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Walt Disney’s Trains

Walt Disney’s Trains

This family-friendly exhibition, organized with San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum, explores the influence that railroad trains had on Walt Disney‘s life and work. It also...

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California Dreamin’: Paintings by Melissa Chandon & Matt Rogers

California Dreamin’: Paintings by Melissa Chandon & Matt Rogers

Melissa Chandon and Matt Rogers’ joint exhibition at the Napa Valley Museum Yountville embodies the idyllic “California Dream” of freedom and vitality. Paintings of palm...

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Paintings by Marvin Humphrey

Paintings by Marvin Humphrey

St. Helena artist Marvin Humphrey brings his pun-filled trompe l’oeil paintings to the History Gallery. An Opening Celebration Saturday, September 29 at 5 pm is FREE for Members; $10...

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Surfboard Artist Tim Bessell

Surfboard Artist Tim Bessell

La Jolla-based contemporary California artist Timothy Bessell is known for the distinctive handmade surfboards he’s created throughout his career, having shaped more than 46,000 over the...

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Randy Strong- Glass Master

Randy Strong- Glass Master

Napa Valley Museum Yountville will present Randy Strong – Glass Master, a unique collection of Berkeley artist Randy Strong’s legendary 45-year career in the historic American...

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Lowell Herrero: Origins of an Original

Lowell Herrero: Origins of an Original

Iconic Napa Valley artist Lowell Herrero turned his passion for living into an enduring work of art. From his home in Calistoga, Herrero traveled to...

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50 Years of the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve

50 Years of the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve

Created in April 1968, the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve became America’s first agricultural preserve, and is one of the primary reasons why the Napa Valley is, and...

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“First Response” from Justin-Siena High School

“First Response” from Justin-Siena High School

A showcase of work by students for students; a framework for our youth to articulate their reaction to local fires, through their eyes. Art can...

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Nathan Oliveira: A Figure Apart

Nathan Oliveira: A Figure Apart

Nathan Oliveira was an American artist and prominent member of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative artists. Though he worked with a variety of...

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France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child

France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child

This World Premiere Exhibition showcases rarely seen black and white photographs taken by Paul Child in France between 1948 and 1954. Featuring Paul’s extraordinary photographs of...

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Unearthed: Ceramics Exhibition from Angwin’s NBC Pottery

Unearthed: Ceramics Exhibition from Angwin’s NBC Pottery

Angwin’s NBC Pottery, from husband and wife team Will and Nikki Callnan, features one-of-a-kind ceramics with an organic edge and rustic flair. This “Unearthed” NBC exhibit is...

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Don Coen: Migrant Series

Don Coen: Migrant Series

West Coast Premiere  The Museum presents this exhibition of Colorado artist Don Coen’s stunning large-scale portraits of migrant workers. Over two decades, the artist spent...

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The Smithsonian presents Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964

The Smithsonian presents Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964

Begun in 1942 as a temporary war measure to address labor needs in agriculture and the railroads, the bracero program eventually become the largest guest...

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Sound Maze by Paul Dresher

Sound Maze by Paul Dresher

Paul Dresher On the Sound Maze: “What would happen if….”  is a question I’ve been asking since I started inventing musical instruments in high school, many...

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Brought Forth From the Forest

Brought Forth From the Forest

Inspiration “The Woodworker’s Ballad” All that is made of ironHas lent to destruction and blood;But the things that are honoured of ZionAre most of them...

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iNSiGHT: the eye behind the lens

iNSiGHT: the eye behind the lens

The Photography of MJ Schaer   INSIGHT: the capacity to gain an intuitive understanding through acute observation, deduction and perception of a subject with an inner...

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Ebb and Flow

Ebb and Flow

DON AND LONNE CARR HISTORY GALLERY Historical photographs are woven into the landscape. Each photo is an artifact and a window into a personal narrative....

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Embracing Imperfection: Contemporary Expressions of Wabi Sabi

Embracing Imperfection: Contemporary Expressions of Wabi Sabi

Embracing Imperfection: Contemporary Expressions of Wabi Sabi is an exhibition that explores the practices of contemporary artists Adam Chapman, Jim Melchert, Leah Rosenberg, and Tokihiro Sato through...

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Symphony of E-motion

Symphony of E-motion

A visual journey into the mind of an artist, literally.   “When I cut an angle from a square the new shape begins to communicate...

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Iconic Labels: Anchor Brewing Illustrator James Stitt

Iconic Labels: Anchor Brewing Illustrator James Stitt

Anchor Brewing illustrator James Stitt has been hand-drawing labels for the San Francisco craft brewing company for 40 plus years. Every year Stitt creates a...

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