A good principle for First-Fridayists: try to go somewhere you haven’t been before. There’s usually something new, like the Painted Desert Gallery, 227 North Duke Street. It’s a gallery with a southwestern flavor, now showing “Cancer in Death Valley,” photography and journal entries by David Nutter. Also on display are some paper and photo collages by Carol Emerson, a therapist who has established the gallery in her office space. Gallery hours are not yet established — it’s a working office, after all — but the gallery will be open on First Fridays. Check the gallery’s Web site for future hours. Also involved in the gallery, according to the site, are painter Rose Principe and photographer/multi-media artist A.J. Nutter. (Left: interior of the Painted Desert Gallery during First Friday.)
Just across the street, next to Queue Studio, 218 N. Duke St., Lucky No. 13 Tattoo Studio
and Gallery, 216 N. Duke St., is also offering space for art, displaying art by Carla Kennard. And, down the street, the Lancaster County Library was celebrating its first year of family-oriented First Friday programs with music by Chromatica, shown here performing Heart’s “Straight On.”
