Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk

Alpine Arts – The Colorado Showcase

Featuring Clint Eccher

Alpine Arts is proud to promote local artist Clint Eccher for Friday’s August Art Walk! Clint has been featured in our store for years, he’s a great guy and a phenomenal artist! He developed a new type of painting called tiered painting. We’re grateful he fits into our local theme, doing landscapes, microbrews, antique bicycles and more. Come on in and check out his prints which are only $39.98!

Bonfire Effect

Featuring Zeke Derderian

Bonfire Effect is excited to host our first Art Walk: Tattoos, Taxidermy, and Old Medicine, with sculptures by Zeke Derderian, @oldmedicinesupply. Based in Laporte, Zeke intricately assembles metal sculptures inspired by the natural world and his own spiritual seeking. His creations, infused with recycled and discarded objects, have been featured in Old Town Square and Vie Et Mort, @vieetmortapothecary a local shop who will also showcase their collection of macabre oddities and taxidermy art. Come take it all in along with custom printed temporary tattoos and tasty mocktails to keep you alive.

CopperMuse Distillery

Featuring Su Wang

II moved to Fort Collins 5 years ago, Colorado made me fall in love again.  My arts are traditional Chinese painting, so I can do all “finish work” by my hand to make the art look like a finished product,  because Chinese painting uses special paper which is very soft and thin. Chinese painting has a long history.  As far back as the Warring States Period more than 2,000 year ago.  Chinese painting mainly presents three techniques – realism (depicting things or real objects as they are), freehand brushwork (not seeking the exactness of the appearance, but focusing on the inner spiritual essence), and fine brushwork (the neatness and meticulousness).

As always, we’ll be offering 10% off during First Friday if you mention you’re here to see her work.

Dandelions & Rust

Featuring Nicole Galluccio

Nicole Galluccio is a mixed media visual artist, originally from New Jersey, who began creating her style in South Florida after earning her BFA from Florida Atlantic University in 1998. In 2021, the artist became a part time resident of Windsor, CO, and began discovering all that the local art community has to offer. Surrounded by the spectacular natural environment, she was inspired by the local landscape and began researching Colorado native flora and fauna to incorporate into new works.
Nicole Galluccio’s mixed media paintings began by juxtaposing bright beautiful florals atop a stark black and white paper background, to demonstrate depth and opposition both visually and emotionally.
Evolving into more emphasis on color theory, she works with a vast color palette and explores the idea of color and its effects on emotion. Her work intends to stimulate happiness and positive emotional response. Oftentimes she explores nostalgic and whimsical themes to engage her audience.

Driver 8 Records

Featuring Vincent Cheap and Kate Galloway

Vincent Cheap is a painter, filmmaker and musician from Fort Collins, Colorado. His art has appeared on album covers for bands like Ol Hickory and Charly Fasano’s multimedia release with Lucero called Retrospected, among others. His paintings have adorned the walls of Bitfactory Gallery, Cabal Gallery and an array of businesses throughout Denver. The abstract soundscapes produced by his band Malamadre, Still Birth of Cool and his solo performances continue to complement multimedia poetry and short film projects produced by his twin brother and lifetime collaborator Charly “the city mouse” Fasano.

Kate Galloway is a local medical, scientific illustrator and fine artist trained at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is deeply moved by the beauty she sees in nature and how those patterns repeat inside the human body. She uses the unpredictable, organic qualities of watercolor to give life to her work.

EsScentuals

Featuring Caterina Giglio

Birds of a Feather  

This collection of mixed media and slow stitch pieces began in 2018, as I was looking for a way to illustrate a sense of community and commonality. I chose birds as my subject to represent the harmony that exists and the commonality that we all share. They are layered, painted, collaged and stitched in a highly textured manner to evoke the changes that life brings our way. It was my intention to bridge gaps and gulfs between us and highlight the threads that weave our lives together.

The pieces in this collection were published in 2018 in the Stampington magazine, Somerset Studio.

Caterina is a mixed media artist, currently concentrating on mixed media paintings and book making, and art journaling. Cat as she is called, began her art career in fine art acrylic painting and creating large colored pencil drawings. Mixing media changed her outlook, approach and art life.

FoCo Cafe

Featuring Emily Maureen Illustration

FoCo Cafe featuring Emily Maureen Illustration. Emily’s work focuses on combining whimsy and watercolor to create fantastical portraits of women in a variety of natural environments, aka her Wild Women series. She has been drawing and painting her whole life. Emily has a BA in Fine Arts with a Graphic Design concentration. Currently she does freelance art. In her free time she loves traveling, spending time in nature, and reading, all of which contribute to my art.

On Friday, August 5th, Emily will be joining us for First Friday Art Walk with additional art to purchase. We invite the community to join us for Coffee and Cookies in a relaxing atmosphere. Come bring some friends, have a chat, and enjoy some beautiful art.

Frida Azul

Featuring Alma’s Silver

Frida Azul is excited to host as our special guest Alma’s Silver. Alma is a local small business owner that offers beautiful silver jewelry crafted by Mexican artisans in Taxco, Guerrero. Taxco is known as the silver mining region of México. There will also be vendors and live music in the Oak Street Mall.

Gilded Goat Brewing Company | DOwntown taproom

Featuring Brenna Aldrich, Brooke McGibben, John Butler, Nathan Rose, Lisa Jones, Morgan Lindquist and music by Jesse Schlicker

If anything can be expected from Gilded Goat Brewing and their people, it’s brewing great beer to a delicious science; and turning a space into a beautifully crafted home. A home for good people – a home for community – and now a home for artists and art!

Come visit us during this August 5th Downtown Art Walk to feast your eyes upon spectacular art, soothe your senses with an incredible live musician, sip the finest craft brews, and nibble on the softest of pretzels.

Musical Artist:

Jesse Schlicker – Jesse grew up exploring the abundance of life that surrounded him. His father’s Les Paul singing through the pine trees, leading Jesse’s adventurous spirit to express itself freely, unabashed. He carries this passion, fostered by those that love him, guiding his inner self wherever he goes.

Guest Artists:

Brenna Aldrich, Brooke McGibben, John Butler, Nathan Rose, Lisa Jones, Morgan Lindquist

Hosted by Petrichor Collective. Visit – www.petrichorcollective.art/first-friday-august-2022  to learn more about the event and don’t miss out on a unique art experience brought to you by 30+ of FoCo’s best artists!

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on August 5th!

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Featuring live music Fort Collins Marimba and Fale

Fort Collins Marimba and Fale, the African Drum & Dance Collective of Fort Collins, will perform outside from 5:30-7 pm, weather permitting.  In addition to performing, Fort Collins Marimba is a teaching studio for students of all ages to learn and play Zimbabwean-influenced music on African marimbas. For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970-221-4600.

Golden Poppy Herbal Apothecary

Featuring MCCB , Brita LaTona, Molly Moonchild, Ali Rose,  Lorene Martinez of Inception Flow, Vaughn Rose

Not only is Golden Poppy Herbal Apothecary a fresh Art Walk location — it is the perfect place to stock your pantry full of fresh herbs and other organic local goods. Located in a historic building across College Ave. from the Exchange Rising above our town, you will find a beautiful and charming space that the Golden Poppy uses to host various events and teach classes.

Treat yourself, and your friends, to a night of unique art, food, mocktails, herbal whiffs, flower sniffs, and more. Don’t miss Petrichor Collectives newest location added to the must see downtown destinations for everything ART!

Hosted by Petrichor Collective. Visit – www.petrichorcollective.art/first-friday-august-2022  to learn more about the event and don’t miss out on a unique art experience brought to you by 30+ of FoCo’s best artists!

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on August 5th!

Keller Williams Realty – Old Town

Featuring Sarah Mays

Sarah Mays is a professional fine artist, creative educator and writer working from her studio in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her collages and paintings emphasize colorful, imperfect layers, symbolic of the human experience. She gives profuse attention to the organic process of creating, exploring any medium for the sake of creative abundance. Over time, she develops rich, colorful layers – full of history, revealing distinct work that acknowledges the beauty of imperfection. She believes the process of creating art brings mental peace and offers her a place to meditate on life’s immense beauty and difficult complexity.

Locust Cider

Featuring Hillary Salvaggione

Hillary Salvaggione is a wife to her dream come true & mother to four children. She enjoys a slow morning, a heavily frothed cup of coffee, warm chocolate chip cookies, art in many forms, and people & places that feel like home.
Love, Alice illustrations are thoughtfully detailed, delightfully whimsical, and full of character.

Museum of Art

Featuring A Culture Preserved in The Black Experience curated by Louise Cutler

This exhibition presents the artwork of ten influential Black American artists from across the country. Each with a very distinctly different yet culturally relevant message. Each artist brings their own unique flavor to the exhibition’s narrative with a mixture of painting, drawing and sculpture. Louise Cutler curated the show for the Museum of Art Fort Collins
A Culture Preserved in the Black Experience addresses how Black culture and its heritage reflect and shape values, beliefs, and aspirations, which define a people’s identity. By bringing together the past and the present, the old meets the new in the black artistic world. It is important for Black people to preserve and share their cultural heritage through the arts, as it keeps and holds their truths as a people. This exhibition presents and preserves the Black visual artist narrative. The exhibition explores how Black people relate and fit within the American dream where they have had to reshape and reformulate their identities.

Otter Shop

Featuring Derek Satchell

I grew up in Loveland, Colorado after moving from California with my family when I was 6. I moved to LA for a short stint in 2016 to work in the video game industry, but the mountains couldn’t keep me away for long! I moved back a year later and achieved my degree in Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing from FRCC in 2020. I started working at Otter in 2021 I’ve been having a blast!

I began drawing when I was very young when I began copying my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I discovered the luxury of the internet when I was 12 years old and started drawing on a collaborative canvas with people all around the world. I’ve been drawing ever since and developing my skills as an artist. When I’m not drawing you can catch me playing games with my friends, riding my Vespa or buying peanuts for my very demanding parrot! I appreciate this opportunity to share and thank you so much for taking the time to look at my work.

Save 10% off store wide at Otter Shop during Art Walk!

Pinot’s Palette

Featuring August Kid’s Summer Camp

We will be featuring our August Kid’s Summer Camp Info booth this First Friday. Also, we will be doing a $10 Painting Sale that will go along with $5 wine flights.

Trimble Court Artisans

Featuring Lisa Wilson

Colorful Curiosities by Lisa Wilson, is our featured show for August. Lisa is a metals artist based in Fort Collins. She enjoys working in a variety of traditional metalsmithing techniques and combining them with modern processes. Colorful Curiosities is a collection of one-of-a-kind artworks inspired by the joy we so often find in nature’s smaller treasures. Each finished piece highlights one of these: aluminum, brass or copper, and acrylic paint on wood panel. New designs are digitally drafted and laser-cut before being hand hammered, colorfully painted and riveted together into unique original works.

Walnut Creek | The Stone Room & The Merchant ROom

Featuring Lizzy Sarnes Art, Erin Joy Art,  Ashley Sullivan, Macey Boren, Cosmic Heart Arts,  Rayne’s Things, Sarah Sonnenfeld, Amanda Bushere Designs (https://www.instagram.com/amandabusheredesigns/) , Allison Harvey, Gluten Free Pottery, Linda Roth, Scott Lenaway and music by Josh Sun Hill

This hidden-in-plain-sight gem exists at the intersection of this century and the last. Originally the town hardware store (twice), Walnut Creek now brings together creativity and novelty in a tucked away place.

Come visit us during this August 5th Downtown Art Walk to feast your eyes upon spectacular art, soothe your senses with an incredible live musical artist, try two new spectacular mocktails, magnify your sense of taste on some out of this world food provided by the one and only Ingrid Martini, YES, IT IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!

The Merchant Room– Find yourself in another world through the store, up the stairs, and into a truly perfect place to come together over art!

The Stone Room – Exciting and unique venue open once again for creatives of all types to explore connection. This 100 year old building is beautiful around every corner, and in every nook and cranny, available to rent for your next special event!

Musical artist:

Josh Sun Hill

Guest Artists:
Lizzy Sarnes Art, Erin Joy Art,  Ashley Sullivan, Macey Boren, Cosmic Heart Arts,  Rayne’s Things, Sarah Sonnenfeld, Amanda Bushere Designs (https://www.instagram.com/amandabusheredesigns/) , Allison Harvey, Gluten Free Pottery, Linda Roth, Scott Lenaway

Hosted by Petrichor Collective. Visit – www.petrichorcollective.art/first-friday-august-2022  to learn more about the event and don’t miss out on a unique art experience brought to you by 30+ of FoCo’s best artists!

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on August 5th!

Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House

Featuring Year of the River exhibit

Join us at the Publick House for the final month of our sculptural river art exhibit that spans the outside of our property. This month we feature a River Poster Art Exhibit on our upstairs gallery wall, featuring a handful of local artists. Swing by, vote for your favorite poster, experience the Poudre River in an art walk of creative interpretation, and enjoy live music.