1-105, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Locust Cider
Locust Cider is a hard cider taproom located just off College Avenue on Walnut Street in the heart of Old Town Fort ...
200 Walnut St., Suite A, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Mugs Old Town
Community Through Coffee Located in the heart of Old Town Fort Collins, Mugs Old Town opened in 2003 in the Historic ...
261 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Museum of Art | Fort Collins
MoAFC is a nationally recognized leader inspiring others to experience the world differently through arts and ...
201 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Otter Shop
At Otter Products, we grow to give. From our founder’s garage in 1998 to the global technology leader we are today, ...
151 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Peacock’s Perch
An eclectic market that offer’s unique & varied styles, of upcycled furniture, décor, collectibles, clothing, ...
162 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Petrichor Collective
Petrichor collective is a comfortable, open-minded space for our team of creatives to collaborate on projects and ...
252 Linden Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Pinot’s Palette Paint and Sip Studio
PAINT. DRINK. HAVE FUN. Come to Pinot’s Palette for great fun, friends and fine art! Enjoy an evening of ...
159 West Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins, CO, USA
The Bread Chic
We are a Fort Collins based bakery, bringing you top-notch Artisan baked goods to share with your family and friends. ...
130 West Olive Street, Unit B, Fort Collins, CO, USA
The Forge Publick House
Set in the old blacksmith's shop, The Forge is a cozy craft beer bar that features 17 rotating taps and a wood burning ...
225 Old Firehouse Alley, Fort Collins, CO, USA
The Merchant Room at Walnut Creek
The Merchant Room upstairs is the perfect spot to host events in a lovely Americana inspired space or venture downstairs...
222 Walnut Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Trimble Court Artisans
Trimble Court Artisans is a coop where over 50 Colorado artists sell art and fine craft of the highest quality. ...
118 Trimble Court, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House
Wolverine Farm Publishing is a 501(c)3 non-profit literary and arts organization based in Fort Collins, ...
316 Willow Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA


Alpine Arts
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


America Building


Bas Bleu Theatre Company
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Bloom Floral Boutique
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


CopperMuse Distillery
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Dandelions & Rust


FoCo Cafe
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Global Village Museum of Arts & Cultures
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Keller Williams Realty – Old Town


Locust Cider
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Mugs Old Town
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Museum of Art | Fort Collins
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Otter Shop
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Peacock’s Perch
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Petrichor Collective


Pinot’s Palette Paint and Sip Studio
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


The Bread Chic


The Forge Publick House


The Merchant Room at Walnut Creek


Trimble Court Artisans
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards


Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House
Accepts Downtown Gift Cards