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2nd Friday Circuit of Art in April is all about living a green lifestyle. The Norman Arts Council has collaborated with the Oklahoma Travel and Recreation Department, the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau to create an ECO 2nd Friday Scavenger Hunt from 6:00 – 8:00 pm April 8, 2011. Restaurants, coffee shops, and even the Norman Music Festival are working to become ECO Certified with TravelOK. To initiate this process, the Norman Arts Council invites community members to take part in a scavenger hunt of sorts. The hunt will lead participants to Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar, Gray Owl Coffee, Blu Fine Wine & Food, Pink Elephant Café, and end at STASH. Environmental groups will also be set up at each venue to greet participants and inform the participants of the environmental efforts throughout Norman. The participating groups are the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, Sierra Club–Red Earth Group, Oklahoma Sustainability Network & Norman Sustainability Network, OUr Earth, and the Norman Music Festival Green Committee. Participants who complete the trip to all five locations will enter to win prizes from the Norman Arts Council and the Oklahoma Travel and Recreation Department. Keeping with the green theme, the Native Roots Market will be hosting a plant sale with local farmers on their sidewalk from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Keep an eye out for their “Bag Monster” who will be roaming around 2nd Friday and making appearances at the green footprints downtown. STASH is featuring artist Timothy Elliott. Elliott paints things into old paintings, re-purposing them. This show will feature amended old arts (mostly paintings) that Elliott has rescued from all over. This is a very kid friendly show, because they tend to love the monsters that he paints. These and many other events will take place during the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art throughout Norman on April 8, 2011 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. The Norman Arts Council once again invites music fans to the Norman Music Festival Wine Share from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The event has been relocated for this month to the Downtown Sound at 115 South Crawford between Main Street and Comanche Street. 2nd Friday Circuit of Art – a monthly, citywide celebration of art – is a collaboration between artists, art organizations, and businesses, brought to you by the Norman Arts Council. Whether you like dance, painting, photography, or music, there will be something for you to see and hear during the 2nd Friday of this month in Norman. All events are free and open to the public from 6:00 p.m. until at least 9:00 p.m.  More information is available online at www.2ndFridayNorman.com. For information on other Norman Arts Council events, please visit www.NormanArts.org, or call the NAC office at 405-360-1162. Other 2nd Friday events include: The Performing Arts Studio (200 S Jones Avenue) is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Heidi James. James paints in the realist tradition. “Shapes and colors have always drawn my eye and I enjoy learning the various techniques of applying paint to canvas,” says James. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (555 Elm Ave) is offering Op art as the classroom art activity; live music by the OU School of Music’s Native Flute Studio, Saxophone Quartets, and the OU Steel Drum Band; and short films Bicycle Cowboy and Mr. Hypnotism by the deadCENTER Film Festival. Firehouse Art Center (444 S Flood) will feature the Corazon Watkins & Carolyn Faseler Exhibition, which will be on display at the FAC Gallery through April 18, 2011.  Jacobson House (609 Chautauqua Ave) welcomes all art walkers to visit its gallery and learn about the history of the Jacobson House, the Kiowa Five, as well as the many artists that call it home. The Norman Public Library (225 N. Webster Ave.) will have a come-and-go event that will feature Anne Morand, co-curator of the Bison exhibit when it originally was developed by the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mont., who will discuss the exhibit with guests in attendance. Morand, curator of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, also will be at the library throughout the festival that takes place on Sunday. Sonder Music (225 E Gray St.) presents Sarah Engel and Stewart Street Stringworks with a multimedia art exhibit exploring homemade musical instruments, with live performance by The Gimp’s Nephew at 8:30 p.m. The first known illustration of a cigar box instrument occurs in an etching from 1864. Come see present day cigar box instruments! Dreamer Concepts (324 E Main St.) will host an opening reception for Dreamer 33: Music Made Visual featuring over 25 artists who created works related to music. The exhibit is not only visually stimulating, but is interactive.  ‘Round the House Consignment Furniture (325 E Main St) will be having a sale on all framed artwork as well as refreshments for their guests. MAINSITE Contemporary Art (122 E Main St) presents the 2011 OU MFA Exhibition: Opening Reception. After three years of hard work Samantha Dillehay, Mark Zimmerman, and Michael Elizondo Jr. will feature a diverse body of work including media, photography, and painting. Elusive (209 W Main St) presents Live soldering of art: Eleven Endeavor’s at Elusive. Come see jewelry making in person and purchase what is created for you! STASH (412 E Main St) is featuring artist Timothy Elliott. Elliott paints things into old paintings, re-purposing them. This show will feature amended old arts (mostly paintings) that he has rescued from all over. This is a very kid friendly show, because they tend to love the monsters that he paints. Native Roots Market (132 W Main St.) welcomes PASSPORTS – Norman’s International and Sister City Organization – Photography Contest. Photos for the Student Contest “My Hometown-Norman” will depict sights and scenes of Norman that best show our city, people and culture that we can share with our Sister Cities in other countries. The International Travel Contest is open to all ages and requires the photos were taken outside the United States. Gray Owl Coffee (223 E Gray St) is hosting the “In My Own Time” exhibition opening. Please come by and check out work by Michael Lortz, Ruth Ann Loveland, Margaret Kinkeade, and Lulu Wolf. Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar (207 E Main St) will host John Calvin, Justin Bloss, and Joe Hopkins. Folk/Blues, Red Dirt/Country, and Singer/Songwriter music will be played in a round style. Downtown Sound (115 S Crawford) presents POST TRAUMATIC SOUP – New Work from the KND and Friends. Sculptures and paintings from the old school KND FOLK. Artists include: Mr. Haveldids and Nots, The Father Phil, Rebelline, Spencer Tracy, Erica Nichols, Erin Elise, Mark White, Mandy Black, Nick Lillard, Joshie Thunders, Elly Edmondson, Darren Anderson, Tamara Jones, Mike Thurman, and Michael Kirby. Anty Shanty (318 E. Main) once again brings music to 2nd Friday with local favorites Samantha Crain, Penny Hill, and The Boom Bang. Music begins at 7:30 pm. The Art Therapy Center (123 E. Tonhawa St, #108) will have art, art therapists, and snacks. There will also be a tye dye fundraiser for Norman Groovefest. Visitors can tye dye their own fun stuff or dye ours. They have plenty of Groovefest tshirts to sell and dye for future sales. Gallery123 (123 E. Main St.) celebrates its 1st Birthday! The artists will have a birthday cake to share as well as other surprises. There will also be a drawing for 2 gift certificates, each worth $50, to be redeemed in the gallery for merchandise. The drawing will be at 8:30 and you don’t have to be present to win. Only one ticket person.

2nd Friday Circuit of Art in April is all about living a green lifestyle. The Norman Arts Council has collaborated with the Oklahoma Travel and Recreation Department, the Department of Environmental Quality, and the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau to create an ECO 2nd Friday Scavenger Hunt from 6:00 – 8:00 pm April 8, 2011.

Restaurants, coffee shops, and even the Norman Music Festival are working to become ECO Certified with TravelOK. To initiate this process, the Norman Arts Council invites community members to take part in a scavenger hunt of sorts. The hunt will lead participants to Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar, Gray Owl Coffee, Blu Fine Wine & Food, Pink Elephant Café, and end at STASH.

Environmental groups will also be set up at each venue to greet participants and inform the participants of the environmental efforts throughout Norman. The participating groups are the Oklahoma Food Cooperative, Sierra Club–Red Earth Group, Oklahoma Sustainability Network & Norman Sustainability Network, OUr Earth, and the Norman Music Festival Green Committee.

Participants who complete the trip to all five locations will enter to win prizes from the Norman Arts Council and the Oklahoma Travel and Recreation Department.

Keeping with the green theme, the Native Roots Market will be hosting a plant sale with local farmers on their sidewalk from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Keep an eye out for their “Bag Monster” who will be roaming around 2nd Friday and making appearances at the green footprints downtown.

STASH is featuring artist Timothy Elliott. Elliott paints things into old paintings, re-purposing them. This show will feature amended old arts (mostly paintings) that Elliott has rescued from all over. This is a very kid friendly show, because they tend to love the monsters that he paints.

These and many other events will take place during the 2nd Friday Circuit of Art throughout Norman on April 8, 2011 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm.

The Norman Arts Council once again invites music fans to the Norman Music Festival Wine Share from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. The event has been relocated for this month to the Downtown Sound at 115 South Crawford between Main Street and Comanche Street.

2nd Friday Circuit of Art – a monthly, citywide celebration of art – is a collaboration between artists, art organizations, and businesses, brought to you by the Norman Arts Council. Whether you like dance, painting, photography, or music, there will be something for you to see and hear during the 2nd Friday of this month in Norman. All events are free and open to the public from 6:00 p.m. until at least 9:00 p.m. 

More information is available online at www.2ndFridayNorman.com. For information on other Norman Arts Council events, please visit www.NormanArts.org, or call the NAC office at 405-360-1162.

Other 2nd Friday events include:

The Performing Arts Studio (200 S Jones Avenue) is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Heidi James. James paints in the realist tradition. “Shapes and colors have always drawn my eye and I enjoy learning the various techniques of applying paint to canvas,” says James.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (555 Elm Ave) is offering Op art as the classroom art activity; live music by the OU School of Music’s Native Flute Studio, Saxophone Quartets, and the OU Steel Drum Band; and short films Bicycle Cowboy and Mr. Hypnotism by the deadCENTER Film Festival.

Firehouse Art Center (444 S Flood) will feature the Corazon Watkins & Carolyn Faseler Exhibition, which will be on display at the FAC Gallery through April 18, 2011. 

Jacobson House (609 Chautauqua Ave) welcomes all art walkers to visit its gallery and learn about the history of the Jacobson House, the Kiowa Five, as well as the many artists that call it home.

The Norman Public Library (225 N. Webster Ave.) will have a come-and-go event that will feature Anne Morand, co-curator of the Bison exhibit when it originally was developed by the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Mont., who will discuss the exhibit with guests in attendance. Morand, curator of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, also will be at the library throughout the festival that takes place on Sunday.

Sonder Music (225 E Gray St.) presents Sarah Engel and Stewart Street Stringworks with a multimedia art exhibit exploring homemade musical instruments, with live performance by The Gimp’s Nephew at 8:30 p.m. The first known illustration of a cigar box instrument occurs in an etching from 1864. Come see present day cigar box instruments!

Dreamer Concepts (324 E Main St.) will host an opening reception for Dreamer 33: Music Made Visual featuring over 25 artists who created works related to music. The exhibit is not only visually stimulating, but is interactive. 

‘Round the House Consignment Furniture (325 E Main St) will be having a sale on all framed artwork as well as refreshments for their guests.

MAINSITE Contemporary Art (122 E Main St) presents the 2011 OU MFA Exhibition: Opening Reception. After three years of hard work Samantha Dillehay, Mark Zimmerman, and Michael Elizondo Jr. will feature a diverse body of work including media, photography, and painting.

Elusive (209 W Main St) presents Live soldering of art: Eleven Endeavor’s at Elusive. Come see jewelry making in person and purchase what is created for you!

STASH (412 E Main St) is featuring artist Timothy Elliott. Elliott paints things into old paintings, re-purposing them. This show will feature amended old arts (mostly paintings) that he has rescued from all over. This is a very kid friendly show, because they tend to love the monsters that he paints.

Native Roots Market (132 W Main St.) welcomes PASSPORTS – Norman’s International and Sister City Organization – Photography Contest. Photos for the Student Contest “My Hometown-Norman” will depict sights and scenes of Norman that best show our city, people and culture that we can share with our Sister Cities in other countries. The International Travel Contest is open to all ages and requires the photos were taken outside the United States.

Gray Owl Coffee (223 E Gray St) is hosting the “In My Own Time” exhibition opening. Please come by and check out work by Michael Lortz, Ruth Ann Loveland, Margaret Kinkeade, and Lulu Wolf.

Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar (207 E Main St) will host John Calvin, Justin Bloss, and Joe Hopkins. Folk/Blues, Red Dirt/Country, and Singer/Songwriter music will be played in a round style.

Downtown Sound (115 S Crawford) presents POST TRAUMATIC SOUP – New Work from the KND and Friends. Sculptures and paintings from the old school KND FOLK. Artists include: Mr. Haveldids and Nots, The Father Phil, Rebelline, Spencer Tracy, Erica Nichols, Erin Elise, Mark White, Mandy Black, Nick Lillard, Joshie Thunders, Elly Edmondson, Darren Anderson, Tamara Jones, Mike Thurman, and Michael Kirby.

Anty Shanty (318 E. Main) once again brings music to 2nd Friday with local favorites Samantha Crain, Penny Hill, and The Boom Bang. Music begins at 7:30 pm.

The Art Therapy Center (123 E. Tonhawa St, #108) will have art, art therapists, and snacks. There will also be a tye dye fundraiser for Norman Groovefest. Visitors can tye dye their own fun stuff or dye ours. They have plenty of Groovefest tshirts to sell and dye for future sales.

Gallery123 (123 E. Main St.) celebrates its 1st Birthday! The artists will have a birthday cake to share as well as other surprises. There will also be a drawing for 2 gift certificates, each worth $50, to be redeemed in the gallery for merchandise. The drawing will be at 8:30 and you don’t have to be present to win. Only one ticket person.

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