Come to FIRST FRIDAY on February 6th for Art, Chili, Fire & Ice!

February FIRST FRIDAY brings FIRE & ICE

and the K-Town Chili Throwdown to downtown Kokomo!

We hope you’ll join us downtown from 5:30-? on Friday, February 6th, for FIRST FRIDAY fun!

In addition the individual events happening at participating downtown businesses; you can also enjoy:

• Ice Sculpting Demonstration & Display
• K-Town Chili Throwdown (Categories: Judges’ Choice Chili, People’s Choice Chili, People’s Choice Showmanship)
• Fire pits for roasting marshmallows
• Fire pits for drumming circles

At LeaderOne Financial, we will be serving up tastings of The 2 Mortgage Guys’ award winning chili… “12 Second Chili”! We ran out last year, so be sure to stop by early to guarantee a taste of the best chili east of the mighty Mississippi! We hope to repeat as a K-Town Chili Throwdown winner! Visit www.12secondchili.com for more information on our award winning chili!

We are also pleased to welcome Lori Brubaker and some of the works from exhibition; Metamorphosis. She is the Art Gallery intern at IU Kokomo. Through this internship she has had the opportunity to curate her own show, Metamorphosis.  Her inspiration for the chosen theme came from her love of how objects can change. This change can arise rapidly, or take years to accomplish. She also finds it interesting that the alterations do not always occur naturally, but instead some are manipulated.

Artists from all over submitted their work portraying what metamorphosis meant to them. Lori then had the pleasure of going through and starting the difficult selection process of which pieces she wished to exhibit in her show.

On display here, at LeaderOne Financial, are six pieces that were created by some of the artists that will have other pieces on exhibition at the IU Kokomo Art Gallery. The exhibition opening will be on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 from 4pm-7pm and will run through Saturday, March 14^th.  It is free and open to the public, so everyone is urged to stop by IU Kokomo’s Art Gallery to see all the other great artwork on display.