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. 

2018 Art Walk dates: 1/12, 2/9, 3/9, 4/13, 5/11, 6/8, 7/13, 8/10, 9/14, 10/12, 11/9, 12/14

To learn how to participate click here  

Art Walk map for  April 13, 2018 • 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 April 2018 map 

1611 4th st  Rebound Bookstore 
exhibition: Treasures From My Dreams
Retrospective of artist Steve Hurst

1553 4th st  Rumor Has It  
activity: Sheila Rokeach presents “The Art of Skin” 

1340 4th st   Mc Rosky Mattress Company    
reception: Anne Shaheen & Valerie Stilson
Anne and Valerie transform banal, everyday objects into unique assemblage. Finding the beauty in imperfection, both sculptors use form to tell a story. 

1337 4th st  Art Works Downtown    

reception:   What It Feels Like For a Girl  info 
Bay Area artist Serena Cole presents What It Feels Like For a Girl a body of work based on the appropriation and reconstruction of found imagery from fashion, art history, and current events. Cole's highly detailed mixed media artwork continues tropes from the history of painting such as the female figure and the still life. She considers each piece an avatar of herself, creating a uniquely personal exhibition of self-portraiture that invites reflection from the broader audience on female-hood in the current political climate.

• Cedars (AWD)  info 
reception: Cedars will feature a large display of colorful and richly textured Artists' Books. The room will be filled with extraordinary Cedars art, including puppets, paintings, mobiles, and bowls. 

• Underground Gallery (AWD)  info 
reception: Disturbing Times solo exhibition by Sanda Manuila
Manuila creates stylized representational images, which take an allegorical quality. Her stories depict a state of mind in which the boundaries between dream and reality have become fluid. Her purpose is to show the challenging path of life in these disturbing times, and what it entails to be a woman in an intimate, social and universal realm. 

• Founders' Gallery (AWD)   info 
reception: Aloysius by Matt Tasley
Marin County painter Matt Tasley presents an exhibition of new paintings of his new son Aloysius as well as a series of his popular landscapes. 

• 1325 Donors'Gallery info 
reception: Unmasked by Jasmin Viducic
Unmasked is a series of figure drawings that utilize watercolor backgrounds to show the true emotion hidden beneath the surface. While a person is struggling with anxiety and depression, they often wear a mask to disguise these feelings. The surrounding pop of color represents the mask fading away as that person learns that it’s okay to show how they’re really feeling. 

1331 4th st Marin Jewelers Guild   
reception: Marin artist Jeff Allyn, abstract paintings
reception: Collage of Marin Student Show
The Marin Jewelers Guild proudly presents our fifth annual Collage of Marin Student Show at the Guild-featuring pieces from COM jewelry and metal smithing students. Come see the creative projects from the next generation of jewelers, and meet their creators! Many pieces will be for sale. 

1310 4th st Pleasures of the Heart      
exhibition: Aaron Bardo will feature a series of Japanese ink (sumi) sensual paintings.
activity: live painting by the artist 

917 C st Youth in Arts      
exhibition: Explore a fantastic cardboard world filled with art from the Walker Rezaian Creative HeArts Kindergarten Arts Program at Laurel Dell
activity: Arts activities for kids and families

921 C st Key Tea (5–11pm)      
reception: to be announced
performance: to be announced

1020 B st VenturePad    
receptoin: Showcasing Nance Miller, Ellen Rothman, Susan Searway-Fertig, and Jane Heaphy
A variety of modern artworks from each artist.

1138 4th st Rileystreet Art Supply (6–9pm)      
receptoin: Fun and Silly Mediums
Works of Art by Tom Peplinski in inks, watercolor, sand, and beer. Tom is also the drummer in Gary and the Crew.
live music:  Todos Santos 

905 4th st Crome Architecture (5–7pm)      
receptoin: Loving the Land - a Northern California Exploration in Paint
Maeve Croghan

850 4th st Copperfield's Bookstore      
music: Tom Bekeny and Jazz Hands
Jazz Hands play original interpretations of jazz, and great American songbook standards in a straight ahead jazz style. With the inclusion of electro-acoustic mandolin, drums, bass and guitar, the Hands bring a new twist that provides a tonal color rarely heard in mainstream jazz. Come enjoy the great American art form of jazz with some of the Bay Area's finest musicians at your local bookstore.Taste Cafe staying open until 7pm 

1108 Tamalpais ave The 1180 Gallery   
reception: Community Action Marin presents Karen Balsamico’s one woman show Before and After
music: Ron Corral

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ARTISTS contact venues to display your art.
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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
• Participation Form
• Looking for the paper sign up form? download here

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