There’s an Art Bomb coming to Kenmore Blvd. and you’re invited! Bring your friends, family and neighbors down to the Boulevard to celebrate First Friday with the area’s best food, vendors, jazz and blues musicians, and interactive arts activities.

ArtsNow will be onhand to keep your feedback for the Akron Cultural Plan. Then at 7:45 p.m. outside Project Three Gallery, join us for a very special mural unveiling by the University of Akron’s Art Bomb Brigade and Kenmore muralist Caleb Aronhalt. It’s all courtesy of Kenmore Neighborhood Alliance and Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realty.

Don’t forget the Family Bakers Fun World with bounce house, games, snow cones and more! Musical performances will start every 15 minutes from 13th-16th St., and the Live Music Now Beer Garden will be stocked with many seasonal bews from Akronym Brewing, R.Shea Brewing – Merriman Valley, The Brew Kettle and Mucky Duck Brew Pub.

Music schedule:
6 p.m. – Dreams Academy Music and Media Center Artists in Training
Kenmore Komics & Games, 1020 Kenmore Blvd.
6:30 – Ben White
New Beginnings Boutique and Thrift, 932 Kenmore Blvd.
6:45 The Dolly Hoppers
Lay’s Guitar Shop, 974 Kenmore Blvd.
7 p.m. Twice as Nice Jazz Duo
Live Music Now Beer Garden, 952 Kenmore Blvd.
7:15 p.m. Colin John
The Rialto Theatre, 1000 Kenmore Blvd.
8 p.m. Jazz Heritage Orchestra
Live Music Now Beer Garden, 952 Kenmore Blvd.

Food trucks/vendors
Flamingo Jack’s Food Truck (ecclectic comfort food)
Sassy Dog (gourmet hot dogs)
Kickstand Coffee Company (coffee and iced beverages)
Lil’ Bit Cafe – Kenmore (fresh beignets and meat/veggie tacos)
The Kenmore Eastern Sports Bar (grilled burgers)
Destiny’s Delicious Delights (candy apples, strawberries and pretzels)
Kool Treats (cheesecake and banana pudding)
Mizz Shake Sum (healthy smoothies, from PB&J to Pina Colada)
Robert’s Ice Cream Truck (ice cream sandwiches,. drumsticks, bomb pops and more!)
Weeziecakes (cookies and cupcakes)

Art/retail vendors
Art by Matt Buzek (original paintings)
Chuck Hunter Art (paintings and photograph
Dan Rowland Photography (photographs, Kenmore Blvd. postcards)
Don Jeffrey Studio (artistic renderings of urban and historic landmarks in Kenmore and beyond)
Blimp City Gifts LLC (Handmade jewelry and gifts made with upcycled guitar strings played by local musicians)
FireFlites, LLC. (soy candles and melts)
Kenmore CommUnity Council Inc. (Cletus Swords Memorial Gazebo mugs and tees)
Kenmore Historical Society (wooden miniatures of historic Kenmore buildings)
MeehanMakings by Dawn Meehan (cups, koozies, mugs and more that celebration Kenmore)
Ol’ Dirty Sheets’ Hot Sauce (craft hot sauces and rubs)
ReNewal Creations (jewelry/home decor made from found objects)
Skinsations Body Essentials (chemical-free body butter and bath bombs)
Sandusky Holman Designs (hand-woven wallhangings, table runners, original embroidered pieces, and repurposed/upcycled items)
Santa’s Lil Helper (handmade blankets and toys)
Whozmama (suncatchers, jewelry and decorative prisms)

Hands-on Fun:
Chalk Art & Mural Unveliling with Art Bomb Brigade
Touch a Horn with Open Tone Music
Strum-a-Uke with Rubber City Ukes
Plastic Bag Self-Portrait & Weaving with Akron Soul Train
Hands-On Nature Art with Summit Metro Parks
T-Shirt Decorating & Hammer Contest with Summit Lake BUILD CORPS
Hands-On Scratch Art with Kenmore Kiwanis
String Art Craft with Kenmore Chamber of Commerce
Coloring with Citizens Bank
Face painting with The Church on the Boulevard
Fractured Fairytales with Kenmore Kreative Youth Theatre

Kenmore First Fridays are sponsored by Coldwell Banker Schmidt Family of Companies-Strongsville, Kenmore Chamber of Commerce, Akron Promise, A-Z Insurance-Dustin Burgess Insurance Group, LLC, Freedom Tax Akron, Kenmore Komics & Games, Schlup-Pucak Funeral Home, Smith’s House of Carpet, County of Summit Executive Ilene Shapiro, Summit County Public Health and City of Akron Community Events