Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk

Alpine Arts – The Colorado Showcase

Featuring Melissa Beckwith

Alpine Arts- The Colorado Showcase  is excited to present a brand new artist we’re permanently carrying in our store, Melissa Beckwith! Her simple vibrant original watercolors reflect her love of Colorado. Melissa is a one woman show who paints, reproduces, & personally ships her product all from her home in Lafayette, Colorado. Melissa’s prints, both matted and unmatted, and her greeting cards will be promoted at September Art Walk for 20% off!

Bas Bleu Theatre

Featuring Genanne Zeller and Amelia Caruso

This month, Gallery Bleu features two artists who see the mystical part of life through color, shape, and texture.

Genanne Zeller is an Artist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her work explores the grief and loss that happens when a family member dies.  Her work also has an ‘otherworldly’ presence with lost imagery and abstract shapes.

Amelia Caruso is a Fort Collins Artist who  paints organic forms in vibrant colors that creates a feast for the eyes.  She wants the viewer to be engaged in the depth of the 2 dimensional surface, to be drawn into the flow. To move through the painting, looking at the dot patterns from a new perspective.  To a space where they are actually seeing and feeling the energy and the vibration of the form and colors.

Bloom Floral Boutique

Featuring Su Wang

I 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).

CopperMuse Distillery

Featuring Su Wang

I 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 Lydia Augustine

Before arriving in Fort Collins, Lydia was a musician, Yoga, T’ai Chi, and Zumba instructor.
She was born with a fascination for color that continued into her adult years, accumulating an extensive collection of Crayola crayons long before adult coloring was in vogue. Living in Colorado inspired her to reinvent herself as a full-time artist, recognizing basic elements of design found everywhere in nature.
Lydia began with art quilts, then developed the concept of “Fabricated Canvas” using a variety of fabrics laid on canvas.
This technique has the advantage of dramatic color density in a form that is easy to display. Her favorite media is Batik, uniquely dyed fabric.
Lydia’s joy in what she does is exemplified by her favorite statement, “Earth without art is just- ‘eh’!”

Driver 8 Records

Featuring Stacie Stevenson

Stacie Stevenson was given a Polaroid camera at age 13 that sparked her obsession with photography and instant gratification. Stacie’s images capture movement–the movement of light, shapes sounds, people and the beauty in every day. Stacie’s work has been featured on album art and in music industry publications. www.the513project.com

EsScentuals

Featuring Caterina Giglio

Enter our 142bis gallerie at EsScentuals by descending the exterior marble staircase.  Be greeted by our featured artist, Caterina Giglio.

Birds of a Feather – Artist Statement

My Birds of a Feather collection celebrates the harmony and community that we all share. It was my intention to bridge gaps and gulfs and highlight the threads that weave us together. 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.

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 Maggie Daniel Photography

Maggie creates original framed photographs of a variety of subjects including botanical interests, architecture, landscapes, and the like. She also makes unique blank greeting cards using her photographs. These can be framed by the recipient so that they can keep the photo as a memento!

A little more about Maggie, she is an extrovert who loves taking photographs, writing essays and short stories, and reading great books. Always a music lover, Maggie enjoys concerts and music festivals year round. Much of her time these days is spent volunteering in the Fort Collins community where I’ve lived with my husband for nearly 30 years. She has two grown children, one severely disabled but residing in Colorado, and the other living in Texas. Maggie is interested in health and nutrition, fostering friendships, and helping others in need. She hopes her photographs inspire you to take a closer look at our amazing world, and can’t wait to share them with you!

On Friday, September 2nd, Maggie 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.

For more information about Maggie’s work, please contact her via email at: magdaniel52@gmail.com

Frida Azul

Featuring Colleen Hennessy

Join us for September First Friday Art Walk from 6-9 pm! Frida Azul is excited to host as our special guest artist, Colleen Hennessy! I met Colleen during her artist residency at the Immersive Frida Kahlo exhibit in Denver. She is a talented photographer, painter and potter and will have some of her pieces on display and for sale.

Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures

Featuring live music from Makoa Music

Makoa Music will perform from 5:30-7 pm on Friday, Sept. 2, at the Global Village Museum of Arts and Cultures.  Makoa Music is the brother-sister duo of Noa Phillips (age 17) and Makena Phillips (age 14).  Noa plays the guitar and ukulele, and Makena plays the ukulele and sings lead.  Admission to the Museum will be free from 5-8 pm.  In the Main Gallery, Visions of Rural China features folk art paintings from Huxian County from 1973 to 2000.  GUATEMALA:  Rotary in Action in the Museum’s Hall Gallery highlights community development projects by the Fort Collins Rotary Club in collaboration with Rotarians in Guatemala.  For more information, visit globalvillagemuseum.org or call 970-221-4600.

Locust Cider

Featuring Mallory Cash

Mallory Cash will be presenting her series “Hot Summer Days”, which is a collection of landscape paintings of canyon walls, depicting how they morph and dance in tune with the movement of the sun as it slinks across the sky. Conveying those long summer days with vibrant colors, you can feel the sun’s warmth radiate and brighten any space.

Mugs Old Town

Featuring Patrick Dorion and Debbie Alman

Patrick Dorion will be playing music this Friday, he’s a Fort Collins local and Mugs Old Town regular. Patrick will be playing a few of originals from his band, Dijon Mustang, and a few covers throughout the evening in an acoustic set.

Mugs is very excited, as well, to get to host Debbie Alman and her paintings for another month, her work is a fun exploration of color with different subjects on each canvas.

Museum of Art

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

During this First Friday we will be collecting video testimonials and feedback from visitors to share on our social media. We want to hear from you. Share your feelings, thoughts and inspiration about Culture Preserved with us!

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 Larz Alexander Hagen

Larz Alexander Hagen is a freelance digital and multimedia artist. He was born in 1997 in Sioux Falls, SD but spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Oregon. In 2012, Larz joined the Caldera Arts program, and throughout his youth was fortunate to receive tutoring and guidance from various art mentors. These advisors motivated Larz to explore art as a therapeutic practice. Larz began using fine art as a personal tool to explore themes of mental health disorders, poverty, trauma and abuse.

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

Peacock’s Perch

Featuring Rob & Michele Pullaro Upcycler’s of Functional Art

Rob and Michele are native Coloradoans who love Northern Colorado and everything that it has to offer. They opened Peacock’s Perch in October 2019 so that they could share their creations of Functional Art and support over 30 other artists by giving them a prime location in Downtown Fort Collins to display and sell their one-of-a-kind items.

Michele has always been an upcycler. She is always, looking at things from different points of view and imagining how she could make them “more functional”. During one of these instances, she created her first Clock-Table.

Michele designs the tables and Rob creates them. The tables can be found in customers homes throughout the United States. Several clock tables can be found in the store, and they make custom tables too!

Pinot’s Palette

Featuring custom gifts

Check out the new line of custom gifts at Pinot’s Palette! They will also have a $10 Painting Sale that will go along with $5 wine flights.

Trimble Court Artisans

Featuring Christine Ginnity

For the September featured show we have Functional Art by Christine Ginnity. An essemblage of pottery created via the kickwheel. Christine creates handmade functional art for everyday use as a reminder of the beauty that exists in the mundane activities of daily life. Work will include mugs and vases, as well as bowls and platters, that have a large surface area for beautifully decorative slip trailed designs.