The Cole-Noble Art Gallery at Artistry, a new downtown residence at 451 E. Market St., will offer a “sneak peek” of this year’s Raymond James Stutz Artists Open House. The preview will be part of the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association (IDADA) First Friday. The “IDADA’s Sneak Peek for the Stutz” exhibit will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Cole-Noble gallery opened on the IDADA First Friday in December with an exhibit by artist Walter Knabe. The artists who will participate in the Cole-Noble event and in the Stutz open house are Linette Bledsoe, Martha Carlson, Wendy Franklin, and Kevin Smola. All are members of IDADA.

Linette Bledsoe began her art career as a painter of murals and other decorative art. She now concentrates on heavily textured plaster pieces and paintings. A new series, “Plasterworks,” focuses on different plastering techniques combined with other three-dimensional media. “Plasterworks” will debut at this year’s Stutz show and one of her works from that series, “Pure Harmony,” will be on display at Cole-Noble.

Painter Martha Carlson currently is creating a series called “Clouds” which has as its origins the collaboration between the Stutz Artspace and Spirit & Place’s 2012 theme of “Play.” Her work includes blue skies with cumulus clouds as well as her favorite: dark brooding clouds with some sunlight filtering through. Her Cole-Noble piece is entitled, “Clouds/First in a Series.”

Wendy Franklin works with hand-dyed silk and merino wool, layering them and blending them to create color, texture, and composition. In the final stages of her creation, she sprays the combination of materials with water and vigorously mixes the silk and wool together, and then mounts the mixture of cloth on to panels or canvases. Her work at Cole-Noble is entitled “Diptych.”

Kevin Smola is an abstract artist whose work is a part of many corporate and private collections across the country. He has been represented by Agora Gallery in New York and has exhibited his work in Paris and Bologna. Agora Gallery compared his work to the brushwork of the later works of Monet. Smola calls his work of undulating patterns of colors his “expressive compositions.” At Cole-Noble, he will display “Worth the Weight.”