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
June 13, 2025 Participating Venues throughout Downtown San Rafael
Multicultural Center Marin
709 Fifth Street, 5–8pm
ART MART, a brand-new monthly event debuting on Friday, June 13th 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
Chromatic Bloom reception
Gallery 1337
This collection of selected works tells an intentional color story, harnessing vibrant, rich hues that ignite bold relationships to substrate, personal stories, and symbolic botanical forms. The varying subject matters are further transformed stylistically and in medium, speaking to art history and artistic diversity in the SF Bay Area and North Bay. Together, these sociocultural elements create a vivid dialogue between color, form, and meaning—offering viewers a layered visual experience that celebrates both individual expression and collectivity.Red, Blue, Yellow reception
Underground Gallery
Coming into view is a color story of coexistence—an exploration of fluid, textural, soft, and fluctuating worlds. This exhibit series celebrates the creative use of the bold simplicity of primary colors—red, blue, and yellow. Each artwork, composed of a single primary hue, becomes a point of reflection, deepening the way we experience and interpret visual art. Together, these varied forms and color-focused compositions create an immersive viewing experience throughout the Founders’, Underground, and Donors’ Galleries.Red, Blue, Yellow reception
Founders’ GalleryRed, Blue, Yellow reception
Donors’ GalleryDiscover two levels of art studios and galleries
Chromatic Bloom • Gallery 1337
Carrie Lederer, Nature’s Mysterious Conglomerates, acryla gouache on paper, 17” x 13”
Studio 5 Contemporary
1327 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Art Gallery, Studio, and Event Space by Sara Gallagher and Tubi Ho.
Please join us for live music, collectable original paintings and limited edition prints, and artist meet and greets!
2nd Friday Music Series featuring Hectorine @hectoriiine
Oakland-based Hectorine's latest record, “Arrow of Love”, was released earlier this month. “Arrow of Love” mixes devastation with streaks of synth, soft rock, and camp. Much of the album sounds like it belongs on a killer breakup mixtape, slotted in somewhere between Fleetwood Mac’s “Isn’t It Midnight”, Peter Gabriel’s “Don’t Give Up”, and Bridget St. John’s “Downderry Daze”.” - @discfivedotcom
Marin Jewelers Guild
1331 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
June Yokell
“Underneath all of my paintings is where I was before I was born and where I will go when I am no longer here.”— June Yokell.
June Yokell
Youth in Arts
917 C Street, 5–8pm
Youth in Arts presents our 2nd annual, Here & Queer LGBTQIA+ Pride Month Spotlight Show. This year’s theme, Breaking the Stigma Through Art, aligns with local student curator Eva H's ongoing campaign, Break the Stigma (Rooted in Pride, We Bloom), which focuses on mental health within the LGBTQIA+ community. Breaking the STIGMA stands for: Support, Talk, Include, Grow, Mobilize, and Advocate. Plus, come visit our Mobile Art Lab on 4th Street on 6/13, 5-9pm to build your floating home with us.
youthinarts.org/event/here-queer-pride-month-spotlight-show-opens-june-6th/
Here & Queer
Marelli Brothers Show Repair, Window
1318 Fourth Street, 24/7
Love & Everyday Rituals
This display features prints, photos & drawings by artists from England & USA. By invitation, the following artists created a 9” x 12” drawing, print or photo based on the theme, “Love & Everyday Rituals” for the Art Exchange in 2024.
Adeline Berry, from England
Anna Rochester, Barbara Libby-Steinmann, Leslie Luyken & Liz Cruger from California
Kirsten Rorke, Jennifer Zackin & Megan Mardiney from New York
Patricia Carroll & Sadie Smith from Oregon
Virginia LaPrade from Vermont
We thank the Marelli Bros. Shoe Repair for supporting artists!
MarinMOCA
1210 Fifth Street, 5–8pm
Performance begins at 6pm
HYDROCRACY
Power, profit, and injustice collide in HYDROCRACY, a student-created, short-form (20 min) agit-prop performance that questions the consequences of turning our most vital resource into a commodity. Performed live in the gallery as part of Future Flows, MarinMOCA’s group exhibition exploring water, climate, and infrastructure through immersive, research-based art.
Marin Society of Artists
1515 Third Street, corner of E, 5–8pm
Marin Society of Artists presents LAND AND SEA in our main gallery, an artistic exploration of power and beauty of the earth's landscapes. Also on view in our Flex and Downstairs galleries: Paintings, photos and prints by MSA member artists.
3pm to 6pm, a Community Chalk Mural activity.outside the building.
5pm to 7pm, music provided by Barbie Rose and John T.
Bohemia Interiors & Accessories and Past Life Collection
1560 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Joel Monty, featured artist, presenting abstract modern paintings with powerful current day topics — The Supreme Court Chair
Also vintage and album artwork for sale
Joel Monty
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