SEPTEMBER 30th PARTICIPATING VENUES
1/Gainesville Fine Arts Association
Come see us first!
GFAA Gallery presents THINGS UNSEEN: Biennial National Juried Exhibition. On display from August 23 - October 22. This is an exhibition featuring artists from 16 different states. These artists make the implicit explicit; they investigate, dive deep into and bring to light Things Unseen. Smaller artwork is available for sale in our Gift Shop. Contact: Katy Lemle -352-328-5027
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1314 S Main St
2/First Magnitude Brewing
Come by for local Brews, outdoor and indoor display of art and seating. Great atmosphere, live music, and food trucks to feed your thirst and soul.
Have a birthday or big personal or corporate event coming up? First Magnitude is your destination for
events and celebrations big or small!
We have options from fully and semi-private rentals to just reserving free tables in our roomy beer garden
or warehouse space! 🍻
To learn more and to get in touch with us about your options, fill out our event request form HERE.
1220 SE Veitch St.
3/ Bingo Deli & Pub
Israeli-born Nava Ottenberg’s inspiration for her colorful paintings comes from traveling in Italy. Since graduating from the Art Academy and University of San Francisco, Nava has taught art for the past 25 years. With sculptor Eric Bushnell, she led the public art initiative, placing 22 plus sculptures in Gainesville's
downtown. Nava paints portraits, landscapes and still life in acrylic and pastel. Her latest ceramic’s creations began during the Covid pandemic. Mostly self-taught, she discovered the wheel and the lushness of colorful glazes. Nava believes that creating new ways to discovering beauty is the greatest use of one’s time.
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619 S Main St Unit 1A
4/4Most Gallery
Characters by Lindsay Carlton runs from September 30th till October 21st. Please join us for the opening reception on September 30th from 7-9PM.
Characters is a series of photographs in which I use both staged photography and self-portraiture to create bizarre scenes with different characters. Within these scenes I create a staged image that introduces both a character and a narrative to the viewer without providing any concluding details. I use costume design, lighting, special effects, and props in these images to enhance this idea of a storyline. Inspired by media and the horror/thriller genres of films, this series also has suggestions of dark situations and theatrical elements. The pieces in this series are large scale inkjet prints on luster paper.
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534 SW 4th Ave
5/Maude's Cafe
Maude's Cafe presents work by Troid Brett, who has been painting realistic portraits in oil for about 7 years. She never tires of looking at the human face as a window into the inner self.
Included in the show are pieces by friends in her art group with paintings and drawings of the same model from different points of view.
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101 SE 2nd Pl
6/Hippodrome Theatre
The Hippodrome’s 50th Season, Beyond Limits celebrates the people, real and imagined, that brave their fear and reach for the stars.
The Hipp Art Gallery offers artists a beautiful space to showcase their talent, often engaging with the themes of the current mainstage production.
(352) 375-4477
Anna Verney (Gallery Curator)
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25 SE. 2nd Pl.
7/Black C Gallery
Presenting Black & White Digital Collage by Ani Collier, a conceptual Mixed-Media Environment.
Conceived by Ani Collier & Tom Miller. Feel as if you have stepped into the black & white cinema of yesteryear where music paints your soul with color and Manhattan is more than a cocktail with a big beautiful red Maraschino cherry.
"...the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie." Nora Ephron, author and filmmaker. This is from her autobiographical novel Heartburn (1983)
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111 SE 2nd. Place
8/Hyatt Place Downtown
The new Hyatt Place Downtown has joined Artwalk as a participating venue.
View the 3 story tall mural by
Visionary FAM and work by local artists Leslie Tharp, Nancy Hyer and John Westmark in the second floor lobby.
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212 SE 1st St
9/Sweetwater
Print Co-op
Sweetwater Print Cooperative Presents "Nothing So Delightful as Drawing", an exhibit of color prints by Mike Donovan which began as drawings and have been given new life by being reworked mainly in pastels on art paper or gel pens on photo paper. Opening reception is 7-10 pm on Friday, September 30. Show runs through Wednesday, October 26 and may be seen after Artwalk by appointment (call Joon Thomas: 352 514-3838).
117 S. Main Street
10/The Bull
Brian Wilson (Atlanta) is an abstract/energy artist who mainly works with acrylic paints/inks (on canvas) and includes charged crystal/gemstone powders for the protective and healing properties they offer. His paintings rarely reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted, and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he invites his audience to consider his vision of eclectic, eccentric, forward thinking and apply it to themselves on a spiritual level. Brian currently lives and works in Gainesville.
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18 SW 1st Ave
11/The SL8 Gallery
The SL8 Gallery presents work by Oliver Keyhani, also including some collaborations with Grayson May Butler. Diverse in subject matter, playful, contemplative, profound.
Enjoy poems, music, refreshments, along with several other surprises as we celebrate our reopening and the SL8's return to active participation in the Gainesville arts community.
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10 E. University Avenue
12/Artisans' Guild Gallery
Moonlit Market
6 to 9 pm
Debra Lindberg (Encaustic artist) will be demonstrating many of the
techniques that make encaustic an amazing art medium by creating some beautiful pieces. "You will see how I prep and apply encaustic medium and colors, incorporate collage, and finish with some texture."
Joyce Marie Lottinville, will be demonstrating Fabric Collage, “Fabric collage is a quilting method using fabric to create an image. It is
essentially, painting with fabric. I will demonstrate making patterns,
picking fabric for backgrounds and the final design."
Come out and meet the artists, enjoy refreshments, and live music with
guitarist and songwriter Eric Diamond. Just one block north of The Top restaurant, turn west on 2nd Avenue.
224 NW 2 Ave
13/The Thomas Center Gallery
A response to the natural world by fourteen artists whose meditative work in paint, sculpture, drawing, photography, and installation art is intertwined as a quiet counterpoint to the upheaval of the onset of the pandemic. The exhibit is inspired
in part by The Overstory, the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Powers.
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302 NE 6th Avenue
14/Swamp City Brewery
Christopher Phillips, of Nastiiart, is an acrylic, spray paint, and digital artist, as well as a photographer. Christopher has been creating art in one capacity or another for a little over a decade now. He was very interested in art from a young age, but unfortunately the Arts programs were all defunded by the time he entered high school. Christopher received a camera and some photo editing software as a gift in his late 20’s and never looked back. Recently, he was invited to beta test OpenAi’s AI Art Generation program as well, and has been making incredible digital art, just using word prompts!
The Swing Jazz ensemble, Porch Swing, will also make their anticipated return to our stage!!!!
716 N Main St.
15/Cypress & Grove Brewery
Discovering intuitive art as a self-expression tool during the pandemic, Sarit Ben-David Sela is opening her visual journal to us. Sarit’s work is inspired by myths, stories, dreams, and daily experiences, and uses a wide variety of materials and techniques.
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1001 NW 4th St.
16/ THE AUK MARKET at Curia on the Drag
WITHIN // A Collection of Art by Blood Hive
"I have always had a fascination with anything dark and dreary. I find it comforting and beautiful in ways often overlooked. My art has allowed me to turn my imagination into something people could see and experience. Bending the rules between what is reality and what lives in dark corners of my mind is always a part of my art. I try to take people down a twisting road of unearthly beauty and strange (and eerie) details when they view my art to create an experience outside of traditional photography and design."
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2031 NW 6th Street
17/Gainesville
Opportunity Center
GOC will feature several artists from the community for September Artwalk Gainesville. Food Truck: Rahda's Kitchen will be serving delicious Vegan Cuisine and information will be available about "Art For All" and the free classes which will be offered for the rest of the year.
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1210 NW 14th Ave
18/Studios of Grace
Art Studios of Grace got started in late 2015 or early 2016 as a way to use empty classroom space on the campus of Grace Presbyterian Church in Gainesville. The classrooms were part of the Early Years Learning Center, which had closed in 2008. Jay Winter Collins, a part-time teacher of gifted and talented children, and an illustrative artist was the first to utilize one of the classrooms as dedicated studio space, securing permission from Grace’s Session and their relatively new pastor Rev. Charles Freeman.
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3146 NW 13th Street