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First Friday Art Walk
November 2021
Vaughn comes from a family of wood masters and has made a variety of home furnishings. His pursuit of top-notch wood products has led to an absolutely astounding piece of wood art in the solid and segmented bowls that he turns on his lathe.

Using primarily watercolors, Susie loves to create and paint all the things around her, making the world her playground. She grew up on a farm so the love of the country is expressed in her work.

First Friday Art Walk - December 2021 Discover Art Downtown at our Artist Reception at NexLynx Gallery of Arts, Friday December 3rd from 5pm to 8pm. View the unique Firework Residue Paintings by Kyle Selley, during our First Friday Art Walk. Kyle Selley, is a Kansas City-based artist best known for his Firework Residue Paintings […]

First Friday Art Walk
Month 2021
Starting her art journey in 2007, Oshara considers herself a healing creative artist. She is the happiest when others see her work and make their own interpretations of what it means. She loves to create jewelry, wall hangings and everything in between.

First Friday Art Walk
February 2022
As a native Kansan, Phyllis enjoys the marvels of our state, getting her interpretations from its beauty. She has been painting for the past 40 years, always learning more through workshops. Her show will feature a collection of “plein air” watercolor paintings. Paintings based on photographs she has taken of Kansas.

First Friday Art Walk
March 2022
NexLynx Gallery showcases the works of 9th – 12th grade art students from Seaman High School, displaying a variety of pieces in many different mediums including painting, acrylic painting, watercolor, ceramics, sculpture, charcoal drawing, and mixed media.

First Friday Art Walk
April 2022
The year of 2022 is about a new journey, so Becky is approaching her art using a new “paint over” technique, which takes an old painting that failed and adds new life to it by painting over it. She continues to use her colorful style, but with bigger blocks of color that are splashed upon the surface. This more abstract impressionistic style is about more freedom, exploring color using quicker and broader brush strokes.

First Friday Art Walk
May 2022
Naomi has always had a creative urge. She came to be a watercolor artist after years of sculpting and painting waterfowl out of wood. She paints “plein air” or based off photos taken from her travels, giving her a wide variety of subjects. The natural beauty of the outdoors, its changing seasons and mood, influences her palette.

First Friday Art Walk
June 2022
Starting her art journey in 2007, Oshara considers herself a healing creative artist. She is the happiest when others see her work and make their own interpretations of what it means. She loves to create jewelry, wall hangings and everything in between.

First Friday Art Walk
July 2022
Jeremy is a lifelong Midwesterner and a photographer who lives in Topeka. During the pandemic, he used his time to focus on his art and turn photography from a hobby to a chance to use the artform as a means to tell a story, raise awareness and show the beauty of our world.

First Friday Art Walk
August 2022
Color is so essential to Tim; always drawn to the colors of the landscape, or sky and reflected shadows. By grinding pebbles, shells, etc. and blending them into his paint, he produces an actual pigment for each landscape or portrait he paints, creating a real, tangible link to the environment that enchanted him to it in the first place.