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Donzell Lewis and Jean McElvane at Summer Of Joy Marketplace // OMCA

Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak Street, Oakland CA 94607, Oakland, CA, United States

Celebrate the summer season and join us for a festive marketplace featuring artwork produced by artists from the three collaborating studios of Into the Brightness: Artists from  Creativity Explored, Creative Growth and NIAD.  Support the studios and shop for dazzling prints, ceramics, zines, textiles, buttons, trinkets, jewelry, etc for yourself or as gifts. Artists will showcase existing work and may also create new pieces for sale inspired by the theme of summer and the joy of being together. Artist vendors include Donald Gruneisen, Donzell Lewis, Jean McElvane, Larry Randolph, Lulu Sotelo, and Gerald Wiggins. Come say hello!

“Printmaking at NIAD” Artist Talk and “Nahui Ollin” print demo // Richmond Art Center

Richmond Art Center 2540 Barrett Avenue, Richmond, CA, United States

Hear from artists who have participated in NIAD’s printmaking program over the last 35 years. This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Printmaking at NIAD: The Legacy of Andrés Cisneros-Galindo.

Join us for a print demonstration by artist Andrés Cisneros-Galindo, whose work is on view at Richmond Art Center in the exhibition Nahui Ollin.

Karen May in “Salad Days” // Grand Opening for “Personal Space”

Personal Space 1505 Tennessee Street, Vallejo, CA

Personal Space presents Salad Days, an inaugural group exhibition featuring work by artists from Vallejo, the broader Bay Area, Los Angeles, Iowa, New York, and London. As the title denotes the vigor and recklessness of youth, the works assembled here suggest the vulnerability of new beginnings through an abundance of color, humor, material experimentation, and bittersweet pathos. Taken together, these artists dredge the joyful precarity of fleeting moments and summertime bliss to reveal something far more dreamlike and mysterious.