Beverly Dodge Radefeld
First Friday Art Walk
December 2019
Beverly Dodge Radefeld doesn’t like to just focus on one medium, but is diverse in soft sculptures, oil paintings and photography. She feels each medium influences one another, challenging her creativity and providing her a passion for everything she does.
Devi Wilbur
First Friday Art Walk
November 2019
Devi Wilbur, an award-winning landscape and portrait artist from Niles, Kansas, paints mostly in oils on panel and drawing with pen and ink. She also works with acrylics, pastels, watercolor, pencils, and charcoal. Her 3-D artwork includes pottery and sculpting in both clay and stone.
Jessica Mays
First Friday Art Walk
October 2019
Topeka photographer, Jessica Mays, specializes in what she calls impressionistic photography. Her often abstract and up-close view of the world shows ordinary subjects in extraordinary ways. After taking her photos to the next level with digital editing, Jessica found a whole new magical world of color, contrast, detail, and surprises. Each photo is carefully taken, then slowly edited to create a unique and intriguing piece of art.
Kristine A. Luber
First Friday Art Walk
September 2019
Kristine Luber has been showing her award-winning fabric artwork in Kansas and neighboring states for the past ten years. She makes fabric collages and 3-D art such as fabric flowers, leaves and butterflies that pop right off the wall. Her artwork is even wearable and practical such as light-weight fabric jewelry, women’s shirts, dresses and artwork-upholstered chairs. No matter what kind of project Kristine is working on, her incentive to create comes from the desire to turn items that might otherwise be relegated to the landfill into something beautiful.
Dual Artists: Irma Wager & Barbara Schilling
First Friday Art Walk
August 2019
Irma WagerIrma creates stunning counted cross stitch pieces that takes her anywhere from 1-4 months to finish. They vary from European landscapes to animals, flowers, city streets and beautiful women.
Barbara SchillingBarbara began selling her homemade jewelry creations in 2004. Her jewelry has evolved from mostly beaded pieces and now includes intricate wire, metal and bead pieces as well as etched metal, enameled pieces and resin.
Jared Hitchens
First Friday Art Walk
July 2019
Local photographer, Jared Hitchens has a passion for Topeka that comes from a life spent in the community. He has worked in graphic arts for over 20 years, but with his lens and artistic eye, Jared has captured some of Topeka’s beautiful landmarks. Jared will be featuring his portfolio, showing his new love of photography as well as his pride for the city that he grew up in.
Washburn Rural High School
First Friday Art Walk
April 2019
NexLynx Gallery showcases the works of talented young visual art students from Washburn Rural High School, displaying a variety of mediums including acrylics, oils, printmaking, and weavings. Many of the pieces on display were created during the school’s recent Art Lock In event, where students got to meet a professional artist and created a piece of artwork using the guest artist’s techniques.
Pradeep Bangalore
First Friday Art Walk
June 2019
Pradeep creatively constructs fine art utilizing a blend of cutting edge Laser and computer graphics. He calls this process “Lasered Layers”. The 3-D artwork consists of painstakingly assembled multiple layers of intricately laser-cut sheets of paper.
Our 100th Show!
First Friday Art Walk
May 2019
NexLynx Gallery celebrates its 100th Consecutive First Friday Art Walk with a special exhibit, featuring selected pieces of artwork varying in photography, acrylics, mixed media, and more from over 35 of our returning artist alumni.
Charles Benton
First Friday Art Walk
March 2019
Our opening reception features photographer, Charles Benton. Most of Charles’ photos have some aspect of nature as their subject. Consisting of images taken from his travels to Great Britain, Iceland, near his home, right outside his front door, and from every season. He hopes for people to see his love of creation and perhaps be moved to look at the world around them with a new eye. Jump into spring and get into the Irish Spirit as we are serving Irish themed and “greenish” snacks and drinks.