Most galleries and art spots will be open from 6 to 9 p.m.

Galleries and art spots will open on Friday, some with new exhibits, while others will be showing work held over from December. New openings on Friday will include the following:

VALISE Gallery will feature Nathan McNair and Hita von Mende. An award-winning island artist, von Mende paints Western subjects in a modern style, including cowboys, weather, landscape, animals, myths and more.

McNair lives in Portland where he paints colorful images inspired by the Caribbean islands. The former Director of Gallerie Malraux in Los Angeles, McNair has exhibited in galleries in the Los Angeles area and in Birmingham, Alabama.

In honor of Vashon Allied Arts’ 50th anniversary in 2016, and in anticipation of the new Vashon Center for the Arts, the Vashon Allied Arts Gallery will open its final group show to be held in the Blue Heron.

Called “My Vashon, My Home,” the exhibit will feature 15 island artists, some of whom have lived on Vashon most of their lives. Others, like Christine Beck and Janice Mallman, were instrumental in the formation and development of Vashon Allied Arts.

Included in the show are artists Mary Liz Austen, Christine Beck, Darsie Beck, Pam Ingalls, Liz Lewis, Janice Mallman, Larry Muir, Irene Otis, Jayne Quig, Margaret Smith, Catholine Tribble and Leslie Wu.

The Vashon Senior Center will show work by photographer Karlista Rickerson, featuring her underwater scenes and portraits of Puget Sound creatures.

Raven’s Nest will not have an opening Friday night but will show work during January by its colleague and friend, internationally known Tlingit artist Preston Singletary. Singletary is a glass artist from Seattle whose work is fashioned in contemporary Tlingit Native style. Singletary will give a lecture on Sunday as part of Vashon Allied Arts’ Arts & Humanities series.