Arts, entertainment, and culture newsletter for Wilmington, NC

Arts, entertainment, and culture newsletter for Wilmington, NC

Resident Artist Jonathan Summit talks with guest at the New Soda Pop Gallery inside what use to be Parchie’s at 1120 Princess Street. The gallery was taking part in the 4th Friday Gallery Night put on by the Arts Council of Wilmington & New Hanover County March 22, 2024. KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS

Welcome to the weekly Port City Life newsletter brought to you by me, StarNews cultural issues reporter John Staton.

Due to last week’s snowfall in the Wilmington area, a number of events were understandably postponed or canceled.

One of them was Fourth Friday Gallery Night, the monthly crawl of downtown-area Wilmington art galleries. The good news is, there’s actually a fifth Friday in January this month, so this month’s Fourth Friday will happen this week from 6-9 p.m.

Highlights include a show at Acme Art on North Fifth Avenue featuring work by the artists of this year’s No Boundaries International Art Colony on Bald Head Island; a Parisian “salon”-style show at New Element Gallery on North Front Street; and “A Life In Color” at public radio WHQR’s MC Erny Gallery, which celebrates the work of late North Carolina artist Frances H. LaFontaine.

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