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Say goodbye to winter at Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings

April 5th opening art receptions include some music and theatre
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I’ve Been Knitting Up a Storm, a painting by Susan Barker, can be seen in the Red Deer Arts Council exhibit Baby It’s Cold Out Here, at the downtown public library. (Contributed photo).

Colourful art and music will help usher Old Man Winter out the door during Red Deer’s First Friday gallery openings for April.

With temperatures about to push up into the double digits, the Red Deer Arts Council joint exhibit, Baby It’s Cold Out Here, in the Kiwanis Gallery, provides a compelling recap of a chilly season that’s now hopefully behind us.

Red Deer’s roots-rock duo Wiklund vs Wiklund will entertain at the exhibit’s First Friday reception April 5 from 6 to 8 p.m., downstairs at the Red Deer Public Library.

(Please note, this reception is open to arts council members and invited guests. Please call the council for more information).

The Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery is showing a plethora of art from talented Red Deer College visual art students. The opening reception for the mixed-media exhibition, Fast, Forward, is from 5 to 8 p.m.

Meanwhile, RDC alumni will be exhibiting their visual art a few blocks west, in the Welikoklad Event Centre Gallery. It will be open from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, while a free show of music and theatre from the school of creative arts takes the Welikoklad Event Centre stage from 7 p.m.

A local artist collective is presenting The Community Bee Garden at The Hub on Ross Arts Gallery, 4936 Ross St. The mixed-media exhibit’s First Friday reception is from 1 to 3 p.m.

Central Alberta artist Judy Sutter is showing her paintings at the new Sunworks location, 110-4913 Gaetz Ave. The Friday reception is from 6 to 8 p.m.

Silhouettes of Alberta, a show of acrylic and resin works by Reagan Emily, is on at A + Art Gallery & Unique Collections, Unit 203, 4919 49th St. The opening reception is Friday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Full Circle, acrylic on canvas works by artist Peter Caden, is on display at The Velvet Olive Lounge, 4928C 50th St. (Entry via 51st Street alleyway). The Friday opening is from 6 to 9 p.m.

Other gallery shows, without First Friday receptions, can also be seen around Red Deer:

* Alberta’s Native Flora, mixed-media pieces by members of the Red Deer Art Club, can be seen at the Marjorie Wood Gallery in the Kerry Wood Nature Centre.

* Artist Ashley Hunt is presenting Alberta in Abstraction Vol. 1 in the Corridor Community Gallery, downstairs at the Red Deer Recreation Centre.

* The Viewpoint Gallery in the city’s cultural services centre, 3827 39th St., is featuring a “behind-the-scenes peek” at the art submission process for past city competitions.

For more information, visit www.reddeer.ca/publicart or contact the public art co-ordinator at 403-406-8820.

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Wiklund vs Wiklund will play from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the downtown public library. (Contributed photo).