Going to the airport can be an artistic experience. The Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport, the Arts Council of Sonoma County and the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation have formed a new partnership to bring attention to Sonoma County art. At a dedication ceremony celebrating the partnership, set for 11 [...]
The first-floor art gallery in the Frank P. Doyle Library at Santa Rosa College will be named this month in honor of Dr. Robert F. Agrella, former superintendent and president of the college. The dedication ceremony will begin at the gallery at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, [...]
The Sonoma County Museum will be closed from Tuesday, Sept. 11, until Friday, Sept. 14, for renovation of the floors in the main gallery. The museum will reopen again from 2 to 5 p.m. Friday. The museum is at 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa. Normal museum hours are 11 a.m. [...]
Sonoma State University’s outdoor art collection got a boost today (Thursday, Aug. 23) with the installation of the late Berkeley sculptor Stephen De Staebler's “Winged Figure Ascending, 2011” near the new Green Music Center box office. The bronze statue is on loan to SSU from the artist's estate [...]
No wonder artists love to portray the human figure. The source material is always readily available. A landscape artist has to drive out to the beach or up to the mountains, but there is always some body around. "Go Figure," the new exhibit at the Healdsburg Center for the Arts, [...]
Sonoma County seems to be fertile ground for outdoor summer music festivals. We keep getting more new ones. The brand-new Bask Music and Arts Festival makes its debut Friday through Sunday, July 20-22, at Hilton Park Campground, 10750 River Road, Forestville. The festival offers music by more than [...]
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art will screen the documentary film “Ferlinghetti” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 18, in conjunction with its current exhibit, “Cross Pollination.” The exhibit features the writings, paintings and graphic works of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 93, Beat era poet and co-founder of San Francisco’s City Lights [...]
Internationally known Sonoma painter Chester Arnold will speak about his work, as well as art and the world in general, at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at the Sonoma County Museum. A longtime art professor at the College of Marin, and well-known for his own work, Arnold [...]
Khysie Horn, longtime Sonoma County gallery owner and arts advocate, said today (Friday, July 6) that she plans to close her Quicksilver Mine Co. art gallery in Forestville at the end of the year. This is “a decision that has been a long time coming, as you might [...]
Fans of local art have long known that Santa Rosa’s Mylette Welch is one of the North Bay’s most popular painters. In the recent Press Democrat Readers' Choice poll, she tied for best artist with Sebastopol junk sculptor Patrick Amiot and Santa Rosa artist and arts activist Mario [...]
What is art? Whether it’s oil on canvas or actors on stage, dancers on their toes or comedians doing stand-up, Press Democrat staff writer Dan Taylor covers the fine and lively arts in Northern California. Meet the people, go behind the scenes and get ahead on what’s coming up.