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newarkadvocate.com wrote
Galleries combine to form Newark art hop
BY TIFFANY AUMANN
OCTOBER 15, 2008
Argyle Photography, Licking County Arts and The Works are coordinating an effort to start a regular gallery hop in downtown Newark. The first gallery walk will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, with artist receptions at the three locations.
“It was all springboarded off the Art Walk,” said Liz Argyle, owner of Argyle Photography, 36 S. Third St. “I feel very fortunate to have fallen into this role (as an organizer). I believe in downtown.”
Argyle said the success of the August Art Walk event, sponsored by Cultural Alliance of Licking County, inspired her to dedicate a portion of her photography studio as a permanent gallery space. Unlike the summer event, which placed artists and their work in a variety of businesses, the art hop will be solely in dedicated gallery spaces.
Argyle said, however, she would like to see other downtown businesses remain open on event evenings to join in the fun.
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Try Googling any large city name, and “art hop” or “gallery hop”
OMG! They’re all copying the Short North! Surely the Short North originated the idea independently of all the others that were already going on.
try looking into how long it has gone on in the short north before people latched on in local communities.
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Gallery Hop began in 1984 as a collaborative effort between a few key galleries, namely, pm gallery and ArtReach, a non-profit gallery run by volunteers. The galleries held artist’s inceptions on the same nights in an effort to bring more people and more interest into the Short North. At first, these “cooperative openings” were unsuccessful.
A year after Short North galleries began holding cooperative openings on the first Saturday of every month, Spangler Gallery moved into the area and its owner, Spangler Cummings, brought her networking and advertising expertise to help the Short North’s cause. By the summer of 1985, the crowd the openings drew went from 300 to 3,000 and the event was informally dubbed “Gallery Hop”.
We should organize a Hop Hop.