Art is focus for February First Fridays
First Fridays Youngstown moves to Wick Avenue for February for “Date with an Artist.”
The Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., will be the primary location. Visitors can enjoy its permanent collection as well as the current exhibits “Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.: The Art Is on the Wall, Not the Posters,” “52nd Pastel Society of America Exhibition,” “85th Area Artist Annual” and “Charlee Brodsky: The Audacity of the Mundane.”
Daniel Rauschenbach will do a live art demonstration and music will be provided by Erick Ramos, violin, and Aaron White, piano, from 5 to 7 p.m. A Fresh Wind Catering will be serving vegetarian rolls and The Sprouted Table will have charcuterie while supplies last.
Attendees also can enjoy “Julia Betts: The Dams Are Broken,” “Anna Chapman: Underworld/Otherworld,” “Abby Cipar: Sometime, Somehow, For You,” “Will Hutnick: Queer Horizons” and “Sidney Mullis: Caught Skies & Pillowed Pines (Black Forest)” at the McDonough Museum of Art. “Crystal Miller: Adornment” is on display at the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery at Youngstown State University’s Bliss Hall, and “We Are the Stars” starts at 8 p.m. at YSU’s Ward Beecher Planetarium.
All activities are free. For more information, go to firstfridaysyoungstown.org.