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
August 8, 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
Abstracted Figures, featuring works from Luke Kraman, Kate Tova, Calvin Lai, Jaime Lovejoy, Wolfgang Bloch, Kacy Jung, and Tubi Ho. The show highlights these artists making their unique impact on the contemporary abstract and figurative art scenes. With live music from Michael James Tapscott, plus craft food and beverages, it’s sure to be a great party.
Join us for our 2nd Friday Music Series with Katsy Pline.
Katsy Pline is a guitarist and singer living in Berkeley, CA. Her latest album ‘Devotion’ is a record of ambient country music assembled from B-bender guitar, electronics, synthesizers and saxophone. Largely eschewing harmonic development in favor of oceanic feeling, the record stretches the swirling unconscious yearning of heartbreak country into glacial shapes, starlit and blue.
Her radio show on BFF.fm, ‘Heartbreak Ahead: Country-Western and Esoterica’ highlights contemporary and archival country and experimental music from the Bay Area and beyond.
Music runs from 6-7 pm, during the citywide art walk, which runs 5-8 pm.
Come for the art, stay for the music!
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Abstracted Figures
Marin Jewelers Guild
1331 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
June Yokell
August 8
“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
Marelli Brothers Show Repair, Window
1318 Fourth Street, 24/7
August rolls in with a new artist in the window—Chris West.
His hand cut, painted papers twist and turn with the movement of the wind or even a sneeze! Experience the sensation of the trees, rivers, and our world flowing as nature intended.
Art is alive in the Marelli’s Brothers window. Stop by. We had tons of people passing by today watching Chris hang his pieces.
Hope to see you viewing this earthly work soon!
Youth in Arts
917 C Street, 5–7pm
Design Thinking Through Art & Architecture
July 2 – September 5, 2025
2nd Friday Art Walk: July 11, August 8; 5:00-7:00pm
Closing Reception: Friday, September 5; 4:00-7:00pm
Architects, planners, and mentors from Youth in Arts, UC Berkeley’s Y-PLAN, and Dominican University of California led workshops exploring: What are the pathways, gateways, and bridges that will lead you from your home and school to college? As they learned about the journey from elementary school to college and careers, students applied core academic skills, thought critically, and cultivated visions of a hopeful future.
Don't miss YIA’s artmaking booth at the San Rafael Summer Farmer's Market July 11 and August 8.
youthinarts.org/event/design-thinking-through-art-and-architecture-opens-july-2/
Design Thinking Through Art & Architecture
Marin Society of Artists
1515 Third Street, corner of E, 5–8pm
Marin Society of Artists presents MADE BY HAND, an open, juried exhibition of Sculpture, Ceramic, Assemblage and more, created by artists from all around the greater Bay Area. The juror was Barbara Sebastian, a well known local sculptor, muralist and ceramic artist.
Also on view in our Flex and Downstairs galleries: Paintings, photos and prints by MSA member artists. 5pm to 7pm, music provided by Barbie Rose and John T.
Bibi Summer & Joyce Sakato Rau
LOOK WEST Gallery
104 G Street, 5–8pm
Travis Weller is a Marin-based artist working primarily in cut paper and oil. He has designed collections for major brands, including The North Face and Roark, and his work is collected internationally. Travis earned a MFA in drawing from Western Carolina University and is the founder/director at LOOK WEST Gallery. His work examines ambiguity and anxiety as a path towards precision and contentment. It resides in the middle, somewhere between truth and abstraction, as layered reflections of occurrences, self and the landscape. Some are bright and spacious while others are ominous and restrained.
Travis Weller
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