The Sonoma County Museum stages "BOB3," its third annual Big Oktoberfest Bash, from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, at the Flamingo Resort Hotel and Conference Center 277 Fourth Street, Santa Rosa. Taste locally made brews from Lagunitas, Moonlight, Russian River, Third Street Aleworks and others, as [...]
Painter Jack Stuppin has made his home in west Sonoma County for more than two decades now, but his name and his work continue to travel afar. One of his landscape paintings, "Olana Forest," will be included in the new exhibit, "Paintbox Leaves: Autumnal Inspiration from Cole to [...]
Here's an event you might call sketchy, but in this case, that's a good thing. Well over a dozen cartoonists will converge on the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip with a sketch-a-thon from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, [...]
Do you think of motorcycles as an art form? If not, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts would like you to think again. "Art in Iron," a two-day motorcycle exhibition, runs Saturday and Sunday, July 24-25, at the center, 6780 Depot St. The event includes bikes an invitational gallery exhibit, [...]
Petaluma artist Hans Skalagard, 86, found happiness mixing saltwater and oil paint. Skalagard has produced some 3,500 painstakingly accurate nautical paintings since he created his first in 1943, while serving as a World War II merchant marine. Starting this weekend, you'll get a chance to see some of [...]
During an interview last February, Kate Eilertsen, executive director of the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, very clearly expressed one of ther dreams for the downtown Sonoma museum. “I want to make it active all the time, a place where art happens,” she said. “My big dream for [...]
It's time to go back to college. But don't worry. You don't have write term papers, pass exams or pay tuition. You can just enjoy the work of 13 Sonoma State University bachelor of fine art students in "BFA Exhibition 2010," opening today (Thursday, April 15) at the [...]
Nationally and internationally recognized sculptor Robert Hudson has lived and worked in Sonoma County for more than three decades, but you rarely get a chance to see his work on display anywhere close to home. A rare exception was the Sonoma County Museum exhibit of his work five years ago. [...]
If you love oil paintings and crave something a bit different, here's a tip: The Quicksilver Mine Co. in Forestville will open "Upstage," a one-woman exhibition of recent work by Kathleen Youngquist, on Friday, March 5. The gallery will host reception for the artist from 4 to 6 [...]
Painter Maynard Dixon, famed for his evocative scenes from the American Southwest, died in 1946, but his reputation and influence have grown significantly since then. In recent years, interest in Dixon's art has risen to new heights, prompted by four books about the painter, three major exhibitions and [...]
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.