Downtown Boone First Friday Art Crawl

Join us for a special exhibition of life drawing at the TCVA to celebrate ASU’s Department of Art & the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts partnership. This special exhibition presents drawings from the first ever Spring Draw-A-Thon that occurred last weekend. (Friday 5pm-8pm)

Details about the Draw-A-Thon:
The Spring Draw-a-thon was a free campus and community inclusive event that celebrates and promotes drawing, creativity, spontaneity, and artistic collaboration. Students, professors, and local artists (of all levels and ages) were invited to gather at the Turchin Center to draw from life models during a two-day event with the goal of creating a casual, fun atmosphere that is open to the curious novice, the devoted expert, and every level in between.

We were pleased to that Artpurveyors.com served as the official sponsor for Draw-A-Thon who featured products from General Pencil Company of Jersey City, New Jersey, with special thanks to Mike Hill.

Organizational and program support was provided by the Arts Management Organization (AMO), the Looking Glass Gallery, the Plemmons Student Union, and TCVA Community Art School. Our community sponsors include: Hungry Howie’s Pizza, Papa Johns Pizza, Mountain Bagels, Stick Boy Bread Company, Espresso News, Ingles Markets, Inc., Lowes Foods, Inc, and Harris Teeter. Each of these local businesses has graciously donated supplies for this event. We were grateful to partner with so many wonderful sponsors that donated time and services to this event.

This event ws organized by the Department of Art and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts and is sponsored by the Arts Management Organization (AMO).

Each month the Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA) hosts the Art Crawl which happens every First Friday.

Event hours are 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. with galleries and shops open until 7:30 p.m., restaurants and bars open until 10 p.m. or 2 a.m. and two late-night galleries, open on Art Crawl nights only, from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Also, check out Art Crawl Presents… a music event featuring one of our great local bands, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., at a new downtown location each month. Art Crawl: Food, Music, Shopping, Art & Spirits.

Downtown Boone advocates have been promoting a thriving arts community for years and care deeply about investing the area’s future; public art is an excellent avenue to emphasize our civic pride and unique culture.