Yesterday was the first Friday of August, and so I decided to head down to the Santa Fe Arts District for the monthly First Friday Arts Walk. This is probably the busiest day of the summer for the artists there, and so Santa Fe Drive was closed off both to accommodate the crowd and the parade of the crazies, as seen in the photograph above. As usual, some of the art on display was very good, and a heck of a lot of it was pretty bad.
There were a lot of people walking around and touring the various art galleries, but by far the biggest crowd was around the food trucks in front of the Renegade Brew Pub, one of Denver's many microbreweries. I think that the artwork comes in a distant third for the First Friday crowd after food and beer. However, I do have to wonder how all the merchants on this street survive the rest of the month. I was happy to see that a lot of the vacant storefronts I saw last time were now open and displaying artwork, but is this a permanent thing or just for the summer months? Regardless, this is still the place to be in Denver on the first Friday of every month, as long as the food trucks keep coming and the beer still flows.
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