First Friday ArtWalk Details for Aug. 1, 2025
An alphabetical list of participants in downtown Eugene’s First Friday Artwalk follows. Unless noted in individual listings, they will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (And don’t forget, LTD offers free bus passes to and from the art walk, available online the day of the art walk at lanearts.org
#instaballet (5th Street Market Alley, 550 Pearl St.) — 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. The audience helps create a new dance by suggesting movements for professional dancers to perform to live music by Kef. All ages welcome. No dance experience required. The final piece will be performed at 8 p.m.
Allies, LLC (200 E. 11th Ave., Suite 130) — All-original artwork created at Allies by member artists. All sales go to benefit the Allies Art Fund.
Bumble Boutique (233 W. 5th Ave.) — Featuring art by Kristy Ren includes realistic wildlife, human, and pet portraits in pastels, charcoal, colored pencils, and paint.
Hult Center Plaza (6th & Willamette streets) — Featuring A’ppealing and Leaf Dance, two steel and reclaimed materials sculptures by artist Jenny Ellsworth.
City of Eugene’s Urban Canvas Murals
- WJ Dog Park (between 5th & 6th avenues near Washington St.) – Jump to the Moon, new murals by Esteban Camacho Steffensen celebrating dog and human relationships.
- 941 Willamette Alley – Radically Radiant by Wayde Love
- 957 Willamette Alley – Nature’s Child by Mural Mice Universal
Flux Crystals (280 W. Broadway) — Heather Sterling-Minder’s current works combining real pressed flowers and original drawings to create enchanted dwellings and adornments for nature beings and spirits.
Framin’ ArtWorks (505 High St.) — Featuring immersed in the beauty of nature: Plein Air and studio work by Margaret Plumb and Nik Skoog.
FUSE Jewelry Collective (112 E. 13th Ave.) — Artist Pop-Up, a special event showcasing handcrafted and up-cycled art jewelry created by FUSE Instructor Aubrey Lee in the FUSE Showroom, a place for jewelry lovers to learn, shop, create, and connect.
High Street Tonics (267 W. 8th Ave.) — Dandelion Decay, the gently macabre artistry of Dandelion Kalandir, a self-taught painter and printmaker, using minimized color pallets and fantastical imagery, with inspiration from bones, bugs, and whatever might be lurking in yonder wood.
Karin Clarke Gallery (760 Willamette St.) — Robert Schlegel: Italian Journey, a large, solo exhibit of smaller and medium-sized works from travels of the highly collected, late Oregon artist Robert Schlegel (1947-2021). Mediums include paintings on canvas and mixed-media on paper – many from a 2006 visit to Italy – all recently framed for this special showing. Show runs through Sep 27, 2025.
Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts aka MECCA (555 High St.) — Sponsored by MECCA and The Hybrid Gallery: a selection of paintings from The Hybrid Gallery’s Broken Open Hearts Club, including works by Jenn Vincent, Gloria Udosenata, and Mikalina Kirkpatrick; Fundaminiums, a community created miniature village installation from the MECCA/Hybrid collaborative community crafternoon project; and select pieces from The Hybrid Gallery’s Creativity Cafe, a series of hands-on, low cost creative opportunities including facilitated process art and body positive figure drawing.
Moon Maiden Tattoo (275 W. 8th Ave.) — Portraits by Brent Pendlebury, inspired by vintage photographs augmented with watercolor, acrylic, gouache, ink, and colored pencil.
One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E. 11th Ave.)— I am whole, We are whole, featuring paintings on paper by Virginia Shepley and creations using found and made objects transformed with thread and cloth by Jenny Gray. Show ends Sept. 28, 2025.
Our 21st Century Renaissance (R21) (40 E. Broadway) — Barbora Bakalarova’s recent photographic work, celebrating the notion of inspiration and the gesture of grace.
Radiant Community Arts (110 E. 11th Ave., Suite C) — Love Letters to the World, an immersive exhibit displaying hundreds of letters from people expressing love to anything and anyone around the world. Read the letters, sit under the largeconstructed trees with letters hung from the branches, and write your own letter.
Resonance Building (840 Lawrence St.) — A Co-Creative Carnival of Resonance, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Not a show, not a market, but something in between—alive with collective curiosity and play, offering meaning-maker spaces, glow-up stations, and collaborative workshops to help craft illuminated alter egos ready to shine BRiGHT at the Parade & Afterparty on September 27. Cocreative Carnival begins at 7 p.m., featuring improvisational performance, storytelling and showing/selling of artwork or wares.
The New Zone Gallery (110 E. 11th Ave.) — Opening reception from 5:30 p.m.to 7:30 p.m. with silent auction, beverages from Hop Valley Brewing and wine from Sundance Wine Cellars, plus live music by Willie McEscher. In addition to the show of contemporary and traditional art created by New Zone members, there will be three special exhibits during the month of August:
- Evoking the Numinous by Corla Bertrand, hand-cut paper collages evoking a sense of awe, highlighting the mysteries of life, and illuminating the presence of the sacred.
- Wild Willy’s Zoo by Will Lotz, a presentation of miscellaneous creatures and compositions.
- Eternity Passing by Geir and Kate Jordahl, including photographs by Geir Jordahl and lumens by Kate Jordahl.
Window Activation (806 Charnelton St.) — Julie Anderson Bailey’s Origins includes three separate installations that can be viewed anytime, night or day, through the large windows.
Zest Kitchen & Bar (999 Willamette St., Suite 300) — Featuring three artists:
- Oregon-based photographer Blake Robertshaw’s dramatic landscapes from the High Desert to the Coast, influenced by encounters with humanity as a first responder and by his exploration of nature as an aviator, mariner, and hiker;
- Chris Pontrelli’s acrylic paintings portraying the colorful rhythms of entertainment, libations, and nightlife;
- Laura Illig’s colorful, and multi-layered abstract paintings and collages exploring beauty, whimsy, and joy.
Founded in 1976, the nonprofit Lane Arts Council serves the Lane County region, providing arts education, arts advocacy, artist support, and community arts programs and services.
