Galleries throughout Homer are once again planning First Friday celebrations:

Art Shop Gallery

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m.

"Sumptuous Stitches," dolls celebrating the spring season by Homer artist Marilee Dupree.

Bunnell Street Gallery

First Friday Opening Reception, 6-8 p.m., Artist's Talk, 7 p.m.

"Unraveled Secrets," mixed media painting and sculpture by Alaska artist Sonya Kelliher Combs.

Kelliher Combs' cultural heritage, including Inupiaq Eskimo, Athabaskan Indian, Irish and German, influences both her choice of materials and her subject matter. Using sewing thread and needles, acrylic polymer, beads, fabric scraps, skin and gut, "Kelliher Combs explores the relationship of her work to skin, the surface by which a person is culturally mediated," the gallery stated.

Fireweed Gallery

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m.

Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society's Annual Spring Show.

Watercolors by members, fish and bird motif ceramics by Forrest McDaniel and oil paintings by Carol Lambert.

Through June 5.

Homer Council on the Arts

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m.

"Changing Seasons, Changing Tides," oil, acrylic, watercolor, mixed media and fabric by Marilyn Hueper and Elizabeth Riedel.

Latitude 59

Paintings by Amanda Parrett.

Picture Alaska Art Gallery

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7:30 p.m.

Egg tempera paintings by Andy Hehnlin.

The artist usually grinds his own pigments, including ingredients like gold dust. They are bound with egg yolk and distilled water.

"Hehnlin seldom uses a brush when painting, but sprays, splatters, dabs and scratches into the painting," the gallery said.

Pratt Museum

"Beauty and the Bug" and "Jubilee! 2007" continue through May 27.

Ptarmigan Arts Back Room

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m.

"The Inspired Garden," two- and three-dimensional pieces by Alaskan artists.

Art both for and inspired by the garden.

Through May 30.

Ring of Fire Meadery

First Friday Opening Reception, 5-7 p.m.

"Bird Art Competition," art in all mediums.

"A raven carved from coal, an eagle carved from wood, nesting birds created with spoons and forks and beautiful watercolors of swans and puffins," the meadery described the show.

Visitors may vote for their favorite piece. The winner will be announced at the end of the Shorebird Festival.

Through May.

Compiled by Carolyn Norton