Start Your holiday Season With Some Old-fashioned Fun at the 15th Annual Arts & Antiques Open House in Olde Towne Portsmouth!

Friday, November 19, 2010
5 p.m. til 10 p.m.

Kick the holiday season off in style and support your local small businesses. Skipjack will be serving refreshments and hosting three or our favorites...back by popular demand!

"From Rockland to Hampton Roads" 

featuring original coastal watercolor paintings by Virginia artist Shirley Cook. 

"Eddies" watercolor by Virginia artist Shirley Cook.

Schrimshander Anthony Perry will be demonstrating

his delicate art form during 

First Friday at Skipjack

Schrimshawed antique whales tooth by Anthony Perry

"Unforeseen Circumstances": A Novel by Debbiann Holmes

MEET THE ARTIST
Book signing with Portsmouth Novelist Debbiann Holmes

during First Friday at Skipjack

Finalist in the USA book awards for 2010 best book of the year in romance fiction!

ALSO

 Riverview Gallery will be featuring the Norman Goodwin Art Show and ceramic sculpture show by students of B. Kobylinska. 

 

Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Gallery & Riverview Gallery will be open together for this event. Come and meander through both galleries during Olde Towne's Arts and Antiques Open House!

Light refreshments served. 

And elsewhere on High Street: 

 
Visit Winter Wonderland: The Coleman Collection at Courthouse Galleries

 
Enjoy the 41st Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center

 
History comes alive when you bump into our own Colonel Crawford

 
View antique cars and motorcycles parked along High Street

 
Start at the welcome table (free high chocolate!) at High Street Landing!

Located at One High Street on the riverfront in historic Seaboard Railroad Terminal, Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia.  For additional information, call Skipjack at 757-399-5012 and Riverview Gallery at 757-397-3207.

First Friday Events at Skipjack & Riverview Gallery

Come and visit us this Friday evening at

Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Gallery

and Riverview Gallery

as part of  Olde Towne Portsmouth's 

First Friday Events!

Friday, November 5, 2010 

5 p.m to 8 p.m.

"From Rockland to Hampton Roads" 

November 5th to December 1st, 2010

featuring original coastal watercolor paintings by Virginia artist Shirley Cook. 

"Eddies" watercolor by Virginia artist Shirley Cook.

Schrimshander Anthony Perry will be demonstrating

his delicate art form during 

First Friday at Skipjack

Schrimshawed antique whales tooth by Anthony Perry

"Unforeseen Circumstances": A Novel by Debbiann Holmes

MEET THE ARTIST
Book signing with Portsmouth Novelist Debbiann Holmes

during First Friday at Skipjack

Finalist in the USA book awards for 2010 best book of the year in romance fiction!

ALSO

 Riverview Gallery will be featuring the Norman Goodwin Art Show and ceramic sculpture show by students of B. Kobylinska and Kevin Turner on the guitar. 

Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Gallery & Riverview Gallery will be open together for First Friday. Come and meander through both galleries during First Friday!

Light refreshments served.

Located at One High Street on the riverfront in historic Seaboard Railroad Terminal, Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia.  For additional information, call Skipjack at 757-399-5012 and Riverview Gallery at 757-397-3207.

First Friday is a stage for local merchants & restaurants in Portsmouth's Historic Olde Towne and one of the city's most popular evening escapes. Held the first Friday of each month, Olde Towne Portsmouth's thriving arts & antiques community opens it's doors along the 12 historic squares of High Street located between Effingham Street and the riverfront where crowds of casual browsers as well as serious buyers come to each festive event to visit our fine art galleries, quality antique shops and unique specialty stores, some host receptions and art exhibition openings.

First Friday is held each month, rain or shine, year round. There is no admission fee for First Friday - participating galleries are open to the public.