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.
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.
•Troll Survival Craft• an integrated group show featuring artwork made by artists with and without disabilities.
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.
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.
NIAD is thrilled to participate once again in the SFABF. We'll be unveiling a special collaborative print by NIAD artist Ann Meade and beloved friend of NIAD Lena Gustafson, along with artist books and merch galore. The San Francisco Art Book Fair (SFABF) is pleased to announce its seventh year at Minnesota Street Project’s contemporary art campus. Open July 19 through July 21, 2024, with a preview the evening of July 18, the SFABF is a free annual multi-day exhibition and celebration of printed material from independent publishers, artists, designers, collectors, and enthusiasts from around the world.
"The show began as I was thinking about those stories of orcas that have been inexplicably linked to the destruction and sinking of boats across the Mediterranean. Perhaps this fascination stems from the unpredictability and raw defiance embodied by these aquatic mammals – baffling occurrences that stand in heavy contrast to humans’ ever-quickening technological advancements and rapid domestication and degradation of our shared environment. As an exhibition, BEASTIES ruminates on artists and artworks that mirror the spirit of these orcas, eschewing docile natures and tame-ability for wildness and unknowability."
