Rest your ears and treat your eyes to local art

While you’re in the region for BottleRock Napa Valley, take some time away from the festival to see art.

Here are five excursions you can take to experience visual art in Wine Country, from museums to art walks and even a vineyard. Give your ears a rest and your eyes a treat.

Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art is a truly indoor-outdoor California experience. Spanning a 217-acre nature preserve, complete with a lake, the art at di Rosa extends across multiple sculpture gardens and galleries presenting the work of Bay Area artists including Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Viola Frey, David Ireland, Jim Melchert and William T. Wiley.

Among the temporary exhibitions currently on view are Petaluma photographer and sculptor Michael Garlington’s site-specific installation “Totem di Rosa,” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” featuring the work of photographers like Ruth Bernhard, Judy Dater, Dana Kopol Bonick, Nina Glaser and Teresa Chen reclaiming the female gaze.

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Sunday. $17-$20. 5200 Sonoma Highway,

Napa. 707-226-5991. www. dirosaart.org

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

This two decade-old museum is Sonoma’s only modern and contemporary art institution, and is conveniently located in walkable downtown Sonoma.

Currently on view are “The New Californians: Photographs by Judy Dater,” celebrating the acclaimed feminist photographer, and “Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930-1950,” an exhibition

featuring more than 30 works from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that includes work by artists such as Louise Nevelson, Dorothy Dehner, Anne Ryan and Blanche Lazzell.

11 a.m.- 5 p.m. WednesdaySunday. $7-$15. 551 Broadway, Sonoma. 707-939-7862. https:// svma.org

Napa Valley Museum

Nestled in picturesque

Yountville, the Napa Valley Museum presents both rotating exhibitions by Northern California artists as well as regional history exhibitions featuring objects from the museum’s permanent collection.

Shows now on view include “The Great California Road Trip 1962” in the museum’s history gallery, “Tiki Dreams: From Far-Away Fantasy to Pop-Culture Phenomenon” in the main gallery and the regional artist celebration “Napa Valley Museum Mini Masterpieces” in the spotlight gallery, where all the works are for sale.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. WednesdaySunday. $5-$15. 55 Presidents Circle, Yountville. 707-944-0500. https://napavalleymuseum.org

Napa Art Walk

The Napa Art Walk is a program sponsored by the city of Napa where for a two-year period works of different works are displayed downtown for public enjoyment. The seventh iteration of the event, titled “Play,” opened in August 2021 and is in its final months.

The 10 sculptures installed throughout the city range from kinetic art like Reven Swanson’s “Dancing Aspens” to works utilizing reflected light like Catherine Daley’s “Confluence #102” and Tyson Ayers’ public instrument “Sound Harp #1.”

The Art Walk’s website includes an audio tour (also available on the OtoCast App) where you can listen to the artists explain their work in their own words. The sculptures will be made available for purchase after their public exhibition, with 10% of the proceeds benefiting the Art Walk program.

Free. Downtown Napa, first public work at intersection of First and School streets. Map and link to audio tour at www.napaartwalk.org.

Donum Estate

In addition to its wine, the Donum Estate is known for its outdoor art collection, which features more than 50 monumental works of art — more than a third of them commissioned for the vineyard.

Among the works are Thomas J. Price’s “Reaching Out”, Ai Weiwei’s whimsical “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” and the stained glass structure “Vertical Panorama Pavilion” by Studio Other Spaces, which consists of works by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann.

The estate offers 90 minute walking tours of the art in addition to a variety of tasting packages.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Sunday. Open for in-person tastings by appointment, $75-$150. 90-minute art tour, $95. 24500 Ramal Road, Sonoma. 707-732-2200. http:// thedonumestate.com

James Tensuan/Special to The Chronicle Robert Arneson’s “Brick Portrait” is on display at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa in 2017. The di Rosa is an art center featuring works from Northern California artists.

Donum Estate The colorful Donum Estate pavilion. The winery is also known for its outdoor art collection.