MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Enjoy the vibrance of the Middletown community Friday, June 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. during June’s First Friday Art Walk.

This month’s theme, “Eat Your Art Out,” focuses on culinary arts. Food vendors will be hosted by businesses throughout downtown each with a site-based party including art, music and/or food.

The First Friday Art Walk is an effort to invigorate the community, especially during its continuing recovery process, and a collaboration between the Middletown Merchants Association and individual local businesses, the Middletown Art Center, the Middletown Community Farmers’ Market and the Phoenix Collaborative.

This year’s First Fridays Meet Your Makers highlight different Lake County makers from fashion to food, to jewelry, to functional art, to technology, media and health, began May 3 and will take place each first Friday of the month through October.

The Middletown Community Farmers Market is every Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. on the corner of Highway 175 and Highway 29 at the Middletown Art Center. The market features local produce and herbs.

You may want to build a trip to the newly reopened EcoArts Sculpture Walk at Trailside Park into your evening as well. The 14th annual Sculpture Walk, a project of the MAC, reopened for the first time since the park and exhibit burned in the Valley fire.

Thirteen new pieces are on view and young trees, shrubs and wildflowers greet visitors with the optimism of resilience. The park is located at 21435 Dry Creek Cutoff, just a mile and a half from town.

Come to Middletown, enjoy the community, art, music, food, shopping and fun.

Stay up to date on all classes, exhibits and events happening at MAC, at www.middletownartcenter.org .

Find out more about attending or participating in First Fridays on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FirstFridaysinMiddletown .