First Friday Art Trail – Featuring Atlas Passmore

Date: Friday, April 10, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Vernon Public Art Gallery, 3228 31st Ave, Downtown Vernon
Admission: Free | Everyone welcome

Please note, this session will be held one week later than usual due to the April holidays.

As part of Greater Vernon’s First Friday Art Trail, the Vernon Public Art Gallery is pleased to host local artist Atlas Passmore for an open studio experience. Visitors are invited to drop in throughout the day to meet Atlas, learn about their creative process, and see their artwork in progress.

About the Artist
Atlas is a contemporary abstract artist living and working in Vernon, BC. Their work explores light, emotion, and persistence through layered texture and luminous colour- not representations of specific places, but inner landscapes shaped by memory, experience, and survival. Beginning as a form of emotional processing, their practice remains an outlet for Big Feelings, built intuitively through scraping, layering, and return. The light in their work is not about serenity. It is about refusal. A reminder of presence. A declaration: something tender can still take up space.

Discover more about the First Friday Art Trail and explore participating artists across Greater Vernon — or get involved as a featured artist at VPAG.
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