Teresa Stearns Uriarte is the featured artist for October at Royal Artisan.

BAKER CITY — Art galleries and shops will unveil new featured artists — and their works — during the First Friday art walk on Friday, Oct. 6. All open at 5:30 p.m. and continue for several hours into the evening.

Crossroads will present a dual show: “Travel by Paint Brush” with Idaho artist Rena Vandewater, and “Elliptical Strands — A Collection of Burnt Earth” by Chris Halley of Richland.

The opening reception includes an artist talk at 5:30 p.m. The show will be on exhibit through Oct. 28.

Vandewater, an oil painter, takes her viewers on a trip abroad, through Europe and Great Britain via her land and cityscapes.

“Several years ago when travel was suspended worldwide, I began to travel by paint and canvas,” she said. “I found it exhilarating and fun to return to places I’d been and see places I’ve yet to see through photos I’ve taken or images found on the internet. This colorful and inspired exhibit is the result of many traveled hours I’ve put to canvas.”

Halley, an innovative metal artist, uses welding techniques to create sculptures and vessels that are fired to bring out color and ground or sanded to a high polish that resembles glass or pottery.

Halley grew up in Richland, and moved back in 2010. He discovered drawing in high school, and learned how to weld while serving in the Navy. Years later, he combined drawing and welding to create plates, bowls, pitchers, large vessels and more.

“There’s a story behind every one of these pieces,” he said.

It takes many hours and days to create a piece, using pass after pass of a molten strand of metal.

“It’s the only thing I’m completely focused on — it’s like meditation,” he said.

Briarwood Imagiporium

1917 Washington Ave.

Briarwood Imagiporium will feature info on upcoming autumn workshops, including the much requested Witch Hat Workshop, and new Maker Packs, filled with goodies to get started on fun projects.

Churchill Hall Pass Gallery

3451 Broadway St.

Andrea Bonadiman is the featured artist at Churchill, exhibiting her work that is “centered around the outdoors, wildlife and skies of the Pacific Northwest.”

“I primarily work with skulls and digital art at the moment,” she said. “However, I am most definitely a mixed media artist, as I work with many different mediums such as saw blades, clothing, wood slices and more. I get wildly inspired while hiking, fishing and also by the historical stories.”

Bonadiman grew up in Eastern Oregon, and recently graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in digital art communications and graphic design, cum laude.

Royal Artisan

1912 Main St.

Royal Artisan will feature the photography of Teresa Stearns Uriarte beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6. Live music will be provided by D’Club L’Eveque.

The Cheese Fairy

1937 Main St.

Artwork by Mary Davies Kerns will be featured at The Cheese Fairy for the months of October through December, and the show opens with an artist’s reception on Friday, Oct. 6, from 5-7 p.m.

Sweet Wife Baking

2028 Main St.

Sweet Wife Baking and and the Two-Drink Minimum Art Gallery will feature Judith A. Stoffer’s show, “Arboreal Dreams,” featuring images based on the forms of tree knots and bark. The show opens Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m.

Cody’s General Store

2101 Main St.

Cody’s will feature Bo Adams, whose art is influenced by the black-and-white photography of Ansel Adams. He works in sculpting, oils, pastels and watercolors. He lives in Sumpter.