2nd Friday Art Walk
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.
Collage Art Marking Workshop
Upcoming schedule listed below
Participate
Collage & Wine Workshop during some of the 2nd Friday Art Walk
In a fun and social group setting, artist and teacher Dan Caven provides step-by-step instruction along with encouragement. By the end of the evening, each attendee will create a fabulous piece of art! Adult students receive two glasses of wine, appetizers, and artist materials. Appropriate for all skill levels.
$40 per person
Call 415.451.8119 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
to register.
Walk-ins welcome if space is available.
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next art walk: July 14, 2017 • 5-8pm
Information updated regularly. Please check back!
Maps are available at participating venues.
download July 2017 map
1611 4th st Rebound Bookstore 
exhibition: Caught In the Act
Forty Years of Photographs and Ephemera from designs for the professional theatre. Photographs are of set and lighting designs by Joel D. Eis, MFA.
1515 3rd st Marin Society of Artists 
reception: Something Old, Something New
This exhibit celebrates the relationship between the oldand the new, beginnings and endings, youth and age.
reception: Artist's Favorite
For this exhibit each artist personally selected one of their favorite works of art.
1337 4th st Art Works Downtown
reception: The Art of Abstraction info Featuring: Janice Best, William Binzen, James Cooper, Rene Dayan-Whitehead, Cathleen Evangelista, Alex Friedman, Georgia Gibbs, Tina Green, Victoria Heilweil, Nicholas Hullibarger, Stephen Kane, Connie Kirk, Geneviève L'Heureux, Ellen Leo, Toni Littlejohn, Sherrie Lovler, Mimi Makowsky, Sanda Manuila, Cindy Ostroff, Phyllis Pacin, Cindy Pavlinac, Margaret Realica, Margo Reis, Holly Savas, Jeffrey Sully, Vera Tchikovani, Vaidis Valaitis, Leslie Patterson Werner, Tyler Wilkins, Kathryn Wills
• Underground Gallery (AWD) info
reception: Artifacts of Intention
mixed media work by Nate Castillo
• Founders' Gallery (AWD) info
reception: Get In The Car Kids, It's Time to Go: IDPs, Refugees, Detainees, and Deportees by Lara Myers
This installation of a mock boutique and workshop that makes and sells baby and toddler clothing appliqued with the label IDP, Refugee, Detainee, or Deportee. (An IDP is an "Internally Displaced Person" which means a refugee who stays within the borders of his/her country. There are more IDPs and refugees as the result of climate change/extreme weather than there are from war/conflict.)This exhibit also showcases two other documentary art installations that Lara Myers created during her year as the 2016/2017 Max Thelen Studio Residency Artist.
• 1325 Donors'Gallery info
reception: Marilyn Greenblat plein-air paintings
Marilyn Greenblat is a devoted painter who focuses on plein-air oil paintings of Marin and Sonoma Counties. Her works include bay views, the Pacific ocean, forests, hillsides, wildlife refuges, marshes and occasionally still-lifes, animals and portraits. marilyngreenblat.com
• Multipurpose Room (AWD) 
activity: Collage & Wine Workshop
In a fun and social group setting, artist and teacher Dan Caven provides step-by-step instruction along with encouragement. $40 per session. Limited space.
1331 4th st Marin Jewelers Guild
reception: Flower Power
Celebrate the anniversary of, the "Summer of Love" with authentic 1960s framed vintage posters from the Fillmore, Winterland and the Avalon Ballroom. As always there will be sweets and savories to enjoy with your glass of wine.
917 C St Youth in Arts
exhibition: San Rafael AP Art
Visit YIA Gallery this summer to enjoy paintings, drawings, mixed media, and digital art by San Rafael students in AP Art courses at San Rafael and Terra Linda High Schools. This exhibit, organized by teaching artists Annie Yi (San Rafael HS) and Katy Bernheim (Terra Linda HS), is a partnership between YIA Gallery and both school sites.
1020 B st VenturePad
exhibition: Showcasing Susan McCormick, Nini Lion, Stephanie Jucker. Variety of modern artworks from each artist.
live music: The Lost Halos, blues band
1138 4th st Rileystreet Art Supply
exhibition: Andrew Faulkner: Invented Landscapes - Mixed Media Demo and Show.
Andrew will be leading a collage "play-fest". Supplies will be available.
live music: Gary and the Crew
1122 4th st Aroma Cafe
reception: Musical Instrument Series
modernistic paintings by Stephen Allegra
This exhibition of acrylic paintings represent a series of views of musical instruments from memories of past concerts viewed by the artist, who also plays the drums. His paintings reflect his last name which is a musical term meaning “upbeat and colorful”
827 4th st Marin Fencing Academy
reception: Encaustic Adventures
Vivian Vosu - Encaustic Wax Paintings
Laura Lengyel - Paintings
1108 Tamalpais ave The 1180 Gallery
reception: Artwork by Mark Parker and Barbara Coley
live music: T-Lion Deluxe (Ron Corral Jr. and T-Lion James)
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Merchants may sign up online:
• Participating Venues must provide art/event information two Tuesdays prior to the 2nd Friday event.
• Venues interested in serving wine must follow the AWD Art Walk Policies and Procedures: click here
Including: $25 for a ABC license fee, Property owner signature, How to sell wine
• Looking for the paper sign up form? download here
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