Art continues to flourish in Sausalito. Although the Sausalito Art Festival has not returned yet to its former glory, check out the upcoming Art Weekend in Sausalito. Art Weekend Sausalito will be the inaugural exhibition at the newly remodeled Sausalito Center For The Arts. The event will highlight over 100 pieces of original art from […]
Sausalito has a reputation as an arty town. And though you don’t necessarily think of mosaics when you think of art, but there are some mosaic treasures to be found here now, and more are on the way. Mosaics are Magic I’ve always had a soft spot for mosaics. Maybe that’s because when I was […]
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 […]
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 […]