Upcoming First Thursday Art Walks

For Businesses:

We’re so glad you’re interested in Art Walk. First Thursday is an organic neighborhood event. The event allows participating galleries, studios, and venues to open their doors to the public every first Thursday of the month to celebrate art and creativity in Pioneer Square alongside their neighbors. Many venues promote First Thursday to friends, customers, and supporters as a special cultural evening out in the Square.

Because of the organic nature of the event, there is not one official organizer or curator of First Thursday Art Walk. However, we do our best to regularly update this page with public events. If you have an event you want to include, please submit here. We also send out a reminder email each month to First Thursday Art Walk email subscribers one week before the event.

Art Access, The Stranger, City Arts Magazine, and Real Change each put together First Thursday previews, guides, and/or maps that are unique to each month. It might be helpful to inquire with each of these publications about being added to their coverage. FYI: Art Access is a paid advertising publication.

The Alliance also manages the First Thursday Free Parking Program, which allows Art Walk guests to park for free at participating garages while attending First Thursday. This comes at no cost to you and is easy to participate in and include in your communications. Please contact us to be supplied with parking vouchers to give to your First Thursday guests.

We hope this is enough info to get you started, but please don’t hesitate to email back if you have further questions – info(at)pioneersquare.org.

For General Public:

We’re so glad you’re interested in Art Walk. Because of the organic nature of the event, there is not one official organizer or curator of First Thursday Art Walk. However, we do our best to regularly update this page with public events.  You can also click here to sign up for a monthly email reminder and Art Walk event roundup, delivered one week before First Thursday.

Art Access, The Stranger, City Arts Magazine, and Real Change each put together First Thursday previews, guides, and/or maps that are unique to each month. We would encourage you to check with these publications to get started planning your Art Walk route, and to contact the individual galleries, studios, and venues for their event details and specific hours. We hope this helps you to plan your Art Walk evening. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have further questions – info(at)pioneersquare.org.

For Artists:

We’re so glad you’re interested in exhibiting during Art Walk. To give you some background info, First Thursday is an organic neighborhood event. The event allows participating galleries, studios, and venues to open their doors to the public every first Thursday of the month to celebrate art and creativity in Pioneer Square alongside their neighbors. Each venue selects their own artist or artists to feature in their space. We would encourage you to contact the venues directly to enquire about their process for selecting artists.

On the Pioneer Square website, we have also created a list of arts and culture galleries, studios, and venues that are in Pioneer Square – click here to see the Arts business directory. Most of the listed businesses and organizations participate in Art Walk, however it’s always a good idea to check with them directly. You may also want to touch base with Shunpike, the Office of Arts & Culture, and 4Culture to learn more about additional artist opportunities. We hope this helps you to get started. Good luck!