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FEATURE ArtWalk of life ■ Downtown Eugene will liven up every Friday when art galleries stay open late to show off opening shows By Diane Huber for the Emerald Jacobs Gallery employees are re painting walls eggshell white and midnight blue. Local artists Megan O’Connell, Libby Wadsworth and Re becca Urlacher are measuring wall space, examining angles and carefully placing their works of art in prepara tion for today’s First Friday ArtWalk. The first Friday of every month, downtown Eugene livens up when local galleries stay open late to show off their opening shows, local mu sicians play on the sidewalks and the Lane Arts Council leads a tour of the galleries. Students can begin their evening meandering through local art galleries, snacking on cheese puffs and learning about Eu gene’s local art scene. “The purpose is to coordinate (the galleries’) openings, then pro vide a tour,” Lane Arts Council Di rector Douglas Beauchamp said. “The focus is to highlight the visual art downtown.” Usually 100 to 200 people partici pate in the free monthly tour of four to six galleries, he said. Today’s tour begins at 5:30 p.m. at Scan/Design Furniture. The gallery will feature local clay artists, photo graphs by Adrienne Adam and a woodworking demonstration by Ben Ferrell. The next stop is Criterion Gallery for a look at beginning artist Jean De nis’ oil and pastel portraits of peo ple, trees, landscapes and still lifes. Criterion’s manager Ronda Cobb said the gallery has been participat ing in the ArtWalk since January. First Friday ArtWaiktour 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today Stop #1: Scan/Design Furniture, 856 Willamette St. Stop #2: Criterion Gallery, 35 W. Eighth Ave. Stop #3: Jacobs Gallery, lower level of Hult Center Stop #4: Vivace Gallery, 207 £. Fifth Ave. Alsoopen late, but not part of the tour: White Lotus Gallery, 767 Willamette St Circle of Hands, 1030 W. Broadway New Zone Artist Collective at the Downtown Lounge, 959 Pearl St. MobelwetKs, 180 E. Fifth Ave. Maude Kerns Art Center, 1910£.15thAm Source: lane Arts Council “In a way, it brings customers into the gallery. It’s a way of advertis ing,” Cobb said. “And it helps the artist at the same time. ” Jacobs Gallery will be the third stop. The gallery is a “main stop” in almost every ArtWalk,gallery assis tant Corinna Freeman said. Jacobs Gallery has no permanent artists, she said, which gives it the opportunity to reorganize the inte rior with each new show. “Every new exhibition is an op portunity to completely change the space,” she said. “We involve the artists, look at the artwork and see how it will be best displayed.” O’Connell and Wadsworth decid ed to display their paintings, tablets and letterpress printings together at Jacobs Gallery because they say their work connects well together. “We are both interested in the vi sual qualities of language by open ing up interpretation and question ing the authority of the declarative nature of text,” O’Connell said. “You believe what you read and you believe what you see,” Wadsworth added. O’Connell and Wadsworth ques tion these principles through their art, she said. For example, Wadsworth breaks up longer words that have words within them. “Titillate” is broken into a grid of three words: “tit,” “ill,” and “ate” in one of her pieces. She often incorporates diagrams, phras es and grids into her paintings. “I’m interested in words becom ing visual objects,” she said. O’Connell primarily uses pas sages from Virginia Woolf’s novel, “Orlando,” because of Woolf’s ex ploration of the “rules and codes” of gender, which she said relates to rules of language. “The way she forms phrases and words really speaks to me,” she said. “The challenge is trying to put those in a contemporary context.” Rebecca Urlacher will also show her porcelain forms at Jacobs gallery. The tour will conclude around 8:30 p.m. at the “Vivacious Gardens” show at Vivace Gallery, which fea tures a variety of outdoor sculpture. Beauchamp encourages people to continue the tour on their own to oth er galleries in town that also coordi nate their openings with First Friday. For example, Maude Kerns Art Center will be open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to display its group fabric show. 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