Located on the ground floor of the recently completed Warehouse Artist Lofts in the historic R Street district of Downtown Sacramento, the WAL Public Market is a one-of-a-kind gallery, retail and restaurant space that houses seven local businesses: Old Gold, a vintage boutique with handmade goods; local shoemaker Benjamins Shoes; Kechmara Designs, offering Moroccan rugs; Metro Juice Kitchen and Drinkery; record and vintage stores Kicksville and MediumRare Records; and Fish Face, a grab-and-go sushi/poke counter. The gallery portion of WAL Public Market is getting ready to host their first-ever Second Saturday art reception on July 11, 2015, for an exhibit that is appropriately titled First Art Show. The exhibit, which is currently hung and available for viewing, features paintings, illustrations and mixed-media pieces from four artists: WAL resident and 80’s/90’s pop culture influenced illustrator Navid Dehghan; Bay Area artist/sculpture Stephanie Wickizer; Verge’s Bekah Wilson, a painter; and watercolorist Eric S. Wood, who also teaches art at Sac City and Sierra colleges. The reception on July 11 runs from 6 to 9 p.m., and the show will remain up now through August 4. WAL Public Market’s hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday’s. They are located at 1104 R Street.
{Stephanie Wickizer}
Comments