William Saroyan was ahead of his time, writing about the challenge of diaspora and immigrant life in America. Which gives his work significance, even close to 40 years years after … Cl…
Several local Sacramento museums are participating in the Smithsonian magazine's national Museum Day Saturday, where entrants can receive free general admission by downloading a ticket from …
Becoming an artist is an odd and unpredictable thing. It can sprout early in an artist's life or exist for long years like a slow drip deep in the system … Click to Continue »
The Crocker Art Museum celebrates the work of talented comic book-style artists and writers in the greater Sacramento area through CrockerCon on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2018. … Click to Co…
â–ª Craig Martinez's raw mixed media sculpture "Rez Dog with Three Legs" is an archetypal image, the artist states, "bearing the cuts, scratches and scars" that represent "conceptual and…
When the children trickled into her art studio at The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex last year, Deborah Pittman had a surprise in store: they would be coloring ceramics with … Click …
Playwright Sarah DeLappe's impressive academic credentials include an undergraduate degree from Yale's School of Drama, where she performed in, wrote or helped direct or produce more than a …
Artists paint the sidewalks at the 28th Annual Chalk It Up festival in Sacramento's Fremont Park on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. … Click to Continue »
Artists paint the sidewalks at the 28th Annual Chalk It Up festival in Fremont Park. … Click to Continue »
Artists draw with chalk on the sidewalk in and around Fremont Park in Sacramento, California. … Click to Continue »
Art mattered this weekend in Sacramento. That was the message adorning the entrance to Fremont Park at 16th and Q streets, where scores of local artists had already assembled hours … C…
Domestic and exotic visual delights are on the menu at local and Bay Area Museums this fall. Among the offerings are exhibitions of 19th century landscapes by Albert Bierstadt and … Cl…
An artist is paying tribute to the late Robin Williams with a giant mural in San Francisco that depicts his blue eyes and nose framed by silver hair. The San … Click to Continue »
Words can inspire, advocate and empower. Teenage writers, poets or spoken word performers have an opportunity to reach the community in Sacramento and affect change in an even stronger way &…
Artist Vincent Damyanovich unveils his Living Colors LED art display produced under a city grant at the art gallery at SMUD's Sacramento headquarters, Wednesday, August 22, 2018. … Cli…
Many of the country's best-known artists working in clay are included in an important group of contemporary American ceramics gifted to the Crocker Art Museum in 2016 by Elaine and … C…
Drone video shows off Sacramento's new Johnny Cash mural by famed graphic artist and activist Shepard Fairey, who shares Cash's passion for prison reform. It was painted on the side of the R…
The Sacramento Mural at Sac State was part of the 2018 Wide Open Walls festival 2018. School officials say it's destined to be a campus landmark and a selfie backdrop capturing the creativit…
It's hard to miss in downtown Sacramento: a giant red, orange and yellow likeness of Johnny Cash performing at Folsom State Prison. The new mural is famed graphic artist and … Click to…
Local and international artists paint more than 40 large-scale walls in Sacramento. … Click to Continue »
Christmas came early to the Crocker Art Museum this year. After many years of consideration, Bay Area collector Wendy Willrich chose the Crocker Art Museum as the recipient of 41 … Cli…
On an unseasonably warm evening, a middle-class dad named Efran is out in his suburban yard sucking on a Schlitz beer and delivering a slightly unhinged lecture to his next-door … Clic…
Billed as a "full-blown street art extravaganza," this year's Wide Open Walls festival kicked off Thursday morning outside Sacramento State's Shasta Hall. There, Rep. Doris Matsui, Mayor Dar…
Sacramento's Wide Open Walls mural event starts with a nine-artist mural at Sac State. … Click to Continue »
At the start of the month, the long-abandoned Mansion Inn in downtown Sacramento was filled with almost twenty artists between the ages of 14 and 18. Throughout the day, the … Click to…