Due to inclement weather, a majority of First Fridays participating venues will be closed this evening, Friday, February 5, although a select group will be open for regular operating hours.

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Tomorrow’s First Friday is running right up against a call for yet more winter weather. It could be a beautiful urban winter experience, with people out and about & the street lights and storefronts reflecting on the falling snow…

… so don’t go tomorrow night unless it’s for dinner and stroll. There is other good news from the Curated Culture  blog:

Christina is moving back downtown – “we’ll have an office space at 323 West Broad Street at the Artisan Alley building.  Artisan Alley is an old warehouse/storefront on Broad Street that’s built out for individual studio/office spaces, so you’ll find an eclectic mix of artists, small businesses, and artist exhibition space open during First Fridays”

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Via the Rumors Botique twitter:

CAPS team ruins first friday by shutting down Gallery Five fire spinners and enforcing a limit of 15 people at a time in galleries on broad.

Also on the Rumors blog:

Earlier in the day Casey heard that the CAPS team would be harrasing the galleries on broad street so I was not shocked when I saw the police officers shutting down the fire spinners infront of Gallery Five. The fire spinners have been active on first fridays for over 5 years.

Earlier this year Rumors had a run in with CAPS over the city’s 7% admissions tax.

The first of the First Fridays Artwalk of the fall is this week. Dress a little warmly and come out to check out Richmond’s thriving independent and indigenous arts community.

The weather folks are saying it might be a tad rainy, but you should still try to check out some of the featured exhibitions.

Click here to get a map of the galleries (also available on firstfridays.com).

This Friday is First Friday and that means new shows! Before or after the Grand Illumination head north and check out Jamie Boling and Bill Donovan at Transmission Gallery, Gallery5’s National Juried Contemporary Craft Competition Sleight of Hand, art6’s Art in a Box Members Invitational, the grand opening of the holiday art/craft market at the fawn shop, AND MORE…

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Shop local for the holiday season and support local artists @ the fawn shop (201 West Broad Street). Grand opening will be First Friday Dec.5

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First Friday is tonight! Check out the myriad openings and the enthusiastic throng and along the way stop by the Metro Market at Metro Space @ 119 West Broad Street. More from Team 8:

This market will feature many local artists and vendors and take place in the heart of First Friday on November 7th, 2008. We’ll be there at 119 West Broad Street (across the street from Comfort Restaurant and Theater IV) Richmond, Virginia 23220-4214. So come and see us in time for the holidays. Proceeds will help benefit True Love Press, a local community screen printing shop being set up in conjunction with the gallery.

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1708 Gallery’s inlight Richmond will occur from 7PM to midnight this Friday, September 5th. The 100 through 400 blocks of West Broad Street will be closed to cars and will serve as a site specific arena for art. Various locations within these block have been identified as primary and secondary sites with walls, parking lots, storefronts, doorways and median strips as possible platforms for artistic engagement. This is one not to be missed…

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Art6, Gallery5, Transmission, Quirk, AND MORE… First Fridays Artwalk is brought to you by Curated Culture and sponsored by the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond.

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