Event Dates: Monthly, Every First Friday in 2022 (5-9pm)

PONSHOP is excited to announce a year-long First Friday initiative that aspires to better connect and showcase the creativity of Fredericksburg’s art community. The “City Scroll Project” is an interactive art exercise that invites participants to make their mark during our First Friday openings each month.

Why City Scroll? In the spirit of adaptability and creative solutions for First Friday events, PONSHOP owner, Scarlett Pons, posed the question “How can we provide the public with a free event that encourages crowd participation on a large-scale, but is orchestrated incrementally in a personal and comfortable setting?” The answer was to create a collective art project that is built little by little each month.

How it Works Inspired by the “exquisite corpse” format that surrealist painters and writers used as a parlor game in the 1920s, participants will have the opportunity to collectively create a tapestry of drawings, building off of the artwork of the prior artist. PONSHOP is providing a 3-foot tall by 200-foot long paper scroll to be used throughout the course of 2022. Each artist (or artist group) will have access to approximately 6-feet of paper during their 50-minute session. The creative content is up to the artist. We only ask that it is appropriate for family viewing and that it responds to the previous artwork.

Participant Registration Everyone is eligible to participate in the City Scroll Project and requires no fee. Individuals or groups of up to 4 can reserve a time on the PONSHOP website. Blocks of 50-minutes are available between 5pm and 8pm every First Friday. All drawing materials (pens, pencils, colored pencils) are provided by PONSHOP, however participants can certainly bring their favorite tools (as long as they work well with paper).

Click Here To Register for a First Friday City Scroll time slot.