Art Walk, And Fun Run, In Fremont This Friday!

This Friday, June 7^th, the Annual Fremont Fun Run & Briefcase Relay will race east on N 34^th Street from Solstice Plaza, starting at 6p.  Before and after the race, from 6p – 9p, take a more leisurely stroll through the Center of the Universe to view, for free, an amazing assortment of art, and art venues, during the First Friday Fremont Art Walk.

This month, new venues have joined the throng:

• The Vassili Center, now open at 425 N 36^th St, will be showing a private collection of pre-Columbian pottery and fine art, curated in the 1950s and 1960s
• At Fremont Health Club, the multi-media works of Jason Javar Lawrence incorporate audio-visual analog and digital technologies
• Explore Atlas Clothing and enjoy the enhanced photos of Hobbes Ginsberg
• Find your way to Makerhaus to see works by the talented instructors that lead their incredible wealth of classes in adult arts & crafts.  The showcase, entitled ‘Haute For Teacher’, features Shogo Ota, Thom Jones, Emmett Lalish, Patrick Maher, Carl Meinzinger, and Katharine Andrews

• Don’t miss GiGi Retro-Inspired Clothing, and a display of works by Rosanne Gialanella

Other established FFF venues, and fascinating Fremont businesses, will be showing:

• The beautiful Bellefleur Lingerie has drawings by Chantal Robert
• At ArtFX Gallery, see works by Marta Konstacky – barista by day, artist by night
• Stroll down to Johnston Architects to experience the drawings of registered architect Gail Wong, a member of Seattle Urban Sketchers and the Urban Sketchers Workshop Committee
• Step inside Pel’Meni Dumpling Tzar to meet Amaranta Ibarra-Sandys and see her Mexican inspired, multi-media works
• Stop at Hub and Bespoke, and peruse the unique photography of Shelley Engels – printed on a brushed aluminum surface
• The always intriguing Fremont Jewelry Design offers mixed-media, slightly gothic assemblages by Lisa Lemire
• Visit the Fremont Starbucks for an experience of encaustic paintings by Kari Westphal of Daisy Sky Studio

• Don’t miss the merriment at Portage Bay Goods as they show the imagery of children’s book illustrator Matthew Porter
• Balance Studio will be showing prints of the wood cut carvings of Salvadorian artist Nilo Dos Santos
• Inside the Fremont Village, Intuitive Bodywork has an exhibition of photos for sale by Tina Carter
• In the Space Building, find exhibition of natural photos by Scott Rude (2^nd floor,) a collective show by NW Artist Connection (3^rd floor,) and fashion-inspired acrylic paintings by Anya Zaytseva (4^th floor.)
• In the Saturn Building, experience paintings of nature, music, mythology and community by Bill Matthews (1^st/2^nd floors,) illustrations by visual and culinary artist Sean McFadyen (3^rd floor,) photos by commercial/journalist photographer Noel Poage (4^th floor,) and photos of the feminine by Natasha Komoda (5^th floor.)
• Also, inside Suite #328 of the Saturn Building, see the Doors Of Beauty & Intrigue exhibition of photographer Arturo Torres

…and what Fremont Month would not be right without another amazing retrospective brought to Fremont by our favorite Frame-Up Studios!  In honor of all things fabulously Fremont-esque, and as a fundraiser for the vital programs of Solid Ground, Frame-Up will once again be selling Fremont Fair posters with a portion of all sales going to end poverty.  As a part of that initiative, Frame-Up has a display of past Fremont Fair poster art dating back to 1989 – the first year of the Fremont Arts Council Solstice Parade (coming this year on June 22^nd at 3p.)  See the way the Fremont Fair sensibility has changed over the decades – and the way it hasn’t!

Whatever you do this Friday, enjoy your time in Fremont and celebrating the Center of the Universe.  Check back on the Fremont First Friday Art Walk website for updates and changes to the listings above – and see it all!