Art

Sidewalk art at Chalk it Up!

2009-09-08T15:18:02Z

The Sacramento Press to hold its first Tweetup Thursday night

2009-05-28T02:12:11Z

Hoping to meet more people and bring them to our office as well as support social media, we at The Sacramento Press will be holding our first Tweetup this Thursday, May 28, from 6 - 8 p.m.

We were very lucky to team up with Ricardo Robles, from Capsity Offices, Ronnie Ledesma, from Sacramento Social Media Club and Darby Flynn, from Chalk it Up! to connect with all sorts of artists and local businesses.

Thursday evening will be filled with belly dancing from Red Tent Belly Dance, performance art from Phoenix Gallery, wine tasting from MAS Wine and James David Cellars, break dancing from Capitol Roots Dance Studio, chalk drawing from Chalk it Up! artists, a presentation from the Sacramento Opera, music from DJ Reason and photography on our very own red couch.

Everyone who is participating in this Tweetup is on Twitter, and we thought it would be great to get creative and have them do what they do best all in one place, for everyone to enjoy.

You don't need to be on Twitter to attend this event, however, we will have computers available to sign up for an account if you're interested.

Our office has wi-fi available, so the active tweeters can take twit pics or tweet about the events of the Tweetup as they are happening.

To RSVP for the Tweetup, please visit this link.

Here's to a fantastic event Thursday night!

S.O.S Ballet Week

2009-03-30T03:49:19Z

Looking to put a little bounce in your step as spring gets under way? Better yet, how about putting many more chassés, pliés and pirouettes into the Sacramento Ballet's performances? March 30 through April 4 is Save Our Sacramento Ballet Week. A variety of businesses have stepped forward to help raise money for the local dancers, so make it a point to stop by on one of these days.

On March 30, Ink Eats & Drinks will be donating 10 percent to the ballet all day long. It is located at 2730 N St.

Tuesday, March 31, Zuda Yoga is donating 15 percent of the day's class sales and will host the dancers during their 6 p.m. class. Zuda is located at 19th & O Streets.

From Tuesday, March 31 to Saturday, April 4, Firefly Salon and Boutique will be donating 10 percent if you mention of S.O.S. Ballet week. It is located at 5539 H St.

Starting Wednesday, April 1 and running through Saturday, April 4, ARareity Jewlery and Art Glass Gallery will be donating 20 percent of all sales. It is located at 1021 R St.

On Saturday, April 4, Heavenly's Yogurt will be donating 30 percent of its sales to the ballet. It is located on H & 56 Streets.

Also on Saturday, April 4, Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill will be donating 20 percent of sales when you present the discount flier,
which can be found here. Rubio’s is located in Natomas, on Truxel road.

If it's time for a haircut, or new bracelet — if you're craving Mexican food, frozen yogurt or sliders — or if you're looking to work
off some of these foods with a yoga session — why not choose one of these local businesses and help save the ballet in the process?

For more information and for future S.O.S. Ballet events, visit saveoursacballet.com.

Time Tested Books launches 2009 Poetry Series

2009-01-08T23:24:17Z

Time Tested Books is pleased to announce the opening of our 2009 Poetry series. It has been a decade since we have hosted a regular poetry series and figured the time is right to focus on the Sacramento area’s wealth of veteran voices, folks who have spent time on their craft, promoting poetry, and teaching others.

We start our series with two names familiar to literary Sacramento, Pat Grizzell and B.L. Kennedy.

Pat Grizzell is a poet, songwriter and visual artist. He is a founding member and former director of the Sacramento Poetry Center. His collections of poems include Dark Music, Menotaure Into Night (with painter Jimi Suzuki) and the forthcoming 13 Poems from Rattlesnake Press. His work has been anthologized in collections such as Landing Signals and was editor of Tule Review, On the Wing, and other publications. He performs original music solo and with his band, Junkyard Burlesque.

B.L. Kennedy is a poet, artist, and lifelong performer. He studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, & Ed Sanders at the Naropa Institute’s Poetics from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where he holds a MFA (and one from CSU Sacramento, too). Swimming in controversy, his is ever prolific, the author of fourteen books of poetry. He is the Reviewer and Interviewer in Residence for Rattlesnake Review. He’s produced three major Poetry Marathons and has spent his life in Sacramento tirelessly promoting the area‘s poets. He is currently a host for Luna's Café's Poetry Unplugged reading series.

Time Tested Books is located at 1114 21st Street in Midtown Sacramento.

The event is on Sunday, January 18, 2009. 7 pm.

A $5 donation will be requested at the door. All money going to the featured readers.

(Our February reader will be poet and translator William O’Daly, who will be celebrating the release of his newest volume of translation of Pablo Neruda. O’Daly will be accompanied by guitarist Louis V. Johnson. More info to come.)

Local happenings for music-lovers

2009-01-08T01:53:12Z

Thursday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m.
A new group, "Friendly Creatures," composed of Brian and Tatiana Latour and Alex Jenkins, who are members of Daisy Spot, and Ross Hammond will be performing at Old Ironsides. Hammond describes the band's sound as similar to Midnight Star, Lake Side or SOS Band with some Gil Scott Heron and Curtis Mayfield in the mix.

Saturday, Jan. 10 during Second Saturday
Kevin Corcoran and Ross Hammond will be doing a duet inside the 20th Street Art Gallery. Their music will be the perfect backdrop for those art perusers. Hammond describes the music they'll be playing as spacious and reminiscent of a sci-fi soundtrack.

Old Ironsides is located at 1901 10th Street on the corner of S and 10th.

20th Street Art Gallery is located at 911 20th Street.

For more information, contact ross@rosshammond.com.

Patrick Grizzell - poetic musician

2009-01-07T04:20:26Z

Patrick Grizzell is a local poet and musician. He plays the guitar and sings with three different groups: The Liz Ryder Band, Junkyard Burlesque and Mandolin Avenue. Grizzell is also the one of the founders of The Sacramento Poetry Center, which has been around since 1979. He has published books of poetry, 13 Poems, Chicken Months, Dark Music: Selected Poems and Stories and others. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen have been major sources of musical inspiration for Grizzell but those who hear him play live can agree that he has a sound of his own.

Grizzell will be performing at Luna's cafe with Junkyard Burlesque on Jan. 9. He will be reading poetry at Time Tested Books on Jan. 18 to kick off the Time Tested Books Poetry Series.

What came first, music or poetry?

Music. I played the trumpet in my elementary school band. I had little formal musical training and it wasn't anything that really stuck.

How does poetry play into your music?

The way poetry has influenced me is important because I used to really differentiate between how I approached words in poems and how I approach words in songs. With songs there's certain things you are limited by, there's a lot of rhyming usually, a lot of meter. That's a little more important to the song than poetry, poetry's more flexible.

A lot of my songs don't even rhyme, which is kind of nice. I mean, the meter is there and they feel like they rhyme even though they don't. That change may seem like a minor thing, but to me that's a breakthrough because part of my struggle with writing songs was always comparing songs to poetry, and you just can't do it.

Who has influenced you along the way?

A lot of the songwriters I like are songwriters who have a big basis in poetry. When I get stuck I often go to them, if not for anything more than inspiration. I'll stick a record on and just listen to how they work things through and sometimes it's by not working them through.

They're all really good storytellers as well but sometimes they really don't make a lot of sense in that linear way that we think of songs. They're complicated. They're not those "I love you baby" "yeah, yeah, yeah," "my heart's broken and I miss you," "I wish you'd call" — all of those sort of typical themes. They're about playing rather than the lyrics.

What was the most difficult aspect of developing your music?

Finding a voice that felt original. Because so much music is derivative, it's almost impossible for it to not to be. But I think there's a point, if you do it long enough, where you pull all of these influences together so that all of the music that you've loved, and stuff that you've stolen (either on purpose or sort of unconsciously), so many directions come in sooner or later you really do sound like you. And people will say, "God, that sounds like you."

And when people say, "Where does that come from?" I say, "I don't know, I was sitting there one minute minding my own business and suddenly this song was there."

There's a song that Junkyard Burlesque does that's called "Down to the Scraps" and it's sort of a fun song. Sometimes I start writing a song, and things come and I write them down, so I might end up with two or three lines or two or three verses that I'm not going to use. It's just too much stuff, so I have a big file that I keep that stuff in. And every once in a while I'll go through and type it all out so I have it and I can find it.

So I was banging on my piano one day and came across this nice sort of groove. I couldn't come up with any idea to fit the music, and then as I'm playing around I came up with this little phrase, "Down to the scraps." I thought, "Oh, that's kind of cool."

Then I pulled out my notes and I started seeing these complete verses that kind of fit. They fit the meter, fit the sort of melody that I was hearing, so I took them and changed them a little bit. I took out a word here, added a word there and then I strung them together. So now I have these five verses that are unrelated but they work together not only as a song but just that idea, "Down to the scraps."

When you were younger you could probably see more of the influences in your music. Did you try to consciously distance yourself?

I tried to mask what I was stealing. (Laughs.) I think that's the way you learn how to write your own stuff.

Because you really do find your own way of approaching things and every once in a while, when those influences are really apparent, I feel almost a sense of gratitude about them.

None of us who write music, write songs, write poems, whatever, would be able to do it without the group of people who created the musical lexicon, the lyrical lexicon for how you write a song, or what a song is. We all, as artists, owe them a huge debt.

I remember when I was younger I'd write a song and figure out that I was just copying the beat of a song. Instead of scrapping it all, I would maybe change the pattern of the chords, or I'd substitute one chord for another. There's twelve notes, you've got to put them in some order or another. Everybody uses the same twelve notes.

And I go back to songs that I wrote years ago now and I really like them even though they're unoriginal. I like them because they still have that magic and excitement about them. I still get that feeling when I play them, even in this stage that I am now.

To learn more about Patrick Grizzell, please visit www.myspace.com/patrickgrizzell.

The photo above is a picture taken of Patrick Grizzell with Ricky Berger at an open mic night at Fox and Goose in Sacramento.

Sactown photography at Viewpoint Gallery

2008-12-13T21:19:57Z

Sactown magazine, one of the newest regional magazines to our area just released their second anniversary issue. What better way to celebrate its second anniversary than to have some of its award-winning photography shown at the Viewpoint Gallery?

From December 12, 2008 to January 3, 2009 the Viewpoint Gallery will be showing, "The Photography of Sactown Magazine: The First Two Years."

Sactown has won a number of awards in the relatively short time it has been around. This year, Sactown won a National City & Regional Magazine Award for its June/July photo essay, "In Harm's Way" and also a Maggie Award for its August/September issue.

Sactown was also a winner at the Communication Arts Photography Competition - for the second time in two years. Communication Arts boasts its photography competition as the most prestigious for creativity in the nation. Most of the winners include magazines like Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Time magazine and other nationally recognized publications.

The photos chosen for the exhibit range from politics to celebrities to fashion to war.

Rob Turner and Elyssa Lee, co-editors-in-chief of Sactown, will be at the Second Saturday reception tomorrow December 13. The reception will start at 5 p.m. and end at 9 p.m.

For more information, visit Viewpoint Gallery's Web site: www.viewpointgallery.com

A Balancing Act - Art and Yoga

2008-11-28T21:57:30Z

Have you ever attended a yoga class and looked around at the more skilled participants with their nimble bodies and perfect poses? Or maybe you are one of those yoga aficionados, starting your day doing the tree pose or the downward facing dog. The beauty of the body is truly revealed in the art of yoga. A glimpse in the mirror while doing a yoga pose is all the proof you need that body and mind coming together is truly art-worthy.

The BOLD MARK Gallery has taken this concept on for their next exhibit, "Balanced Bodies, Centered Minds." During the months of December and January the gallery will feature both yoga sculpture and live yoga demonstrations.

All of the artwork will draw from the mind/body connection.

In addition to the yoga sculpture by Roseville's Geri Yost, the gallery will house Idaho artist Clancie Pleasants' oil paintings, photography of nature scenes by Dennis Latona, Marsha Mobley Kilian's pastel portraits and abstract nude oil paintings by Jerry Lipp.

The combination of these mediums will set the perfect atmosphere for the Second Saturday yoga demonstrations.

Rocklin's Sattva studio and Sacramento's Zuda studio will be practicing partner's yoga with a variety of poses to really get visitors engaged in body and mind.

The show will open December 1st and run through January 29th. The Second Saturday yoga demonstrations will take place on December 13, 2008 and January 13, 2009 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

BOLD MARK Gallery is located at 1200 S Street, Suite D in Sacramento. It is open Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on Second Saturdays and by appointment.

The gallery will be closed for the holidays December 23rd to January 2nd.

If you would like more information, please contact Marsha Mobley Kilian 916-295-4047 or Suzanne McClelland 916-764-1141.

The works above will be featured in the exhibit.

Do you plan on attending the Second Saturday demonstrations? Have you ever seen a show with live yoga before? What are your thoughts on yoga and art?

Artists of all trades come together at Pecha Kucha Night

2008-11-21T01:15:00Z

Level Up Lounge felt like more of a housewarming party than a bar on a Thursday night. The crowd had settled into the chairs and couches as if their body imprint had stayed waiting for them to nestle back into the nook from the last PK Night.

Excited chatter filled every corner, wine swirled in glasses as Gloria Taylor from Todd Taylor Wines gave tastings, Suleka Sun-Lindley made her way around the lounge greeting and entertaining her guests before the show started. The anticipation reached a crescendo as the clock neared 20:20 and the lights went off.

The first presentation had some technical difficulties, but the rest of the night went smoothly.

Aaron Young, R&B and hip hop artist, put together a medley of a few of his songs to showcase the variety of his music. The center room of Level Up Lounge became the stage and a very short, but intimate concert captured everyone's attention.

Jeff Walker, architect and first-time presenter showed some humorous slides to break the ice and then segwayed to the bulk of his presentation- laser cutting as a process for fabrication. He showed images of the Strata Tower in Dubai that he worked on in its various stages and also a fruit bowl he made using the laser cutting process.

Richard Burnsed, program director for the Sacramento International Film Festival, presented two short films: "Uh-Oh: A brief Encounter" by Joe Henke and "Dealing With Women" by Julia Vickerman.

Evan Jones's work was scattered around the lounge and her presentation delved into her inspirations for her paintings and what she liked about them.

Thomas Harris and John Krempel also presented on some of their artwork. The PK Night drink was the final presentation of the evening - to see the drink and its ingredients click here.

Looking for something to shake up your normal Thursday routines? Check out a PK Night in Sacramento. Looking to share something with the community but want a creative way to do it? PK Night might just do the trick.

Please comment below.

Why Alan Osborne chose Sacramento for his art

2008-11-08T02:14:18Z

Alan Osborne is the owner of the Art Foundry, located on 1021 R Street. I sat down with Alan to find out what brought him to Sacramento and what kept him here. His expertise in bronze casting has brought renowned artists to Sacramento to work with him and castings that have been made in the Art Foundry can be seen throughout the city.

What brought you to Sacramento?

What actually brought me here was this building. When I had come in to look at the kiln that was for sale that used to be Earthworks and the woman was that had bought it from - the previous owner was downsizing so she was just going to move out. I went over to Fred David that same day and rented the space because I knew that I could make something happen here. I like Sacramento and the Second Saturdays are full but there's a great art community [here]. There's a lot of support, people buy original works and they always show up for events so it's a great art community.

How do you feel about having your location off of the main strip?

I think by having the Foundry it helps because you have a hands-on [aspect] you have a viewing - not many people have ever seen molten metal being poured. I like this location very much because I can do the Foundry work as well as have a nice gallery and studio spaces upstairs.

I heard that you worked with artists from the Beijing Olympic Landscape Sculpture Competition, can you tell me about that?

Well, it was a great show. There were 160 or 120 artists that were selected throughout the world to exhibit and they all had made these models for part of the selection committee. So we had 65 or 75 of them here on view and I worked very closely with the Olympic committee as well as the Beijing sculpture committee. They came out [and] there was a delegation from China that was here for different meetings. They met with the mayor, they went to Schwarzenegger's office. We had pieces [at the convention center] as well.

What are some memorable experiences you've had at the Foundry over the past 12 years that you've been here?

Well you know just the last [Second Saturday we had] was very memorable because I really enjoyed having the Sacramento Philharmonic playing the brass section. When we were pouring metal out there it was just really quite nice to have that music in the background. That was very memorable.

How long have you been doing sculpture for?

I've been doing sculpture since I was about 19 years old, so [about] 40 years.

What drew you to bronze?

I just love it. What attracted me to the bronze was working wax because it's very flexible and pliable and it gets really excellent detail. I [can] just cast my work directly. I work directly in wax and then cast it on very large pieces. I have an 18 foot piece that's at the light rail station (pictured) that was done directly in wax. I work directly in wax in all of my work and cast it directly so it has the fingerprints and the touch and it's really spontaneous - that's what I like about the bronze. I use it in direct casting from the wax, a lot of people [will] make a sculpture in clay or a figure sculpture - a mold is made and then they reproduce it into an addition - but mine are all unique pieces no matter what scale, they're all individual pieces.

Do you have any plans for the future of the Art Foundry?

I'm looking for some more space to move into for finished work and so on. I am looking for another building to lease or to buy to move into. We need some more room for finished work.

The pictures are from the Art Foundry's Web site www.artfoundryinc.com. Alan Osborne's sculpture mentioned in the article is installed at the Sunrise Station. Gerald Silva's work of Mayor Joe Serna and his wife is pictured in its clay stage above. The finished product can be seen near City Hall.

Do you have any fond memories of the Art Foundry? Have you been inside the Foundry? Have you seen the pieces pictured and wondered where they were made?

The PK Night drink

2008-11-08T00:46:01Z

Please see the articles, "Pecha Kucha Night" and "What's it like to present at Pecha Kucha Night?" if you are interested in further information on this event.

How do you make Pecha Kucha Night — which is already filled with live music, short films, artwork and buzzing with energy — better? Make a stellar drink, and name it after it. That is exactly how the PK Night drink came about.

Suleka Sun-Lindley, owner of Level Up Lounge, wanted to concoct a drink that represented the event well. The P stands for peppermint and the K stands for Kahlua, but the presentation is what really makes it stand out.

Kimmie Phan, the bartender at Level Up Lounge, has mastered the art of making the PK drink. The flaming glass, the shaking and the final pour catch the audience's attention and get them oohing and ahhing in anticipation.

It tastes slightly like an Andes mint but you needn't wait to drink one of these after dinner. It is quite delicious, creamy and goes down very smooth.

How is it made?

Bacardi 151 is poured into the martini glass and lit on fire. Kahlua is mixed with Peppermint Schnapps and milk shaken up and poured into the flaming glass.

Were you at Pecha Kucha Night on November 6th? Did you try the PK Night drink? Do you plan on trying the PK Night drink in the future?

Pictured: Kimmie Phan, bartender at Level Up Lounge.

Level Up Lounge is located on 2431 J Street, Sacramento.

See "Artists of all trades come together at Pecha Kucha Night" for more details of this month's PK Night.

What's it like to present at Pecha Kucha Night?

2008-11-01T00:37:51Z

Dennis Dong is a seasoned presenter at Pecha Kucha Night in Sacramento. Here he shares his experiences in an interview, as told by Colleen Belcher. This text is taken from an interview, it is in first person, however, it has been constructed in writing below by Colleen Belcher.

I first heard about Pecha Kucha Night by reading about it in various magazines architectural magazines and it sounded like a real neat thing.

I saw a little clip that they were starting an organization in Sacramento and I sent Claire Obenson, the Sacramento chapter's organizer, an e-mail asking her what's required and what's needed to be able to sign up for a presentation.

She e-mailed me back and said "Well, Pecha Kucha is basically for the young and the brave."

My response was "Well, I'm really not that young."

Claire wrote back: "Oh - well that's just young at heart you're more than welcome to present."

I attended the first Pecha Kucha Night. I was a little bit nervous because you don't know who's going to be there and you don't know if anyone is really interested in what you have to present.

I practiced a couple times just because I didn't want to overly embarrass myself. It was a lot of fun, I think there were five presenters that first night and all on various subjects.

I've presented three times all together.

The first couple times it was at Hina's Tea House and it was kind of strange because it stayed open for regular business while we were giving presentations so some of the regular customers were kind of a little bit taken by surprise. But I think they had a good time also.

What I like best about Pecha Kucha Night is the peer presentation — you just get up and you have a very definite timeframe. You are able to get across your subject in a short period of time. It puts pressure on you but it's just very refreshing and very challenging.

There are some instances where 20 seconds is certainly not enough time to talk about one particular slide and there are some times where in 20 seconds you run out of things to say and it seems like it's an eternity. There's just this dead silence and you're thinking, "C'mon. Next slide. C'mon."

My presentations have been on 'Anonymous Architecture' - that's what I call them.

The first one was on maintenance buildings. The second one was on fire stations and the third one was just everything in between.

And what I did for instance like on the maintenance buildings - I took a number of projects and tried to highlight the projects as to what some of the design elements of the projects were.

These are buildings that most people don't see or don't see beyond the front wall, they don't really have the opportunity to go into the building or through the building so I try to basically focus my presentations on giving the viewer a chance to look behind the doors and see what goes on in the building.

It's the same with the fire stations, - a lot of people will see the fire stations from the outside, but very few people will have the opportunity or need to go into a fire station.

Everyone who has presented has always gotten a lot of applause and appreciation for just getting up there and doing the presentation.

Sometimes if a presenter runs out of things to say someone in the audience will recognize that they're stuck and they'll come and ask a question - you know that's just good showmanship.

Dennis Dong is an architect with Calpo Hom & Dong Architects.

The photos above are slides from previous presentations by Dennis Dong at PK Night.

Did this interview answer all of your questions about Pecha Kucha Night? Do you plan on attending the event on November 6th? What kind of presenters do you think would be especially interesting to see at PK Night? Do you think Dennis Dong should write more about his experiences at PK Night or other areas of interest? Please comment below.

Pecha Kucha Night

2008-10-30T23:55:58Z

Pecha Kucha Night — while it may be a mouthful to pronounce — is very much a visual stimulus, a party for your eyes, so to speak.

The idea started five years ago with two architects, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, who wanted to create an event for designers to network and show their work. Since 2003, the concept has spread to over 100 cities around the world - Tokyo, Bangkok, Tijuana, Melbourne, Madrid, Barcelona and as of last year, Sacramento joined the list.

Pecha Kucha means 'the sound of conversation' in Japanese. And the presentations are meant to spark conversations about creative endeavors.

What does it take to be a presenter? The rules are very simple: each presenter gets 20 slides, each slide is shown for 20 seconds - meaning the time on stage is limited to 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The rules ensure that everyone has an equal amount of time on stage and the show keeps moving without any lulls.

Although it started as a place for architects to present, anyone can participate - fishermen, photographers or anyone who has a creative idea they want to share with the world.

The next Pecha Kucha Night will be Thursday, November 6th at Level Up Lounge. The doors open at 7 pm, and don't be late — Todd Taylor Wines is offering winestasting from 7 to 8 pm. The slides start rolling at 8:20, and continue until 10 pm.

Next month's presenters will include artist Evan Jones whose work will be on display at Level Up Lounge, R&B and hip hop singer Aaron Young, filmmaker Richard Burnsed, architects Gordon L'Estrange, Claire Obenson and John Roberts. (John will be presenting on nature preserves.) The last presenter of the night will be Suleka Sun-Lindley, owner of Level Up Lounge, who will be making a special PK Night drink which event-goers can try after the presentations are over.

Level Up Lounge is located on 2431 J Street in Sacramento.

For more information check out the website www.pecha-kucha.org

Have you heard of this concept before? What do you think of it? Would you be interested in attending? Have you been to a Pecha Kucha Night in another city? Would you want to be a presenter? Is there anything else you would like to know about it?

Photo is from previous Pecha Kucha Night - it is the Grabhorn Buliding in San Francisco, renovated by Gordon L'Estrange.

Where has the old Second Saturday gone?

2008-10-17T22:54:56Z

Please scroll through the pictures at the top of the page.

Some art lovers lament the loss of a once-lesser-known-phenomena called Second Saturday, when you could see art, eat finger food and sip on wine without feeling like herded cattle. The popularity of Second Saturday has skyrocketed its numbers of attendees in past months and some lack the motivation to bear the masses and fight for a space to appreciate something that requires time and thought.

There is a place where art lovers go for art, where you can move your elbows freely and get a chance to know the artists. Where you ask? Off the beaten path…

Blocks from midtown’s hustle and bustle you can find these treasures that may be a bit of a walk but are well worth the journey.

Appel Gallery

931 T Street

The only commercial fine art photography gallery in the Sacramento Valley. Owner and director Steve Appel bought the space about five years ago and since he opened his gallery, artists from the east coast, Poland, France and Germany have contacted him and become a part of Appel’s hanging displays. He currently has 70 fine art photographers in his gallery.

www.appelgallery.com

Pamela Skinner Gwenna Howard Art Gallery

723 S Street

With a huge space for hanging 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional artwork, the Pamela Skinner Gwenna Howard Art Gallery won't cramp your love for variety or love for space (claustrophobics rejoice). The gallery can be rented out for personal use and has been used in the past for weddings, cocktail parties, retirement parties and lobbyist events.

www.skinnerhowardart.com

The Art Foundry

1021 R Street

Not your average gallery: The Art Foundry is spread out into multiple spaces - the newest addition will greet guests right as they enter the building and be called 1021 R. It will house smaller bronze pieces. Sculptors pour and create on site in the Foundry and there are live demonstations on Second Saturdays. If you'd like to visit during the week - 10 artists lease out the rooms upstairs and can often be found working on pieces as you browse - many of them happy to chat with interested inquirers.

www.artfoundrygallery.com

The Bold Mark Gallery & Studio

1200 S Street

The Bold Mark Gallery just opened in June of this year and serves as a studio for pastel and acrylic artists Marsha Mobley Kilian and Suzanne McClelland as well as a gallery for their work and other artists. McClelland specializes in abstract acrylic and pastel paintings and Kilian does pastel portraits. Every two months, Kilian and McClelland have a drawing for a piece of art that has been displayed in their gallery.

www.boldmarkgallery.com

What is your opinion of Second Saturday? What brings you out on those evenings - the people, the excitement, the chance to socialize or the art and the opportunity to meet the artists? Do you wish anything were different? Do you have any suggestions?