First Thursdays: Double Header Opening

Escape into art with a new experience every month! Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a…

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November 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Escape into art with a new experience every month!

Cash bar, nibbles, live music, and more. Celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions with live music, fall-themed cocktails, and drawing in the galleries. Discover Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025 with the artist and explore the cultural significance and transitional nature of public spaces. Learn about Gerald Incandela’s distinctive photographic process, which conceptually merges drawing and photography, while he discusses his new exhibition, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings. Stay for a screening of Wings of Desire at 8pm.

Free. Registration encouraged.

First Thursdays is generously funded by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All Program.

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