Art gallery 478 Creative and Big Blue Bagel partnered Friday for the Arts, Bagels & Brew Bash.
Located just past the post office on Opelika Road, 478 Creative produces original pieces of art for personal and commercial needs.
Jenna Freed, artist and graduate student in industrial design, said she does a little bit of everything at 478 Creative.
"I mainly work on our artwork, but I also prepare it and wrap it on the canvas," Freed said. "There's a few of us who work together, so we collaborate on everything we do."
The gallery creates its own pieces in addition to unique orders from customers, who can bring in photographs for 478 Creative to integrate into a work.
"We had an aviation guy come in with his group pictures, and we put them into the piece for him," Freed said.
The gallery does not limit its work to only canvas portraits and prints, however.
"There's a wide range of things," Freed said. "We do marketing for people. We design logos and websites, also."
To market their artwork, 478 Creative has a partnership with Big Blue Bagel.
"Our style of artwork is very vintage, an old-fashion kind of feel," Freed said. "The Big Blue Bagel really suited that with the brick walls on the inside. So the artwork hanging in the Big Blue Bagel now is ours."
Freed said the collaboration is mutually beneficial for the two businesses.
"They are advertising our stuff for them, and then we put anything that has to do with Big Blue Bagel on our stuff," Freed said.
Kevin Cash, assistant manager of Big Blue Bagel, said 478 Creative initially approached the shop to put artwork in the restaurant.
"We were like, 'Yeah, that would be great,'" Cash said. "'Bring us some customers and have some space to put your art.'"
For the event, 478 Creative brought more of their artwork to the event, basically moving their art gallery to Big Blue Bagel for the night.
Freed said anyone who came in received a sandwich and was able to see the artwork.
Nicole Carter, senior in apparel merchandising, went to Big Blue Bagel to eat dinner and noticed the artwork while she was there.
Carter said she liked the print of the scattered wine corks with local Auburn restaurants on each the most.
"I liked how the photo was very Auburn, but in a subtle way," Carter said. "It doesn't scream Auburn at first glance."
The event had Blue Moon and Sweetwater beers on draft for 48 cents, the rounded dollar amount of 47.8 cents, which is a play on the galeries name.
Later in the night, there were musical performances by The Band of Mothers and High Strung Dew Sippers.
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