Please join us for a Holiday Art Show celebrating the beauty of Wine Country and the resilience of our communities When: Saturday & Sunday, December 2nd and 3rd from 1 pm to 5 pm. Where: The Sausalito Art Studio at 403-A Napa Street. Enter at the corner of Caledonia and Napa Street in Sausalito. Ten […]
On June 19, 2017, Sausalito lost one of its most visible artists. Robert Conley Jr., aka VanBo, was a fixture in the community for the 16 years that I’ve lived here. Becoming a Painter Around 2004 VanBo was a musician playing at local parties around town. Then he got interested in becoming a painter. Soon […]
New York in the Summer of Love I was only nine years old and living in New York City during San Francisco’s Summer of Love. What filtered through to me was the wildness and freedom of the 1960s. Central Park in New York during the sixties was a frequent destination for my family. Suddenly the […]
Discovering a New Bookstore This spring Sausalito welcomed a beautiful new bookstore, Book Passage By-the-Bay. It is located at 100 Bay Street at the entrance to the Sausalito Yacht Harbor boardwalk. The store is light, spacious, and filled with wonderful books. Also a social center and destination, the store has been hosting many author events. […]
I just saw the most amazing exhibit of ancient Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties, includes a stunning display of ancient animals, people, and even model houses made of earthenware that were recovered from royal tombs in Western […]
Please join us at Susan Sternau Studios for the next Sausalito Art Walk on Wednesday, September 13th from 4 to 8 pm. You are invited to discover one of Sausalito’s hidden gems and enjoy local art and refreshments in a garden setting. Continue to browse art and sample treats at a dozen local businesses […]
One of my favorite cool carvings in Sausalito is one I see almost every day. It is the Miner Forty-Niner panning for gold outside our local hardware store, Waterstreet Hardware, at the corner of Caledonia and Litho Streets. Albert, who has worked at Waterstreet since 1964, told me that Barney West carved the Miner. Barney […]
Quilting is considered a craft, but these days it is also most definitely one of the arts. “Out of the Blue,” a show of quilts at the Bay Model in Sausalito, showcases what is best about contemporary quilting. The quilts by the Muir Beach Quilters and Friends have similar artistic qualities to painting: they are […]
You are invited to a Holiday Open Studio Art Show and Sale at Susan Sternau Studios in Sausalito Saturday, December 3rd and Sunday, December 4th Open Studio hours are from 12 pm to 5 pm on both weekend days. All original art will be 30% off for the Holiday Open Studio event. Check out all […]
Nicholas Coley Art Exhibit: Many artists fall in love with painting because of the sensual qualities of paint. Thickly brushed on oil paint is satisfying to use precisely because it is luxurious. Thick yet malleable, it can be moved around the surface of a canvas easily. The buttery quality of the paint and the richness […]