(Above: Cindy Ingram’s NoDogsLand, on display at Art With Alejandro in the 5th Street Public Alley)

Edited by Randi Bjornstad

Downtown Eugene’s First Friday ArtWalk happens on March 7, when many downtown galleries and other arts-related venues, shops, and eateries will stay open later than usual. Unless noted otherwise in the list that follows, ArtWalk locations will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Those who need transportation to and from downtown to attend the ArtWalk can go online on the day of the event to lanearts.org/first-friday-artwalk/ to download an app and receive a code for a free Lane Transit District bus pass to and from the event.

Maps of the participating locations are available at the Farmers Market Pavilion at 85 E. Eighth Ave., on the downtown park blocks.

First Friday ArtWalk participants for March 2025

Allies, LLC (200 E. 11th Ave., Suite 130) — Original artworks created by member artists. Proceeds from works sold benefit the Allies Art Fund.

Art with Alejandro (5th St Market Alley, 550 Pearl St., Suite 104) — Boldly colorful abstracts by Cindy Ingram, plus new creations by Alejandro and Paisley Mae.

Painting by K.M., age 8, student at WheelHaus Arts

Broadway Commerce Center (44 W. Broadway) — Eclectic and colorful mix of paintings by teacher David Placencia and his students at WheelHaus Arts. Reception at 6:30 p.m.

Bumble Boutique (233 W. 5th Ave.) — Featuring award-winning Pacific Northwest-based artist Shirley Kay’s large-scale wildlife and domestic animal paintings, using a monochromatic palette with acrylics and oils on canvas.

Contemporary Indigenous Art Gallery (Hult Center for the Performing Arts, One Eugene Center) — Ka’ila Farrell-Smith’s retrospective exhibition, G’EE’LA: Land and Creation, in honor of Alfred Leo Smith (1919-2014), affirming importance in contemporary art of Native and Indigenous artists.

Art by Vanessa Woods showing at EMERGE

EMERGE (99 W. 10th Ave., south windows) — Vanessa Woods Paintings, acrylic paintings incorporating gold leaf and other mixed media that center around family, music, dance, nature and history.

Farmers Market Pavilion (85 E. Eighth Ave.) — Woman Working in the Field, a collaboration of art by Hampton Rodriguez and Sofia Carpenter-Rodriguez, blending visual representation with sociological insights to highlight the vital role of migrant workers.

Hult Center Plaza Sixth Ave. — A’ppealing and Leaf Dance, two steel and reclaimed materials sculptures by artist Jenny Ellsworth that transform discarded metal into pieces with unique stories.

Urban Canvas Murals — The City of Eugene’s local mural program presents:

  • 941 Willamette St. Alley — Wayde Love’s newly completed mural, Radically Radiant.
  • 957 Willamette St. Alley — Nature’s Child by Mural Mice Universal.

Eugene Printmakers (at ArtCity, 160 E. Broadway, downstairs from J.Michael’s Books) — Spring-themed linocuts done on various presses.

Farmers Market Pavilion (85 E. Eighth Ave.) — Creation of a brand new dance by Instaballet, incorporating suggestions from the audience for movements to include in the choreography, in partnership with the Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble (EDME), starting at  5:30 p.m. with performance of the resulting dance at 8 p.m. Also at the Pavilion, The Arc of Lane County’s and MuseArt’s Sensory Zone, with people creating their own art using inspiration from the environment.

Flux Crystals (280 W. Broadway) — Work by interdisciplinary artist Anna Lee, channeling her visions often relating to connections between birth, death, and the divine feminine.

Framin’ ArtWorks (505 High St.) — Clothesline Show featuring work by about 20 Students of Walt O’Brien, using platinum/palladium mediums. Reception from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 7. Show continues through March 28.

Karin Clarke Gallery (760 Willamette St.) — Selected paintings from the estate of the late artist Mark Clarke, plus three new sculptures by guest artist Jud Turner. Exhibition runs through March 29.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts, aka MECCA (555 High St.) — Exhibit by the Museum of Techno Art (MTA) through March, featuring work by artists Joe Mross, Barbora Bakalarova, Jud Turner, Renee Mahni, Steve La Riccia, Max Rink, and Rob Bolman, blending art with technology and reflecting the hisstory of human invention and “retrofuturism,” imagining the fusion of past and future machines. Artist reception at 5:30 p.m.

Modern Betty Salon (132 E. Broadway, Suite 102) — Featuring work by Shannon Carleen Knight, a multi-disciplinary artist with a passion for painting, incorporating photography densely layered with acrylic paint, paper collage, bold saturated colors, and high contrast images and 28 years’ experience with painting as well as working as a photographer for Vintage Underground, a local car restoration company.

Our 21st Century Renaissance (132 E. Broadway, Suite 212) — Featuring “nano-fiber” technology of the Dalton Lab of the University of Oregon’s Knight Campus, including a tiny silicon wafer with an ultra-fine resolution reproduction of the face of Botticelli’s famous Venus.

Art by Ahren Gehrman at PLAY

PLAY (232 W. Fifth Ave.) — Painting and photographic prints by Ahren Gehrman, formerly a writer of song lyrics and a novel, who “ran out of words during the pandemic,” turned to painting as a form of therapy and now aspires to become a professional working photographer.

Sparrow Nest Coffee (132 E. Broadway, Lobby) — Exhibit of work by Maude Kerns Art Center teaching artist Liv Braiker, who has instructed introductory and advanced relief and textile printmaking, figure drawing, and watercolor classes, inspired by folklore and the golden age of illustration, and using printmaking and watercolor in tandem with traditional craft mediums such as sewing and weaving.

Starlight Lounge (830 Olive St.) — Watercolor and pen poetry by Darrel Dier, moved inspired by “two beautiful muses” that now reflect (her) art and to whom she pledges “50 percent of sales from the poems they inspired …”

Center for Art Research (CFAR) (510 Oak St.) — Here for The Now, works by visiting faculty in the University of Oregon Department of Art, including artists Kevin Kripper, Briar Marsh Pine, Michael Rey, Gabie Strong, and Claire Webb, examining “the complexity of a bordered yet global world” and the complexities inherent in “the inner and outer conditions of being human.”

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

Additional venues:

  • Broadway Commerce Center (44 W. Broadway)
  • The New Zone Gallery (110 E. 11th Ave.)
  • Lookout Eugene-Springfield (771 Willamette St.)
  • One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E. 11th Ave.)
  • OSLP Arts & Culture Center (110 E. 11th Ave., Suite C)

About Lane Arts Council

Lane Arts Council is a nonprofit organization that works to cultivate strong and creative arts communities throughout Lane County, by providing high-quality arts experiences, engaging people of all ages in arts education, and encouraging artistic endeavors.