(Above: Metempsychosis Wallpaper by Anna Fidler, on display at the One Wall Gallery0

Edited by Randi Bjornstad

Here’s a list of what’s happening during the First Friday ArtWalk on Feb. 6 in downtown Eugene. Unless noted otherwise in the following list, venues will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

(Note: Free LTD bus passes are available to get to and from the ArtWalk that day online at lanearts.org)

Allies, LLC (200 E. 11th Ave,. Suite 130) — All-original artworks created by member artists; proceeds from sales benefit the Allies Art Fund.

Art with Alejandro (5th Street Market Alley, Suite 104) — Featuring Abbas Darabi’s oil paintings of nature in post-Impressionist style.

Bree’s Way Gift Shop (1231 Alder St.) — Creations in jewelry, watercolor, woodworking, and woodburning by self-taught artist Ernie Ledbetter.

City Exhibitions

  • City Hall Gallery (500 E. 4th Ave.) — Bloodlines: A Personal Journey Through Art, Memory, and Heritage by Yvonne Stubbs. Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; ends Feb. 6.
  • Mayor’s Art Show (Concourse Level 1, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, 7th and Willamette streets) — Annual Mayor’s Art Show showcases curated work by local artists, highlighting diverse perspectives, backgrounds and disciplines; on display in three pop-up annex galleries in the lobby, lower level, andu pper balcony of the Maurie Jacobs Community Room in the Hult Center.

Cultural Currents

Hult Center Plaza (6th and Willamette streets) — Featuring A’ppealing and Leaf Dance, two steel and reclaimed materials sculptures by artist Jenny Ellsworth, transforming discarded metal into works of art.

City of Eugene: Urban Canvas Murals

  • WJ Dog Park (between 5th and 6th avenues near Washington St.) — Jump to the Moon, murals by Esteban Camacho Steffensen, celebrating dog-and-human relationships.
  • 941 Willamette Alley — Radically Radiant by Wayde Love

Downtown Athletic Club (999 Willamette St.) — Live music in the lobby by members of the Eugene Symphony; wine, beer, and sodas available for purchase.

Ebb & Flow Boutique (946 Willamette St.) — Featuring Alien Fairy’s traditional  traditional sketches turned into digital art pieces.

Creation by Natalia Moreno Barragá for the Eugene Public Library’s “Love Your Library Design Contest”

Eugene Library (100 W. 10th Ave., second floor) — Exhibit of entries by local artists of all ages, submitted in 2025 for the Eugene Public Library Foundation’s Love Your Library Design Contest. Opening reception 4-6 p.m. on Feb. 6 during the First Friday ArtWalk. p.m. on Feb.The artwork is exhibited on the second floor. Artwork on display during regular library hours through February.

FUSE Jewelry Collective (112 E. 13th Ave.) — Featuring bright, bold contemporary jewelry by FUSE instructor Jamie Meyer as well as other local jewelry designers.

Flux Crystals (280 W. Broadway) — Anna Bousquet’s The Feminine Mysteries, featuring watercolor paintings exploring the feminine mysteries and the “primordial power of the goddess.”

Karin Clarke Gallery (760 Willamette St.) — The Resale Show, an occasional curated exhibit and sale of artworks currently in private collections, continuing through March 14, 2026, and open during First Friday Artwalks from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 6 and March 6, offering a wide selection of small- to grand-scale works including paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and mixed-media pieces by more than 25 different artists and often out of public view for many years.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts, aka MECCA (555 High St.) — Featuring The Museum of Techno Art’s Exostoria Mechanica: Lost Fragments, including work by artists Robert Bolman, Alan Ott, Steve La Riccia, Barbora Bakalarova, Joe Mross, and Max Rink. Dating to the 1880s, Exostoria Mechanica examines mechanical artifacts of uncertain origin and function, based on examination of devices, illustrations, and relics whose unresolved purpose often reveal incomplete, conflicting, and arcane histories and often misplaced or concealed for long periods of time. Opening reception at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 6.

Midtown Arts Center (174 E. 16th Ave.) — Street Scenes: Two Perspectives, featuring work by Eugene photographers Richard Hassett and Doremus Scudder, working with different techniques and approaches (color vs. black and white, digital vs. analog) but with common ground in the subject matter offered by the urban landscape. Opening reception, including hors d’oeuvres and libations, with the photographers from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. during the Feb. 6 ArtWalk.

Museum of Techno Art (28 E. Broadway) — 2026 Salon des Refusés, featuring art refused from the Eugene’s Mayor’s Art Show, in a popular part of the Eugene art scene since 1991. Sponsored this year by City of EugeneCultural Services and ending Feb. 7 with a closing reception during February’s First Friday ArtWalk.

Cello People by Robert Fulton, at The New Zone Gallery

The New Zone Gallery (110 E. 11th Ave.) — In addition to the eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional art created by New Zone members, there will be three special exhibits during the month of February:

  • Past and Present; Starting and stopping my career as a painter by Robert Fulton, a collection of oil paintings on canvas.
  •  Art made from recycled and found objects by Steve Mast, featuring recycled metal creations.
  • Moving pARTS by Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) in the Klausmeier Room, showcasing the work of SAQA Oregon members, taking the challenge to create fabric art that “moves.”

One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E. 11th Ave.) — Featuring The Thread from Your Head is Connected to the Sun by Anna Fidler, each painting acting as a kind of energetic snapshot, whether an abstraction of memory, emotion, or sensation, to a particular day or place. Also continuing is the exhibition of Sun and Rain, Again, work by Justine Johnson.

Our 21st Century Renaissance, akaR21 (1245 Pearl St.) — Featuring Robert Bolman’s free-standing sculpture Tower of Unwarranted Optimism as the centerpiece of the show, capturing in its construction the exuberance of technological civilization, but at the same time the concept that our current “economic growth at all costs” is unsustainable in the long term. Also on display, an in-progress collaboration between Bolman and Glenn Smith, “L’Amour Industriel 2026,” featuring a new, non-kinetic armature.

Play (232 W. 5th Ave.) — Features Todd Walberg’s acrylic paintings on panels and canvas, often focusing on portraits inspired by caricatures and landscapes by old cartoon backgrounds.

Starlight Lounge (830 Olive St.) — Paintings and prints by Cassie Genc, ranging from 2019-2024.

Window Activation (806 Charnelton St.) — Julie Anderson Bailey’s Origins, three separate installations that can be viewed anytime, day or night, through the large windows.

About Lane Arts Council

Founded in 1976 as the centralized arts agency serving the Lane County region, Lane Arts Council is a multi-faceted, nonprofit arts organization providing arts education, arts advocacy, artist support, and community arts programs and services.