Park + Vine is celebrating six years of business as a local hub for things friendly to Cincinnati and the planet 6 to 10 p.m. Final Friday, May 31. Some anniversary years have well-established connections now common to most places around the world. We’re running with sugar, which is tradition in United Kingdom for celebrating six years

Here’s what we have planned:

ON GOETZ ALLEY
Scope out the Goetz Alley outdoor market behind the shop for things to eat from local food and produce vendors, and pick up information from local environmental organizations. Watch a movie projected on an alley wall while DJ Sean McCorkle spins vinyl records on the patio

Spring in Our Steps is this year’s partner charity. Find out more about this exciting local organization that’s bringing renewed attention to Cincinnati’s alleys and learn how to contribute valuable time and money

ON FRONT SIDEWALK
Contribute creative energy to an interactive chalk drawing art project in front of the shop while Bombshells of Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine knit shop Fibergé yarn-bomb street furniture

INSIDE SHOP
Inside, enjoy a feast from the food counter, along with La Terza Coffee hand-bottled iced coffee and local craft beer. Put your typing skills to good use with a typewriter game on typewriters from Wordplay Cincy, a creative writing center in Northside. Check out Michael Enzweiler “VERONICA” installation opposite the bar and help us capture the evening’s energy inside Digital Hype Group photo booth

Friends who are celebrating with us as of May 14:

+ Adopt-A-Plant Greenhouses
+ C’est Cheese Food Truck
+ Chocolats Latour
+ Digital Hype Group photo booth
+ Grateful Grahams
+ Happy Chicks Bakery
+ La Terza Coffee
+ DJ Sean McCorkle
+ Mercy For Animals
+ Spooned Creations popcorn
+ Spring in Our Steps
+ Swan Maiden Soap
+ Upton’s Naturals
+ Urban Greens
+ Whirlybird Granola
+ Wordplay Cincy

To participate, e-mail info @ parkandvine . com

Annalisa Pappano and Marcus Kuchle with baby Claudia from fifth anniversary party

See whimsical art pieces from Local Artist and Farmer Emily St. Clair, while enjoying a Babushka Pierogies tasting 6 to 10 p.m. Final Friday, Feb. 22 here at Park + Vine

Emily is a graphic designer with a degree from DAAP at University of Cincinnati. She gardens for Hyde Park Farmers’ Market and bakes for her gluten-free bakery. The rest of her time is devoted to her artwork and her daughter. The Secret Garden is a collection of new and old designs, and includes T-shirts and prints

Sarah Dworak and Iwona Przybysz started Babushka Pierogies in July 2012 with a vegan pierogi tasting at Park + Vine. Dworak and Przybysz make pierogies at The Kitchen Factory in Northside, then deliver them to Madison’s at Findlay Market and Park+Vine. Anne Mitchell of Cincinnati CityBeat declared the pierogies “comfort food of the year” in 2012

Emily St. Clair

Cincinnati artists Megan Suttman-Divelbiss and Amy Tuttle are holding a Final Friday opening reception for their show Whimsy + Fiction 6 to 10 p.m. Final Friday, Jan. 25 at Park + Vine. Megan and Amy mixed-media artists who live and create art in the Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage. Both artists are inspired by nature and its multitude of patterns and stories. They both love to see ordinary life infused with the magic of a story. Tuttle has been playing at the crossroads of art and folklore for some time. In this show, she depicts whimsical characters captivated by dreams and alternative realities. Suttman-Divelbiss takes ordinary objects and places a charming pattern to their existence. Enjoy the whimsey and quiet story telling of Tuttle and Suttman-Divelbiss at their opening.

Whimsy + Fiction Final Friday Opening Jan. 25

Photographer John Ganis is holding an opening reception 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28 at Park + Vine, 1202 Main Street. John’s color photographs represent a larger body of work documenting the effects of two major oil spills that occurred in summer 2010. The exhibit, which runs through Oct. 21, is an affiliate venue for FOTOFOCUS and is part of Society for Photographic Education gallery walk 8:30 to 10 p.m. Oct. 12.

EXHIBITION DESCRIPTION
BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore well exploded on April 20, 2010, spilling oil in the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of over 2 million gallons of oil a day. The well was capped in late July. Recognized as the worst environmental disaster in American history, its devastating effects will be felt for decades to come. July 25, 2010 a pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, carrying heavy oil sands crude from Canada between Gary Indiana and Sarnia, Ontario ruptured. The result was the largest pipeline spill in the midwestern United States, pumping almost a million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River near Marshall Michigan. John’s photographs are a personal documentation of these situations. These spills and other unforeseen effects of human activity serve as harsh reminders of the real cost of nonrenewable resources and the incalculable consequences of environmental negligence. The content of the photographs expand their scope beyond their immediate subject matter and refer to the larger context of today’s environmental crisis.

BP Spill. Barataria Bay, Grand Isle

Painter and Poet Gerry Grubbs is holding his first art show of the year 6 to 10 p.m. Final Friday, March 30 at Park + Vine. Grubbs’ paintings explore a bright interior, full of color and depth. Working with acrylics and watercolor on paper and canvas, he allows the darkness to express itself in all of its brilliance and color. To view his paintings is to experience the energy and joy of each moment in an unexpected way. Rachel Grubbs DesRochers, Grubbs’ daughter, of Grateful Grahams is sampling her new graham bites, while Edward Hall of Price Hill is offering tastes of his vegan doughnuts.

Gerry Grubbs painting

Mark Sullivan is an artist living and working in Cincinnati. This new exhibition of artwork is both the continuation and culmination of both twenty-years of Sullivan’s x-art and a lifetime of obsessive (compulsive) repetition. Always finding inspiration and joy in the work of other great artists like Milan Kundera (who said, “Happiness is the longing for repetition”) as well as Keith Haring, Agnes Martin, Joan Miró, the outsider artists, Sullivan also draws on his grade school busywork experiences–both the repetition of the activity and the outcomes of said activities.

marksxart: Final Friday Opening

“X’s typically signify mistakes or errors but when repeated over and over, what can come out of those mistakes (those x’s) is often something beautiful–something positive,” Sullivan notes. And with the repetition comes subtle realization that not all things are as they seem. While several of the pieces are made of the same shapes–x’s or o’s–each x and o stands on its own, giving each piece a distinct look all its own, especially when infused with both whimsy and purpose–through the use of vibrant colors, contradictions, and eye-catching shapes and patterns.

marksxart opens 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 at Park + Vine, 1202 Main Street. In addition to Mark’s artwork, opening will feature wine and Chocolats Latour sampling.