Community Calendar

The Lot on Main is a community powered space where artists, makers, musicians, and creatives come together to showcase, sell, and share their work.

First Friday's at The Lot showcases over 20 different artisans, live music, and local food trucks.

'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."

We are pleased to host an exhibition of beautiful, colorful paintings by Ellen Heise! She paints tranquil landscapes and is known for her 'paintings inside paintings'. Since she was a child, she had already made up her mind to become an artist who would travel and capture the beauty of nature by pen, brush and colors. She feels lucky to do what she really likes to do. She loves it when her audience tells her that they want to live inside her paintings where it is peaceful, quiet and relaxing...a moment to escape from daily life. Her show will run from August 1st through September 1st, 2025. We are located at 10480 Kasten Street in Mendocino and are open daily from 11am to 4pm. On August 9th, from 4pm to 7pm during Mendocino's Second Saturday event, Ellen will be in the gallery for a meet and greet so please come by and see her wonderful art and say hello!

WCA Founders: Then & Now
at Willits Center for the Arts for the month of August

WCA Founders: Then & Now comes to Willits Center for the Arts for the month of August. The exhibit, featuring over 25 veteran artists who were key to the transformation of a historical building, formerly the Women's Improvement Club, into a vibrant art and cultural center.

The Willits Center for the Arts galleries will be filled with work both old and new from the people that made the art center happen, many of whom have been practicing their art for 40 years or more. Both galleries will be filled with original work by jewelers, ceramicists, quilters, painters, sculptors, and more. Artists will offer written reflections on their decades with the WCA, highlighting how their work has grown and changed over the years.

WCA Founders: Then & Now opens Saturday August 9 from 6 to 8pm. As always, the Center will offer food, refreshments, and fellowship, along with lots and lots of ART. The exhibit runs through Sunday August 31, with galleries open from 11am to 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, We look forward to your visit at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 E. Commercial St., in Willits. For more information, please email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org.

PSA

WCA Founders: Then & Now comes to Willits Center for the Arts in August, highlighting
the early days of the art center in Willits. Galleries will be filled with work old and new from the
people that made it happen. Visit with old friends and enjoy the work of established artists in
the Willits area, many of whom have been practicing their art for 40 years or more. As always,
we will offer food, refreshments, and fellowship, along with lots and lots of ART.
WCA Founders: Then & Now opens Saturday August from 6 to 8pm and runs through Sunday August 31. Galleries are open from 11am to 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, We
look forward to your visit at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 E. Commercial St., in Willits. For
more information, please email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org .

Partners Gallery of Mendocino presents FIBER ABSTRACTIONS, a show of art textiles by weaver and wool felt artist Adriane Nicolaisen.

Inspired by a recent trip to India, Adriane expresses in her fiber art the exuberant influences of indigenous embroidery, mud brick buildings, brightly painted shrines and carved marble temples. Her work is a contrast of color, pattern, texture and materials as is the visual world of India.

The show opens August 7 and continues through September 8.

There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists August 9, 5-7pm.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

The gallery is located at 45062 Ukiah St in Mendocino.

The Lot on Main is a community powered space where artists, makers, musicians, and creatives come together to showcase, sell, and share their work.

First Friday's at The Lot showcases over 20 different artisans, live music, and local food trucks.

'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."

We are pleased to host an exhibition of beautiful, colorful paintings by Ellen Heise! She paints tranquil landscapes and is known for her 'paintings inside paintings'. Since she was a child, she had already made up her mind to become an artist who would travel and capture the beauty of nature by pen, brush and colors. She feels lucky to do what she really likes to do. She loves it when her audience tells her that they want to live inside her paintings where it is peaceful, quiet and relaxing...a moment to escape from daily life. Her show will run from August 1st through September 1st, 2025. We are located at 10480 Kasten Street in Mendocino and are open daily from 11am to 4pm. On August 9th, from 4pm to 7pm during Mendocino's Second Saturday event, Ellen will be in the gallery for a meet and greet so please come by and see her wonderful art and say hello!

WCA Founders: Then & Now
at Willits Center for the Arts for the month of August

WCA Founders: Then & Now comes to Willits Center for the Arts for the month of August. The exhibit, featuring over 25 veteran artists who were key to the transformation of a historical building, formerly the Women's Improvement Club, into a vibrant art and cultural center.

The Willits Center for the Arts galleries will be filled with work both old and new from the people that made the art center happen, many of whom have been practicing their art for 40 years or more. Both galleries will be filled with original work by jewelers, ceramicists, quilters, painters, sculptors, and more. Artists will offer written reflections on their decades with the WCA, highlighting how their work has grown and changed over the years.

WCA Founders: Then & Now opens Saturday August 9 from 6 to 8pm. As always, the Center will offer food, refreshments, and fellowship, along with lots and lots of ART. The exhibit runs through Sunday August 31, with galleries open from 11am to 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, We look forward to your visit at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 E. Commercial St., in Willits. For more information, please email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org.

PSA

WCA Founders: Then & Now comes to Willits Center for the Arts in August, highlighting
the early days of the art center in Willits. Galleries will be filled with work old and new from the
people that made it happen. Visit with old friends and enjoy the work of established artists in
the Willits area, many of whom have been practicing their art for 40 years or more. As always,
we will offer food, refreshments, and fellowship, along with lots and lots of ART.
WCA Founders: Then & Now opens Saturday August from 6 to 8pm and runs through Sunday August 31. Galleries are open from 11am to 5pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, We
look forward to your visit at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 E. Commercial St., in Willits. For
more information, please email manager@willitscenterforthearts.org .

Partners Gallery of Mendocino presents FIBER ABSTRACTIONS, a show of art textiles by weaver and wool felt artist Adriane Nicolaisen.

Inspired by a recent trip to India, Adriane expresses in her fiber art the exuberant influences of indigenous embroidery, mud brick buildings, brightly painted shrines and carved marble temples. Her work is a contrast of color, pattern, texture and materials as is the visual world of India.

The show opens August 7 and continues through September 8.

There is a Second Saturday Meet the Artists August 9, 5-7pm.

Gallery hours are Thursday through Monday 11-5pm.

The gallery is located at 45062 Ukiah St in Mendocino.