First Friday at CrossRoads

February 3rd, 2012

CrossRoads Gallery has many special plans for the month of February.

Starting with First Friday, the gallery will feature four very different and unique artists: Vicki Braslow, Carole Joyce, Ardean Rudolph and Alejandra Whittier. Guest artists will be featured in our annual February show “Love, Actually,” and the gallery itself is featuring many more upscale gift items, for someone you love (including yourself).

For anyone who can’t make the festivities on First Friday, the gallery will once again participate in Main Street’s Annual Valentines Wine and Chocolate Tasting on February 11 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

Featured artists for the month include Carole Joyce, an artist who specializes in portrait work, will be honoring her own heritage by helping us celebrate Black History Month. Click on link for more information.

Alejandra Whittier, an extraordinarily gifted jewelry designer, has just returned from a trip to Quartzite, Arizona, where she says she “got to go to buy some more stones and see for myself all the processes, stones in the rough, getting them into the shapes I wanted them to be…I had so much fun!” Since Alejandra’s unique metal and stone jewelry is a favorite of customers – and especially for Valentine’s shoppers – she has a lot of exciting new one-of-a-kind creations for the month.

Vicki Braslow, an oil painter, continues her love of nature and painting in colorful detail, with a new element added to her artistic visions after her recent difficult loss of her husband.

Ardean Rudolph, a prolific watercolorist, covers a variety of subject matters with her finely detailed work (some find it hard to believe she achieves that detail with watercolors, but she does). She too will have new works on display in February.

The February First Friday will be a great chance to get together downtown for a champagne celebration of new art and a chance to meet the artists; then a week later you can do it all again (with chocolate this time) to toast the upcoming Valentine’s Day.

CrossRoads Gallery is located on the northeast corner of the Compass Rose in the middle of historic downtown Tehachapi, at 101 E Tehachapi Boulevard. For more information call 822-5242 or check out website at crossroadsgallerytehachapi.com