Fri 5/1 @ 6-9PM

With the weather warming, activity at art walks such as the first Friday Walk All Over Waterloo in the Waterloo Arts District is picking up.

There’ll be several new shows this month. At Article, Marti Higgins will be opening a new show of her abstract paintings called In the Abstract with prints and small originals available for purchase. The resident studio artists will also have work on display. The gallery will be open from 5:30-9PM

At Deep Dive Art Projects, Corrie Slawson’s Working System will feature new mixed-media works on paper by the artist, focused primarily on the inside of the human body.  Slawson is Cleveland Heights-based a painter and master printer who incorporates screen printing and other techniques into her painted narratives; the show also features six drypoints integrating body parts “fantastical images of internal organs.” “Recent personal experiences with an aging, injury, and healing body caused me to take a longer a look ‘inside’ than I typically have but also have caused me to research the history of how the government intervenes in our bodies,” says Slawson. The show’s opening runs from 5-8pm; there’s also a preview on Thursday April 30 from 5-7pm. The show will be on view through May 20.

Continuing at Waterloo Arts is work by local printmakers Meryl Engler (When I Become a Tree) and Zoe Brester-Pennings (Buck Soft).

And from 6-8pm at the Treelawn, Waterloo Makes Music will present Rustic Skies, an indie rock band fronted by cello, and offbeat folkie duo The Baker’s Basement. It’s free.