Oakland Finding My Story On Gallery Walls First Sundays Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak St. Oakland The Oakland Museum of California is not that crowded around noon on this Sunday. But there are a lot of Stacey Peters 11 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A Full Pour (Of Art) First Pour by Lola SLATE Contemporary Gallery 473 25th St. Oakland, Calif. Eye-popping colors of tinted, layered resins in organic shapes ooze an unreal light. Some soothe, watery; others evoke Sarah Bass 10 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford First Thursday Starts 2024 With An Art-counter Art Escape First Thursday Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Jan, 4, 2024 “Excuse me, what kind of camera is that?” I looked up to see a fresh face bracketed by overflowing curly Jamil Ragland 5 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford You Made Me Look. My Bad Matrix 193 Work by Talia Chetrit Wadsworth Atheneum Hartford Through Jan. 7, 2024 When I entered the gallery to view Talia Chetrit’s first museum exhibit in the United States, Jamil Ragland 18 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford Reviewer Takes The Reins Self-Curated Exhibit Jean Burr Smith Library Conn. State Community College Middlesex Dec. 7, 2023 This painting particularly caught my eye. So I decided to feature it in an exhibition. Initially, Jamil Ragland 8 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford How A Guyanese Painter Brought Me Home To Hartford Color and Identity: A Visual Conversation Clare Gallery, Hartford Oct. 19-Dec. 3, 2023 I was looking for some color on a particularly dreary day when I found out about an Jamil Ragland 1 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Miguel Arzabe’s Kaleidoscopic Thunderbolt “Animales Familiares” Works by Miguel Arzabe Johansson Project 2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland Through Oct. 28, 2023 Color is a beautiful language, not often well spoken, but “Animales Familiares,” on exhibit Agustín Maes 23 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland In Lit-Up Darkness, Gardens Pulsate With New Life 12th Annual Autumn Lights Festival Gardens at Lake Merritt Oakland Oct. 12 – 14. 2023 “Ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants…” A small grove fitted with Sarah Bass 20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Is That A Whale Up On That Wall? The Power of the Elements: The Forces Within Us Mallett Art Gallery 950 Main St., Hartford Through Nov. 1 I looked at the painting Purple Haze and saw whales. I Jamil Ragland 2 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland At Fairy-Filled Fest, AroMa Emerges At a magical mini festival, an emerging artist takes center stage -- and their place as a sound sensation. Through the Looking Glass: An Evening With SPELLLING and Friends Children’ Sarah Bass 20 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Oakland The Gallery Tech Takeover: AR You Ready? I have always sought augmented reality when I come across art: I like to touch, feel, see brush strokes on a work of art or stitches or seams from welding Sarah Bass 6 Sep 2023 · 5 min read
Oakland 300 Artists + 525 Pieces = Creativity Wonderland A longtime fan of work by artists at the Bay Area’s Creative Growth, Creativity Explored, and NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) workshops, I was eager to see Into Agustín Maes 4 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Mini Museum Preserves Black Panther Art Of Revolution As with any political or social movement, visual art, from murals to posters to newspaper illustrations, played a central role in the Black Panther’s efforts to promote revolutionary change. Sarah Bass 17 Aug 2023 · 4 min read