Santa Rosa photographer, arts activist, event organizer and former art teacher Katheleen McCallum will celebrate the opening of her art gallery with a reception from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. The Kathleen McCallum Gallery, housed at 760 Village Court in Santa Rosa’s Montgomery Village, opens with [...]
Photographs of the Americas Cup sailboat race on San Francisco Bay, taken by Santa Rosa photographer Stuart Kiehl, will be shown throughout August at the Depot Gallery in downtown Mill Valley. A former New York City fashion photographer, Kiehl also will offer framed, signed prints of his Americas [...]
The characters from Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strips have appeared in many media, from animated films to plush dolls. Among the most interesting "Peanuts"-inspired projects are the paintings and silkscreen prints of Southern California artist Tom Everhart. The new Norcal Modern gallery at 115 Plaza St. in Healdsburg [...]
One of of the more interesting art exhibits in Sonoma County every year is the “Invitational Exhibition” at the Graton Gallery, in tiny but lively downtown Graton. Owned and operated by a partnership of nine local artists, the gallery picks the best among the owners’ working artistic peers in the [...]
When Khysie Horn, owner and founder of the Quicksilver Mine Co. art gallery in Forestville, titled her current exhibit “The Last Hurrah,” she meant it. As she announced last summer, Horn will close her gallery at the end of this year. “I have been doing this for almost [...]
Los Angeles artist Roberto Chavez has worked for decades as both a painter and a teacher. Now, at age 80, he is recognized as a major force in California art. The Santa Rosa Junior College will display 60 of his paintings and drawings, including several very large pieces, [...]
The Sebastopol Center for the Arts is on the move, and that is not meant metaphorically. The center, housed for years at 6790 Depot Street, is moving to the Sebastopol Veterans Memorial Building, 282 High St., next to Ives Park. “We agreed to a 30-year lease on the [...]
You’ve heard of NIMBYs. Those are the folks who show up at public hearings to say they don’t oppose the construction of the latest big facility of some sort, as long as it’s “not in my backyard.” Now it’s time for the “IMBYs.” “In My Back Yard” is [...]
As event titles go, it’s a little long, but it’s bound to have broad appeal. This weekend, Richard Ragan Fine Art & Oriental Rugs and the Hudson Street Wineries present “The Integration of Fine Art and Fine Wine.” The event celebrates the recent relocation of Ragan’s Healdsburg gallery, which opened [...]
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.