We invite you to participate in First Fridays. These monthly self-directed art crawls take place between three galleries in downtown Whitehorse (Arts Underground, Northern Cultural Expressions Society, and Yukon Artists at Work) on the first Friday of every month. Here’s what’s planned for February and March:
February 6 from 5-7 pm (4-7 pm at YAAW)
At YAAW, At the YAAW solo gallery (4th and Wood St.) our group show Reel Art: A Celebration of Yukon Cinema.
At Arts Underground, located in the basement of the Hougens Centre (305 Main Street), there’ll be a group exhibition in the Focus Gallery by Association franco-yukonnaise titled Maux & Merveilles. Featured artists include Aurore Favier, Cécile Girard, Françoise La Roche, Joe La Jolie, Karen Éloquin-Arseneau, and Maryne Dumaine. In the Edge Gallery there’ll be the opening for the show It’s Weird Down Here, a collaborative exhibition by Whitehorse-based illustrator Tedd Tucker and writer Amy Kenny, highlighting 10 of the 100 stories interpreted by their illustrated collection, It’s Weird Up Here.
Grace MacIntosh will be the featured artist at Northern Cultural Expressions Society (Main St. and 7th Ave.). Note that NCES is in the process of moving to a new location at 102 Lambert Street. Check with them to confirm the location of their event on Feb. 7th.
March 6th from 5-7 pm:
At YAAW, Heather Hyatt and Janet Patterson’s exhibition Once Upon a Time.
At Arts Underground, in the Focus Gallery, it’s Synaptic Chemistry by Jesse Devost. In the Edge Gallery, you’ll be able to take in an exhibition by the Teegatha’Oh Zheh Art Studio. The featured artists include Ernest Chua, Theresa Roberts, Lisa Bachli, Nicole Bauberger, Stefan Oettli, Arron Schilling, Hayley Halushka, Britt Cowper, Aimee Lien, Alana Dene, Rachel Dawson, Anna Thompson, Zachary Louie, and Fauve Berrel.