Free to the public, enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, and more on the second Friday of each month. Anchored by the Art Works Downtown galleries and studio tour, the 2nd Friday Art Walk connects art venues throughout downtown San Rafael for an evening of inspiration and community.
2025 Schedule:
1/10, 2/14, 3/14, 4/11, 5/9, 6/13, 7/11, 8/8, 9/12, 10/10, 11/14, 12/12
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Interested in sponsoring the 2nd Friday Art Walk? Contact Elisabeth Setten
September 12, 2025 Participating Venues throughout Downtown San Rafael
Multicultural Center Marin
709 Fifth Street, 6–9pm
ART MART, a brand-new monthly event from 6-9pm at the Multicultural Center of Marin as a new addition to the downtown San Rafael’s beloved 2nd Fridays Art Walk!
ART MART is more than just a marketplace; it's a community movement. It’s a place where local artists, makers, and neighbors can come together to celebrate creativity, share culture, and support economic opportunity through the arts!
-What You’ll Find at ART MART:
A rich variety of handmade goods and original artwork, including:
Local Music and Food
Jewelry
Paintings & Photography
Home Decor
Crafts and more...
All made with love by local hands!
These events are essential in creating space for cultural expression, economic inclusion, and community connection, especially in times when artists and small creators need visibility and support more than ever.
ART MART empowers local voices and brings art back to the heart of our neighborhoods.
Art Works Downtown
1325–1337 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Portraits reception
Gallery 1337
This exhibition presents an exploration of portraiture, inviting artists to push beyond convention and examine identity through a contemporary lens. The selected works demonstrate diverse approaches that reflect the complexity of selfhood and representation in our current sociopolitical climate. The range of media and perspectives offers meaningful insight into personal and collective narratives and reflects the richness of the Bay Area’s artistic community. This exhibition highlights portraiture’s evolving role in articulating who we are and how we relate to one another.We Are One Heart by S. Newman reception
Underground Gallery
I create textured oil paintings inspired by global travels to reflect our shared humanity and individual complexity, fostering unity, empathy, and joy through compassion.Textures, Time and Tides by Duane M Conliffe reception
Founders’ GalleryThis exhibition features image selections from my photo adventures in the Golden Gate and Marin Headlands in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Intimate Scale reception
Donors’ Gallery
Featuring 30 artists, Intimate Scale presents small artworks embodying quiet intensity and thoughtful presence, celebrating alternative visions within the intimate setting of Art Works Downtown’s Donor Gallery at 1325 Fourth Street.Discover two levels of art studios and galleries
Portraits • Gallery 1337
Peter Moen, Ordinary People, oil on canvas, 56” x 44”
Studio 5 Contemporary
1327 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Open for visitation, Studio 5 Contemporary is a dynamic new contemporary art space in the heart of the Downtown San Rafael Arts District, founded by artists Sara Gallagherand Tubi Ho. The space functions as a gallery, working studio, and venue with a mission to amplify the voices of contemporary artists, bringing people together while being surrounded by high-impact artwork.
www.studio5contemporary.com/calendar-of-events
@studio5contemporary
Marin Jewelers Guild
1331 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
The Marin Jewelers Guild store on Fourth St. has undergone a fast and furious refresh with beautiful new cases and lighting. We love the way it showcases our creations.
Come check it out at 2nd Friday Art Walk!
Marelli Brothers Show Repair, Window
1318 Fourth Street, 24/7
Black, White and READ All Over
Award-winning folded-books artist Adrienne Biggs, of San Rafael presents hand-folded Bookagami totem art show Black, White and READ All Over. Visible 24/7 in the front window September through October 2025.
Bonus activity: September 12 (5 – 8pm) Free artist demo during 2nd Friday Art Walk
Why It’s So Cool: You’ve never seen books like this before! “Bookagami” bring the wow factor. How? Neuroscientists say the human brain experiences an “a-ha moment” the instant it translates 2-D objects (like books) into 3-D “art”.
Sources: Books used in the sculptures are rescued from landfill and free boxes.
Marin Society of Artists
1515 Third Street, corner of E, 5–8pm
The Marin Society of Artists is presenting the 98th Annual Members Fine Art Exhibition. "MSA" is now in their 100th year of operation as an artist's cooperative organization. This show features artwork from current members - paintings, photography and more. The juror was the Artist Hines.
Live music provided by Barbie Rose and John T.
LOOK WEST Gallery
104 G Street, 5–8pm
Eric Whitten is an oil painter whose work examines history and culture as intimate explorations of personal memory and landscape. Influenced by French artist Pierre Bonnard, Whitten works from small sketches done on location, using color to express emotions as the memory is revisited many times. Eric Whitten was born in Walnut Creek, California in 1966 and educated at Yale where he received a Bachelors of Arts in 1989 and a Masters of Fine Arts in painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2000.
Art Walk can be everyday, enjoy the emPOWER Utility Box Art Project
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 were selected to design their vision of the “Spirit of San Rafael.” Enjoy their artistry at six locations in downtown San Rafael.
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