This month featured a show dedicated to Obsolete Technology. This gallery is leased and operated by the College of Design, with two to three students curating it’s shows every month. Now, on to my favorite place – the Fish Market. There’s my bike, parked right by the entrance stairs into the Fish Market. This month’s opening showcased some really neat Philadelphia artists. John has already covered Lump briefly, but I’ll add that Lump gets the prize for ‘Most Contemporary Gallery’ and often has far more bizarre shows than any of the other area galleries. This was the first time I had stopped here on a first Friday. They were hosting a cool David Eichenberger show and it was packed.Īfter 101 we trekked up the street to Lump. It’s on the corner of Davie and Blount streets, caddy-corner to Artspace. One of Raleigh’s newest and hippest bars/lounges is 101. You can learn more on the Raleigh Quarterly web site. Around the walls were illustrations done by artists from across the nation. The second part was a reading of Big Beard, the Raleigh Quarterly’s children’s book about Big Beard, the brother of Black Beard. The first was a masquerade show where local artists decorated and designed a whole lot of cool masks. It’s a venerable confederation of creative firms whose services include product and graphic design, photography, architecture, landscape architecture, marketing, and more.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Box, it’s a very cool collaborative design think tank and gallery in the warehouse district. We left FM and made the trek up to DesignBox. I never actually made it inside this past first Friday, but you should check it out for the gear and the artwork. They always have really good shows – with a DJ.
#Designbox downtown raleigh free#
I always love going there because they usually have free beer and vitamin water as well as people break dancing outside. FM is a clothing boutique on Glenwood South that has a very fun and urban feel to it. They usually feature what they describe as compelling and innovative work and to their credit, it always is both compelling and innovative!Īfter RebusWorks we headed down to FM on Glenwood. RebusWorks is down by AntFarm right past the Boylan Bridge. The route we followed was from RebusWorks which had a neat political exhibit titled Pro/Con. This month was no exception, and due to the beautifully fall-tacular weather, we had a huge turnout! We had 35 riders when I took the picture above at RebusWorks. The advantages are that A) you can visit many more galleries over a much broader area than you could by foot, and B) that there is no problem finding a parking place right in front of the galleries. Typically we’re following our noses to the places with the free beer or wine as well as the places where our friends or colleagues have shows. Usually we have a good distribution of ages. Most are college aged or young professionals, although anyone and everyone is welcome. Also happening every first Friday of the month is a downtown bike ride often hijacking at least one lane of traffic. For me, it’s probably one of my favorite times of any given month because it’s a great opportunity to see many of my friends as well as check out the artwork. Many people drive downtown and walk to as many of the galleries as they can with the night usually culminating in a few drinks at a local bar. Every month on the first Friday, most, if not all, of the galleries in the downtown area open up their new exhibits with really enjoyable receptions.
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