Durham Art Walk

First time participating in a Durham Art Walk and would definitely return for another! We started the day by finding a parking spot across from Brightleaf Square since we knew the Bull City Connector bus could take us back as we ventured downtown. We started at the Durham History Hub for a history lesson pre-​art. I loved that the art walk included all different participants and was not limited to art vendors; they included a handful of restaurants, spaces and the history hub. We next ventured to the Durham Arts Council where we picked up a map while admiring different vendors. We followed clearly lain out signage and ventured on to Pleiades Gallery, Through This Lens and visited Karman K. & the Unilocal table at The Durham Armory (huge area of vendors, if you can only go to one stop, I’d recommend this one!). It was such a wonderful day to walk all over downtown Durham AND perfect scheduling for the art walk as it overlapped with the Farmers Market, food trucks and craft fair at Durham Central Park. We loved going by Vega Metals and picking up our «Durham» metal ornament.
We finished the day by visiting the Patchwork Market at Fullsteam Brewery which happens January-​May on the first Saturday of the month. Again, a perfect coincidence to have these two local markets overlapping! And of course we also swung by Pompieri Pizza for a bite to eat (although while they were part of the art walk, they weren’t offering any incentive to «art walkers»). Overall, a wonderful way to see Durham while supporting local artists. Whether you’re interested in photography, chainmail jewelry, oil paintings, metal work, handcrafted notebooks, handmade clothing, cutting boards, etc. you will find it ALL at the Durham Art Walk!

Thought the art was great and all of the artists were wonderful. No children’s activities.

Sad that one person decided to drag down the rating of the Durham Art Walk Holiday Market because of one bad exchange with one old person (come on, old people, chin up party down), so here’s a bump.
Do you like seeing a variety of art? Good event.
Do you like taking a walking tour of your fair city, seeing different buildings and such? Good event.
Music friend, a friend of music? Good event.
Got some early gift shopping to do and like to support local artists? Great event.
Loved the day, thanks!

Don’t waste your time. No street vendors and one mean short haired old lady at the volunteer table.
Instead of promoting good will and cheer this lady was a bitter and curt. She thought that keeping a one dollar balloon in trade for a cash carrying customer was a fair trade. WRONG.
Easy to make a 3 year old happy with a balloon. There were no children activities either. Someone in charge needs to tell this lady the love for art is ageless. The vendors should be angry, because of this lady, I walked away with all my money in my pocket. Voting with my dollars to not support petty people.