Minnesota Street Project was hailed as a savings grace to our art community in San Francisco when it was conceived and opened over ten years ago. Now, it has evolved into an established community of galleries in a transformed San Francisco neighborhood, the Dogpatch.

We will visit the galleries and a few of the artists’ studios who have made their new homes the ongoing source of creative expression.
In addition, as I will have just returned from a trip to Chicago, I will be pleased to share some image of my visit to the Obama Presidential Center that features over two dozen art commissions.

Our day in Sonoma will be a treat for all! It includes a visit to the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and then a rare opportunity to visit the home and studio of an artist who is living his dream life in a home of his own making… although the way it came about is a story unto itself.

We’re in luck with this scheduling of two exciting shows at the Berkeley Art Museum! The Cooper Wasserman Collection of art by female artists since the sixties has been donated to the museum and a large selection of greats is on view.

Also, Maren Hassinger’s retrospective just opened and we will see sculpture by this acclaimed artist who uses materials to mimic nature and articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Maren is also a dancer and you can see the movement inherent in her works.

Santa Rosa is known to tourists as the center of the art of winemaking. The wine industry’s focus on fine craftsmanship is also the defining aesthetic for fine art and craft. In our tour we will see how the woodworkers and fine artists of the region push their craft to the fullest extent possible and add their own unique innovative stamp.

“San Francisco’s Downtown is coming back!’ proclaims Mayor Daniel Lurie. Let’s visit for ourselves to see what’s happening downtown!

Join Us on an Art Tour to see the vitality that is building… starting with a new 3-story gallery space with street access that is filled with contemporary paintings by living artists. We’ll have lunch at a cafe, visit several other galleries and view the new storefronts that are bringing the Union Square area back to life!

First we will visit a brand new gallery that is showing an important selection of paintings and drawings by Elmer Bischoff. With artworks that range from 1947 to 1982, this tyoe of museum-quality exhibit is rarely shown in galleries. Bischoff’s work includes examples of figurative works from the fifties that he created as a peer of Richard Diebenkorn and David Park. It also includes the abstract paintings of his later years.

In assoication with this gallery, we will also visit the studio of Bay Area sculptor, Jerry Barrish. Barrish has been making art out of found plastics for decades. Recently he has been casting select pieces in bronze. We will receive rare access to his studio space and learn about his vision and his process.

Following a no-host lunch at a nearby cafe, we will visit a local storefront City Art collective of San Francisco artists.

Let the adventure happen!

Art in San Francisco’s Dogpatch: Silvia Poloto and Minnesota Street Project

with a tour of an artist’s studio whose art is inspired by vintage jigsaw puzzles and imagery, and a visit to the Bay Area’s newest Art Museum, The Floating art Museum.

The Berkeley Art Tour to Diane Abt’s Studio and the BAMPFA Art Exhibition of “Making Their Mark”

Tour the FOG ART Fair at the Fort Mason Pavillion, San Francisco

TRUE NORTH BIENNIAL EXHIBITION

Di Rosa Contemporary Art, Napa