Fort Bragg: First Friday gallery art openings
When visiting galleries, please observe the current mandated public health precautions.
ART EXPLORERS » An art studio and gallery serving adult artists with disabilities and brain injuries. Art Explorers Gallery is located at 333 N. Franklin Street in Fort Bragg; they are open on TuesdaysSundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Find out more about the Art Explorers studio at artexplorers.org.
EDGEWATER GALLERY » Please join us for the opening of Happy L.A. Hyder’s show on First Friday which will continue through the month of October. Hyder is presenting color film and digital prints from her 52-year career of, as she often writes, “using my camera as my tool and viewing my negative as my canvas.”
“November 2009 is when I first used a very small digital camera. After 40 years working in film with the Hasselblad, a medium format camera that weighs around 7 lbs, it was a freeing experience,” she says.
Hyder’s featured work comes from that first experience through recent botanical prints on watercolor paper. “A gift of digital work is the ability to print an image that piqued my interest without setting up a darkroom’s trays and chemicals. It was exciting and I have more images than I can exhibit,” she adds. In celebration of these, she will have many single edition local, national and international prints available.
If your interest is piqued and you care to talk with Happy about her work, please come by on First Friday, October 1, 5-8, or on one of her gallery-sitting days, 115: Tuesdays, October 12 & 26; Sundays, October 3, 10, & 31.
Edgewater Gallery has been home to dozens of great artists since its founding in 2003. Now open seven days a week, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., they are located at 356 N. Main St., Fort Bragg. Admission is free. Masks are required for everyone. Visit their website at edgewater-gallery.com.
THE MENDOCINO COAST
PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY » The Mendocino Coast Photography Gallery is a cooperative partnership of five Mendocino Coast photographers with many years of professional experience in wildlife, landscape, and fine art photography. The photographers are Ron LeValley, Ken Van Der Wende, Scott Chieffo, John Birchard, and Jonathan Pazer. The gallery, founded in December 2006 as the Mendocino Coast Photographer Guild and Gallery (MCPGG), has been in continuous operation since then. The Mendocino
Coast Photography Gallery is located at 357 N. Franklin St., Fort Bragg. Hours are Fridays through Mondays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. You may also visit them at www.mcpgg. com.
NORTHCOAST ARTISTS GALLERY » Northcoast Artists Gallery is pleased to present its October show from member artist Satoko Barash. She is drawn to functional work because of its intimacy with the user. She likes the idea that her work is enriching somebody’s everyday rituals like eating, drinking, serving, and entertaining. The technical challenges that come with creating utilitarian pieces enrich her practice as a potter.
The show will continue through November 1st. Please join Satoko Barash and the other member artists at the First Friday reception on October 1st. 3, 5 to 8 p.m.
Northcoast Artists Gallery
is open Wednesdays through Mondays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery is located at 362 N. Main St., Fort Bragg. For more information, call 707-9648266 or visit northcoastartists.org.
PACIFIC TEXTILE ARTS »
Although Pacific Textile Arts Gallery continues virtually, they are starting to open with caution, currently, Wednesdays, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, and Sundays, from noon to 2 p.m. All profits go to support Pacific Textile Arts, an educational nonprofit existing to support, share and celebrate the fiber arts. While on the website, check out the Members’ Gallery where local fiber artists offer their creations for sale online, from handknit hats and handwoven scarves to felted tea cozies and jewelry. For more information, visit their website at pacifictextilearts.org.