2nd Friday Art Walk
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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
2019 Art Walk dates: 1/11, 2/8, 3/8, 4/12, 5/10, 6/14, 7/12, 8/9, 9/13, 10/11, 11/8, 12/13
To learn how to participate click here
Art Walk map for September 13, 2019 • 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 September 2019 map
1611 4th st Rebound Bookstore
exhibition: Drawings in Morocco and Rome; a Woman’s Memory
Sparse, disarming, whimsical drawings, haikus of vision; like dry wine, a thought half-remembered, but never forgotten... Marcia S. Dalva is a Marin County ceramic artist. She has been doing fired and glazed clay work for over 30 years.Unique works, never previously shown, on display in the Rebound Bookstore. The drawings are also gathered in a limited edition hardbound and softbound journal, Drawings in Morocco and Rome. Signed, limited editions for sale at The Rebound Bookstor
1515 3rd st Marin Society of Artists 
reception: From Sea to Shining Sea - What Unites Us
National Fine Art Exhibition in our main gallery. Our members art is showcased in our Flex Gallery and Downstairs Galleries. We feature two floors of galleries and artist studios. Come and meet the artists!
1408 mission st Falkirk Cultural Center 2pm-7pm 
reception: Plein Air Competition and Awards
Plein Air Competition, 2pm-5pm followed by Awards Reception, 5pm-7pm. Paint or admire, public is welcome. Artists will be painting on site and welcome visitors. Completed plein air pieces will be displayed in the mansion for the evening. Guests and participants have the opportunity to vote for the People's Choice Award between 5-6pm from completed plein air pieces. More information available at www.livelifelocally.org/falkirk-events/
1340 4th st McRoskey Mattress Company 
reception: painted metal sculptures by Joseph Slusky and paintings by Katie Hawkinson
music: Eric Engstrom
1337 4th st Art Works Downtown 
reception: ZENPOP, a solo exhibition by Nellie King Solomon info
ZENPOP is a curatorial term developed by exhibition curator Marialidia Marcotulli to describe a certain cultural dynamic in today’s contemporary art practice. The term was adapted by Nellie King Solomon in this series of new abstractions in which paint is poured pushed and pulled. The energy of the fluid directed, manipulated, and surrendered to, in degrees of certainty and restraint.
• Underground Gallery (AWD) info
reception: Viscerally Stumped, Hayley Samantha Jensen, 2019-2020 The Max Thelen Studio Residency
The entities I paint have eye(s). Thinking about the anthropocentric ideologies of the Western world, I use the eye as a symbol for consciousness or value of being (subjecthood). I engage in a conversation around animism, the attribution of soul to plants, natural phenomenon, dirt, clouds, etc., playing with its vibrancy and demystifying it in order to informally hang out with animism as an idea, as a solution, and mourn with it for the human inflictions of preceding and proceeding violence.
Working in the debased material of plastic as condensed indexes of living matter, I activate the history of this lethal material. Through plastic's past, I recognize it's ghosts and memorialize their lives as kin through colorful play. These materials are a platform to engage in solidarity with nonhuman entities, locking eyes and connecting the innately connected.
50% of the proceeds from each painting will be donated to the Rainforest Action Network, Ocean Conservancy, and/or the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center.
• Founders' Gallery (AWD) info
reception: Beyond the Image, El Salvador, 1990–1996
25 black and white photographs by Giuseppe Dezza
During this tragic time in this country when the expression of hatred and xenophobia are brazenly encouraged, perhaps connections might be drawn from the events documented in this body of work to the current immigration crisis.
• 1325 Donors' Gallery (AWD) info
reception: Charlie Callahan
Charlie Callahan’s concepts consist of imagining a global environmental protection agency or G. E. P. A.—“One that works for the interest of all sentient beings.” Charlie has lived in California for 20 years under the moniker Seelife and has exhibited from Tokyo to Chelsea and back to the Bolinas Book Exchange. His public murals can be seen in both Mill Valley and San Francisco. You may also catch his work at the Mill Valley City Council Chambers in November. For exhibition details, commissions, or available works charlieecallahan.com
1331 4th st Marin Jewelers Guild
reception: Anna Ladyzhenskaya
“...my art resides between the past and the present, between time and space, between the real and the imagined.”
1310 4th st Pleasures of the Heart (5-7:30pm)
reception: Sensual Fantasy, photography by Glen Graves
917 C st Youth In Arts
exhibition: Outside the Lines: Collaborative Art from Special Day Classrooms
exhibition: 'Til Dawn
event: State of the ARTS
Marking one year since the Marin County Arts of Eduication plan was released. Learn more about our great progress!
1138 4th st Rileystreet Art Supply
reception: Places, Joe Ceballos
Joe Ceballos worked for Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic, digitally creating realistic environments for film before becoming Creative Director at Whiskytree, where he has worked on over two dozen films, including several blockbusters. Just as his love of fine art has helped inform his work in film, his experience in the entertainment industry has helped develop his visual sense and the story-telling qualities of his paintings. He strives to capture the ethereal moments found in daily life. Joe’s award-winning work has been shown in galleries throughout California and resides in collections worldwide.
music: Wendy and the Crew
846 4th st Glaze & Confused Pottery & Gallery
reception: Featured artists on display
music: Pardon the Interruption
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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