May 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. | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
AUSTEN-tatious!
12-7:30: Sale, Trivia, Drawing Entries | Get 20% off all Jane Austen books & gifts
5:30-7:30: Flowery Cupcakes, Packages go on Sale
Celebrate Spring & Jane Austen!
12-7:30: Get 20% OFF ALL Jane Austen Books & Gifts, including:
*New copies of her novels & Austen “spin-off” titles
*Used copies of her novels & “spin-off” titles
*Puzzles *Candles
*Socks *Embroidery Kits
*Playing Cards *Parlor Games
*Lip Balm *Mints
*Tote bags *Tea
*Tarot Decks *Notecard Sets
AND, play AUSTEN~tatious TRIVIA & enter our free DRAWING!
5:30-7:30 Flowery Cupcakes & Confections, plus all the other AUSTEN~tatious activities of the day.
At 5:30pm, our AUSTEN-tatious Packages will go on sale!
Get $45 in value for just $29.99 in a deal that includes:
*Pride & Premeditation by Tirzah Price, the first in a fun new mystery series
*Jane Austen’s finest lip balm ~ in Pemberly Mint
*Two chocolate bars featuring our logo ~ one milk, one dark ~ made by Lulubee Artisanal Chocolates
*All in a Pride & Prejudice canvas tote ~ color printing on each side, double stitched navy handles
These make fantastic Mother’s Day & Graduation Gifts – you can easily tuck in a gift certificate or an additional book!
32 packages available.
The FIRST 15 sold will include a SIGNED bookplate by Author Tirzah Price!
Event-only, no reserves/holds. However, if we have extra packages after the event, we’ll put them for sale on Facebook.
Burkholder Art Studio & Galleries
719 P ST. | 5 PM - 8 PM
Show runs May 2nd - 31st
Join us for our newest shows, including Tammy Schuett in the Main Gallery. In the Outback Gallery we will have Valery Wachter, with Robert Borzekofski in the Skylight Gallery/ We have guest artist Reem Alwan in the Special Exhibit Space.
119 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
Join us on Friday, May 2, for the evening opening of our May Focus Room show honoring Veterans. Curated by @melanncreativedesigns, with live music by Jack Zeleny and snacks by @therabbitholebakeryne
2055 O ST. | 6 PM - 8 PM
More details to come.
140 N. 8TH ST. | 7 PM - 9 PM
First Friday: Shelby Krause
1100 E O ST. | 5 PM - 9 PM
More details to come.
STADIUM DR. & T ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
The Spring 2025 Graphic Design Capstone is on display until May 2 with a closing reception on that Friday from 5-7 p.m. Awards will be announced at 5:30 p.m. Hope to see you there!
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
Book launch celebration: Latin American Literature, stories and poems with Luis Othoniel Rosa, Sarah Banderas & Iliana Rosabal Perez.
124 S. 9TH ST. | 5 PM - 8:30 PM
"We are very sorry to announce that Gallery 9 will be closed until further notice due to an ongoing water issue. This means that the FIRST FRIDAY opening reception previously scheduled for May 2 will be rescheduled for a later date."
1300 P Street | 5 PM - 9 PM
Meet 25 local artists, photographers, crafters, makers, collectors, stitchers, and bakers at Tower Square.
1155 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
The Great Plains Art Museum is open late on First Friday, May 2, 5-7 p.m. with three exhibitions and light refreshments. Feeling inspired by the art? Visit our lower-level education studio to paint your own mini canvas with acrylic paint.
On View:
“Watershed: Elizabeth Rubendall Artist-in-Residence Amanda Maciuba”
Maciuba’s work is an exploration of the visible and invisible marks of human hands on the landscape. Her practice investigates human relationships with the environment over time, forefronting the impacts of human-driven climate change. She exposes and reconsiders the layered histories of specific locations: from the geologic forces that shaped the land, to impacts of Western colonialism, to the current practices of development, destruction, and restoration by the local communities she interacts with every day. Bodies of water often act as anchors for Maciuba’s creative investigation. “Watershed” is an exhibition of prints, artist’s books, and installations that consider how water shapes human life and how our actions impact river environments in return.
“The Journey: Documented Items/Undocumented Souls”
In collaboration with the Nebraska Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Tactile Images, a subsidiary of 3DPhotoWorks LLC, “The Journey” presents a photographic essay chronicling the immigrant journey from Latin America to the United States through a deeply moving and impactful series of images by Getty Images Senior Special Correspondent John Moore. Moore captures the story through items that have been lost or discarded—and later documented—along the way. He also talks about his experiences and these photographs as part of the audio included in the tactile displays.
“Dear Great Plains”
This postcard-writing campaign created by Great Plains Student Storyteller in Residence Karla Hernandez Torrijos hopes to tell a different story of the Great Plains: more complex, more diverse, and more nuanced. Karla asked letter writers to consider their bond with the Great Plains and spent time collecting them from various communities and online. Visit the Mezzanine gallery to read these postcards and add yours to the exhibition.
The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., is open to the public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free.
1208 O ST. | 7 PM
Join us for May First Friday! Stop by this Friday, May 2nd from 5-8 PM! Stop by to view new arrivals, highlights from our upcoming auction, and three floors of gallery space—plus, enjoy a cash bar. We hope to see you!
Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel
333 S. 13th St. | 6 PM - 9 PM
More details to come.
800 Q ST. | 5 PM - 7 PM
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701 P St SUITE 102 | 5 PM - 8 PM
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Step into a world of intrigue and creativity! Kicking off on May 2nd, the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Metro Gallery Nebraska proudly present the sensational Capstone Project by Hanna Romell and Hank Ball — "Vulgar Bath." This captivating exhibition will run throughout the month, inviting you to explore its unique vision.
Join us for the opening at 3 PM on May 2nd and immerse yourself in the artistry. Metro Gallery Nebraska, located at 1414 'O' street, will remain open late, until 11 PM, ensuring you have plenty of time to soak in the experience. Delicious refreshments will be served to complement this unforgettable evening. Don’t miss it!
"A journey through the five stages of grief through the lens of the grotesque, lean into repulsivity."
131 CENTENNIAL MALL N | 5 PM - 7 PM
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325 S 11th St. | 6 PM - 9 PM
Mark your calendars! Starting off our anniversary weekend with some amazing cross stitch work by @mcthealchemistart 🔮🖤
If you’ve seen our infamous sign in the bathroom and loved it, this is the artist!
1410 O St. | 5 PM - 7 PM
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Saint Paul United Methodist Church
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This is your last chance!
Join us this First Friday at 5:30 PM for the final screening of New Red Order’s “Never Settle: The Program” as part of our exhibition “Exploding Native Inevitable.”
New Red Order is a public secret society that creates videos, exhibitions, and artworks relating to Indigenous futures. “Never Settle: The Program” was created by New Red Order to feel like a high-end marketing video. Humorous and profound, this video uses this format to address issues relating to settler colonialism and promoting Indigenous futures.
This event is free and open to everyone, but advanced registration is recommended through the link in our bio.
140 N 8TH ST | 6 PM - 8 PM
More details to come.
"Stellate Divine" featuring Joselyn Andreasen and Daniel Garcia @thirdeyeduck opens First Friday, May 2nd from 7-10 with DJ ol' moanin'.
Artist Spotlight
@joselyn.andreasen
Joselyn Andreasen is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based printmaker and painter, graduated in December 2024 with a BFA and an option in Printmaking from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her artwork draws from her career as a habitat manager and highlights discoveries made in a specialized, sustainable form of landscape labor. She worked under Karen Kunc, the director of Constellation Studios, as an Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience intern for two years between 2021-2023. She was featured in the “Cedar Point Times” newsletter and awarded the “Ten Free Trees for Fall Planting” grant from the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum the summer of 2024. She was chosen for the Surface Impressions national juried exhibition at the LUX Center for the Arts and Constellation Studios in Lincoln, NE the Spring of 2024. In January of 2024 was her first solo-show in the Medici Gallery in Richards Hall. After the completion of her Capstone show at the Eisentrager Howard gallery she was awarded the “Gomez Art Supply,” award. Cooking at The Hub Cafe here in Lincoln, starting a soil carbon field tech position, and working at Shadowbrook Farms will keep her on the path toward being a sustainably educated person and busy for the warm season to come.
Artist Statement:
I create woodblock, intaglio, and monotype prints alongside watercolor and oil paintings, evoking the taking part in and of a universal responsibility to be caretakers and lovers of the natural world. The subject matter of my work is inspired by observations made while I am outdoors that relate specifically to the flora and fauna of the place I am in. I include information in my prints about the scientific language used to describe the plantae. This research has amplified my ability to recognize plants in the wild and to deduce which families they belong to in the habitat they thrive in. The discoveries fill me with delight and motivate me to continue making work that is informed by facts of botany.
210 Architecture Hall (HDR Pavilion Lobby) | 5 PM - 7 PM
Join us for the “PRESS PLAY” student exhibition hosted by our Arch 5/892 class “Designing for The Soundscape” at Arch Hall, HDR Pavilion Lobby on May 2, from 5-7pm.
The students have created an interactive sound environment using the game engine software: Unity. We're inviting everyone to play and listen to their creations.
These explore ideas on how to represent, spatialize, and interact with sound, essentially: how to use sound as a design.
More details to come.
Have an art show in downtown Lincoln you'd like added to our monthly list?
Email Maia at maia@downtownlincoln.org.