{"id":4242,"date":"2011-01-04T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:19:34","slug":"an-artful-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"An Artful Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4245\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4245\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/artwalklogo-redwords\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4245\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/ArtWalkLogo-RedWords-400x338.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: www.fbgartgallery.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a creative New Year&#8217;s resolution, consider adding a First Friday Art Walk to your monthly calendar. Increasingly, art walks are showing up in cities across the U.S. What is an art walk you ask? Well, it&#8217;s pretty simple: It&#8217;s just like going to a few galleries in a given city by yourself, only you&#8217;re not by yourself.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4248\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4248\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/midoakart_front\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4248\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/midoakart_front-400x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/12\/midoakart_front-400x272.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/12\/midoakart_front.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: www.oaklandgrown.org<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many metropolitan areas have embraced the concept of monthly art appreciation as a means of getting people out and into galleries and businesses throughout town. Here in my hometown, Portland, Maine (Google &#8220;first friday art walk&#8221; \u2013 we&#8217;re first!), First Friday is a big deal. Even in the dead of winter &#8212; and I do mean very, very dead&#8230; like 4 degrees dead &#8212; the streets are packed with people when the first night of the first weekend of the month rolls around.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4247\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4247\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/gallery-evening-fry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4247\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Gallery-evening-Fry-400x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/12\/Gallery-evening-Fry-400x214.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/12\/Gallery-evening-Fry.jpg 519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: www.burlingtoncityarts.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As evidenced by these posters from other FFAW&#8217;s across the country, we&#8217;re not alone. For lack of a better term, making a trip to the galleries into an event really fosters a lot of local art dialog. Galleries catch on quick and schedule exhibitions to coincide with First Fridays, people come from far and wide anticipating a great night of socializing, and local businesses reap the rewards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4244\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4244\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/artwalk-st-augustine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.com\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/artwalk-st-augustine-400x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: www.coastalcompanion.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With a little help from Google, you too might be able to enjoy a local art walk. It&#8217;s not always first Friday, sometimes it&#8217;s last Friday or First Thursday, but it&#8217;s a guaranteed good time regardless. A lot of cities provide monthly maps of participating venues, and be sure to consult your local weeklies for a breakdown of what&#8217;s coming up exhibition-wise. If we can have fun appreciating art in the middle of winter here in Maine, you can do it in your hometown, too. It&#8217;s a great way to kick off the New Year, and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galleries catch on quick and schedule exhibitions to coincide with First Fridays, people come from far and wide anticipating a great night of socializing, and local businesses reap the rewards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,334],"tags":[695,714,694],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-fair","category-art-gallery","tag-art-events","tag-art-walk","tag-first-friday-art-walks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Artful Resolution - Zatista.ie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zatista.ie\/blog\/2011\/01\/an-artful-resolution\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Artful Resolution - 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