Speaker: Ginger Kathrens, Emmy-award winning filmmaker and founder of The Cloud Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to protecting wild horse herds on their public lands, will speak about the important work of saving the Mustangs and Wild Burros, as well as her latest work, “Cloud, Challenge of the Stallions.” Included: Hors d'oeuvres, Wine, Dessert, Silent Auction and Music Event sponsorships: Wild Burro Sponsorship $250 Wild Mustang Sponsorship $350 Pryor Mustang Sponsorship $500 ...
Bill Griffith's untitled piece was awarded second place in the juried show ... History and art come together in the 23rd annual "Feats of Clay" exhibition at the Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln. A holdover from the 19th century, the factory was founded in 1875 by Charles Gladding, Peter McGill McBean and George Chambers to create and ship vitrified sewer pipe to cities and townships in California and beyond ... In time, the factory expanded to make fire brick, roof tile, enamel brick and
The sculpture, made of fiberglass covered with sparkly acrylic paint, was brought to town in 1985 by Phil Hitchcock, chairman the California State University, Sacramento, art department ... It's the end of the trail for a young vaquero and the red-eyed longhorn cow he first lassoed in downtown Sacramento a quarter-century ago ... "Progress II," the flashy Luis Jimenez sculpture that was loved, loathed and routinely vandalized when it stood at 16th and K streets, has a new home ... It was
Theophilus Brown's abstract collages mark a new style for the Bay Area painter ... All kinds of things can happen when you are making a painting, many of them bad. But then there is the happy accident, the kind that opens a new realm of endeavor. Such an accident led illustrious Bay Area figurative painter Theophilus Brown to the start of a new series of abstract collages ... "I was painting one day," said Brown on the telephone from his studio in San Francisco, "and I noticed a place on my
David Tat Chow's mother and stepfather were sentenced to three years in state prison on marijuana charges. Now Chow grows marijuana for medicinal uses on his small farm and teaches the art of cultivating the weed. "My parents were made an example," he says. "(The authorities) said, 'If you grow marijuana, we're going to put you in prison – and we're going to take your property.' " ... Down a rutted dirt road from Garden Highway and the Sacramento River levee, organic farmer David Tat Chow
Retired attorney Karl Munz, 73, pauses to admire a painting by William F. Jackson on his way to get cake Sunday at the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday party. "I remember coming here as a kid," Munz said. "It's been a real pleasure to see the changes." ... Sacramentans turned out by the hundreds Saturday to celebrate the Crocker Art Museum's 125th birthday ... Admission was $1.25, and almost everyone sang the birthday song at 1:25 p.m ... Just to the west of the existing museum sits the
Judi Stickney's "Sentinel," a sculpture of sandstone, bronze and steel. It's in the "Brilliant Earth" exhibit at the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... Deanna Marsh and Judi Stickney have taken a rocky road to art ... Marsh and Stickney, both rockhounds, are the featured artists in "Brilliant Earth," a show on the beauty of nature at Blue Line Gallery in Roseville ... They use natural materials, ranging from geodes and petrified bamboo to semiprecious stones such as lapis lazuli and amethyst
A Caltrans worker assists in the construction of a bridge over Markham Ravine for the Lincoln Bypass. The bypass is expected to reduce traffic on G Street in the historic downtown from 31,000 to 18,000 vehicles daily ... Downtown Lincoln's historic main street boasts picturesque brick buildings, quaint shops and one gnarly traffic jam ... Thousands of commuters and truckers rumble through each day on old Highway 65, kicking up dust and noise and generally making G Street – as it's known in
Join us for I Heart Art Craft Market in Cesar Chavez Plaza at 10th & J streets. Every Thursday May 6 through October 28, come and shop handmade items directly from the artists from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. www.downtownsac.org/iheartart ...
Art by Sacramento State’s graduating art students will be displayed free throughout May on the campus at 6000 J Street. MA students will have their work exhibited May 8-29 in the Library Gallery (10a-5p Tue.-Sat.) and May 10-20 in Kadema Hall’s Witt Gallery (Noon-4:30p, Mon.-Fri.). BA students’ exhibit will be in Kadema Hall’s Else Gallery May 3-20 (Noon-4:30p, Mon.-Fri.) Receptions will be held 5-9 p, May 14 as part of the University’s annual Art Ball. Contact: