Third Friday Gallery Walk

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District Wide Events

May 17th’s Third Friday Gallery Walk kicks off our What’s Blooming on Harrison Festival

Harrison Works, 17 Harrison Street

Harrison Works proudly presents the art of Sandra Ragan. Sandra will be showing works inspired by The Beatles. Opening night is May 17th 6 – 10 pm. Saturday May 18th hours are 11am – 8pm. Other Beatles inspired works will be presented by gallery owner Liz Gaylord.

Art Gecko, 21 Harrison Street

Discover one of a kind found object jewelry and art in Lisa Nordstrom’s unique boutique and studio.

The Third Friday Gallery, Dancing Krow, 41-43 Harrison Street

Friday evening, Dancing Krow Studio & Third Friday Gallery is pleased to be joined by art students from Concordia University, Chicago. The students will display paintings, drawings and photographs alongside the Third Friday Gallery artists as they celebrate spring and creativity in salon-style with tea and lots of art to look at and purchase from floor to ceiling!

Flavor City Studios, 45 Harrison Street

A working artist studio featuring original works by Mike Bochner & Stephen Smith.

Eastgate Cafe & Gift Shop, 102 Harrison Street

Friday night listen to Scattin’ in Tongues while you dine on Eastgate’s newest menu item, Grilled Shrimp Salad.

Creative Changes Studio, 140 Harrison Street

Crack open your creativity at our Process Painting Open Studio. Explore and play with rich colors in an environment of safety and non-judgment, where your creative freedom will be nurtured and encouraged. No experience required, just curiosity. All supplies provided.

Bead in Hand, 145 Harrison Street

Bead in Hand, a full-service jewelry design shop, will have a $5 all-ages drop-in workshop both Friday night and Saturday. You and your family can make either a wind chime using recycled cds and old keys or a jangle bracelet with memory wire, rubber tubing, beads and bells.

Gallery PINK,149 Harrison

“Surface Pleasures” by artist Susan Sensemann is the latest eyecatching installation at Janice Elkins’ studio. Through May 18.

The Buzz Cafe, 905 S. Lombard Street

Looking to sit down with friends at a single evening-long event? Try Buzz After Hours . On Friday night at 7:00pm settle in for a delicious prix fixe dinner at Buzz Cafe. From 8:00 – 10:00pm join host Al DeGenova for Jazz/R&B vocalist and musician Sarah MarieYoung and performance poet extraordinaire Charlie Rossiter. For reservations (708)660-0894

Intuit Dance, 237 Harrison

Be a wallflower or shake it Friday evening as INTUIT hosts a full line up of classes. Stop in and check out TAP class from 7:00 – 8:00pm.

Val’s Halla, 239 Harrison

Stroll to Val’s halla for Oak Park musicologist David Patterson’s lecture “Beethoven — God or Monster?: Frank Lloyd Wright versus John Cage.” More than a century after his death, Beethoven was still a powerful figure who could inspire or repel, depending on one’s artistic leanings. To architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Beethoven was a hero, one of the “greatest architects” he knew of. To composer John Cage, he was nothing more than “a roll of toilet paper.” Equally extreme in either direction, both Wright and Cage frequently used Beethoven to prove their own points, and neither one had a problem with twisting the real image of Beethoven into any shape that might help their cause. 7:00pm.