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IF YOU’RE NOT WANDERING through the arts and crafts booths at ArtFest on Friday evening, check out the two dozen art venues in Spokane’s First Friday artwalk.

Visit just one gallery or as many as you want. About half are having opening receptions, including the Lorinda Knight Gallery.

Spokane native and former New York artist Mike Berg is opening “Mistaking Street Lamps for Planets” at the gallery, 523 W. Sprague Ave. The show features a group of acid-etched bronze wall hangings, and acrylic paintings on unstretched canvas mounted on linen.

“Mike’s large paintings show a devotion to pattern that one might expect from an artist who lives part of each year in Istanbul,” says gallery owner Knight. “He combines this approach with complex spatial ideas and a sureness of stroke in his paint application.”

There is an artist’s reception on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and a gallery talk on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. “Ceramics by Current Archie Bray Foundation Residents” is showing in the mezzanine gallery.

Other First Friday opening receptions include:

• Artist’s Tree Gallery, 828 W. Sprague Ave., representational oil and acrylic paintings by Marsha Marcuson, 6 to 9 p.m.

• Avenue West Gallery, 1021 W. First Ave., “Affordable Art Sale” featuring selected items from the Artists’ Attic (through June 12), 5 to 9 p.m.

• Colburn’s 811 Gallery, 811 E. Sprague Ave., works by Northwest Papier Mache Artist’s Guild with paper mosaic artist Charleen Martin, 5 to 8 p.m.

• Electric Building, 122 S. Monroe St., 6 to 9 p.m. In the Brooklyn Deli, Laurentia Colhoff continues her show of impressionist “Floras” oil paintings. Next door in both the Spike Coffee House and Art By Yourself the “Painted Ceramics: A Group Show” is on display; acoustic guitar by Mary Stiller begins at 7:30 p.m. A “Ceramic Painting Techniques” workshop with Andrew Baucom is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Gallery at Joel, 165 S. Post St., decorative ceramics by Archie Bray resident artists, mixed media contemporary art by Ray Esperson and oil paintings by Ellen Vieth, 6 to 9 p.m.

• Gellhorn Gallery at Spokane Interplayers Ensemble, 174 S. Howard St., “Leonid Bergoltsev: Witness to Empire,” black-and-white photographs by the renowned Russian photojournalist, 5 to 7 p.m. Visitors to the reception can purchase an “Art Lover’s Discount” ticket for $10 for that night’s performance of “Side by Side by Sondheim.”

• GoodWorks Gallery, 1019 W. First Ave., mixed media sculptures by Ildiko Kalapacs that examine body language, physical condition and spatial relationships of the figures to one another and to their environment, 5 to 9 p.m.

• Village Gallery at Kaufer’s, 907 W. Boone Ave., richly framed Celtic art pieces by Mary Johnson, 5 to 7 p.m.

• Flour Mill Gallery, 621 W. Mallon Ave., “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” 5 to 8 p.m.

• ComedySportz, 227 W. Riverside Ave., is having an “Interactive Improv Experience” at 8 p.m. and is giving free tickets to the first 15 people that show up between 5 and 6 p.m.

More First Friday art

The following downtown locations are also open for First Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. (unless otherwise noted):

• Browne Street Underpass between Sprague and Pacific Avenues. Spokane’s newest public art, the “Browne Street Underpass Mural,” created by volunteer artists from People 4 People and students from the Spokane Mental Health New Bridge School.

• Chase Gallery, lower level of Spokane City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. “Small,” two- and three-dimensional works by Seattle artists Richard Hutter, Demi Shaft Raven, Rebecca Raven and Eva Sköld Westerlind.

• Far West Billiards, 1001 W. First Ave. Acrylic paintings by Troy Webber.

• Galleria De Felice, 10 S. Post St. in the Davenport Hotel. New work by Victoria, B.C. sculptor Linda Lindsay.

• Huneke Gallery at Spokane Art School, 920 N. Howard St. “New Forms,” ceramic sculpture by Brian Mackin of Bainbridge Island (until 7 p.m.).

• Kolva-Sullivan Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. “Ceramics: Current and Former Bray Directors and Board Members.”

• Kress Gallery at River Park Square, third floor behind Twigs. Paintings and drawings in “Karen R. Mobley: Out of the Vortex: Selected Works 1987 to the Present.”

• Pottery Place Plus, 621 W. Mallon Ave. “Tuille and Bridal: Marilou Bier and Jan Kruger.”

• Red Sky Studio and Gallery, 115 S. Adams St. “Ceramics: Former Archie Bray Residents.”

• Stone Crazy in the Liberty Building, 203 N. Washington Ave. “Janet Hess: Lady-Bird Series.”

• Namaska, 22 W. Main Ave.

DeVuono at the MAC

Contemporary artist Lanny DeVuono is showing her oil paintings during June as part of the “In Focus: Regional Artist Spotlight” series at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

If you are walking around ArtFest on Friday afternoon, drop in and meet DeVuono during her reception at 1 p.m. in the museum’s Orientation Gallery, 2316 W. First Ave.

The work is on view for free during the run of ArtFest, then during normal museum hours, Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Rosalia art show

The Sixth Annual Battle Days Art Show takes place this weekend at the Budding Rose Art Gallery, 510 S. Whitman St. in Rosalia, Wash.

The show features two- and three-dimensional artwork by Rosalia School District art students. Joining them this year are preschoolers from the Rosalia Learning Center and home school students. Several professional artists are displaying their art as well.

Stop by the free show on Saturday and Sunday between 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the Rosalia Annual Battle Days Celebration.

‘Back to Go’ at SFCC

Spokane Falls Community College is showing its 2004 Fine Arts Graduate Exhibit, “Back to Go,” through June 16 with drawings, paintings, sculpture and mixed media by 17 students.

Students exhibiting works in the show include Heather Anderson, Sadie Blaha, Christopher Bogert, Desiree Carnett, Ethan Churchill, Sam Degree, Matthew Fejeran, Jorma Knowles, Jason Mckinney, Tiaa Musa, Nathan Noble, Mindy Noman, Vicky Phillips, Todd Rattray, Bailey Renz, Kerry Rossmeier and Bree Wear.

The exhibit is on view in the SFCC Fine Arts Gallery (Building 6) weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. An artists’ reception is at 5:30 p.m. on June 16, immediately following the college’s commencement ceremonies.

Other galleries

• Seattle installation artist Cory Peeke is giving a free slide lecture at noon today on the Eastern Washington University Cheney campus in the Art Building auditorium near the corner of Seventh and I streets.

• As part of Post Falls Days, there is a three-day “Art in the Rough” show beginning Friday in The Old Church at the corner of Fourth and William streets in Post Falls, two blocks east of Spokane Street. Four hour-long artist lectures start at 1 p.m. on Saturday.