This past Friday was First Fridays on the Downtown Mall. Over the course of the next few days I want to share some fun photos from a few of my favorite galleries down there! We had such a great time wandering from gallery to gallery checking out the artwork and surrounding ourselves with the C'ville community. Our first stop on Friday evening was Second Street Gallery, located on Second Street SE right off the mall.
The Gallery is located in a fun and modern space, perfect for the style of artwork inside the building... contemorpary and cutting edge! Second Street Gallery held an early opening reception for their donors and members from 5-6 and opened their doors to the public at 6:30. We made our way into the Gallery around 7:00 and wandered the Gallery for nearly 30 minutes, sipping a glass of wine. One word of advice: get there right at 6:30 if you want to nibble on the hors d'oeuvres We missed the boat on that one... they had been catered by Mona Lisa Pasta!
I loved these two pieces. Second Street works to bring the public many mediums of art, from sculpture to acrylics, to mixed media the Gallery sure does covers a lot of ground!
Something really fun that took place at Second Street this Friday was the New Collector's Silent Auction! Affordable art was being offered through the form of a silent auction. Sheets of paper were placed next to the art and bids could be made until a certain hour of the night. Fun pieces were sold to locals for reasonable prices...what a fun way to get a new piece of artwork for your apartment!
First Fridays promotes a strong sense of community within Charlottesville. We are so lucky to have an event like this on the first Friday of every month. Anyone and everyone is welcome ( even the dogs!) into Second Street Gallery on First Fridays to view wonderful art and submerge themselves within the C'ville community.
Have a Super Sunday...and check back soon!
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