EVENTS
Many special events have been held at the gallery, including artist talks, fund raising, concerts, poetry readings and more. The members of the gallery also hold their own art events around the county and beyond. Here are just a few highlights.
Annual Art Trails and Art at the Source participants!
Several members of the gallery participate in the yearly county-wide studio shows.
Art Trails, 2nd and 3rd weekends in October:Teri, James, Lucy and Michelle
Art at the Source in June: Bert, Teri, James, Rebeca, Paula, Jeff and Michelle
Participants also include many of our beloved consignment and guest artists.
Most of us welcome private studio visits by appointment.
Art Trails, 2nd and 3rd weekends in October:Teri, James, Lucy and Michelle
Art at the Source in June: Bert, Teri, James, Rebeca, Paula, Jeff and Michelle
Participants also include many of our beloved consignment and guest artists.
Most of us welcome private studio visits by appointment.
Paula Matzinger at Dutton-Goldfield
James Reynolds at Dutton-Goldfield.
From July 13th to September 13, 2016 James Reynolds will be exhibiting his paintings at the Dutton Goldfield tasting room.
Reception: Sunday, July 24th, 1-3 pm.
3100 Gravenstein Highway North
(corner of Graton Rd. & Hwy 116)
707-823-3887
Reception: Sunday, July 24th, 1-3 pm.
3100 Gravenstein Highway North
(corner of Graton Rd. & Hwy 116)
707-823-3887
Bert Kaplan at Dutton-Goldfield.
A nice selection of member artist Bert Kaplan's work is showing at Dutton-Goldfield Winery through July 15.
Reception: Sunday, May 19th, 1-3 pm.
Complimentary wine tasting to Bert's guests.
3100 Gravenstein Highway North
(corner of Graton Rd. & Hwy 116)
707-823-3887
Reception: Sunday, May 19th, 1-3 pm.
Complimentary wine tasting to Bert's guests.
3100 Gravenstein Highway North
(corner of Graton Rd. & Hwy 116)
707-823-3887
Susan St.Thomas hosts Joy Artwalk
Member artist Susan St.Thomas welcomes the public to her studio/gallery for the 8th Annual Joy Artwalk, November 17 & 18, 11-5.
This event features 10 local artists at two locations - 2400 and 2502 Joy Road, Occidental. Unique gifts and inspiring art at an enchanted horse barn and historical schoolhouse transformed into a studio and gallery with ceramic art, jewelry, garden art, baskets, paintings, handmade calendars, cards and more. 10% of sales benefits Forgotten Felines.
This event features 10 local artists at two locations - 2400 and 2502 Joy Road, Occidental. Unique gifts and inspiring art at an enchanted horse barn and historical schoolhouse transformed into a studio and gallery with ceramic art, jewelry, garden art, baskets, paintings, handmade calendars, cards and more. 10% of sales benefits Forgotten Felines.
Teri Sloat at Valley of the Moon
Member artist Teri Sloat speaks at the Valley of the Moon Art Association:
Thursday, September 20, 10:30 am
405 West MacArthur Street, Sonoma
Info: Laura Roney 707-569-6784.
Thursday, September 20, 10:30 am
405 West MacArthur Street, Sonoma
Info: Laura Roney 707-569-6784.
James Reynolds reception at ARThouse in Glen Ellen.
James Reynolds is currently featured artist at the newly opened Glen Ellen Village ARThouse Gallery, 13758 Arnold Drive (next to Chauvet Hotel).
An artist's reception will be held June 18 & 19, 1 - 5 pm.
An artist's reception will be held June 18 & 19, 1 - 5 pm.
The Artist Speaks: Bert Kaplan
Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 PM
Featured Artist Bert Kaplan speaks about his journey to become a meticulous pastel painter. Bert talks about his love of nature, our local landscape, the process and technique of pastel. He shares his fascination with the beauty of reflections, and his delight in handling sticks of luscious color. Audience participation is welcome.
At Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main Street.
James Reynolds at Bank of the West
Member artist James Reynolds is showing ten paintings at the Bank of the West.
The paintings will be featured for two months, beginning January 19.
100 South Main Street, Sebastopol.
Colin Lambert artist talk: Moments of Vision
photo: G M Sterne
Featured artist Colin Lambert talks about his developments as a sculptor:A wisdom narrative recounting many of the specific moments of guidance delivered through friends, mentors and circumstances, which in the course of a long professional career, shaped his inner world and artistic sensibility.
Saturday, February 4, 6:30 pm.
150 North Main Street, Sebastopol.
The Artist's Search: James Reynolds
Friday May 25th from 6:30 to 8PM.
Join featured artist James Reynolds
for an artist talk and conversation.
James will talk about his search for an authentic personal voice, a supportive community and relevance.
The talk is free and open to the public.
At Sebastopol Gallery,150 North Main.
Join featured artist James Reynolds
for an artist talk and conversation.
James will talk about his search for an authentic personal voice, a supportive community and relevance.
The talk is free and open to the public.
At Sebastopol Gallery,150 North Main.
The Art of the Story with Teri Sloat
Featured artist Teri Sloat will share her work process on December 15, 6:30-8pm, at Sebastopol Gallery. Her presentation, The Art of the Story, will include her career as a writer and illustrator, as well as her experiences learning traditional mythology from Alaskan native people.
James Reynolds reception at Balletto Vineyards
James Reynolds is showing his paintings at Balletto Vineyards Tasting Room, 5700 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, through June 22.
A reception in his honor will be held on Friday, April 22, from 5-7 pm.
The Tasting Room is open daily from 10 am - 5 pm. 707- 568-2455.
A reception in his honor will be held on Friday, April 22, from 5-7 pm.
The Tasting Room is open daily from 10 am - 5 pm. 707- 568-2455.
Art Class and Workshop Schedule
with Susan St Thomas M.A.
MIXED MEDIA PAINTING
SRJC Community Education class
8 weeks, June 1 - July 20,
Wednesdays, 10:30 - 1SRJC South West Center950 Wright Rd, Santa RosaFee: $54
WATERCOLOR PAINTING
ongoing class: Sebastopol Community Center
Thursdays, 9:30-12:00
Beginning June 2
390 Morris St, Sebastopol
Fee: $32 per month.
Call Susan at 707 874-9462 to join.
Bring your own materials. List supplied.
ART RETREAT WORKSHOPS AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE STUDIO
2400 Joy Road, Occidental, 10:00 - 3:00
Limited space: To register: 707 874-9462, sstmandala@telis.org
$85 includes light lunch and some materials
May 22- MIXED MEDIA ABSTRACT PAINTING
Focus on exciting color combinations, texture and composition.
Spark your creativity with new techniques.
June 26 - WATERMEDIA COLLAGE Part 1
Create your own innovative layers of painted papers, stamps and surfaces for collage.
July 24 - WATERMEDIA COLLAGE PART 2
Put it all together, Collage on board or heavy paper.
August 28 - THE ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA
Honor your true self. Design and paint a personal mandala of your birth chart.
Includes a mini astrology reading.
September 25 - COLLAGE AND CARD MAKING
Give those old paintings new life by creating notecards and small collages from collected items and assorted materials. List supplied.
SRJC Community Education class
8 weeks, June 1 - July 20,
Wednesdays, 10:30 - 1SRJC South West Center950 Wright Rd, Santa RosaFee: $54
WATERCOLOR PAINTING
ongoing class: Sebastopol Community Center
Thursdays, 9:30-12:00
Beginning June 2
390 Morris St, Sebastopol
Fee: $32 per month.
Call Susan at 707 874-9462 to join.
Bring your own materials. List supplied.
ART RETREAT WORKSHOPS AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE STUDIO
2400 Joy Road, Occidental, 10:00 - 3:00
Limited space: To register: 707 874-9462, sstmandala@telis.org
$85 includes light lunch and some materials
May 22- MIXED MEDIA ABSTRACT PAINTING
Focus on exciting color combinations, texture and composition.
Spark your creativity with new techniques.
June 26 - WATERMEDIA COLLAGE Part 1
Create your own innovative layers of painted papers, stamps and surfaces for collage.
July 24 - WATERMEDIA COLLAGE PART 2
Put it all together, Collage on board or heavy paper.
August 28 - THE ASTROLOGICAL MANDALA
Honor your true self. Design and paint a personal mandala of your birth chart.
Includes a mini astrology reading.
September 25 - COLLAGE AND CARD MAKING
Give those old paintings new life by creating notecards and small collages from collected items and assorted materials. List supplied.
What Is an Artist's Book, Anyway? artist talk
Guest Artist Lin Max talks about her process of making hand-made and altered books, and answers your questions about this exciting genre.
Wednesday, June 29, 6:30 pm.
Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main.
Lin's poetry manuscript, “What the Flowers Dream,” won the Bibliophoria chapbook contest. Sonoma County Poet Laureate Gwynn O’Gara described the work as “transcendent, exciting, and beautifully crafted.” As First Prize winner, Lin will receive an edition of 100 letterpress-printed chapbooks of her poetry, produced by Eric Johnson at Iota Press.
This event is part of BIBLIOPHORIA.
Wednesday, June 29, 6:30 pm.
Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main.
Lin's poetry manuscript, “What the Flowers Dream,” won the Bibliophoria chapbook contest. Sonoma County Poet Laureate Gwynn O’Gara described the work as “transcendent, exciting, and beautifully crafted.” As First Prize winner, Lin will receive an edition of 100 letterpress-printed chapbooks of her poetry, produced by Eric Johnson at Iota Press.
This event is part of BIBLIOPHORIA.
The Importance of Design: artist talk
Featured artist Everett Jensen shares his 50 years of experience applying design and composition to the technical process of oil painting.
Thursday, March 17th, 6:30 - 8 pm.
Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main
Thursday, March 17th, 6:30 - 8 pm.
Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main
CD Release Concert: Painted Rocks
Ghost Flowers will perform music from their new cd, Painted Rocks, at the gallery on Saturday, June 23, at 7 pm.
Hale Thatcher on flutes
Pete Tomack on guitar
Sahar on tabla
These are the same musicians who performed at our benefit concert for Japan last year.
Hale Thatcher on flutes
Pete Tomack on guitar
Sahar on tabla
These are the same musicians who performed at our benefit concert for Japan last year.
100 Thousand Poets For Change
On September 24, poets at 500 events in 400 cities in 95 countries are gathering in a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social, environmental, and political change. Member artist Sandy Eastoak is joining with local poets Hale Thatcher and Shepherd Bliss to produce an event right here at Sebastopol Gallery. Several poets representing different cultural viewpoints will be invited to read.
Saturday, September 24, 6:30 pm. Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main Street, Sebastopol.
Saturday, September 24, 6:30 pm. Sebastopol Gallery, 150 North Main Street, Sebastopol.
Flash Thunder Chamber Music
Annual Spring Concert
Saturday, May 18, 7 pm
Hale Thatcher, flutes
Pete Tomack, guitar
Tiger Paw, percussion
Anne Greenfield, fiddle
Original music born through the joy of improvisation and carefully crafted into melodic and harmonic form.
Sebastopol Gallery carries three CDs by Thatcher and Tomack.
Hale Thatcher, flutes
Pete Tomack, guitar
Tiger Paw, percussion
Anne Greenfield, fiddle
Original music born through the joy of improvisation and carefully crafted into melodic and harmonic form.
Sebastopol Gallery carries three CDs by Thatcher and Tomack.
Japan Friendship Concert: Hale Thatcher & Pete Tomack
With Sahar Pinkham on tabla.
Friday, May 20, 6:30 pm
By donation: all proceeds go to Japanese tsunami recovery through Direct Relief International.
Hale Thatcher plays a variety of flutes. He studied classical flute with Martin Rudy, shakuhatchi in Japan, and East Indian bansuri with Sachdev. Pete Tomack, a Seattle-based song-writer, explores new creative territory with guitar and mandolin, performing across the Northwest and Montana for over 30 years. Together Hale and Pete carefully craft original compositions that arise in free improvisation. You can hear samples at cdbaby.
Larry Robinson introduces the intention, the musicians and poet Trout Black, who reads his moving poem about the tsunami: "This Didn't Happen Over There."
Friday, May 20, 6:30 pm
By donation: all proceeds go to Japanese tsunami recovery through Direct Relief International.
Hale Thatcher plays a variety of flutes. He studied classical flute with Martin Rudy, shakuhatchi in Japan, and East Indian bansuri with Sachdev. Pete Tomack, a Seattle-based song-writer, explores new creative territory with guitar and mandolin, performing across the Northwest and Montana for over 30 years. Together Hale and Pete carefully craft original compositions that arise in free improvisation. You can hear samples at cdbaby.
Larry Robinson introduces the intention, the musicians and poet Trout Black, who reads his moving poem about the tsunami: "This Didn't Happen Over There."
Stephen Meadows reads from Releasing the Days
Thursday, March 15, 6:30 pm
Stephen Meadows, of pioneer and Ohlone Indian descent, will be reading from Releasing the Days, a new collection of his poems just out from Heyday Books. His poems have appeared in anthologies and journals nationwide, and one was chosen by the San Francisco Arts Commission for a bronze plaque alongside works by Alice Walker and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
“Meadows’s poems are written close to the bone, not an ounce of fat, and not a word to be missed. His words will change you; they'll make you see the world anew.”—Patrice Vecchione, author of Writing and the Spiritual Life.
His great-aunt was Isabel Meadows, the last fluent speaker of the Rumsien Ohlone language, who left behind wax-cylinder recordings of a rich voice and a rare record of California Indian language. of the Monterey Bay area. She was the voice of an older California. "Now Stephen offers up his own gift to us all, expressing his very human and very California experience."—Linda Yamane, Rumsien Ohlone basketweaver and tribal scholar
Stephen Meadows, of pioneer and Ohlone Indian descent, will be reading from Releasing the Days, a new collection of his poems just out from Heyday Books. His poems have appeared in anthologies and journals nationwide, and one was chosen by the San Francisco Arts Commission for a bronze plaque alongside works by Alice Walker and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
“Meadows’s poems are written close to the bone, not an ounce of fat, and not a word to be missed. His words will change you; they'll make you see the world anew.”—Patrice Vecchione, author of Writing and the Spiritual Life.
His great-aunt was Isabel Meadows, the last fluent speaker of the Rumsien Ohlone language, who left behind wax-cylinder recordings of a rich voice and a rare record of California Indian language. of the Monterey Bay area. She was the voice of an older California. "Now Stephen offers up his own gift to us all, expressing his very human and very California experience."—Linda Yamane, Rumsien Ohlone basketweaver and tribal scholar
Lee Slonimsky: Sonnets and other poetic forms
January 26, 7 pm.
Lee Slonimsky makes a special appearance at the gallery, reading from Talk Between Leaf and Skin, Logician of the Wind, and other works. Lee's poems bring creative mathematics to a elegant craftsmanship exploring our oneness with all forms of consciousness in the universe. Besides his several published collections, his poems have appeared in Best of Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, The Carolina Quarterly, The Classical Outlook, Iambs & Trochees, The Lyric, The New York Times, The Raintown Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Lee Slonimsky makes a special appearance at the gallery, reading from Talk Between Leaf and Skin, Logician of the Wind, and other works. Lee's poems bring creative mathematics to a elegant craftsmanship exploring our oneness with all forms of consciousness in the universe. Besides his several published collections, his poems have appeared in Best of Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, The Carolina Quarterly, The Classical Outlook, Iambs & Trochees, The Lyric, The New York Times, The Raintown Review, and Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller read Co-Creation
Local playwrights and performers Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller read from their autobiography, a Co-Creation: Fifty Years in the Making.
Thursday, January 12, 6:30 pm, 150 North Main, Sebastopol.
In the course of their fifty years of marriage, Conrad and Elizabeth Fuller have collaborated as performers, playwrights, producers and puppeteers, bringing hundreds of stories to thousands of audiences. Now they tackle their own story a chronicle of play-making, parenting, uprootings, successes and failures, polyamory, spiritual quests, strict accounting practices, dancing naked around bonfires, and perpetual improvisation. www.independenteye.org.
Thursday, January 12, 6:30 pm, 150 North Main, Sebastopol.
In the course of their fifty years of marriage, Conrad and Elizabeth Fuller have collaborated as performers, playwrights, producers and puppeteers, bringing hundreds of stories to thousands of audiences. Now they tackle their own story a chronicle of play-making, parenting, uprootings, successes and failures, polyamory, spiritual quests, strict accounting practices, dancing naked around bonfires, and perpetual improvisation. www.independenteye.org.