Art Shop Gallery

207 W. Pioneer Ave.

Metal Art by Marlon Prazen and Tarri Thurman

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

Marlon Prazen and Tarri Thurman of Moose Run Metalsmiths display recent sculptures and metal art. Their public art has been featured at the Homer Public Library and the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center.

Bunnell Street Arts Center

106 W. Bunnell Ave.

Photofest 2009: Five Days in Romania, portfolio by Chris Gibbs

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

Photographers featured for Homer Photofest 2009 are on display this week. Joseph Kashi's "Not Quite Black and White" opened Aug. 5 at Kachemak Bay Campus East, and Chris Gibbs' "Five Days in Romania" opens Friday at Bunnell Street Gallery. Opening on Thursday is Ben Huff's "The Last Road North" at the Pratt Museum.

Fireweed Gallery

475 E. Pioneer Ave.

"Living Moments," paintings by David Fuller "Still Swimming," paintings by Marybee Kaufman

5-8 p.m., First Friday Reception

Artist David Fuller creates acrylic paintings that represent a collage of life's little moments. A work painted in honor of the late Jean Keene, Homer's Eagle Lady, is for bid in a silent auction, with proceeds benefiting the Jean Keene Memorial Fund.

Marybee Kaufman's "Still Swimming" features original book art about the upstream struggle of time and movement all things face.

Photo by Michael Armstrong One of Lydia Lohse's masks from a previoius show at Ring of Fire Meadery. The styles of her masks represent Kodiak Island villages, such as this one for Karluk.

Homer Council on the Arts

344 W. Pioneer Ave.

"Ego: You Don't Know Me," photography by Hannah Baechler New Works by Lydia Lohse, Chuck Adkins and Steve Revet

5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception

Homer artist Hannah Baechler displays more of her photographs of raw portraiture in the main gallery. Artists Lydia Lohse, Chuck Adkins and Steve Revet display their work in the Village Trading Post gallery in the front office of the HCOA building. Lohse shows her pit-fired masks while Adkins and Revet show jewelry.

Picture Alaska

448 E. Pioneer Ave.

"Potpourri of Alaska Art," by various artists

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

This month, Picture Alaska features new works by a variety of artists. Included are miniature watercolor paintings by Dr. Steve Hileman of Soldotna; a new oil painting by Homer artist James P. Buncak; acrylic paintings by Anchor Point artist and retired art teacher Dana Bachiochi; "New Hope for Spring," a mixed media and collage by Nicole Kimball; a colored pencil wildlife painting, "Beautiful Dall," by local artist Alice Mayo Shaw; an oil painting, "Six Mile Creek," by Scott Sherritt of Hope; a pastel portrait, "Whale Tails," by Erica Miller of Hope, and an original hand-pulled print by John Svenson Jr. of Haines.

Pratt Museum

3779 Bartlett St.

Photofest 2009, "The Last Road North," portfolio by Ben Huff

5-7 p.m., First Thursday Reception

Ben Huff, the juror's choice for Homer Photofest 2009, opens with a reception on Thursday night at the Pratt Museum.

Ptarmigan Arts Back Room Gallery

471 E. Pioneer Ave.

"Quiet Moments," paintings by Briana Blaine

5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception

New Homer artist Briana Blaine found her passion in art as a young girl and has explored media including pencil, ink and most recently oils. "I have now become more interested in portraying a particular mood or feeling that a certain vision can evoke, more like a memory than a photograph," she writes in her artist's statement.

Michael Armstrong can be reached at michael.armstrong.@homernews.com.