2nd Friday Art Walk

DIRECTORY KEY     venues with wine supporting art walk    venues with refreshments    venues with live music or DJ   venues with performance or demo     venues with activities     beer

Enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, live music and refreshments as you stroll in downtown San Rafael. Anchored by Art Works Downtown galleries and artist studios, the 2nd Friday Art Walk links venues along downtown Fourth Street the second Friday of each month

2020 Art Walk dates: 1/10, 2/14, 3/13, 4/10, 5/8, 6/12, 7/10, 8/14, 9/11, 10/9, 11/13, 12/11

To learn how to participate click here   

Art Walk map for January 10, 2020 • 5-8pm*

*Open hours vary depending on the venue. See current listings on this website page during week of the Art Walk. Printed  Maps are available at participating venues during the week of the Art Walk. download January 2020 map 

1611 4th st  Rebound Bookstore  
exhibition: Kate Pepper’s Big Show! 10 years of watercolor
“I am excited by gardens of all kinds, in whatever state of glory or disrepair. I love to paint at high noon, when shadows are at their most intense. Marin has been my home for 25 years. and I feel blessed to be surrounded by so much natural beauty. Color and light are everything.” www.pepperprojects.com 

1553 4th st  Atelier 1553 (4–8pm)  
reception: Best of 2019, Group Show, January 10– 31
Featuring work by: Karyn Gabriel, Alex Cole, Grey Lux, Will Chase, David Brent, Aderyn Studio, Heather Palmer, Rae Vittorelli, Lola Mahaney, Jen Moore, and Olivia Moray

1515 3rd st  Marin Society of Artists  
reception: A Moment In Time
An exhibition of member's artwork, including painting, photography and more. Also in view: two floors of art galleries and artist studios, many open to the public. Come and meet the artists!

1408 mission st Falkirk Cultural Center   
reception: Women Painting Women, Exhibition 1/10/20-2/7/20
Underneath each piece are aspects of femininity and the experience of being a woman in today’s world. Whether overlooked or fully seen. The eyes, a gesture, the hand, tilt of her hear all convey something about being female and especially so because these are women painted by women. Featured artists: Ayris Hatton, Deepa Jayanth, Deborah Cushman, and Kathleen Lack. Meet the talented women at their opening celebration or experience the show during gallery hours most Tue-Fri, 1–5pm or Sat 10am–1pm.

1337 4th st   Art Works Downtown    
reception: Phyllis Thelen: Coming Full Circle info 
Art Works Downtown is pleased to honor Phyllis Thelen, Founder of AWD, with this retrospective of her work. Now 93, Thelen has been making and exhibiting her art for the past 70 years. Phyllis Thelen’s art encourages us to think differently about ourrelationship to nature. Inspired by the organic materials she finds in the forests and on the beach, her work has unfolded in many phases. She began as a painter and printmaker, and then beganto create the fiber sculptures for which she is best known. Thelen is an award-winning artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout California and Japan, including solo exhibitions at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and Morris Graves Museum of Art.

• Underground Gallery (AWD)  info 
Phyllis Thelen: Coming Full Circle—Political & Ecological Work
These two bodies of recent work, Planet Earth Screwed and Take Shelter (from the News) continue Thelen’s artistic response to political and ecological events and issues.

• Founders' Gallery (AWD)   info  
reception: Phyllis Thelen: Coming Full Circle—Printmaking
Thelen has been experimenting with printmaking since the late 1970s. She has created woodblock prints, collographs, serigraphs, plated and collaged serigraphs, and prints in the form of paper quilts.

• Donors' Gallery (AWD)   info  
reception: Phyllis Thelen: Coming Full Circle—Scrolls
This gallery features a collection of Thelen’s scrolls, where she continues the theme of reinvention and transformation. She incorporates older silkscreen and woodblock prints to create innovative contemporary scrolls.

1331 4th st  Marin Jewelers Guild    
reception: Karen Meadows, Marin County painter
“My art will allow the viewer to experience color, texture, movement and surprise. Each painting holds within it a personal metaphor of my quest for personal understanding and growth.”

917 C st Youth In Arts     
exhibition: Inspire
Teaching art exhibition
activity: Hand-on art activity in our FREE Community Art Lab

5th ave & C st City of San Rafael Parking Structure
exhibition: Public Art Installation @ the corner of 5th Ave. & C St.
This 1st of 3 installations features artwork by a local adult artist, Isabel Hayes and an untitled collaborative piece created by Willow Creek Academy, K-1 students. In collaboration with and celebration of the DSRAD, the City’s Parking Division transformed an old parking sign for this unique project. Isabel Hayes' painting Visions of San Rafael. 

1138 4th st Rileystreet Art Supply     
reception: Etchings by Robe Howe
Just what exactly are etchings?
music: Gary and the Crew

850 4th st Copperfield's Bookstore    
event: Open Mic brought to you by ForWords Literacy Lab

846 4th st Glaze & Confused Pottery & Gallery  
reception: Featured artists on display

514 4th st Marin Shakespeare Co.  
Visit Marin Shakespeare Company’s new downtown location! MSC Open House: learn about the scope and vision for the new MSC location in San Rafael which will serve as a Social Justice Center, complete with rehearsal and classroom space, as well as a new 165-seat indoor theatre venue, costume and prop shop, Box Office and administrative offices. This new space is in addition to the current theatre home located at Forest Meadows Amphitheatre at 890 Belle Avenue,on the campus of Dominican University.
activity: Try on costume accessories, see set pieces and designs, learn about the scope of Shakespearean theatre work, social justice programming, educational offerings, and new live theatre venue. Meet and greet with the MSC staff and artists.

emPOWER Utility Box Art Project 
installation:  emPOWER Utility Box Art Project
Social media moment: Snap a pic with up to six beautifully painted utility boxes -- #emPOWERboxes. Tag us! @ArtWorksDowntown @SanRafaelCoC

A beautification project developed by the 2019 cohort of the Leadership Institute -- a program of the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce. Six talented, San Rafael-based artists/artists groups were selected to design their vision of the “Spirit of San Rafael”. Join us in celebrating art in unexpected places as you enter downtown San Rafael. Featured artists and utility box locations:

• Lincoln & 3rd Street: Yuan Chen
• Lincoln & 4th Street: Eyan Higgins Jones
• Tamalpais & 3rd Street: Mirto Golino 
• Tamalpais & 4th Street: Stephanie Jucker 
• Tamalpais & Mission: Joshua Brindlely (Student) and Lynn Sondag (Associate Professor) of Dominican University
• Lincoln & 2nd Street: Youth in Arts

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