Enjoy a dozen brand new art shows and exhibits during the First Fridays Artswalk on Friday, July 1, 5 to 8 pm. Explore art and meet artists! Download the Downtown Pittsfield app in the App Store or on Google Play to follow a virtual walking tour of art on your cell phone.

Event Highlights:

Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. will present Indoors Out! Free Kids’ Paint & Sip on Friday, July 1, 5 to 7:30 pm, at the parklet and outdoor seating area at The Marketplace Cafe, 53 North Street.

Artists at the Clock Tower

75 South Church Street, Third Floor

Marion Grant

Caroline Kelley

Shany Porras

Ilene Richard

Sally Tiska-Rice

Open Studios: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

Brothership Building Window

141 North Street, curated by IS183 Art School of the Berkshires

From Sheffield to Pittsfield Portrait Project

Thaddeus B. Kubis

Window Display

Hotel on North

297 North Street

CYCLE THERAPY – watercolor on the move

Marguerite Bride

On View: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

Lee Bank

75 North Street

Fine Art Photography & Digital Art

Nicole March

Window Display

Lichtenstein Center for the Arts

28 Renne Avenue

Community Access to the Arts (CATA) presents

“I AM A PART OF ART”

On View: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

Methuselah Bar and Lounge

391 North Street

Dramatic Themes/ Cosmic Dust

The Paintings of Edward Pelkey

Reception: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

TKG Real Estate

137 North Street

“Photographer as Painter”

Janet Pumphrey and Bruce Panock

Reception: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

The Marketplace Cafe

53 North Street

Photography by Shaun Harmon

Reception: July 1, 5 to 7:30 pm

Unitarian Universalist Church of Pittsfield

175 Wendell Avenue

Oil paintings and watercolors

David King

Reception: July 1, 5 to 8 pm

Other participating venues are ReDefine (5 Melville Street), The Funky Phoenix (441 North Street), and Thrive Diner (145 Wahconah Street).