Johnson City's First Friday Store!

Downtown Johnson City's monthly "meandering art festival" is known as First Friday. This event began in 2001 as a monthly expo of local and regional art inside Nelson Fine Art. Now, a few years later, on the First Friday of each month the downtown district is starting to buzz with activity. Streets are closed to vehicle traffic, other galleries have opening receptions, retail businesses hold openhouses, and artists and crafters set up to sell their wares. In the warm weather, restaurants pull tables onto the sidewalks, local soulfood restaurant, Taste Budz fries fresh fish, and bands play in the street. But, the epicenter of activity is still Nelson Fine Art.