July 2025
We have compiled a list of First Friday participants to allow you to experience the art of downtown! Please remember to follow each individual gallery's in-person policies & be sure to use #LNKFF when you post pictures to share your night!
101 N 14TH ST. | 6 PM
More details to come.
118 N 14TH ST. | 12 PM - 7:30 PM
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Burkholder Art Studio & Galleries
719 P ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
For July's First Friday event July 11, The Burkholder Project Gallery has invited artists who have had their artwork published in books to a pop-up book fair. Artists will be signing books and meeting gallery visitors on Friday, July 11, 5-8pm.
"The Day We Went to the Park" by Linda Stephen, published by Handersen Publishing, is one of the featured books. Each book artist will display 1-3 artworks, which will be on exhibit through July 24.
119 S. 9TH ST. |
Closed July 1-7
Sunday, July 13 (2-5 PM): Six Clements Noyes members and two guest artists will show new work in diverse media. Also that day, American Roots & Blues musician Nick Andrew Staver will perform. Doors open at 1 pm with the concert at 2 pm for a suggested donation of $10-$20 per person.
The Focus Gallery exhibit is curated by Clements Noyes artist Cindy McClellan whose 3D wall art explores texture and movement. McClellan also experiments with material, using everything from wood to wire to create objects that intrigue. The other artists featured in this show are: Rebecca Grooms (wood burning), Wendy Ketelsen (acrylic painting), Tanya Grosshans (acrylic painting), Ed Millican (oil painting), Julia Noyes (acrylic & oil painting), Annie West (jewelry & suncatchers), and Julie Willcock (jewelry).
Featured musician Nick Andrew Staver has emerged as a captivating American Roots & Blues singer-songwriter from the blue collar valleys of southern Pennsylvania. Writing and recording as an independent solo artist the last decade has led to the release of 10 albums highlighted by recent releases Rust Don't Shine (2022) and late 2024 studio release, ROOTS. Learn more here.
Friday, July 18 (10 AM-8:30 PM): Third Friday Reception
2055 O ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
Taking July off.
140 N. 8TH ST. | 7 PM - 9 PM
Second Friday (July 11): Artist Van Williams & Music with Madelyn Grace
Vanity Projects is the culmination of Van Williams’s lifelong passion for visual art and previous career as a professional tattoo artist. Van’s unique take on portraiture features bold, balanced designs and limited but powerful color schemes. Each design is influenced by their makeup style developed from years of experience as an award-winning alternative drag artist in the Midwest. Van’s art speaks to the impact they like to see in visual art. Their portfolio of 50+ digitally drawn designs are available in many forms such as prints, stickers, keychains and more!
Madelyn Grace is a Nebraska-based Americana artist blending folk-noir, alt-country, and modern blues. She writes raw, story-first songs about resilience, desire, defiance, and the sharp edges of love and identity. Grace's debut single, "It’s Fine," releases summer 2025.
1100 E O ST. | 5 PM - 9 PM
More details to come.
STADIUM DR. & T ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
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The Eloise Kruger Gallery of Miniatures
RM 831 of Oldfather Hall on UNL City Campus | 3 PM - 6 PM
The Eloise Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts comprises about 20,000 pieces of 1:12 scale furniture and accessories of historically accurate American, English, French, and Asian designs make up this collection, and about 2,500 pieces are on display. The handmade miniatures were collected and commissioned by Eloise Kruger and made by renowned model artists.
130 S 13TH ST | 5:30 PM - 7 PM
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124 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 9 PM
Second Friday (July 11): Opening reception
1300 P Street | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
Second Saturday (July 12): An outdoor market with live music and a fundraiser for the Lincoln Bike Kitchen
1155 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
Taking July off.
1208 O ST. | 7 PM
Taking July off.
Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
333 S. 13th St. | 6 PM - 9 PM
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701 P St SUITE 102 | 5 PM - 8 PM
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Second Friday (July 11): Exhibit/opening reception
131 CENTENNIAL MALL N | 5 PM - 7 PM
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325 S 11th St. | 5 PM - 9 PM
Second Friday (July 11): A Gilded Gecko pop-up party! Browse the Gilded Gecko pop-up shop for handmade jewelry with upcycled beads plus silly stickers and temporary tattoos. Try a limited release cocktail inside at the bar and shop outside.
1410 O St. | 7 PM - 10:30 PM
Second Friday (July 11): Parrish Studios will be opened during Zoofest!
More details to come.
Saint Paul United Methodist Church
More details to come.
Taking July off.
140 N 8TH ST | 6 PM - 8 PM
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Taking July off.
210 Architecture Hall (HDR Pavilion Lobby) | 5 PM - 7 PM
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Gallery runs July 5-27
Second Friday (July 11): Opening reception from 5-8pm.
The Karen & John Janovy Emerging Artists Exhibit presenting "When is Today" with work by Dawson Adams and Brian Garbrecht. "When is Today" includes sculptures by Dawson Adams, a fourth-year student UNL Studio Arts major, and photographs, drawing, and videos by MFA candidate Brian Garbrecht.
Adams' work came from responding directly to the stone, wood, concrete and metal materials he used. Adams worked concrete construction for ten years before attending university. He notes, "the sculptures became a way to explore what form might communicate beyond the limits of language in an evolving search for shape, feeling, and presence."
Garbrecht says his work examines "memory, repetition, and cultural obsolescence through the language and analog media." Using legacy TVs and installations to display his videos, Garbrecht reanimates fragments of 1990s TV and domestic experience. These interventions highlight the tension between personal memory and mass-produced media. "The work is a meditation on cycles--of consumption, of care, and of forgetting," often created in collaboration with his mother, Paula, who is living with Alzheimer's disease.
Have an art show in downtown Lincoln you'd like added to our monthly list?
Email Maia at maia@downtownlincoln.org.