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First Friday Art & Studio Stroll

First Friday Art & Studio Stroll

SUREL MITCHELL LIVE-WORK-CREATE DISTRICT
FIRST FRIDAY PREVIEW: ARTcadia

Friday, December 5th | 5:30pm - 8:30pm

We are so excited to partner with Arcadia Hotel this December 5th to present a fairly blatant tribute to the MODERN ART event held for nine years at The Modern Hotel. We invited artists to apply with their ideas for one-night only installations at the Arcadia Hotel on Chinden (the hotel on stilts.) Dozens applied, but we aren’t quite as big as The Modern, so we had to select a few.

Installation Artists:

Sam Archide - Lift the veil to discover a Filipina medicine woman

Andrew Groth & Gia Strang - These sticky hotel guests may never leave

Susan Lasater, Veiko Valencia, and Rebecca Evans - There’s a cougar in Room 29.

Brie Schettle - A high desert ecosystem inside a hotel?

Becka Schrinsky - Discover your inner child… in a prom dress.

Megan White - The web of an orb weaver spider is forming under the hotel.

Ace Zappa (below) - A Giant Palouse Earthworm. Any questions?

Being in December (rather than May, like at the Modern) our event will have a bit of a holiday bazaar vibe with a fire pit, beverages, snacks, and booths from local artists in the courtyard below the installation rooms. Art and experience vendors will include dance, jewelry, crochet, and more.

This is just one of the exciting venues that will be open. We’ll highlight more in our next newsletter, but you can look forward to new venues like Black Moon and our regulars: The Common Well, Visual Arts Collective, Create Gallery, The Holdover House, Madacsi Studios, The Riverside Hotel, Zion Warne Glass Blowing, sPacePort, Surel’s Place, and more. Check out the map as it develops here.

We're excited! They'll be a lot going on with the following vendors also participating:
Natalie / Dance - Onyx Dance
Rachel / Jewelry- Homestead Creations
Andrea / Crochet- Turtles Dream
Clay By Shay
Esela/ Grains- Holy Sweet Grains
Leslie/ Jewelry- Resin Obsession
Telaya
Susan / Soup- Seeds Roots and Shoots
Matt- MT Crate Cafe
Allie- Hip Pop Hooray

Live-Work-Create District
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM on Fri, 5 Dec 2025

Event Supported By

Surel's Place
info@surelsplace.org
Live-Work-Create District
info@surelsplace.org