Come Celebrate with the Fine Arts Center this Friday and Saturday!

Friday, May 5, the Reed Island Rounders will be in the First Friday Listening Room. The “Last Ladder and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony” for our public art display, “Together we Rise,” will be held in Jackson Park around 6 p.m. Come enjoy both free events!

Reed Island Rounders

This popular local group returns to the First Friday Listening Room on Cinco de Mayo(!)—May 5—and will have a few tricks up their sleeves including a few Mexican tunes they’ve learned just for the event. The group will also feature two guest artists, one on the fiddle and the other on guitar.

The Center will open at 5 p.m. with light snacks and a cash bar with beer and wine. The concert is from 6-8 p.m., and…Main Street is now open—two directions! That means there’s more parking on the street as well as the lots that are close by.

Space is limited, so please be sure to reserve your FREE tickets on EventBrite.

Ladders decorated by local artists, both young and not so

Together We Rise

Local artists Charlie Brouwer and Barry Keller will begin constructing the public art exhibit in Jackson Park with ladders you have lent us beginning on Monday, May 1. You can still donate ladders! We will be at Jackson Park every night this week between 3-7 p.m. You can drop off your ladders during those times, but the earlier in the week you can get them to us is better for the sculpture.

On Saturday, May 6, we will host a Last Ladder and Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony with members of the Fine Arts Center, the Pulaski Chamber of Commerce, the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Shannon Collins. Members of the Junior Appalachian Musicians from Greater Pulaski (GRAPe JAM) will also perform. We plan to start around 6 p.m., which is contingent upon when the last ladder is actually ready to be placed.