First Friday in downtown Augusta means art and some improv.
At the 600 Broad Gallery, 4P Studios brings the “Home Is Where the Art Is..” exhibition featuring the work of billy s, Blaine Prescott and Brian StewART.
A free artist reception will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the gallery. The exhibition will run through Aug. 26.
At the Westobou Gallery on Broad Street, the “Ctrl [Alt] Self” exhibition featuring the works of Brittany M. Watkins, Lucia Riffel, and Elise Thompson, closes Saturday, Aug. 6. “ Installation, painting, and video place the audience on a subliminal plane where separate parcels of time and space depict facets of human interaction with the feed,” according to a description of the event at the exhibition at the Westobou website.
Meet the artists behind “Treasure Inland” from 4 to 6 p.m. Aug. 5 at Augusta & Co., 1010 Broad St. The display of artistic maps runs through Sept. 29.
Featured artists include Christina Berkshire, Amy Callan, Jeremy Cohen, Nikolas Bryan-Dunaway and Heather René Dunaway.
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The art of the Savannah River Artists is on display through Sept. 2 at the Sacred Heart Cultural Center’s Great Hall.
The artwork is in a variety of mediums including watercolor, acrylics, colored pencil and oils.
Artists include Laurie Cordaro, Teresa Damron, Christine O’Meara and Sally Van Peursem.
Also on First Friday is an evening of improv at Le Chat Noir. Two shows are held at the black box theater on Eighth Street.
Across the river at the Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta is the Midsummer Night’s Dream Exhibition featuring the work of the Columbia County Artist Guild.
It opens Aug. 4 and runs through Sept. 2.
“Let your imagination soar and artist are to create their own dreamscapes for a midsummer night – eerie, romantic, whimsical, abstract, humorous – whatever struck their fancy dictates,” according to the Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta website.
A reception is scheduled for 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 18.
The Morris Museum of Art offers free admission in Sundays.
Aug. 7 is the monthly Artrageous! family program.
Paint an eight-foot panoramic landscape and tour The View from Here, an exhibition featuring work by John Cleaveland, Julyan Davis, and Philip Juras,” according to the Morris Museum of Art website.
