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🎨 First Fridays Season Kickoff: Creative Crawl – May 2 | 4PM–9PM 🎨Join us as we launch the First Fridays 2025 season with Creative Crawl, a downtown-wide celebration of art, creativity, and community! From hands-on art stations and live demonstrations to local author readings and pop-up shows, there’s something to inspire everyone.
✨ Highlights All Around Downtown:
Pick up your Arts Passport (courtesy of Artist Gallery) and collect stamps as you explore Creative Crawl stations—complete your passport for a chance at prizes!
Printmaking Stations around downtown (pending city approval!)—try your hand at this interactive art form.
Window Art – Grab washable markers and let your creativity shine on select downtown windows, provided by Racine Art Museum (RAM)!
🎶 At Racine Art Museum:
RAM Art Party with a live DJ and art-making stations inside
Draw on RAM’s windows and join outdoor interactive printmaking using Racine’s own manhole covers and sidewalk inlays (pending city approval)
🖼️ At Hotel Verdant:
Explore all room floors, meet artists featured in the HV collection, and enjoy live talks and demos
Co-curator Maureen Fritchen will be on-site to greet guests
🔥 At Hot Shop Glass:
Watch a guest artist demonstration and explore a pop-up show
Be inspired by chalk artists decorating the path from Main Street to Hot Shop Glass with words and imagery
🖼️ At Photographic Design Gallery & Framing
Featuring three talented guest artists showing their beautiful three-dimensional works of glass and pottery. Adding to the ambiance, the talented Nolan Boerner captivating cello music will create the perfect backdrop for the evening. 411 Sixth St.
🖋️ Racine Urban Sketchers:
Catch talented sketchers in action throughout downtown, capturing the magic of Creative Crawl
🪁 At Artist Gallery:
Create kite-inspired window art and get your passport stamped with artist-made stamps
Enjoy artist demos and see artists stationed at various downtown locations
📚 At Vintage Modern Books:
Local Authors Night – Meet and greet local writers, listen to excerpt readings, and discover your next great read
🔥 At Innovative Dynamic Networks
• A stunning art collection on display
• Live pencil sketching – personalized sketches avail for $15
• The artist’s full collection will also be available for purchase
Come out for a night of inspiration, interaction, and imagination—May 2, 4PM–9PM, all across Downtown Racine!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Downtown Racine, 424 S Main St, Racine, WI 53403-1031, United States,Racine, Wisconsin
