More details are starting to emerge about the next project from M5Arts, the group behind the insanely popular Art Hotel exhibit that took place in downtown Sacramento in early 2016. Come February 2017, M5’s “ArtStreet” exhibition will take over an entire warehouse building and the exterior space surrounding it located…
A new museum of art at UC Davis that’s been decades in the making is finally ready to be unveiled to the masses. The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art is set to open its doors to the public for the very first time on Sunday, Nov….
“I watched a lot of Care Bears as a kid,” muses local artist Jessica White with a laugh. “I use colors all from that palette, I don’t know if that’s on purpose.” White is a tattoo artist at Reclamare Gallery and Tattoo. She works out of the Land Park shop…
There are defining moments in an artist’s career that set into motion a floodgate of ideas that transports them into a completely different artistic direction; like the moment when Jackson Pollock came upon his drip technique or Andy Warhol realized his jam was transforming simple objects like soup cans and…
Election day will have passed, and it’s a sure bet that we will all have something to rant, rave or even howl about at the next installment of Crocker Art Museum’s monthly ArtMix series. On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, join local poets, MCs, DJs, activists and artists at ArtMix: Howl,…
(This is Not a) Love Song is a new body of work by Sacramento artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor at Verge Center for the Arts. Sitting on a folding chair in the literal shadow of her sculptures, without the buzz and hum of the crowd from the opening reception, was surreal….
During the nine days that it was open in February 2016, nearly 15,000 people toured Art Hotel, an ambitious temporary art project that took over the defunct Jade Apartments building in downtown Sacramento, filling the rooms hallways, and staircases with work from over 100 artists. Now the group behind Art…
After creepy-stalking her website and wondering “How the heck does she do that with wire?!” I was nervous to sit down at Identity Coffees with artist Diana Dich as she unpacked her traveling art studio of sorts: a spool of thick wire (acquired at Home Depot), two sets of pliers…
If you’ve ever wanted to know what it looks like inside regional artist’s studios and workspaces, here’s your chance. Verge Center for the Arts is presenting the 11th Annual Sac Open Studios, a free, self-guided tour that spans across two weekends, Sept. 10–11 and Sept. 17–18. Upwards of 150 contemporary…
One of the most unique and highly anticipated group art shows of the year is about to grace the walls of the WAL Public Market Gallery in downtown Sacramento’s bustling R Street Corridor. In the exhibit If You Do Me, I’ll Do You, 22 local artists are invited to create…
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