2nd Friday Art Walk — Downtown San Rafael
Join us each month for a lively evening of new exhibitions, fresh activities, creative energy, and something unexpected around every corner. Mark your calendar—it’s always different!
Experience downtown San Rafael through art.
Free and open to the public, the 2nd Friday Art Walk brings downtown San Rafael to life on the second Friday of every month with gallery exhibitions, open artist studios, special installations, artist receptions, and more.
Anchored by Art Works Downtown’s galleries and 35+ artist studios, the Art Walk connects galleries, arts organizations, businesses, and independent exhibition spaces throughout downtown—creating an evening of art, discovery, and community.
2026 Schedule:
1/9, 2/13, 3/13, 4/10, 5/8, 6/12, 7/10, 8/14, 9/11, 10/9, 11/13, 12/11
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Are you presenting art downtown? Join the Art Walk map!
If you are a gallery, arts organization, business, or other downtown venue hosting an art exhibition and would like to be included on the 2nd Friday Art Walk map and promotional materials, please send:
A brief description of your exhibition or event
1–3 high-quality images
Venue name and street address
Exhibition/event dates and hours
Send materials to media@artworksdowntown.org. Whenever possible, please submit information at least two weeks before the Art Walk to allow time for inclusion in promotional materials.
October 9, 2026 Participating Venues throughout Downtown San Rafael
Numina • Gallery 1337
Art Works Downtown
1325–1337 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Discover two levels of art studios and galleries
Numina: Six Artists Exploring Consciousness reception
Gallery 1337
This exhibition presents art as a way of knowing. Entering the unknown territories of consciousness and inner spaces, requires multiple approaches. Science and art offer different, yet complementary, ways of exploring phenomena. The quantitative methods of science and the qualitative inquiries of artistic practice illuminate experience from different directions. Art contributes to this broader understanding through its capacity to reveal and communicate dimensions that might otherwise remain unseen or invisible.
Art is a form of inquiry that creates an intersubjective encounter between the artwork and the viewer. A work of art is not merely an illustration of knowledge acquired elsewhere; it can itself become a site of discovery.
The unveiling of inner space likewise calls for a multiplicity of approaches. In this exhibition, each artist enters this world through a distinct visual language, revealing dimensions of inner and outer experience through abstraction, automatism, alchemy, nature, light, and energy.
The artworks themselves become portals. Some invite contemplation and sustained attention; others seize us immediately. Each offers a different threshold between the known and the unknown.In collaboration with the Lucid Art Foundation
On the Edge: From Sky to Shore and Sea • Founders Gallery
On the Edge: From Sky to Shore and Sea
Founders’ GalleryA ceramics exhibition exploring the breathtaking beauty and fragility of our ocean world, from sky to shore and sea. Featuring works inspired by coastal landscapes, land and marine life, deep water mysteries and the urgent call of climate awareness.
In2 Liquid • Donors Gallery
Cherry Pop , photograph, 11" x 14"
In2 Liquid
Abstract photography byRina Neiman & Marsha Heckman
Donors’ GalleryWhen the world shut down in March of 2020, Rina Neiman and Marsha Heckman began an artistic partnership that became a glorious obsession. Sometimes huddled under blankets on the porch in the cold and rain, housebound with nothing to do, the two friends created art projects that kept them engaged, wearing masks, and six feet apart. What may have started as art-therapy, turned into an Artnership between two friends.
Using a Liquid Color process, they create other-world-scapes; explosions and unique shapes that pull the viewer in. Shot on digital camera, each is a world made of vibrant colors, mysterious movements, and varying perceptions of depths.
Coming Soon
Oaxaca’s Sacred Keeper: Maria Sabina
Artwork by Jacqueline Lopez
In celebration with San Rafael Dia de los Muertos
Artists’ WallCreated in honor of Día de los Muertos, Oaxaca’s Sacred Keeper: María Sabina draws from the rich spiritual traditions of Oaxaca and the enduring practice of honoring those who came before us.
At the heart of the installation is María Sabina, an Oaxacan healer and ceremonial keeper whose relationship with sacred mushrooms became part of a larger cultural legacy of communion, healing, and altered states of consciousness. Her presence becomes a threshold between the visible and invisible—between ancestry, nature, memory, and mystery.
The collage is intentionally layered and evocative rather than literal. Botanical forms, flowers, mushrooms, candles, smoke, ancestral symbols, celestial imagery, and fragments of Oaxacan visual traditions converge and dissolve into one another. Papel picado patterns, textile-inspired motifs, amate-like textures, and vibrant folk-art forms create a visual language rooted in place and tradition.
The work invites viewers to pause at the threshold—and consider what remains when the living remember the sacred dead.
Oaxaca’s Sacred Keeper: María Sabina, Jacqueline Lopez
Tutu Lounge
1335 Fourth Street, 5:30pm
Downtown San Rafael Utility Box Art Walk Launch!
We’re celebrating the completion of Downtown’s five newest works of public art and launching the new self-guided Utility Box Art Walk!
Join the artists and Downtown San Rafael BID at Tutu Lounge at 5:30pm, then follow along as we walk Downtown to see the colorful new utility boxes and meet the artists behind them.
Kim Eagles Smith Gallery
1327 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
For more than thirty years, Gallery Director Kim Eagles-Smith has been a distinguished fine art dealer in the San Francisco Bay Area. The gallery represents established contemporary and modernist artists from the San Francisco Bay Area and across the United States, as well as the estates of Fred Reichman, Kenjilo Nanao, and Francisco Castro Lenero.
Marin Jewelers Guild
1331 Fourth Street, 5–8pm
Wendy Goldberg
October – November 2026
Exhibition Dates
“My work is concerned mostly with the feeling or temperament of a place be it a landscape or an interior.”— Wendy Goldberg
Marin Jewelers Guild’s unique gallery and online store are a cooperative of local artisan jewelers who hand fabricate jewelry from silver, gold, copper and bronze. Choose from the wide variety of handmade necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches and earrings available, or commission a piece and work directly with an artist to design your own one-of-a-kind creation.
When you visit our gallery in downtown San Rafael you will always be greeted by a local artisan jeweler. Our customers love the personal attention, free gift wrap, and the chance to collaborate one-on-one with an artist. Choosing or creating treasured gifts to celebrate birthdays, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, arrival of baby, and graduations often turns into lifelong friendships as we share your joy and milestones right along with you.
Ceramic Art Center of Marin Gallery & Boutique
1325–1337 Fourth Street, Studio #24, 5–8pm
ceramic art, pottery, ceramic sculptures & jewelry
Exhibition Dates: October 9 – November 13
Opening Receptions: Friday, October 9, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Closing Reception: Friday, November 13, 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
We are thrilled to announce the opening of our brand-new ceramics exhibition at the Ceramic Art Center of Marin Gallery & Boutique! This incredible show features 37 ceramic artists and will span across two galleries! One being our CACM Gallery & Boutique and second is the Art Works Downtown Founder’s Gallery.
Step into the zen and timeless beauty of our coastal and marine world. This exhibition explores the breathtaking majesty and fragile nature of the sea, shore, and sky. Featuring works inspired by sweeping coastal landscapes, marine life, and deep water mysteries, the collection reflects both artistic peace and the urgent call of climate awareness.
Bringing together a remarkable collection from ceramic artists across California, this show highlights unique perspectives and stunning craftsmanship from around the state. Come immerse yourself in this powerful collection of one-of-a-kind functional and sculptural ceramic art that bridges environmental awareness with soulful, creative expression.
Juror and Judge: Jo Clarke @joclarkeceramics
Support California artists and experience the coast through clay.
Our Gallery & Boutique is an extension of everything the San Anselmo Ceramic Art Center of Marin (CACM) stands for, a carefully curated space where the artistry of our studio comes to life. Featuring works and exhibits by our members and students alongside pieces by select Bay Area ceramic artists, both the CACM Gallery and the Boutique celebrate the full range of what can be born from clay: from sculptural works and functional ceramics to one-of-a-kind jewelry and ceramic gifts.
Every piece carries a story, a conversation between the artist's hand, intention, and the timeless alchemy of fire and clay. Whether you are an avid collector or simply drawn to the beauty of handmade objects, our boutique invites you to bring a piece of that artistry home.
Make sure to visit us every second Friday of the month, during 2nd Friday Art Walk, AWD’s public hours or by appointment.
AWD Artist Studios
Free, Diana Connolly, painting
Marin Society of Artists
1515 Third Street, corner of E, 5–8pm
The Marin Society of Artists is presenting their 99th Annual Members Fine Art exhibition in the Main Gallery. MSA is now entering their 100th year of operations in Marin County - a great reason to celebrate.
Music provided by Barbie Rose and John T.
Marelli Brothers Shoe Repair, Window
1318 Fourth Street, 24/7
LIGHT & WATER: The Landscape Art of G.R. Brown
A collection of 16 original oil paintings by local artist G.R. Brown of local and European scenes, including local plein air pieces.
https://grbrowncreative.com/fine-art-gallery
Open Hours:
As a window gallery, it’s open 24/7.
The artist G.R. Brown will be present 5-8 pm on Friday 10/9.
Buteo Books
2240 Fourth Street, 6–8pm
Peak Season: A group show celebrating raptor migration along the Pacific Flyway.
Featuring work by Nicki Adani, Bridget Ahern, Larissa Babicz, Lynn Bantley, Don Bartling, Marisa Burman, John Davis, Teresa Ely, Amy Gilgan, Dana Hawley, Alan Krakaur, Mary Malec, Amy Rose Moore, Jeffrey Peterson, Emma Regnier, Christopher Reiger, Lora Roame, Bryce W. Robinson and Jos Sances.
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