Fall 2018 Art Events

Everyone is invited to these free public events. Here’s the list of places I’ll be talking about, demonstrating, and showing art this fall in Rancho Cordova, California.

Artist Workshop at the MACC (Mills Station Arts & Culture Center, 10191 Mills Station Road, Rancho Cordova). Saturday, September 22, 2018, from 10am to 2pm. Bring your art supplies and a brown bag lunch! We’ll be working on our 6” X 6” art to be donated to the Rancho Cordova Arts’ first fundraiser! We’ll also be answering questions for those who are considering submitting their art for jurying to the Holiday Pop-Up Gallery this year. And, saving the best for last, we’ll be upping our skills in the art of critique. Learn new ways to look at your art-in-progress to make better art! More information at www.RanchoCordovaArts.org.

Micro-Masterpieces: 6”X6” Fundraiser. Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 Prospect Park Drive, Rancho Cordova. Thursday, November 1, 2018 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Bring your friends! We’ll have lots of 6” X 6” art available for you to purchase - each for only $20 each! All proceeds go to support Rancho Cordova Arts’ purpose of promoting and developing the visual arts in Rancho Cordova. Come early! If you’d like to donate a piece of art, art intake is Thursday, October 25th at City Hall from 11am to 6pm. We accept all donations! Art entry form is in the ‘Call for Artists’ page at www.RanchoCordovaArts.org.

Holiday Craft Boutique. Rancho Cordova City Hall - Thursday, November 15th from 5pm to 7:30pm. I’ll be offering my blank art cards for sale, and there are plenty of other vendors with wonderful, hand-crafted gifts.

Holiday Pop-Up Art Gallery at the MACC (Mills Station Arts & Culture Center, 10191 Mills Station Road, Rancho Cordova). Three 3-day weekends - Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 7pm from November 23rd to December 9th. This is year is bigger and better than ever. We’re filling both floors of the MACC with more artists and more art! Art receptions start at noon on Saturdays, November 24 and December 1st. We’ll post a schedule of the live music and art demonstrations this fall at www.RanchoCordovaArts.org. If you would like to be juried into the gallery, see the ‘Calls for Artists’ page on www.RanchoCordovaArts.org.

If you’re an artist or a lover of art, I encourage you to check out the benefits of joining Rancho Cordova Arts, then Join Us! We have our 501(c)(3) status, so all donations and memberships are tax deductible. Together, we will turn our dream of making Rancho Cordova into an arts destination a reality! The best is yet to come!

Holiday Pop-Up Art Gallery at The MACC: 2-10 December, 2017

17 Artists will be showing and offering their art at a brand spanking new venue in Rancho Cordova this year - The MACC (Mills Station Arts & Culture Center - pronounced 'MACK') at the Mather Field Light Rail Station, Corner of Mather Field Road at Folsom Boulevard (10191 Mills Station Road, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670).  It's a jewelbox of a gallery on the first floor, and I hope, a catalyst for the visual arts in our community. 

This is our fourth year as a temporary gallery in various locations in Rancho Cordova.  We'll be open Saturday, December 2nd through Sunday, December 10th. Weekend hours are 11am to 7pm, and weekday hours are 4pm to 7pm.

And there's a backstory!  Back in the 1990's, I managed a federal program in California to sort of 'replace the divots' made by building the interstate highway system, the Transportation Enhancement Activities program.  $60 Million in federal funds were coming into California each year to invest in transportation-related historic preservation, build the bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, and eight other types of enhancements.  We funded 1,000 projects over the program's first eight years.

One of the projects we helped fund in Sacramento County before Rancho Cordova was a city was to move this big old two-story building (a wayside stop on the Lincoln Highway) to the light rail station.  Interestingly, it is heated and cooled by geothermal energy.  

In recent years, the Rancho Cordova Civic Light Orchestra and the Civic Band practiced upstairs, but until this year, the first floor had no floor, in fact it had trenches in the dirt, so remained unusable. 

What a transformation!  The first floor space is a beautiful, flexible 'vanilla box' that can be used as art gallery, meeting place, and who knows what else!  Eighteen of the 22 double-hung windows on the first floor are covered in removable wall panels, and each panel has a track for hanging art, just like the hanging system at City Hall.  Along with the panels, the MACC has portable wall panels to add free-standing hanging space.

The City's Grand Opening won't be until January 2018, but our RC Arts group will host the 'soft opening' of this wonderful new facility.  Please join us at one of our receptions during our gallery run: Saturday, December 2nd is our Grand Opening.  Sunday, December 3rd is our Artist Reception.  And Saturday, December 9th is our Second Saturday Reception.  We have special and unique gifts for the holidays!