First Friday Creative Crawl Kickoff!
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First Friday Creative Crawl Kickoff!
May 2 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
Downtown Racine kicks off First Fridays 2025 with a Creative Crawl May 2nd from 4-8pm! Explore all the amazing creative businesses downtown… from the new Vintage & Modern Books, to the Racine Art Museum & the gorgeous Hotel Verdant, the cooperative Artist Gallery all the way to Hot Shop Glass…you won’t want to miss this great evening of artistic exploration! Pick up your Passport to the Arts and collect cool stamps as you travel around downtown. Enter to win some cool prizes!
Be sure to come say hi to our visiting artist Dave Gribbins! We have the pleasure of working with Dave in both Chicago and Minnesota at the glass pumpkin patches — and are excited to welcome him to Racine for this exciting event! Come watch Dave in action with the team at Hot Shop Glass! We’ll be making fun blown glass fish!
Our friend Leslie will be doing her inspirational sidewalk chalk messages from Main Street to our studio — don’t hesitate to participate! Dan and Amanda will be tag teaming between Hot Shop and the Hotel Verdant, chatting with visitors about our 18 piece permanent glass installation in the lobby there!
About Dave Gribbins:
Dave’s journey as an artist began in printmaking and after earning a BFA in intaglio printmaking he moved to Seattle, Washington and by chance got a job working as part of a production team at the Glasshouse Art Glass LTD. After gaining a few years of experience, he went to work for Eastlake Glass making aquatic sculptural installations for Nordstroms Department Stores.
Upon his return to the Midwest, Dave worked with Lotton Glass in Crete, Illinois. In 2013 he completed a Masters of Art in sculpture with a focus on glass, ceramics and printmaking. Dave lives with his family and pets in an old farmhouse in the rural south suburbs of Chicago and makes glass at George Tessman’s studio in Highland, Indiana. Dave is part of the ‘artists in residence’ pumpkin patch team at both The Morton Arboretum and The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum each fall season.
Dave demonstrates at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Glass Pumpkin Patch event 2024.