Name: First Friday
Start: 2024-10-04T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-10-04T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Downtown Colorado Springs

Ephemera

All Night Happy Hour during Art Walk

Make COATI your last stopc on the First Friday Art Walk! Ephemera is offering all night Happy Hour Specials for Art Walkers. Enjoy mixed media works by local talent, Jesse Allan Rozell and Suminagashi prints by emerging maker Jonathan Nishimoto.
COATI is open until Midnight on First Friday and features a plethora of local BIPOC, Female and Queer creatives across the building. Ephemera is located upstairs at COATI and will be open 5-10pm during service hours for art viewing

Ephemera

514 S. Tejon Street

ICONS

ICONS First Friday: The Kaberet with Kai Lee Mykels Drag Show

FIRST Friday: The Kaberet with Kai Lee Mykels Drag Show at 10:00pm

ICONS

Auric Gallery

4 Featured Artists: Deb Komitor, Sophia Hanna, Lisa Fabiano & Maggie Elligottieper.

Deb Komitor: “Begin Again” Art, you have been with me over 6 decades. You entered me in the womb and I came out left handed and right brained. So much time was spent with you coloring and making little villages out of sticks, leaves, and pinecones under the trees of my youth.
Sophia Hanna: “I’m doing pretty good.” With this series of self portraits I invite you into my mind, as I struggle to break out of a deeply isolating comfort zone.
Lisa Fabiano: “Merge” Before the emergence of European and Euro-American “Abstract Art”, indigenous peoples and small immigrant communities used color and simple geometric shapes as abstract motifs in their creative work. In weaving and quilt-making, for example, specific colors and patterns were used not only to create aesthetically pleasing designs, but also as indicators of place, time, and culture. T
Maggie Elligott: “Wings + Petals: From Greif to Grace” The small works in Wings and Petals: From Grief to Grace invite viewers to closely explore the delicate details and emotions within each piece, fostering quiet contemplation and personal connection. These collages, like fragments of thought, evoke layered meanings of loss, transformation, and life’s fragility.
Cash bar

Auric Gallery

125 E Boulder St.

Cottonwood Center for the Arts

Susan Tormoen: Fun with Oil and Pastel

With deliberate bold strokes and masterful color mixing, Tormoen’s depictions of the world around her are both representative and fanciful, drawing the viewer in with delightful hues and movement.
From the artist:

Something fresh and new with a variety of techniques and subjects. Simulation of nature, which can make a room warm, no matter what its shape or dimension. Not to destroy or take away from the old, but to add to it with new ideas and concepts.
Multiple Artists
Two floors of open studios and galleries
Beer, wine, and specialty cocktail by donation

Cottonwood Center for the Arts

427 E Colorado Ave.

Kinship Landing

Live Music

Live music courtesy of local, Danny Tramel from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Kinship Landing

415 S Nevada Ave.

True North Art Gallery

Featured Artist for May: Casey Chinn

Featured Artist for May: Casey Chinn
Light refreshments
Beer and wine by donation

True North Art Gallery

31 E Bijou St.

Rico’s Cafe & Wine Bar

Multiple artists + The Cleveland Experiment Duo

Featured artists: Marc A. Shereck and Kelli Kohn
Live music: The Cleveland Experiment features vocalist Sandi Cleveland and her husband John Stoesser on guitar and vocals playing a variety of music from Jazz standards, classic RnB, rock, country and pop tunes. Sing-a-longs are highly encouraged, and the occasional guest artist(s) may come along for the night. There’s always something new and entertaining when they perform.
First Friday Happy Hour 4-6 p.m.

Rico’s Cafe & Wine Bar

322 N Tejon St.

Anita Marie Fine Art

"Green"

Spring is a special time for renewal and extraordinary hope. See these emotions reflected in the original oil paintings by TWO Master Artists, Chuck Mardosz and Richard Dahlquist.
Light refreshments provided.
Thursday & Friday 5-7p, 5p -8p First Friday, and Sat 2-5p
Free Parking

Anita Marie Fine Art

109 S Corona St.

The Gallery at Cacao Chemistry

Art by Laurel Bahe and Lorraine Danzo

Featuring Artists: New Artwork and Chocolate!
Lorraine Danzo demonstrating watercolor collage montage technique.

The Gallery at Cacao Chemistry

109 N Tejon St.

Gallery 113

Mood, Movement and Meaning

Jane Hammoud, a potter and Mary Sexton, a pastel painter, have different palettes and processes — one grounded in form and fire, the other in pigment and mark making —both artists interpret the world through design, discovering how color and shape can evoke mood, movement, and meaning in uniquely powerful ways. Come and meet Jane and Mary for First Friday.
Gallery 113 is showcasing the work of award-winning local artists in painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry and wood turning.
Complimentary wine, chocolate, and non alcoholic beverages provided

Gallery 113

125 N. Tejon

Ohana Kava Bar

Kings of the Forest with Jeff Mallo

Join us this First Friday for a special showcase: One photographer’s quest for the ultimate moose photograph in the Rocky Mountains!
Comedy show from 7-8pm with Thomas Tucker and Austen Brinker, then live music with Dan Lee from 8-10pm
Enjoy unique kava drinks in Ohana Kava Bar’s island-inspired atmosphere.
Kava and other non-alcoholic drinks available for purchase

Ohana Kava Bar

112 E Boulder St.

VIP Real Estate

VIP Real Estate Open House

Featured Artists: Minnie and Shay Williams, and Jonathan Reaves
Open house cocktail mixer at our VIP Real Estate office in the springs. It’s an opportunity to stop in and network, ask questions you may have, and also check out some art from local artists who will be joining us. There will also be beverages provided by Bloom Lounge as well as snacks.

VIP Real Estate

125 N Tejon St.

Universal Education Foundation

Beyond Boundaries

Featured Artist: Daniel Logan. Join us in exploring what emerges when an artist’s passionate vision breaks free from expected frameworks, revealing the extraordinary beauty that exists just beyond the boundaries we too often accept. These works celebrate nature’s inherent resistance to limitation while reflecting the creator’s own artistic
Light snacks and refreshments; wine and beer by donation

Universal Education Foundation

301 E Platte Ave.

Good Eye

50 Shades of Slay

Aura Photography with Vivid Vibes. Find out what your aura looks like & what it means! By appointment or walk-in. Plus, Color Analysis with Minka’s House of Color. Find out what colors compliment you by appointment or walk-in. Drinks provided by Good Eye, plus an awesome $10 rack for folks who love a deal.

Good Eye

115 N Tejon St.

One Body Fitness Studio

Three featured artists for April!

A chance to check out One Body Fitness Studio’s inclusive space for all people to find their community and move their bodies.
Featured artists Jantzen Peake, Eli Arellano, and Darya Warner
Live music by Anna Grace beginning at 6 p.m.
Light snacks and beverages provided

One Body Fitness Studio

115 N Tejon St. (entrance in alley)

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College

Mobile Arts 4 Year Birthday Bash in the Sculpture Garden

Full line-up of local performers, dance workshops, and hands-on art activities. Featuring a vendor market and local food trucks!
5 live bands, two dance workshops, painting workshop
Free museum admission
Drinks and snacks available for purchase
Art for sale by local and regional artists in Deco Lounge

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College

30 W Dale St.

Citizens Art Project at City Hall

Featured Artist: Justin Spurlin

Featured Artist: Justin Spurlin
Enter City Hall through the Southeast Kiowa entrance. The entrance off Nevada up the main steps is not open at this time. The Art Gallery is located on the second floor in the Northwest corner of the building.

Citizens Art Project at City Hall

107 N Nevada Ave.

The Bridge Gallery

"Fairytale Diorama"

Dioramas are are 3D scenes, often small-scale, constructions. Invited artists will exhibit works in “Fairytale Diorama” based on favorite fairytales or ones they’ve created. Artists showing are Dave Armstrong, Liz McCombs, Peter Marchand, Deena Bennett, John Lawson, Judith Marie, Betty Atherton, Cyndi Deswik, Michael Cellan, Roseburrow.
Show continues through Saturday, May 31.

The Bridge Gallery

218 W Colorado Ave.

Novis Mortem Collective

Novis Mortem Collective welcomes Emily Kohler

Emily Kohler is a Colorado based, vegan artist.
She works in many different media, specializing in oil and gouache.
Her subjects tend to lean to the macabre, and often stem from images pulled directly from her dreams or are created from how she views the world around her.
Her poetic use of black and shadow highlight each piece in order to capture the darker side of beauty.