(Above: What in the world is it? MECCA has a show of “contraptions” that date to the late 19th century, some of which defy logic as to origination or practical use.)

Edited by Randi Bjornstad

As part of downtown First Friday ArtWalk on March 6, the following galleries and venues will be open from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted below: 

Allies, LLC (200 E. 11th Ave., Suite 130) — Featuring all-original artworks, created at Allies by member artists. Proceeds from sales benefist the Allies Art Fund.

Art with Alejandro (5th St. Market Alley, Suite 104) — Featuring new and past works by Alejandro Sarmiento and Paisley Mae, ranging from aliens with lots of eyes to wildlife paintings, and everything in-between.

Bree’s Way Gift Shop (1231 Alder St.) — Acrylic paintings and photography by owner Bree Crane, inspired by her spiritual connection to nature, animals, and shamanism.

Broadway Commerce Center (44 W. Broadway) — Featuring art by DeLenn, showing and selling since 2020 at local markets, storefronts, galleries, as well as by custom commissions, reflecting both real-life inspiration and psychedelic interpretation.

City Exhibitions at Farmers Market Pavilion (8th and Oak streets) — Art Grown Local, works by artists who also vend at the Lane County Farmers Market, featuring four local artists — Katy Jane Conlin, Mary Londo, Sonya Brown, and Jenny Jonak — from oil paintings to pen-and-ink drawings to wildlife photography. The pavilion is open during Lane County Farmers Market events (Tuesdays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.) and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) and as well as 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the March 6 First Friday ArtWalk.

Urban Canvas Murals — On display by the City of Eugene’s local mural program:

  • WJ Dog Park (between 5th & 6th near Washington) – Jump to the Moon, 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 Lobby (999 Willamette St.) — Music in partnership with the Eugene Symphony, featuring a reed trio. Wine, beer, and sodas available for purchase.

Bubblegum in Space is one of Alien Fairy’s creations on display at Ebb & Flow Boutique.

Ebb & Flow Boutique (946 Willamette St.) — Traditional sketches turned into digital art pieces by Alien Fairy, plus a live drawing demonstration.

Flux Crystals (280 W. Broadway) — The Feminine Mysteries, watercolors by Anna Bousquet, exploring the “primordial power of the goddess.”

High Street Tonics (267 W. 8th Ave.) — Diorama display, created and submitted by members of the community at all levels of artistry, with voting for favorites during the ArtWalk.

Karin Clarke Gallery (760 Willamette St.) — The Resale Show, an every-few-years curated exhibit and sale of secondary market works from the homes of private collectors, through March 21. Open during the artwalk from 5:30 p.m. to  7:30 p.m., offering a wide selection of both intimate and grand-scale works, including paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and mixed-media pieces by more than twenty-five different artists.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA) (555 High St.) — Hosting the Museum of Techno Art’s Exostoria Mechanica: Lost Fragments, featuring work by Robert Bolman, Alan Ott, Steve La Riccia, Barbora Bakalarova Joe Mross, and Max Rink, devoted to the speculative discipline dating to the 1880s and devoted to determining the history and uses of these many often mysterious historical tools and mechanical objects.

The New Zone Gallery (110 E. 11th Ave.) — Presenting its Spring 2026 Zone 4 All Show, a non-juried show for local artists that includes 300 individual pieces. Opening reception is March 6 at 5:30 p.m., during the ArtWalk.

One Wall Gallery at Epic Seconds (30 E. 11th Ave.) — Featuring The Thread from Your Head is Connected to the Sun by Anna Fidler, with each painting acting as a kind of energetic snapshot of an abstraction of memory, emotion, and sensation to a particular day or place, improvised and intuitive but structured by internal rhythm and repetition.

Our 21st Century Renaissance (1245 Pearl St.) — March show features the provocative Menage Noir series of mixed-media assemblages from the studio of Ralf and Ute Huber, created from materials magically transformed into visions of 21st century life, from predominantly black and architectonic, but also incorporating feminine shapes and colors.

PLAY (232 W. 5th Ave.) — Photography by Gary Kochel exploring Earth’s wildlife scenes and vibrant landscapes.

The Community Apothecary (271 W. 8th Ave.) — Fantastical art by Taylor Wolfe  that combines chaos and precision together with bright colors, hard lines, and juicy accents, using a mixture of micron pens, sharpies, gel pens and alcohol markers.

Venue on Broadway (28 E. Broadway) — Work by native Oregonian John W. Olsen, a self-taught musician, artist, and published author, expressed through bold color and portraiture.

Window Activation (806 Charnelton St.) — Julie Anderson Bailey’s Origins,  including three separate installations, on view anytime, night or day, 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.

(Above: Untitled Oregon Coast, by Oregon artist Carl Hall, is one of many artworks for sale during the Karin Clarke Gallery’s resale show of art no longer needed or wanted by area collectors.)