It's round two of the official opening of the fall art season. If you didn't get to check out all the openings last week (and who humanly could have?), spend part of your Saturday afternoon perusing the rest -- our reviewer particularly enjoyed the show at Flashpoint. But block off your evenings for the parties to celebrate the following openings:

>> Up in Bethesda, it's the big night for the Trawick Prize finalists, as they all hang their works at the Creative Partners Gallery. See the winners, including the paintings by Best of Show Jo Smail, and decide for yourself who the deserving contestants were. Reception Friday, 6 to 9 p.m.

>> As always, the galleries on 14th Street NW have coordinated for the perfect little art package. Our pick this weekend is at the 1515 14th Street building next to Viridian, where Hemphill Fine Arts, on the third floor, is showing the multimedia works of Renee Stout as she plays out her alter ego in Journal: Book One. On the second floor, Adamson Gallery will exhibit New Work by Chuck Close (pictured), known for his unforgiving, realistic works of model Kate Moss; G Fine Art is hosting painter Ian Whitmore's honi soit qui mal y pense (shamed be he who thinks evil of it), a fascinating series of Bush administration "portraits"; and the Curator's Office displays the intricate, abstract works of Jiha Moon in Line Tripping. All receptions Saturday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., except Curator's Office, 6 to 8 p.m.

>> Penn Quarter holds its annual Arts on Foot festival this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check out the arts and crafts, along with cheap, delicious eats from local restaurants. As part of the festival, the Washington Convention Center will be holding three 45 minute tours of its enormous art collection. Tours are free, but you must call 202-249-3200 to register. The festival site is located on F Street between 7th and 9th Streets and will go on rain or shine. See the web site for all the events.

>> Party just for the sake of partying at the National African Art Museum on Friday. Drink some wine, win raffle prizes (including your own photo shoot), and listen to music by the talented Patrick DeSantos, three time winner of the Washington Area Music Awards. While you're there, tour the two ongoing exhibits, African Vision and Body of Evidence, and meet some fellow art lovers. The event is free and goes from 7 to 11 p.m.

>> This writer is probably going to regret not buying one of the fantastic industrial drawings by recent grad Courtney Jordan during Irvine Contemporary's student show last year. She gets a well deserved solo show this time around in their back gallery, while egg-tempura painter Susan Jamison holds down the front gallery. Reception on Saturday, 6 to 8 p.m.

>> Continue down to the Randall Scott Gallery between 6 and 9 p.m. for Nathan Baker's Rupture (part one), a collection of photographic, video and sound works that focus on the sudden breaks in routine life.

>> Then lighten things up a little at Project 4, with the amusing digital photographs of Cedric Delsaux in Landscapes / Star Wars on Earth (pictured), involving tiny toys in Paris backdrops. Naturally. Reception 6 to 8:30 p.m.

>> Friday marks the opening of the retrospective of famous landscape painter Asher B. Durand at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Check out the exhibit and stop by for one of the many related programs.

>> The Marsha Mateyka Gallery hosts a reception on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. for one of their favorite artists, Nathan Oliveira. He'll show New Bronze Sculpture as his sixth solo exhibit at the gallery.

>> Check out the usual second-Friday-of-the-month Bethesda Art Walk. See their web site for participating galleries and locations, including Gallery Neptune, showing the works of glass artist Michael Janis in That Quadrant of Sky (also open for an artists' reception, Saturday 7 to 9 p.m.).

>> Also on Friday, the DCAC opens Every Last Day, with works by the art collective Dos Pestañeos. Arrive at 6 p.m. for a 20 minute silent walk, apparently in conjunction with others going on simultaneously all over the world, or just get there at 7 p.m. for some booze and art.

>> H&F Fine Arts will be showing the works of Virginia artist Fiona Ross, with her ceramic and ink paintings in a line is a thing that moves in time. Reception Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m.

>> If you're dying to shell out some cash to bring some of these artworks home with you, make it a point to swing by the seminar The Art of Collecting Art on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Hosted by the Alexandria Black History Museum, they'll teach you everything you need to know, from legal matters to what makes a good investment.

>> A little bit north in Germantown, catch the vibrant works of Amy Lin and Jill Finsen at the BlackRock Center for the Arts, with an artist reception Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Images, respectively, are by Chuck Close courtesy of the Adamson Gallery and Cedric Delsaux courtesy of Project 4 Gallery.