Community Calendar

Registration is now open for the 3rd annual Willits Center for the Arts Kid’s Summer Camp with Caroline Hambright, art teacher at Willits Charter School. July 7-11, 2025 Monday through Friday, Ages: 7 – 12, 10am - 3pm. Tuition is $325. Register at https://www.willitscenterforthearts.org.
Activities have included Street Art, still life draw/paint-along, plein air painting, butterfly symmetry monoprints, radial symmetry, mandala block printing, paper sculptures, paper mache ice cream cones, collage, assemblage, read-aloud, as well as park playtime.
Caroline Hambright’s recent work was born out of a passion for creating art that captures the beauty of nature, expresses the wonder of childhood, and inspires internal peace.
In addition to teaching children, Caroline is an accomplished fine artists. Caroline explores many sides of painting. She uses the Alla Prima oil painting method in order to capture the immediacy of her inspiration. While her subject matter may vary from epic vistas to old cars to kitchen items, her color palette remains subdued with pops of bright color. For her murals, Caroline uses acrylic paint. Through years of practice and experimentation, she has honed her craft and mastered different mediums and techniques. While her teaching expertise helps her create art pleasing to children, her background in fine art informs her creations for the seasoned eye.
A Santa Barbara native, Caroline has been making art since she could hold a pencil. She graduated from Santa Barbara High School’s Visual Arts and Design program and later studied art at Santa Barbara City College. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Art from San Francisco State University and is a credentialed teacher. While teaching art in Goleta, her Summer Solstice poster design earned her Summer Solstice Artist of the Year. She went on to create three separate parade floats. Caroline ended up turning her attention to murals, and between jobs she set up an oil painting studio at home. She now teaches junior high and high school art at Willits Charter School in Willits, CA.
more about Caroline: https://carolinehambright.com .
Register at https://www.willitscenterforthearts.org

Art and Photography by Mary Rose Kaczorowski

June 3 through June 30, 2025

Headlands Coffeehouse

120 E. Laurel St. Fort Bragg, CA

Monday- Thursday 7AM- 3PM, Fridays & Saturdays 7AM- 8PM

As a part of the Garden Conservancy Open
Days our Sculpture Garden and Stone carving studio will be open to the public.
We carve in many different types of stone
Granite ,Basalt serpentine and many others
Our sculptures range from table top
To monumental in scale
Many of our pieces combine water with the
Stone to create unique one of a kind water sculptures

We are pleased to host a show featuring gorgeous hand-painted scarves and shawls by local textile artist, Siobhan! She will be our featured artist here at Highlight Gallery from June 6th through June 30th so please come and see all of her lovely wearable art. Siobhan has adorned many of these lovely silks with gingko leaves which represent resilience, longevity and hope, among other things. The ginkgo tree's ability to survive for millions of years and its resilience to environmental stressors have made it a symbol of hope and overcoming challenges! We are open 11am to 4pm every day and are located at 10480 Kasten Street in Mendocino and look forward to seeing you.

Partners Gallery is featuring mixed media paintings by Mina Cohen in June with a series entitled Palimpsest. Palimpsest means something reused or altered but bearing visible traces of its earlier form. This work comes out of desire to revise older works, most of which are very large and break them down into smaller units. Mina has reworked the individual pieces into new works that are unique smaller works.

The work is based on a very large encaustic painting from the late 1970’s, a time that encaustic painting, an ancient painting technique, was having its revival. The underlying original media and color comes through in the new work in a subtle way. Mina’s current interest in texture and pattern gives these new works a three dimensional quality.

The show opens June 12 and continues through July 7.
There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists June 14, 5-7pm.
Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

'Playing With Perception' is an exhibition of mind-bending optical illusion paintings by local artist Richard Weiss here at Highlight Gallery in Mendocino. Henry Matisse has said: “We should always see life as we did in childhood.” Adhering plainly to this statement, Richard says, "I enjoy creating interactive mind bending optical illusion paintings. The work is in relief but is painted to appear like a conventional flat picture. Movements of the observer result in fluid distortions of the pictorial image, engaging viewers into a playful participation. The goal of my work is to infuse whimsical happiness to viewers by surprising and engaging them into a playful participation, allowing them to create their own unique experience of the optical illusion."

Paint & Paper exhibit at Willits Center for the Arts

The Willits Center for the Arts presents Paint & Paper, with work by oil painter Eva Strauss-Rosen and collage artist Sandy Oppenheimer. This wide ranging exhibit featuring these two highly dedicated artists will open on Saturday June 7 in the WCA galleries. Enjoy world-class art along with tasty nibbles and beverages of your choosing. Check in with your community and see what the galleries have to offer for the month of June.Paint & Paper will be on exhibit through Sunday June 29, with galleries open from 11am to 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. We await your visit at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 E. Commercial St., in Willits. For further information, please check out our website at willitscenterforthearts.org, email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org or call the Center at 707-459-1726.

There will be both an art and storytelling component to this month-long PRIDE celebration. Information and entry forms are available at the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) or online at www.cornergalleryukiah.com. The First Friday opening celebration is June 6 from 5-8pm with live music by Charlie Seltzer.

Art Center Ukiah will host a PRIDE show for the month of June. The opening celebration is on Friday June 6 from 5-8pm with live music by Charlie Seltzer. Entry forms for art and storytelling submissions are available at the Corner Gallery (201 S State St in Ukiah) or online at the website www.cornergalleryukiah.com.

QUEER JOY CRAFTING SOCIAL
Celebrate Pride Month at the Ukiah Branch Library
Saturday, June 14 from 2 - 4 PM

Celebrate Pride Month with fun, camaraderie, and crafting! Drop in and join fellow community members in the meeting room at the Ukiah Branch Library on June 14, 2025, anytime between 2 - 4 p.m. Make a fabric collage, a pride friendship bracelet, or just come to socialize. Everyone's invited, including allies!

All ages are welcome with the understanding that there will be sharp scissors and hot glue guns. Adult supervision required for younger children. Supplies are limited.

We look forward to celebrating Pride with you! For more information, please visit www.mendolibrary.org or contact the Ukiah Branch at 707-463-4490.

ALEGRÍA QUEER CREANDO SOCIAL
Celebre el Mes del Orgullo en la Biblioteca Sucursal de Ukiah
Sábado, 14 de junio de 2 a 4 PM

¡Celebra el Mes del Orgullo con diversión, camaradería y manualidades! Ven y únete a la comunidad en la sala de reuniones de la Biblioteca Sucursal de Ukiah el 14 de junio de 2025, en cualquier momento entre las 2 y las 4 p.m. Crea un collage de tela, una pulsera de la amistad del orgullo o simplemente ven a socializar. ¡Todos están invitados, incluso los aliados!

Personas de todas las edades son bienvenidas, con la salvedad de que habrá tijeras afiladas y pistolas de silicona caliente. Se requiere la supervisión de un adulto para los niños más pequeños. Las plazas son limitadas.

¡Esperamos celebrar el Orgullo contigo! Para más información, visita www.mendolibrary.org o contacta con la Biblioteca Sucursal de Ukiah al 707-463-4490.