Poetry and music will enrich visual art displays during Red Deer’s First Friday gallery receptions for August.
Literary artists Beverley Beckley, Sabrina Samuel and Ash Mercia will read their poetry from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Aug. 5 First Friday Buzz Word poetry presentation at the Red Deer Arts Council’s new gallery, located at Unit 6, 4919-49th Street. The group exhibit Garden Works: Bug to Bloom, visual art from six local artists, can be seen at the same gallery until Aug. 30.
Winning works by the Central Alberta Photographic Society are showing at the Kiwanis Gallery run by the Red Deer Arts Council until Aug. 21. On the First Friday of August, musician Dean Ray will perform during the 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. reception downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library downtown. There will be refreshments and the photographers present.
Urban views by acrylic painter and photographer William Armstrong, of Red Deer, will be featured — along with multi-media works by Carol Lynn Gilchrist — at the Riverlands Studio and Gallery from Aug. 5 to 26. The First Friday reception will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Oil paintings by local artist Philip Gauthier are on display at the Brush With Desire exhibit at A+ Art Gallery and Unique Collections, unit 203-4919-49th St.
Mixed-media works by Brad Olstad can be seen at Curiosity Art and Framing, Bay 4, 4676- 61st Street thorough to October. A First Friday reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., with the artist attending.
Alberta Skies, an exhibit by Osi Cruz-Lahtinen can be seen into September at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. The artist will attend the 4-6 p.m. First Friday reception.
Other art exhibits can also be seen around Red Deer, without receptions. These are:
Prints and drawings inspired by traditional Ukrainian egg decorations are showing in the exhibit To be Written, by Edmonton’s Elise Futoransky, at the Viewpoint Gallery in the City of Red Deer’s Culture Services building, until Aug. 26. The gallery will be open until 8 p.m. on First Friday.
Nine-year-old artist Claire Giles, fro Alix is showing her multi-media works in the Corridor Community Gallery downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre until Aug. 3.
And ongoing exhibits Tracing Tides, by Edmonton’s Lyndal Osborne, and In Adoration of the Precarious Bee, by Red Deer’s Dawn Detarando, are on at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until Sept. 6 and Aug. 20, respectively.
lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com
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