“Gasoline” by Carrie Williams at Burris Hall Friday.
September’s First Friday Art Walk on National, Bridge St. and the Plaza, features multiple art openings and musical performances the afternoon and evening of September 6.
As usual, businesses will be staying open late to provide shopping, food, drink and entertainment amidst the culture, history, architecture, and beauty of the original Las Vegas.
Music includes Wild Country on the Plaza for Music in the Park, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Art openings include a fiber art show titled “Not Just for Breakfast Anymore” at Gallery 140 on bridge St. The show is curated by Anita Moss and Dale Jenssen. Works include art dolls, colcha, embroidery, felting, kitting, quilts, weaving, basketry, wearable art, and other media.
The show opens with a reception Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the gallery, 140 Bridge St. featuring refreshments and conversations with the artists. The show continues through September 29, with hours of 1 to 6 p.m. Fridays-Sundays. The gallery is operated by the Las Vegas Arts Council.
Also opening Friday is “Paintings by Carrie Williams” at Highlands University’s Burris Hall, 903 National Ave. Williams says her show is about people, places and things–portrait, still life, plein air, and figure study. The opening reception with the artist for this show is Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., with music by Edred Breedlove at 5 p.m. The show runs through September 24.
Williams has a background in anthropology and archaeology as well as art training at Seattle’s Gage Academy of the Arts. She and her partner, Xander Thompson, own the former Ludi’s Market building , which they live in while restoring it to be an event space for the arts, food and the community.
“Rattlesnakes,” a solo show by Lucy Finch will open Saturday with an artist’s reception from 2 to 5 p.m. at Gallery OneSixSix, 166 Bridge Street. Finch’s show features soft pastel portraits of 13 strong, resilient, and fierce women born and/or raised in Northeastern New Mexico.
Finch says “Collectively, the women in these portraits have survived death threats, domestic abuse, depression, attempted murder, the death of loved ones, life-threatening medical conditions, and more,”
Finch studied at the Masters’ Atelier of Drawing and Painting under Nancy Lucas-Williams in Port Townsend, Washington. Currently, she lives in Las Vegas, where her artwork has been selected for multiple juried shows around the Nation. She has been working on this project since 2022.
The show continues through October 5 (open Tuesdays-Fridays from 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays noon to 5 p.m.)
First Friday Art Walks are sponsored by Las Vegas Arts and Cultural District, Las Vegas First Independent Business Alliance, Las Vegas Arts Council and Gallery 140, The Las Vegas San Miguel County Chamber of Commerce, Citizens Committee for Historic Preservation, and all the participating galleries, artists, musicians, and businesses.
