The Sacramento City College Film Club is having a fundraiser at Bows & Arrows this Saturday the 26th at 7:30.The event will feature live music by Dusty Brown and Paper Pistols, showings of student films, and a raffle.  The Sacramento City College Film Club is only in its third official term as a club, but they’re already well established on campus, with 34 members and several student-made films to show for it. ”This film department at SCC is growing, but is probably the smallest out of all departments on campus,” said club President Miles Fargo. “Because of this, my goal has been to promote and expand the film community at SCC. We make short films as well as help to answer question of as

Jose Di Gregorio is well known around Sacramento for his abstract paintings, karaoke skills, adorable children, and Skyrim prowess. His show at Bows and Arrows last October, titled Cosmo Cathedral, was a huge hit, and he recently showed work at Milk Gallery and Tangent Gallery . But what some people may not know about Jose is that he owns an impressive and eclectic collection of original art. He was kind enough to show me around his home and explain where his pieces came from and what they mean to him. Front and center in Jose's living room is one of his ceiling pieces from Cosmo Cathedral. "I thought it would be kind of neat for people who come here to see a ceiling piece in a residentia

Some scenes from Midtown's Modern Art Festival:   For article about the art festival, CLICK HERE>>>

A myriad of local artists and hundreds of community members gathered in the street Saturday to celebrate art in multiple forms for the first Midtown Modern Arts Festival. The free, family-friendly street festival was held on 20th Street between J and K streets and featured six hours of music, dance, comedy, visual and performing arts and creative, hands-on activities for kids. The festival was run largely in part to the multitude of volunteers willing to give their time to put the event together, and neither the attendees nor vendors were charged to attend. “This is one way for use to give back to the community — bringing art organizations, artists and businesses together,” said Heather

Somewhere between Broadway and X, a secret spring runs with water that brings happiness, relaxation and generosity. I’m not sure where the mouth of the spring lies, but you can get a taste by just taking a look at some of the great businesses popping up in this corridor of numbered streets tucked next to the freeway between Broadway and the grid. The intersection of neighborhoods seems to make this area hidden and accessible only to those choice locals who know where to go. Off Broadway Bean, known by so many as just another cafe at 2416 16th St., is trying to make its way by producing specially selected and freshly roasted coffees and container after container of loose-leaf tea, just wai

A few weeks ago, I saw Richard St.Ofle read from his book No Wolf (the waygoing compromise) at Luna’s Café on 16th street. St.Ofle had just wrapped up writing and promoting the book, and the reading was a way of, in St.Ofle’s words “celebrating, in advance, the break I’m going to be taking”. Well, that break didn’t last very long, St.Ofle just announced the release of the accompanying audio book, to what is already an ambitious project that includes a soundtrack by Montreal musician August Hell, and a really cool marketing campaign where readers were encouraged to send in photos of them reading the book. The audio book was recorded by another notorious Sacramento busy-body, Robby Moncrie

"Sculpture doesn't have to answer to society or beauty," Japanese contemporary ceramic artist Takako Araki once said. Referred to by some as sacrilegious, her lifelike tattered Bible sculptures, one of which she made by silkscreening text from the Bible onto fired clay, are part of the Soaring Voices ceramic exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in Downtown Sacramento. The exhibition opened to the public Saturday and features a collection of more than 80 ceramic pieces by 25 female Japanese artists. Until the 1950s, the world of ceramics in Japan has been a "man's world," exhibit organizer Maya Nishi told an audience at Sunday's gallery talk. She elaborated on how Japanese women had been

Sacramento artists of all sorts have been asked by Richard St. Ofle and Jesse Vasquez to contribute to a weekly "participatory art project" on their new blog, "Topical Thursday." On "Topical Thursday," Sacramento's most creative are asked to consider a topic and contribute their interpretation, in whatever form they choose, to the blog. According to St. Ofle, the contributors will be "mostly artists, but also writers as well . . . we wanted to limit it to people who do something creative, but not just visual art." St. Ofle and Vasquez, themselves artists, reveal a new topic every Thursday, as the blog's name implies. Past topics have included "guilty pleasures" and "secrets." Upcoming

This summer let the Crocker Art Museum’s world-class art collection be your source for exploration, instruction and inspiration. The Crocker presents more than 20 educational opportunities this summer for children, teens and adults interested in expanding and exercising their artistic awareness and abilities. All classes are taught by highly skilled teaching artists and are designed to encourage students to unleash their imaginations while receiving formal lessons in color, line, texture and a variety of media. Summer Art Classes for children range from two-day workshops to week-long sessions, and this year marks the first series of Summer Art Classes for Adults. The Crocker’s Teen Action