Overview First Friday Art Walk keeps Downtown Delray Beach's galleries, artist studios and cultural centers open from 6 to 9 p.m. on the first Friday of every month, year-round, as a free, self-guided walk centered on the Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square. Pop-up live music and exhibition openings run along the route. The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority produces it as one of more than 20 events it runs a year, alongside Art and Jazz on the Avenue, Savor the Avenue and Downtown Delray Restaurant Month. The DDA is the district's marketing and economic development body: it promotes the downtown, funds the Safety Ambassador program and the Beachkeepers litter pickup, pays for street lighting, pole banners and public art, and advises the City Commission on development. On site The walk is self-guided, door to door. Stops have included the Arts Warehouse, the Arts Garage, the Cornell Art Museum, the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, Sundook Fine Art Gallery, Gallery Mavruk, Addison Gallery, Visual Adjectives and Studio Phoebe, with artists on hand to meet and workshops in some of the studios. The DDA maps the route on its Delray Beach Art Trail, which also catalogs the downtown's murals and public installations. The December walk adds Yuletide carolers on the front steps of Old School Square and the 100-foot Christmas tree. Brand presence The art walk is sold inside the DDA's annual partner program rather than on its own. The top, year-round partner leads every printed and digital asset for all 12 art walks, the three Art and Jazz on the Avenue nights, Savor the Avenue, Restaurant Month and the Mother's Day Orchid Giveaway, with its logo on the kiosk signs at Worthing Park, Libby Plaza and the Old School Square garage and on the monthly event calendar. A second Village tier covers most of the same programs. Smaller partnerships name the weekly Weekend Roundup email, take a page in the Dining and Shopping Guide, 25,000 printed copies handed out at Florida Visitor Centers, downtown hotels and Old School Square, or commission a DDA-produced social video.