September First Friday Art Stroll

Ogden, Utah - August 29, 2024 - Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll is scheduled for September 6, 2024, 6-9 p.m.

Activity locations include Union Station, Historic 25th Street, and The Monarch, and the fun continues with stops at the Junction and Washington Blvd.

Ogden Contemporary Art has a new exhibit that opened a couple weeks ago, Climate Resiliency, Photography, and Storytelling Exhibition. The exhibit features 5 artists giving their take on climate change.

Visit Ogden has rebranded and updated their website to include an interactive art stroll map. Be sure to check it out and plan your stroll. More locations will be added soon. Visit Ogden Virtual Map

Get your updated physical maps at any stop on the stroll or at The Corner, the small white kiosk on 25^th and Washington Ave. It is open during the stroll and will be open until 9 p.m. A new addition to the map is the locations of the OGX stops in downtown Ogden. The OGX is free for all to ride and makes it a fun way to enjoy the evening.

As always, the community is encouraged to use the hashtag #OgdenSharesArt to show the Ogden Arts Community any personal creations or to share inspiring arts and culture images. Using the hashtag as a virtual option provides an avenue to engage with other artists in Ogden and see the exciting artworks being created.

Follow the social media outlets listed below for further details of the events.

Social Media:

IG - Ogden_Arts / The_Corner_Ogden

FB - OgdenCityArts / TheCorner

Website: www.ogdencity.com/artstroll

About Ogden City Arts

Ogden City Arts supports the belief that the arts are an integral part of a healthy culture, providing both intellectual nourishment and social benefit, and that community arts programs provide significant value both to communities and to artists. Ogden City Arts' mission is to enrich the lives of Ogden residents and visitors by ensuring access to visual, performing, and literary arts and arts education. In supporting arts organizations and independent artists Ogden City Arts works to connect the arts to daily life, education, and economic development.

Gallery Happenings

Alaskan Gold Connection

The featured artist is Ogden 3D Printing by Richard Cox.

Bio: I am a jewelry designer at my family's jewelry shop "Alaskan Gold Connection" in Ogden Utah. I design jewelry and 3D print jewelry models for casting. After learning how to 3D print, I really got interested in printing more. I decided to delve into the world of Table Top Miniatures.

Alaskan Gold Connection - 167 25th Street, Ogden

Ambiance

Our artist for September is LK.

Bio:
I have to paint, therefore, I am an artist. I have always been moved by natural beauty...colors in nature, the shapes of rocks, the sun on water, the wrinkled face of an elder. I am an American Native artist and grew up in Alaska. I have been based in southern California for the past 20 yrs., and am currently in beautiful Utah. My work is infused with color and boldness by using many different mediums and techniques. I aspire to bridge what people feel into something tangible...I paint connection.

mslkartist.wixsite.com/lkartist1

Instagram: @MsLKartist

Ambiance - 103 25^th Street, Ogden

Cara Koolmees Gallery

Can you feel the change in the weather? This is a perfect time to change your home decor. Colorful pictures will help you welcome the new season. A calendar for next year will help you plan. Come by the Studio of Cara Koolmees at 256 Historic 25th Street to get started on your changes.

Cara Koolmees Gallery - 256 Historic 25th Street, Ogden

Ccrafts Crafty Creations

Ccrafts Crafty Creations - 2487 Grant Ave, Ogden

Fiction

Fiction will feature the artist, Austin Luckett artist from Iron Pine Metal Prints + More.

Go to www.ironpine.company

Fiction - 2717 Washington Blvd., Ogden

Gallery 25

Stop in at Gallery 25 to see the amazing work of numerous artists in their 3-floor gallery with art on each floor.

Gallery 25 - 268 25^th Street, Ogden

Grounds for Coffee on 25th Street

We will be featuring Jamie G. Hutchins for our September Art Stroll.

Bio: Jamie G Hutchins I taught at the Marshall White Center. I am an artist at Eccles and took 2nd in the Abstract last year. You can see my art at Jamie.jgh.creations.

Grounds for Coffee - 111 Historic 25th Street, Ogden

Khroma Herbal Products

September's featured artist is Erika Wolf, Wolf Tea & Cartography info.

Instagram: Wolf Tea & Cartography (wolf_tea_and_cartography) Facebook: Wolf Tea & Cartography

Bio: Erika with Wolf Tea & Cartography creates specialty tea blends based on soul-grounding flavors and aromatics. "I love to create ingredient profiles catering to emotional health and well-being and physical health, based on historical, personal, and earth-loving experiences. This is also reflected in the classic art of cartography, beginning with themed paintings and prints of maps that admire the beautiful colors and edible ingredients that Mother Nature provides us. Excited to help my local communities through these experiences."

Khroma Herbal Products - 2335 Grant Ave., Ogden

Ninth Muse Academy - New Art Stroll Stop

Come out for our soft opening and silent auction on Friday, September 6th. The artwork is from our amazing students to help fundraise for our new sculpture studio!

Ninth Muse Academy - 578 25^th Street, Ogden

Ogden Contemporary Art

Members Only Happy Hour: 4-6 pm Open to Public: 6-9 pm

Exhibit Details: FEMA ArtWorks Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling Exhibition

This exhibition presents works from artists investigating and sharing the stories of communities and lands that are adapting to a changing climate. From sublime foreshadowing to documentation of the real ways natural hazards affect our lives; artists shine a light on resilient communities and their stories of loss, adaptation, mitigation, and restoration.

Roaring Fork Valley-based artist Tamara Susa's photographs utilize different times of exposure to underscore that climate change happens continuously and overtime; and though it may not be captured in a single series of photographs, it is omnipresent and we are all connected to the change.

Denver-based artist Bill Nelson's "Fragile" brings into frame the vulnerable lands to grab our attention. As we gaze through his steel viewfinder, we are encouraged to meditate on our role as stewards of the environment.

Colorado artist Emilie Upczak's film "Silt" invites us into personal and poetic methods of adaptation and resilience by highlighting familial, ancestral and contemporary strategies of responding, processing and grieving that which seems beyond our control, but necessary to face.

Making Waves for Great Salt Lake is a team of three artists, poets, educators, organizers, and Lake-facing humans who are passionate about creating intimacy and relationship with the Great Salt Lake, the creatures that call the Lake their home, and our connected waterbodies.

Salt Lake City-based artist Tiana Birrell's research investigates the copious amount of water and energy used by data centers in Salt Lake and Utah Valley. She uses photography, video, and projection to consider these questions as well as bring these invisible structures into visibility.

Warm Cookies of the Revolutions' Community Almanac Project explores wisdom passed down through generations in the community, focusing on a different social/civic issue in each volume. Volume 2 of our Community Almanac focuses on Climate & Trunk: A collection of wisdom/art/music/celebration from the Denver community dedicated to solutions to the climate crisis and grounding our work with each other.

Ogden Contemporary Art - 455 25th Street, Ogden

Serendipity

September's Art Stroll will feature Fred Jackson and Ellis Rees.

Ellis Rees, a retired contractor, was gifted his first wood-turning lathe by his six children for Christmas. His first project was rounding out a piece of scrap 4x4 Christmas Day. He now turns stunning pieces that magnify the natural beauty of each wood species from the dark veins of the ash tree to the light grain patterns of an elm. Even the rough knotted bark on a walnut branch is celebrated.

Serendipity - 274 Historic 25^th Street, Ogden

Shaw Gallery/Dumke Arts Plaza

Megan Geckler'sA dream that comes in color is a vibrant, kaleidoscopic declaration of the beauty of differences coming together in harmony. It is a large-scale, site-specific installation artwork that uses hyper-colorful, recyclable PVC film, integrated seamlessly with the architecture of the site to inspire, uplift, and provide a space for contemplation at Dumke Arts Plaza.

The exhibit is at the Dumke Arts Plaza 445 25^th Street, Ogden

The Diamond Room

Stop by the Diamond Room to see the beautiful jewelry on display. With over 30 years of experience, founder Ken Cassar can help you create your perfect custom design. Their location does jewelry appraisals, cleanings, and repairs.

The Diamond Room 131 Historic 25^th Street, Ogden

The Local Artisan Collective

No getting bored this Fall with the amazing Art Kits and Pottery Classes from Tarra of TipToe Studios.

Art Stroll is on Friday, September 6th, 2024! The store will be open late for the Art Stroll from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm; with the store being open until 10pm for shopping.

Our Featured Artist this month:
My name is Tarra, and I'm on a journey of rediscovery and connection that has led me to the creation of my small business combining some of the things I love most, art and teaching.
I'm a mom of three wonderful kids and I teach art lessons. My favorite things to teach are painting, pottery, and clay modeling. I make art kits for a wide variety of art projects and I create pottery from my home studio where I have a wheel to throw pottery on and a kiln to fire it.
Thank you for being part of my journey!

Tarra has some amazing things planned for the Art Stroll!
*She will have two new art kits.
-The first one will be for making a small pinch pot out of airdry clay.
-The second will be to make Christmas ornaments out of ovenbake clay.

*She will also have a display of the process of how to make pottery. The display will consist of clay in each step of the process, for example, a ball of clay, then a ball of clay with the hole in the center, then a ball of clay made into a cylinder, and so on until there is a finished pottery piece that has been glazed.

*Then if all of those amazing things were enough for you to get down to the Collective (which we are sure that they are), she has EVEN MORE! She will have holiday classes set up and have discount codes for those who sign up that day!!!! Now that is going to be awesome!

Find all of this happening in Classroom A and B.

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Classes and Events happening during the Art Stroll:

-6:00 to 9:00: Tarra will be showcasing and answering questions about her new art kits, the process of pottery and new classes. Find her in Classroom A and B.

-6:00 to 9:00: Drop in Jewelry Bar. Stop by and pick out parts for a unique custom-made ring. First, pick out a stone, then the bezel (metal that holds the stone, and then pick your silver band style. After all are chosen, 16th generation silversmith, Rene, will create your ring while you shop. Ring will be ready in less than 30 minutes. Find this in the archway to the studio space of Classroom A.

-6:00 to 9:00: Watch Mike Hurst from Hurst's Handblown Glass demonstrate lampwork glass right before your eyes. We can't wait to see what he is going to make this month! Find him in his studio space.

-6:00 to 9:00: Stephanie and Lance from Our Children's Earth will be doing marbling. So drop by between 6 and 9 to create with marbling. Prices start at $4.99 Find them in the Textile Studio.

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Find our items in our store located at 2371 Kiesel Ave, Ogden, Utah 84401 in the Heart of Downtown Ogden on the South End of the Junction in the Creative Nine Rails District and online at localartisancollective.com/shop

We are also open Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00 to 7:00. We will also be open late until 10:00 pm on the first Friday of the month with Art Stroll.

The Local Artisan Collective - 2371 Kiesel Ave, Ogden

The Mercantile

"September: Colors of Calm"

This month's featured artist will be Brittany Favero with an installation called "Colors of Calm."
Brittany describes herself as a local Ogden gal, who has always had art as a part of her life. "Growing up I watched my dad make beautiful art. I also want my kids to see me be creative! Lately, my focus has been art for the home. Making art that fits peacefully into a home while still being fun to look at!"
"Colors of Calm" is a rather large installation, and the works will be available for purchase to adorn your home. Bring some calm home with you!

The Mercantile - 2501 Grant Avenue, Ogden

The Monarch

Experience the First Friday Art Stroll at The Monarch...15 local artisans and vendors are ready to share their work and 40+ Creative artists open their personal Studios for the Community to visit! Come enjoy LIVE Music, Beverages, Food Trucks, and meet our INCREDIBLE Creatives!

See what they're working on and join in on the fun! There is so much to see, you won't want to miss it!

FREE ADMISSION & ALL AGES WELCOME
6-9 PM

Ogden Contemporary Arts - see their listing.

The Monarch - 455 25th Street, Ogden

Union Station

Myra Powell Gallery

Transcendence by Noelle Perry

This show titled "Transcendence" is a multi-series collection exploring themes of freedom, wholeness, moments of alignment, and being unbound by this world's physical and mental barriers. Using emphasized color, tessellated shapes, and balanced composition, Noelle hopes that her paintings will draw in and speak to the viewer. The 4 groups of paintings and themes shown in this exhibit are as follows:

EXPERIENCE HIM: This series consists of up-close imagery of faces, feet, and hands. This is Noelle's oldest series on display reaching as far back as 2014. These images explore the intimate closeness with our Creator and showcase moments of spiritual encounters and transformations.

WARRIOR WOMEN: This body of work explores the spiritual battle each are faced with as indicated numerous times in the Holy Scriptures. Ephesians 6:12 says, "For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." I like to portray strength and grace in these paintings while showcasing spiritual triumph.

CAVERNS: The paintings of caves are in part inspired by Hebrews 11:38 which states, "They were too good for this world, wandering over deserts and mountains, hiding in CAVES and holes in the ground" referring to the many people of faith and prophets of old. Noelle resonates with not feeling "a part" of this world and finds solace in the idea of "residing in a cave" … And so figures "Why not make it a beautiful one at that?!" Noelle paints these scenes fully out of her mind and imagination with little to no photographic references.

LIBERATED: This series, often consisting of large flowers and feminine beings amongst the cosmos is yet to be concluded. This group of works explores the emotionally vulnerable side of existence and showcases relief from the heaviness of this present place presents. The feminine beings shown are often unbound by gravity and are in tender postures of surrender and/or rest. Noelle often works through and aims to make sense of, her own personal struggles through this series.

This exhibit will be on display through September 28, 2024.

Community Art Show

Gallery at the Station

Ogden City Arts is showcasing a new exhibit for the Community Art Show, Street Art. Artwork is from local creatives in the community, with over 60 artists being featured. Come vote for the Community Favorite from 6-8 p.m. Show your support for local creatives.

Another art call is open, Ogden Begins Here. Be sure to go to www.ogdencity.com/artistcall to be part of the next exhibit.

Union Station - 2501 Wall Ave, Ogden

Wasatch Roasting Company

Wasatch will be featuring Olivia Barton for the September Art Stroll.

Stop in to say hi and see her art.

Wasatch Roasting Company - 2436 Grant Ave, Ogden

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