First Thursday with Artist Jack Kennefick, 6/5/25
Join us on June 5th, 5-7pm, for 1st Thursday at Paradise Found, featuring the raw, expressive, and soul-stirring art of Jack Kennefick—where fashion meets fine art and creativity runs free.
Join us for First Thursday on June 5, 2025 and explore the wearable art of Jack Kennefick!
5pm to 7pm at Paradise Found
For First Thursday on June 5th, Paradise Found invites you to experience the creative world of Jack Kennefick—a local artist whose work lives at the intersection of emotional depth and unfiltered expression. Through richly layered textures, symbolic mark-making, and bursts of vibrant color, Jack’s paintings and wearable art pieces explore the beauty and chaos of the human journey. His art invites you to pause, feel, reflect, and maybe even awaken something within. Come connect with Jack’s unique vision and take in an evening of soulful creativity, community, and inspiration in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara.
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About Jack Kennefick:
My mission for making art is to provide the viewer a glimpse of their own divinity. I want to inspire, invoke, and in some cases trigger the viewer. Thorough a usually rough application of paint and materials on the surface. I want to display an act of rawness, depth of emotion, and curiosity of the human soul. I want my work to be filled with unapologetic expression, duality, spontaneity, and freedom. A battle or dance of opposing forces working together as one. Creative intuitive flow combined with intentional mark making, symbolism, words and texture.
About First Thursday Santa Barbara
1st Thursday is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and venues offer free access to visual and performing arts in a fun and social environment. Venues feature attractions such as art openings, live music, artists' receptions, lectures, wine tastings, and hands-on activities. We hope you will join us to enjoy our beautiful downtown and all that it has to offer!
1st Thursday is for locals and visitors alike. It provides an opportunity for residents to indulge in local culture, mingle with neighbors and participate in the arts community. The program also offers visitors the chance to experience, in one evening, the diversity of Downtown's visual and performing arts scene, is aimed at developing a lively atmosphere downtown as well as showcasing the cultural variety that Santa Barbara has to offer.
