Friday, May 5, 2017 the Buddy Holly Center invites the community to participate in Lubbock’s First Friday Art Trail, a program of LHUCA (the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts). Held on the first Friday of every month in venues around the city, galleries, restaurants and businessesopen FREE of charge to display local and regional visual and performing art. A free trolley service to andfrom venues will be offered in the downtown area.

The First Friday Art Trail works to promote art and outreach within the community of Lubbock by
providing an opportunity to enjoy fine art and entertainment.

Friday, May 5, 2017
6:00 – 9:00pm
FREE admission
Cash bar and refreshments will be available.
For more information on the First Friday Art Trail visit www.ffat.org.

Exhibitions at the Buddy Holly Center:

Fine Arts Gallery
Borrowers, an exhibition presented by the Art League of West Texas Foundation. The exhibition features artwork in a variety of media and will be open in the Fine Arts Gallery through May 21, 2017.

A single word can mean so many things to so many people. “Mooch”, “sponge”, “scrounge” and “pirate” are just a few words that can be used to define a “borrower”. The Art League of West Texas Foundation presents an exhibition providing various interpretations of what a “borrower” is beyond the realm of the obvious.

Artist June Musick will be conducting demonstrations throughout the evening, in the Fine Arts Gallery.

Organized in 2009, The Art League of West Texas Foundation supports regional artists through education, networking and exhibitions. They regularly host member exhibitions, workshops and demonstrations.

Foyer Gallery
The Buddy Holly Center has collaborated with The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation headquartered in London, England, for a new permanent exhibition in the Center’s Foyer Gallery.

The exhibition will feature an acoustic Atkin guitar, signed by legendary performer Sir Paul McCartney, and numerous framed certificates signed by the many Foundation musical ambassadors who recognize Buddy Holly’s inspirational musical influence in the early years of Rock and Roll. The mission of The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation is to honor Buddy’s legacy as well as to make Buddy and Maria Elena Holly’s dream of extending musical education, including songwriting, production, arranging, orchestration, and performance, to new generations regardless of income or ethnicity or learning levels. We will empower a new generation to follow in Buddy’s footsteps.

The Foundation will periodically lend additional items for the exhibition from its extensive collection of artifacts. The Center will use this opportunity to display other items from its collection, namely, Buddy’s bedroom furniture, acquired by the Center through the auspices of Civic Lubbock, Inc.

(News release from City of Lubbock)