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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
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
September 2022
Though a lifelong sketcher, Bernadette began painting in 2011 after retiring. She continues to vary her technique and to find a multitude of styles unique to her. While acrylic painting is her go to medium, Bernadette also does needle felting, mosaics, clay sculpting, and has even started jewelry making.

First Friday Art Walk
July 2022
Jeremy is a lifelong Midwesterner and a photographer who lives in Topeka. During the pandemic, he used his time to focus on his art and turn photography from a hobby to a chance to use the artform as a means to tell a story, raise awareness and show the beauty of our world.

First Friday Art Walk
June 2022
Starting her art journey in 2007, Oshara considers herself a healing creative artist. She is the happiest when others see her work and make their own interpretations of what it means. She loves to create jewelry, wall hangings and everything in between.

First Friday Art Walk
May 2022
Naomi has always had a creative urge. She came to be a watercolor artist after years of sculpting and painting waterfowl out of wood. She paints “plein air” or based off photos taken from her travels, giving her a wide variety of subjects. The natural beauty of the outdoors, its changing seasons and mood, influences her palette.

First Friday Art Walk
April 2022
The year of 2022 is about a new journey, so Becky is approaching her art using a new “paint over” technique, which takes an old painting that failed and adds new life to it by painting over it. She continues to use her colorful style, but with bigger blocks of color that are splashed upon the surface. This more abstract impressionistic style is about more freedom, exploring color using quicker and broader brush strokes.

First Friday Art Walk
February 2022
As a native Kansan, Phyllis enjoys the marvels of our state, getting her interpretations from its beauty. She has been painting for the past 40 years, always learning more through workshops. Her show will feature a collection of “plein air” watercolor paintings. Paintings based on photographs she has taken of Kansas.

First Friday Art Walk
December 2021
Kyle, is a Kansas City-based artist best known for his Firework Residue Paintings which explore ideas surrounding nostalgia, spirituality, and the sublime. These sudden bursts of light ignite a part of the human spirit which innately captivates and temporarily mesmerizes.

First Friday Art Walk
November 2021
Vaughn comes from a family of wood masters and has made a variety of home furnishings. His pursuit of top-notch wood products has led to an absolutely astounding piece of wood art in the solid and segmented bowls that he turns on his lathe.

Using primarily watercolors, Susie loves to create and paint all the things around her, making the world her playground. She grew up on a farm so the love of the country is expressed in her work.