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Gallery Reception // “care and respite” curated by Simon Tran & Kari Simonsen

NIAD Art Center 551 23rd Street, Richmond, CA, United States

Join us at the reception for care & respite, our new Main Gallery exhibition.

Finding care and respite through positive redirection. Changing your mother’s bandages, affirmations of finding self, the necessity of making home, meditations on familial patterns, climbing and conquering mountains. This and more. This and more.

Free

Gallery Reception // “Karen May” at Duck Creek Arts Center

NIAD Art Center 551 23rd Street, Richmond, CA, United States

The Arts Center at Duck Creek is pleased to present upcoming solo exhibition featuring artist Karen May, opening Saturday, June 8, and on view through Sunday, July 7, 2024. A reception will be held on Saturday, June 8, from 5-7 pm.

Free

NIAD at Creative Growth’s 50th Birthday Bash + Outdoor Street Festival

Creative Growth Art Center 355 24th St., Oakland, CA, United States

This year is CG's 11th Beyond Trend Runway show, and they are looking forward to sharing all of the incredible wearable art that we have been making with our community! This is an indoor AND outdoor fashion show, with over 100 models celebrating 50 years of Creative Growth!

A special thanks to the Valdez Street Vibes Festival, a collaboration with Visit Oakland and the City of Oakland - Activate Oakland Grant. CG is holding an Outdoor Street Festival and Birthday Party to Celebrate 50 years of Creative Growth and to honor our artists. Expect raw art for sale, local vendors, games, birthday cake, a runway show and pop-up shopping event throughout the day.

July NIAD Artist Talk & Closing Reception

NIAD Art Center 551 23rd Street, Richmond, CA, United States

Say hello to NIAD artists and goodbye to our June/July exhibitions!nJoin us in NIAD’s galleries for a lively discussion with artists and curators in the galleries, and light refreshments and art for sale in the studio. Come browse the current shows and check out NIAD’s art-filled workspaces. The exhibitions Now Presenting and care + respite (curated by Simon Tran and Kari Simonsen) are on view through Friday July 19.

“Nocturnes” Opening Reception at Personal Space

Personal Space 1505 Tennessee Street, Vallejo, CA

The opening includes live music by Agnes Martian, refreshments by Village, art cake by Lisa Nuñez-Hancock, and savory treats by Leah Tumerman.

Nocturnes presents Personal Space's sixth exhibition and marks the gallery's one year anniversary. The dreamy, languid, moody atmosphere imparted by the show's title, conjures those hazy, magical hours between dusk and dawn, dark and light -- a time so slippery it could perhaps only be captured by art. The eight artists gathered here -- hailing from Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, and the Bay Area -- share interests in this liminal realm. Traversing textile, painting, and sculpture, their works rest somewhere between past, present, and future by offering spaces of refuge, pondering ecology, and considering acts of care, while honoring ancestral histories and beliefs. Bodies and bodies of water feature prominently, shape-shifting and embracing their interdependence with nature and the alchemical aspects of materiality. Seemingly eerie, witchy, and sometimes unsettling, the works give way to hope, transformation, and the start of something new -- each their own note in this overarching score.