Page 70 - Sonoma County Gazette - May, 2018

Beauty in a Broken World Mosaic-making Post Tubbs Eildfires
Art Classes
May 4 ~ May the Fourth Be with You - Celebrate Star Wars with an origami craft. FREE, 3-4p, Sebastopol Regional Library, 7140 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol, 707-823- 7691
May 5 ~ Graffiti Camp for Girls - Learn and enhance their public art skills. $50, 12:30-3:30p, Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St., Petaluma, 707-762-5600, petalumaartscenter.org
Ongoing ~ Thursday Night Figure Drawing with Pieter Myers - Live models, all levels welcome. $15 at the door; Every Thur; 7-9p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, 707-953-3535, Pieter Myers, occidentalcenterforthearts. org
Art Walks
May 4 ~ Santa Rosa Art Walk - Downtown art galleries and studios are open for the public. 5-8p, Santa Rosa
Thru May 6 ~ Past and Future Connections to Pond Farm Pottery Exhibit - Tue-Fri; 10- 4p, Sat-Sun; 1-4p, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St., Sebastopol, 707- 829-4797, sebarts.org
Thru May 6 ~ Ninth Annual Invitational Show – Painters, sculptors, print makers. Tue-Sat; 10:30-5p, Sun; 10:30-4p, Graton Gallery, 9048 Graton Rd, Graton, 707-829- 8912, gratongallery.net
Thru May 15 ~ Art and Place – Photography, Lino cuts, palette knife, more. Redwood Cafe, 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati, 707-795-7868, redwoodcafe. com
Thru May 18 ~ Translate Exhibition - Laura Paine Carr. Cloverdale Arts Alliance, 204 N. Cloverdale Boulevard, Cloverdale, 707-894-4410, cloverdaleartsalliance.org, info@cloverdaleartsalliance.org
Thru May 21 ~ Art for Fire Victims – Many paintings available. Fulton Crossing Gallery, 1200 River Rd., Fulton, 707-536- 3305, fultoncrossing.com
Thru May 27 ~ Flora and Fauna in Silver and Gold by Dan Scannell - Inspired by Japanese screens. Daily 11-6p, Upstairs Art Gallery, 306 Center St., Healdsburg, 707-431-4214, upstairsartgallery.net, uag306center@gmail.com
Thru Jun 3 ~ Purely Abstract - Visions in Line, Form, and Color. FREE, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St., 707-431- 1970, healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
Thru Jun 3 ~ Connections - To community, to family, to nature and to each other. Fri- Sun 11-4p, Occidental Center for the Arts, 3850 Doris Murphy Court, 707-874-9392, occidentalcenterforthearts.org
Thru Jun 10 ~ Her View - Figuration of Gail Chadell Nanao. Wed-Sun, 11- 5p, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma, 707-939-7862, svma.org
Thru Jun 10 ~ Ship of Dreams - Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo. Wed-Sun, 11-5p, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, 551 Broadway, Sonoma, 707-939-7862, svma.org
Thru Jun 16 ~ Youth Exhibition - Art Shapes the World by Petaluma’s youth K-12. Tue-Sat, 11-5p, Petaluma Arts Center, 230 Lakeville St., Petaluma, 707-762-5600, petalumaartscenter.org
By Dale Englehorn
My husband and I, like so many others,
barely escaped the wildfires last autumn with our lives. And like others who experienced the ensuing bittersweet chapters of returning to our houses finding these worlds largely reduced to ash, we were curious about the shards of mostly terra- cotta, stone, and ceramic and that managed to somehow endure.
May 4 ~ Guerneville Art Walks
My former Larkfield neighbor, Kathy Farrell, a skilled mosaicist and I wanted to gather community members to make mosaics together from these precious survived pieces.
May 12 ~ 2nd Sat Petaluma Art Walk
“Finding beauty in a broken world” is a
quote from Terry Tempest Williams‘ book of
the same name. She goes on to say, “a mosaic
is conversation between what is broken”. The
very language of Tesserae (an ancient Italian
kind of mosaic) tells us that “this harmony
is only achievable by the breaking and then
rediscovery of the mosaic fragments reunified as a whole”.
Cari Hernandez and Jill Keller Peters. Fulton Crossing, 1200 River Rd., Fulton, 707-536-3305, fultoncrossing.com
The pieces I am making and am gifting to family (see below contain things like: my great grandmothers Royal Dalton China, the little ceramic green man that hung for years on my art studio wall outside by the orchard, and my wedding ceremony Navajo drinking vessel.
Call to Artists
Thru May 21 ~ Sonoma County Art Trails 2018 Applications - See website for deadlines, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St., Sebastopol, 707-829- 4797, sonomacountyarttrails.org
Thru May 23 ~ Bibliophoria V - Artwork related to the book. $20-$60, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St., Sebastopol, 707-829-4797, sebarts.org
Thru May 26 ~ Putting it all Together - Collage and Assemblage. $10 per entry, Gualala Arts Center, 46501 Old State Hwy, Burnett Gallery, Gualala, 707-884-1138, gualalaarts.org
Thru Jun 10 ~ Intertwined - Fiber from One Extreme to the Other. $30- $40, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, 130 Plaza St., Healdsburg, 707-431-1970, healdsburgcenterforthearts.org
Thru Jul 9 ~ Green - Variations of the color, any medium and style. $20-$60, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 South High St., Sebastopol, 707-829-4797, sebarts.org
Continuing Shows
Thru May 4 ~ Dempster - Leon – Risch - Artwork shares the element of risk-taking and adventure. FREE, Sat and Sun, 11-2p, Blasted Art Gallery, BackSt. Building, Art Alley, South A St., SOFA Arts District, Santa Rosa, blastedartgallery.com
Thru Jun 30 ~ Function, Form & Fantasy
Kathy and I plan to cover a stone bench that survived at our Ursuline Road property with mosaics and place it by the sidewalkless road as a welcoming colorful spot of beauty and rest - and as a memorium to the firestorm and to our 2 Larkfield neighbors who lost their lives.
We Need to Borrow Your Heirlooms and Treasures. West County Museum, 261 S Main St, Sebastopol, 808-333-1113, wschsgrf.org/west-county-museum, shebadances@gmail.com
If readers areinterested in joining this healing art mosaic-making, Tawyna Lively has a wonderful mosaic blog: SantaRosafirestormmosaics.blogspot.
Thru Sep 16 ~ My Favorite Peanuts - FREE to members & children under 3, $5- $12; Mon, Wed-Fri; 11-5p, Sat-Sun; 10-5p, CharlesM.SchulzMuseumandResearch Center, 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, 707-579-4452, schulzmuseum.org
New Shows
May 1 - Sep 23 ~ Time and Place - Human Impact and our Changing Environment. Tue-Sun, 11-5p, Museums of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh St., Santa Rosa, 707- 579-1500, museumsc.org
May 1-27 ~ Celebrating a decade of art and community – Highlightling Ken Berman and Paula Matzinger. Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main St., Sebastopol. 11-6p, 707-829-7200, sebastopol-gallery.com
VISUAL ARTS cont’d on page 71
- Sandra Matresca Artist Receptions, Rotating Art Exhibits, Music, Food & Wine Pairings. Russian River Art Gallery, 16357 Main St., Guerneville.
Painting demos, jewelry, entertainment, 5-8p riverfrontartgallery.com/gallery_ events.html
May 18 ~ Open Studio at Fulton Crossing
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