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First Friday Art Walk
October 2022
Ye, a professor of painting at Washburn University who was born in Sichuan China, has expanded his subject from figures to Kansas landscapes. Trying to capture the beautiful moments of light in nature with oil and watercolor, his paintings tend to be classical-impressionistic with dramatic light effects.

First Friday Art Walk
November 2022
Jancy was introduced to meditative martial arts forms called Qigong and Tai Chi, which revolutionized her approach to artmaking. This universal energy, sometimes referred to as “Chi” literally moves her in a spontaneous, free-flowing way to create images, with no pre-planning or pre-conceived ideas. Her show combines paintings completed just using her hands to “fingerpaint” while doing Tai Chi and ceramic pieces formed by sometimes using small drawing tools, while moving chi through her hands.

First Friday Art Walk
December 2022
Travis, a Topeka native, utilizes a wide range of mediums to achieve his artistic vision. He typically works in photography, digital drawing, painting and colored pencils.

First Friday Art Walk
January 2023
As an artist, Lori has experimented in many styles of art as well as mediums, painting human and animal portraits, landscapes, flowers as well as fantasy. Her prevailing style now is abstract acrylic, finding creativity in the freedom of the abstract form, as she translates the feelings to her paintings.

First Friday Art Walk
February 2023
Art is Gail’s passion and life’s work. Her non-objective acrylic paintings show the relationships between colors and textures, from subtle change to strong contrast. Though acrylic painting is Gail’s main medium, she also works with digital art, using her own photographs and manipulating them digitally.

First Friday Art Walk
March 2023
NexLynx Gallery showcases the works of 9th – 12th grade art students from Hayden Catholic High School. Displaying pieces in a variety of mediums including paintings, drawings, ceramics, and jewelry.

First Friday Art Walk
April 2023
Local artist, Ryan Ogle, has an eccentric eye for detail, imagination, experimentation and above all, passion for photography. He boasts a diverse collection of work, ranging from landscapes, wildlife & nature, street photography, and reality-bending digital manipulations.

First Friday Art Walk
May 2023
Hi will display oil paintings, using an ‘underpainting technique’, which involves painting a base layer acting as a foundation for other layers. Michael will exhibit clay pieces and etchings revealing his artistic talents and passion for the two styles.

First Friday Art Walk
June 2023
A resident of Kansas City, Karen is passionate about creating artwork that expresses life in what she sees in people, wildlife and nature. Depicting emotion and capturing a unique moment in time with monochrome or vibrant colors using acrylic, pastel, color pencil, chalk graphite, oil pastel and pyrography.

First Friday Art Walk
July 2023
Kathy, a Kansas City artist, has been immersing herself in art for decades, working with mediums such as pastels, color pencils, acrylics, oil and watercolors. Her artwork includes pyrography, combining woodburning with acrylic paint.