• 03-14
  Closing Reception 4-6pm
  The Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim - Group Show
  Root Division
  San Francisco
  Ritual of Mythmaking: Reclaim is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance. 

• 02.16
  Artist Talk
  BLACK POWER TAROT - King Khan & Michael Eaton
  Verge Center for the Arts
  Sacramento
  Verge Center for the Arts is proud to present THE BLACK POWER TAROT exhibition and related programs in Sacramento. Birthed from a series of dreams that came to the vastly creative musician, artist and writer King Khan (Arish Ahmad Khan), the Black Power Tarot arose from personal interest in reading and interpreting the cards during the intensive experience of scoring the documentary film The Invaders. Khan collaborated with Chilean-French filmmaker and spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky and Belfast-based designer Michael James Eaton to create the deck featuring likenesses of 22 African American archetypes. Eaton, artist for the Game of Thrones television series, worked with Philippe Camoin, the direct heir of the last of Tarot de Marseille printers in Marseille, France to reconstruct a new version of the deck based on the original Tarot de Marseille from the 1760s.

• 02.10 - 02.11
  Reception (2.10 4-6pm) (2.11 6-8pm)
  The Ritual of Myth Making: Reclaim - Group Show
  Root Division
  San Francisco
  Ritual of Mythmaking: Reclaim is an invitation to participate in ceremony. The exhibition will take viewers on a journey through time and space, exploring multiple Indigenous pasts, presents, and futures, resulting in a collective cycle of healing that embraces beauty, death, release, and abundance. 

• 02.04
  Artist Talk 2PM
  Curator in Conversation: Art in Times of Crisis
  Crocker
  Sacramento
  The 2022 recipient of the Crocker’s John S. Knudsen Prize, Gina M. Contreras, sits down with Adult Education Coordinator Houghton Kinsman to chat about her creative practice and where she sees her career heading next. Contreras’s characteristic self-portraits and illustrative interior scenes co-mingle lust, romance, and sexual vulnerability, and they quietly pick at the seams of Western beauty standards and cultural norms. A painter and printmaker from Fresno, Contreras received a BFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and currently lives and works in San Francisco.

• 01.29
  Artist Talk 2PM
  Upstart: Gina M. Contreras
  Crocker
  Sacramento
  The creative voices rising during the current era of crisis, political divisions, and strife offer compelling parallels to the artists working during the Works Progress Administration era, initiated by Franklin D Roosevelt in 1935. Scott A. Shields, Ted and Melza Barr Chief Curator and Associate Director at the Crocker, is joined by Bram Djikstra (Professor Emeritus of American and Comparative Literature Ph.D. at UC San Diego); Henry Adams (Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western University); and independent curator Susan M. Anderson for an insightful look at art created within the socio-political conditions of the 1930s, as seen in the exhibition Art for the People: WPA-Era Paintings from the Dijkstra Collection. Consider how these works offer relevance today. 

01.19, 7-10pm
CELEBRATE ARTWEEK - 5th Anniversary Celebration
Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation
San Francisco
We are celebrating the start of our 5 year anniversary with exhibitions and site specific installations by four new exhibiting artists.

• 01.14 5:30-8:30pm
  Reception
  Breaking Ground - MFA Group Show
  Sac Fine Arts
  Sacramento
  Community Exhibit of the First Master of Fine Art graduates at Sacramento State, Marie Dixon, Jill Hannon, John Klaiber, Dafne Navarro, and Alberto Lozano-Ruvalcaba

• 01.14
  Reception 5-8PM
  BLACK POWER TAROT - King Khan & Michael Eaton
  Verge Center for the Arts
  Sacramento
  Verge Center for the Arts is proud to present THE BLACK POWER TAROT exhibition and related programs in Sacramento. Birthed from a series of dreams that came to the vastly creative musician, artist and writer King Khan (Arish Ahmad Khan), the Black Power Tarot arose from personal interest in reading and interpreting the cards during the intensive experience of scoring the documentary film The Invaders. Khan collaborated with Chilean-French filmmaker and spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky and Belfast-based designer Michael James Eaton to create the deck featuring likenesses of 22 African American archetypes. Eaton, artist for the Game of Thrones television series, worked with Philippe Camoin, the direct heir of the last of Tarot de Marseille printers in Marseille, France to reconstruct a new version of the deck based on the original Tarot de Marseille from the 1760s.