Visual Arts

Exhibits and talks about photography and visual arts. Quilt show, etc.

Art in the Garden w/ Museum of Children's Art

Meet us at the Peralta Community Garden for an afternoon of nature drawing w/ the Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA)!

We are kicking off our series around the #PlantWildflowers Initiative with a drawing session at the Peralta Community Garden, one of our partners on this project. Located at 1400 Peralta Ave in Berkeley, we will be able to sit in the garden, and receive instruction on how we can observe and draw the flora around us.

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Urban Sketching@ Doe Library

Bring your favorite journal, art materials or just pencil and paper and join the Urban Sketching group.  We sketch the world around us to observe and connect with our surroundings.  Through this practice our drawing skills and confidence ultimately improve over time.  Urban sketching is worldwide movement with groups all over the world!  This group is for all levels of skill and experience.

"Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are." -José Ortega y Gasset

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Green Sketching @U.C. Campus

Bring your favorite journal, art materials or just pencil and paper and join the Green Sketching group.  We sketch the world around us to observe and connect with our surroundings.  While drawing we try to mindfully to stay in the moment, without  attachement to the final product.  Through this practice our drawing skills and confidence ultimately improve over time.  Green sketching can be nature journaling, urban sketching, mindful drawing, adding descriptive words to a sketch, or even doodling - whatever gets the pencil moving over the paper!  This group is for all levels of skill and exp

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Green Sketching @U.C. Campus

Bring your favorite journal, art materials or just pencil and paper and join the Green Sketching group.  We sketch the world around us to observe and connect with our surroundings.  While drawing we try to mindfully to stay in the moment, without  attachement to the final product.  Through this practice our drawing skills and confidence ultimately improve over time.  Green sketching can be nature journaling, urban sketching, mindful drawing, adding descriptive words to a sketch, or even doodling - whatever gets the pencil moving over the paper!  This group is for all levels of skill and exp

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Art Talks: Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay

Join us for an exciting Art Talk presented by a docent from the de Young and Legion of Honor in San Francisco!  This month's topic: Van Gogh, Gaugin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay!

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Art Talks: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Join us for an exciting Art Talk on Zoom presented by Marsha Holm, a docent from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco!  This month's topic: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Does art have the power to impact lives or change attitudes? Can a work of art stir our consciences? Mobilize us to action?  And do artists have an obligation to use their work as a mechanism through which a political movement can be furthered?

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