(Above: Jewelry created by members of the FUSE Jewelry Collective)
(Note: The Lane Transit District offers assistance to people needing help getting to Downtown Eugene’s First Friday ArtWalk. Go online to lanearts.org on the day of the art walk to get the code for a FREE LTD BUS PASS bus pass.)
What’s going on at the First Friday ArtWalk on Oct. 3, 2025
Here’s an alphabetical listing of galleries and businesses that will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. during the art walk, unless otherwise noted below:
Allies, LLC (200 E. 11th Ave., Suite 130) — All-original artwork created by Allies’ member artists. Proceeds from sales benefit the Allies Art Fund.
Art with Alejandro (5th Street Market Alley, Suite 104 — Pencil drawings of local historical landmarks by local artist Joy Belle Jones (1910-1996), preserved by her great granddaughter, artist Paisley Mae.
Bree’s Way Gift Shop (1231 Alder St.) — Nature and figurative watercolors by longtime Eugene artist Karen Ann Clark; open until 7 p.m.
Bumble Boutique (233 W. 5th Ave.) — Work by portrait photographer Corrina Welding, capturing candid moments revealing genuine emotion; complimentary wine and cookies.
City Exhibitions:
- City Hall Gallery (500 E. 4th Ave.) — Bloodlines: A Personal Journey Through Art, Memory, and Heritage by Yvonne Stubbs. On view 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through Feb. 6, 2026.
- Cultural Currents (Hult Center Plaza, 6th & Willamette streets) — A’ppealing and Leaf Dance, two steel and reclaimed materials sculptures by artist Jenny Ellsworth.
Urban Canvas Murals in the city of Eugene’s mural program, featuring:
- 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
Downtown Athletic Club (999 Willamette St.) — Special celebration in partnership with the Eugene Symphony, featuring live music from a professional string quartet; wine, beer, and sodas available for purchase.
Ebb & Flow Boutique (946 Willamette St.) — Original oil-on-canvas landscapes and seascapes by Abbas Darabi, featuring bold colors and moody skies.
Flux Crystals (280 W. Broadway) — Brazilian spiritual/medicine music of the Altarbabes, featuring Paul Heintz on acoustic guitar and Amy Thomas on cello.
FUSE Jewelry Collective (112 E. 13th Ave.) — Featuring the FUSE Crew Fall Collection Release during the ArtWalk, with newly crafted jewelry, handmade in-house by collective members and instructors, plus seasonal refreshments and a guided tour of the FUSE classroom..
High Street Tonics (267 W. 8th Ave.) — Art pieces by The Crypt, for weirdos, by weirdos, focusing on reanimating the dead in an artistic way through wall-mounted taxidermy, recycled bones, and insect displays that can live on forever.
Horse Head Bar (99 W. Broadway) — Return of the annual Pabst Art Show in the “gallery room,” featuring creative ways that artists have interpreted the Pabst theme; vote for your favorite.
Modern Betty Salon (132 E. Broadway, Suite 102) — Halloween-themed paintings by resident artist Shannon Knight, supplementing Modern Betty’s extraordinary Halloween decor, incorporating photography, acrylic paint, and mixed media and showcasing spooky mixed-media paintings as well as dozens of other original works.
Midtown Arts Center (174 E. 16th Ave.) — Museum of Techno Art: Past, Present and Future Relics, an eclectic mix of sculptures, assemblages, and graphic art based on industrial themes, reflecting on the history of human invention, retro-futurism, and imaginative machines of the future.
The New Zone Gallery (110 E. 11th Ave.) — Invitation to all community artists to show up to two pieces of their art during October in The Zone 4 All Show. (Exhibition fee of $15 per piece.)
One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E. 11th Ave.) — Show opening of opulent textiles and paintings by Sue and Al Ravitz, artists and owners of 57W57ARTS in Manhattan (NYC).
“Bob,” by photorealistic painter Tory Jacobson, is on display at R21 (Our 21st Century Renaissance)
Our 21st Century Renaissance (R21) (1245 Pearl St.) — Showing a collection of paintings by photorealistic painter Tory Jacobson, in new location around the corner from the flagship New Zone Gallery.
Palace Coffee | Bakery (842 Pearl St.) — Featuring American Cancer Society Men Wear Pink ambassador Rodger Deevers, with 100% of proceeds going to his campaign, which since Covid has donated $95,000 to nonprofits, headed for a goal $100,000.
Play (232 W. 5th Ave.) — Featuring multidisciplinary artist Miki Markovich’s To Bare One’s Soul — where vulnerability meets photography, exploring the space between seen and unseen, with dreamlike imagery that reveals fragments of identity, memory, and human expression.
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 letters; sit under “trees” with letters hanging from the branches; even write a letter yourself to help spread more love into the world. Plus a miniature art-making party to make art for So Small, a miniature art auction fundraiser.
Starlight Lounge (830 Olive St.) — Featuring work by Hi Rand, whose artist’s statement says: “Born on the shores of a once dead resurrected lake, I spent my childhood shifting through what was left of the industrial revolution, chaos, and decay. This greatly influenced by work. In the more recent years the moist, cool rot of the Willamette Valley has painted my palette…”
Window Activation (806 Charnelton St.) — Julie Anderson Bailey’s Origins, including three separate installations, can be viewed anytime, night or day, through the large windows.
Founded in 1976 as the centralized arts agency serving the Lane County region, Lane Arts Council is a multi-faceted, nonprofit arts organization that supports arts education, advocacy, and community artists, programs and services.
Pencil drawings by artist Joy Belle Jones (1910-1996) explore the history of the Eugene area, here the original Eugene High School, built five years after the artist’s birth. Jones’ art has been preserved by her great-granddaughter, artist Paisley Mae, and are on display at Art With Alejandro in Fifth Street Market Alley.
