We're Going to the Dogs!! Paw Print Tile Event!

Grab your best friend, and we mean your dog and come to The Dancing Eye Gallery on Friday, May 3, from 3-8 p.m. during Northville's First Friday Experience and purchase a unique tile with your dog's paw print, name and glaze color of your choice!

Call the Gallery @ 248-449-7086 for an appointment time. It will only take 5-10 minutes for tile artist Kelley Osgood to imprint the paw. She will make your tile in time for Mother's Day, too!

What a great gift!

Paw Print Tile

March First Friday Trunk Show

Personalized Hand Print Tile - $50

Personalized Hand/Foot Print Tile - $78

Personalized Pet Print Tile - $50

These unique gifts are hand crafted by Kelley Aldridge Osgood. Creating the shape to the finishing touches complete by Kelley in her studio where she resides in Birmingham, Michigan with her four children.

Join us on Friday, March 1 from 3-8 p.m. Kelley will be at the Dancing Eye Gallery to make personalized hand print, hand/foot print and pet print tiles for your children and your pets. She will be bringing the clay for impressions; you choose your color and add the name. So easy. Makes a great gift! Please allow 4-5 weeks for finished product.

Please call us ahead to schedule a time - 248-449-7086. 


Don't forget, we are open every Friday until 8 p.m. and Saturdays until 7 p.m.

ANTONIA HARBIN-FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK

Spend some time this Friday evening in downtown
Northville during the First Friday Art Walk.

Visit us at the Dancing Eye Gallery and meet local artist Antonia Harbin from 7-9 p.m. Her unique silver bracelets can be customized with your favorite charms and ready for Christmas! (Allow 2 weeks for a special order.) Or choose from her jewelry selection already in stock here and wear it home!

We are open until 8 p.m. on Fridays until Christmas, but Friday, December 2 until 9.

Make the Dancing Eye Gallery is your gift-shopping destination!

Our friendly staff will even wrap your gifts for you!

Labor Day Weekend

Monday, September 5th is Labor Day. Famous for honoring the American worker, it became a federal holiday in 1894. Designed as a day for rest and parties, it is often celebrated with parades, picnics, barbeques, fireworks and public art displays.

The Dancing Eye Gallery is getting in many new items just in time for fall shopping, so while you are in town this weekend, stop in to visit us and see our newness! We will be open late on Friday for First Friday Art Walk, regular hours on Saturday and Sunday. Don't wait until Monday to come in because we will be closed to enjoy our Labor Day!

The tile pictured is one of many by Sara Frank.

Don't Forget Mother's Day is Sunday!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning said it so well:

"Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words."

Shop with us for that special mother in your life. Might she like jewelry, a special tile, a unique purse or flower-themed yard art? We are your gift-giving spot. Remember a card, too.

Don't forget to visit us on First Friday, this Friday from 5-8 p.m. for our Be Sweet, Mielie purse trunk show. Guaranteed to brighten your day-and maybe your mom's! Make it a "mom weekend" and bring her with you to the Art Walk in Northville.

First Friday is May 6th!

Be Sweet! What is perfect thought for the month of May! Being kind to others is also the premise on which the Be Sweet company was founded.

Friday, May 6th is Northville's First Friday Art Walk. Visit us at the Dancing Eye Gallery that night and meet Yvette Jenkins who represents Be Sweet handbags designed by Mielie in South Africa. These colorful, unique bags are made in a hooked rug technique of recycled fabric by Xhosa women who have learned new skills and invested in their future in a region that once offered little economic opportunity. Some of the profits from sales help support a local school in South Africa.

Yvette will also bring wall hangings and table runners besides purses. Special orders may be taken too.

Another great product that will be available will be the limited edition "yoga for schools" yoga meditation cushion. A percentage of the sales of each cushion goes toward bringing yoga training and supplies to a Michigan school in need.

So, if you are looking for an accessory that is recycled, supportive, thoughtful and one-of-a-kind art, then stop in next Friday from 5-8 p.m. to view the trunk show!

Note: We will be open and accessible during the exciting Streetscape Enhancement Project, as will all businesses. You can check out the progress during the Art Walk. You can also get updates at http://www.downtownnorthville.org/.

Discover your inner Girlie!

First Friday Art Walk is this Friday, February 4th! We will be featuring local artist Lori Brauer.
Lori will have her Girlies with her. What is a Girlie, you ask? A Girlie is a charm that describes your life passion. Some of her favorites are: Runner Girlie, Giving Girlie, Biker Girlie, Dreamer Girlie. Bring your girlie-friend with you this Friday from 5-8 p.m. to the Dancing Eye Gallery and meet Lori. She will be taking orders for the Girlie necklace that you choose.
Lori wants you to "Know your inner Girlie and go with it". Wearing a Girlie charm necklace says that you are comfortable with who you are on the inside. Isn't that what we all strive for?
Check out Lori's website delsoldesign and see her fan page on Facebook.
We'll see you Friday evening!

First Friday: August 6th

Local poet Mark J Davio will be returning to the Dancing Eye Gallery for a book signing and poetry reading for August's First Friday.

Mark J. Davio Reading & Signing
Friday, August 6th
6 - 9pm

For more information on his book Seasons of the Heart please check out his website.

June's 1st Friday Event

Join us during downtown Northville's First Friday Art Walk for the Mielie Bag trunk show. The trunk show will take place from 6-9pm on Friday, June 4th. More information and photos of these unique handmade bags can be found here.

May's 1st Friday w/ local poet Mark J. Davio

Join local author and photographer Mark J. Davio for a poetry reading and book signing event during Northville's First Friday.

Mark will be in the gallery from 6 - 9pm signing copies and doing selected readings from his book Season's of the Heart.

For excerpts from Mark's book and more information visit the Atisans Well website.

Poetry Reading & Book Signing with Mark J. Davio
Friday, May 7th
6 - 9pm

Yes MichiCAN Trunk Show - Nov. 6th

From Yes MichiCAN:
Looking for something to send a loved one living out of the state for the holidays? A shirt with a message about our state might be the answer and will be a gift that will keep on giving back here in Michigan. Two local Northville women created a few slogans to help lift the spirits of Michiganders this summer and are using the messages to help unemployed workers. Don’t Mess with the Mitten and MichiCAN slogans are being sold on t-shirts in stores throughout the Metro Detroit area. “People walk by the t-shirts and stop and smirk and turn back around to take another look,” said Terri O’Brien. Lisa Burnia says people definitely react when they see the shirts. “People walk by and they know exactly what it means and get a smirk on their face and a look of pride comes over them. Everybody is proud to have grown up here and want to stay and raise their families here in Michigan.”

Burnia says the idea was not to just sell shirts, but to create a sense of pride. They are donating part of the money they make off the sales of the shirts to Schoolcraft Foundation, Gleaners Food Banks and Bridgepointe, three organizations that are helping unemployed workers.

New fall colors will be available at the trunk show on Friday, November 6th. We hope you'll join us during downtown Northville's First Friday.

First Friday Trunk Show

Join us on October 2nd, during downtown Northville's First Friday, for a trunk show featuring Detroit Jewelry artist Shionne Designs. She will be selling a unique array of jewelry, including her popular Icon line, from 6 to 8pm.

Sandy Fisher Trunk Show | August 7th 6-8pm

Friday, August 7th jewelry artist Sandy Fisher will be having a trunk show at the Dancing Eye Gallery from 6-8pm. Sandy creates stunning one of a kind necklaces, bracelets and pins using bits and pieces from a variety of antiques and photographs. The trunk show will be taking place during Northville's First Friday.