August 24, 2010 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact
Jane Pennington
Director, Downtown Lawrence, Inc.
(785) 842-3883
director@downtownlawrence.com
Inaugural Final Fridays Gallery Walk venues announced
LAWRENCE, Kan.—Lawrence’s first Final Fridays, a monthly arts extravaganza, will take place downtown on Friday, Aug. 27, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Over 30 locations are lined up for the inaugural event with expansion plans already in the works. Final Fridays is being presented throughout Downtown Lawrence by the Downtown Lawrence Arts District.
The first gallery walk will include 12 commercial galleries, 10 restaurants and a number of local merchants who will take part in Final Fridays by hosting live music or displaying art. Two empty retail spaces will become “flash galleries” filled with temporary exhibits by local artists.
“Lawrence is such a great place to experience the arts because there are so many talented people and such variety in what they do. We are especially excited about incorporating performing arts as well as visual arts,” said Jane Pennington, Director of Downtown Lawrence, Inc. “Street performers will be found a few steps away from more serious musicians and small, whimsical works of art will be a few steps away from dramatic, large canvasses. There will even be an interactive sculpture made of recycled milk bottles that appears to extend through the window of one of the flash galleries.”
Participating locations include:
Hobbs Taylor Building 730 New Hampshire
739 Massachusetts 739 Massachusetts
1109 Gallery 1109 Massachusetts
Wonder Fair: Art Gallery, Shoppe and Studio 803 1/2 Massachusetts
Diane’s Artisan Gallery 4 E 7th
Frame Woods Gallery 819 Massachusetts
It’s About Time 816 Massachusetts
Lawrence Arts Center 940 New Hampshire
Lawrence Percolator In the alley behind LAC
Lawrence Public Library (5p.m.-7p.m.) 707 Vermont
Phoenix Gallery 919 Massachusetts
Signs of Life 722 Massachusetts
Through A Glass Productions 1009 New Hampshire, Ste A
Van Go Mobile Arts 715 New Jersey
Goldmakers Jewelry 723 Massachusetts
Aimee’s Café & Coffee Shop 1025 Massachusetts
Wheatfields Bakery Café 904 Vermont
Love Garden Sounds 822 Massachusetts
People’s Optical 737 Massachusetts
White Chocolate Experience 933 Massachusetts
The Etc. Shop 928 Massachusetts
Dynamite Saloon 721 Massachusetts
Eccentricity 716 Massachusetts
Eldridge Hotel 701 Massachusetts
Invisible Hand Gallery 801 ½ Massachusetts
The Downtown Lawrence Arts District is a collaborative effort by the Lawrence Arts Center, Downtown Lawrence, Inc., the Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission. DLAD was incorporate in June 2010 and is primarily funded by a grant from the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission.
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