Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk

Alpine Arts – The Colorado Showcase

Featuring Marc Moore

Alpine Arts- The Colorado showcase is pleased to promote local photographer, Marc Moore, for December Art Walk! Marc has been a Colorado landscape and wildlife photographer for 50 years! His wife is a retired local school teacher. Marc personally signs every photograph and each is developed in a dark room on the highest quality photo-stock paper.  We’re pleased to offer 20% OFF all of Marc’s photography, both framed and unframed, 4 – 9 pm December 2

Bas Bleu Theatre

Featuring Mykel Brawley

This December, Bas Bleu will feature the works of local artist Mykel Brawley. Her work will be featured in Gallery Bleu during Bas Bleu Theatres’ new show “Beyond Therapy”, a comedy based in New York City in the height of the 80’s.  Brawleys paintings are abstract forms that invoke the fun, abstract, and comedic nature of the play.  During First Friday, the Gallery will be open with a “Pay What you Can Preview” Performance of ‘Beyond Therapy” beginning at 7:30PM.  More information can be found at basbleu.org

Bloom Floral Boutique

Featuring Whitney Davis

My name is Whitney Davis. I’m mainly a collage artist but I tend to do a lot of sewing projects as well. My style involves a lot of flower crowns and mystical creatures. I love creating new worlds with the art I make. I grew up in the Midwest and moved to Fort Collins in 2012 by accident. I was supposed to be moving to Oregon and stopped in Fort Collins for the night and here I am still. Today, I run Foco Free Art Friday where we put on free art scavenger hunts in old town every Friday in order to contribute to the belief that art is for everyone regardless of how much money you have, your background, or knowledge of art.

CopperMuse Distillery

Featuring Ceara Tellez

“My work is a result of my desire to find a place of belonging. Beyond the question of why, I more often than not ask myself, what is it that makes life worth living? For now, the answer to that question centers around discovering and connecting with the delicate, the temporal, the ephemeral. I am in search of moments of pause. My intent is to make visible the overlooked and the long forgotten moments I wouldn’t bother to commit to memory had it not been for my journal or Pentax.

My current interdisciplinary practice involves working from analog processes. As the digital age continues to develop, I find more often a need to be involved in the physical process of creation. This way, procuring an image becomes intentional and purposeful. It is a way to slow down and contemplate my actions. Intersections between painting, drawing, printmaking, and film photography influence the palette and compositions of each piece.”

As always, we’ll be offering 10% off a guest’s tab if they mention they’re there to see her work during First Friday.

Dandelions & Rust

Featuring Make Your Own Earrings Bar with Sarah Yoder from SKY Designs.

Join us this Friday for Make Your Own Earrings Bar at Dandelions & Rust with the one and only Sarah Yoder from SKY Designs.

We will have all the materials as well as the expertise of Sarah from 5-8pm. A great way to make that special someone a gift or make a pair of earrings just for you!

$18 or $30 for two.

Driver 8 Records

Featuring Aaron LaVanchy

Aaron LaVanchy enjoys exploring & capturing the dirt roads, trails, rivers and high peaks of the American West.

EsScentuals

Featuring Caterina Giglio

Enter our 142bis gallerie at EsScentuals by descending the candle illuminated exterior marble staircase. Follow the light and follow your nose to be greeted by our featured artist Caterina Giglio. 

“Distant Memories”

Frida Azul

Featuring Jocelyn Villega

Jocelyn Villegas is a Mexican American illustrator raised in Cibolo, Texas. Previously, she worked as the Teen Council Lead Artist for Artpace in San Antonio, Texas. She now lives and works in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was recently published in the Summer 2021 Celebrating Art Anthology. The anthology brings together the best student artists in the United States through national publication.

Gilded Goat Brewing Company | DOwntown taproom

Featuring Molly Moonchild, Allison Harvey with Pieces of Childhood, Chelsea Ermer, Ashley Sullivan

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 December First Friday Art Walk to feast your eyes upon spectacular art sip the finest craft brews, and nibble on the softest of pretzels. 

Guest Artists

Molly Moonchild // Just a weird gal making weird art for other weird people.

Allison Harvey with Pieces of Childhood // I love anything that is unique and makes a statement. I get asked often about where I get my earrings or planters so I decided to give this crafting thing a try and spread the love of creepy fun toys being used in art.

Chelsea Ermer // My work spans many different mediums from pen and ink, to gouche, to digital and Procreate art. Recently my work has been focused upon creating bookmarks for a variety of books. I love creating beautiful things in whatever medium I can get my hands on.

Ashley Sullivan // Much of my artwork is created from sketches that I then transform into hand-cut stencils.  I fell in love with spray painting and repurposing material. I love to make artwork that is detailed yet bright and vibrant.

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

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on December 2nd!

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Featuring Textiles: Exploring Boundaries

In the Museum’s Main Gallery, Textiles:  Exploring Boundaries examines our assumptions and perceptions about what constitutes a textile.  The Museum is located at 200 West Mountain Avenue, and Museum hours are 11 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Saturday.  For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970-221-4600.

Golden Poppy Herbal Apothecary

Featuring Bethany Economos, Maddison Barnett, Brenna Aldrich, Rob Alexander, Kris Raymond, Hannah Simmonds, Valerie Doebley 

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 The Poppy Seed, a space that the Golden Poppy uses to host various events and teach classes. Enter through the yellow door and wander upstairs to find all the incredible Artists.

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

Incredible pie provided by Renee the Baker! Cottage Food producer baking fruit pies in the Fort Collins, CO area. Utilizing local grains and local fruits.

Guest Artists

Bethany Economos, Maddison Barnett, Brenna Aldrich, Rob Alexander, Kris Raymond, Hannah Simmonds, Valerie Doebley 

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

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on December 2nd!

Locust Cider

Featuring Mike McPuff

Mike McPuff is a Fort Collins based artist who focuses on creating paintings and murals, with vibrant colors, and strange symbolism.

Mugs Old Town

Featuring Madeline Bechtel and music by Virgil Vigil

Madeline Bechtel, owner of MCCB Design is a graphic designer and illustration artist located in Fort Collins, CO. With a focus on color psychology, texture, and harmony; MCCB aims to take people to a more peaceful and comfortable place through their artwork. Current work includes freelance illustration and branding services through MCCB Design and graphic design for The City of Fort Collins.

Virgil Vigil will be playing music, a band local to Fort Collins, bringing great music to Mugs Old Town the night of December 2nd

Museum of Art

Featuring Picasso as Printmaker: A Collector’s Perspective, The Baller Art Collection

October 28-February 5, 2023

Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. He is revered artistically as his work led the way in many of the movements and developments in 20th century art even as his abusive and troubled relationships with women are currently being reexamined. In a career that spanned over 70 years, Picasso was incredibly prolific in painting and drawing as well as sculpture, printmaker, ceramics and stage design, creating over 50,000 artworks in his lifetime including up to 2500 prints, more than half of which were made in the last 15 years of his life.

The Picasso as Printmaker exhibition explores the printmaking element of Picasso’s creativity through the lens of the collection of Dr. Robert Baller (Hudson, IL). Picasso had a love affair with paper throughout his career, treating it as a material to be manipulated through collage, sculpture, drawing, photography and printmaking. Though not formally trained in printmaking, Picasso nevertheless worked with the most reputable printmakers in the world and collaborated with them to realize his artistic vision on paper, often pushing the boundaries of the print medium.

Peacock’s Perch

Featuring Farrell Brown

Farrell has loved all forms of art and mixed media. She has worked with pottery, aluminum, and copper over the last 20 years and has uniquely developed that in some of her mixed media paintings. She has been working with recycled glass, sea glass, mirror, and resin for approximately 7 years. She has developed a unique 3D effect on her paintings. “I love glass and the way light reflects off it and it sparkles.” She loves painting with pallet knives and has become very fond of impasto painting.

Petrichor Collective

Building a community of Artists is Petrichor Collective’s #1 goal!

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

Continuing to have Artists in 3 incredible locations all located walking distance to each other in beautiful Downtown Fort Collins!

Golden Poppy Herbal Apothecary

Classes and Events Space

223 N COLLEGE AVE

FORT COLLINS, CO 80524

Gilded Goat Downtown Taproom

132 W. MOUNTAIN ST

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO 80524

Walnut Creek

The Stone Room

The Merchant Room

222 WALNUT ST

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO 80524

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

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on December 2nd!

Pinot’s Palette

Featuring Trinity Richardson

We are featuring our own artist Trinity Richardson who is doing her CSU gallery project. She describes her gallery as: “Nature Photographs” This series is about how the personalities of people can be seen by looking at their personal spaces. You can learn a lot about a person by viewing the place they spend the most time in.

Trimble Court Artisans

Featuring ornaments

For December Trimble Court Artisans has a festive display of locally crafted ornaments from our member-artists. You’ll find a beautiful selection to choose from, front and center when you walk in. Your favorite new ornament is just waiting to be found.

Walnut Creek | The Stone Room & The Merchant ROom

Featuring Lindsay Barker, Julie Meza, Nathan Rose, Mila Solod, Joey Arebalos, Taylor Pearson, Miriam Delgado, Paula Harrison, Dana Musgrave, Nova Wesa, Sarah Sonnenfeld, Lizzy Sarnes, Erin Parrot, Cosmic Heart Arts, Julie Hoponick, Kim Nigro, Madison Barnett, Ish Heredia,  Xavier Pereira,  Morgan Tanukis, John Butler, Eli Crocker, Linda Roth, Scott Lenaway and music by Jesse Schlicker 

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 First Friday Art Walk to feast your eyes upon spectacular art, soothe your senses with an incredible live musical artist, try two new spectacular non-alcoholic cocktails, magnify your sense of taste on some out of this world food provided by the one and only Ingrid Martini. (https://www.ingridmartini.com/)

Musical Artist

Jesse Schlicker // There were many forms of art in the Schlicker household but none as ever-present as music. His father’s Les Paul singing through the pine trees, leading Jesse’s adventurous spirit to express itself freely, unabashed. 

Guest Artists
Lindsay Barker, Julie Meza, Nathan Rose, Mila Solod, Joey Arebalos, Taylor Pearson, Miriam Delgado, Paula Harrison, Dana Musgrave, Nova Wesa, Sarah Sonnenfeld, Lizzy Sarnes, Erin Parrot, Cosmic Heart Arts, Julie Hoponick, Kim Nigro, Madison Barnett, Ish Heredia,  Xavier Pereira,  Morgan Tanukis, John Butler, Eli Crocker, Linda Roth, Scott Lenaway 

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

From the Artists, for the Collective. – See you on December 2nd!

Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House

Featuring Travis Varra

Feigned Interest…
Follow the hyper fixations of stippling, paper marbling, lino prints, animal print, watercolor, photography, fan art, and fine line ink work. A large collection of works made over the past year.