October 6, 2023

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Your Guide to the Castro Art Walk TODAY, October 6, 5-8 pm The October edition of the Castro Art Walk is today with 18 great art exhibits sprinkled all across the amazing Castro Arts District in San Francisco.  You don’t want to miss it! The Castro Art Walk is 5 - 8, and some businesses stay even later. Paper maps can be picked up in any of the participating stores. Feel free to tag us in any social media posts @castroartwalk and use hashtags #CAW #CastroArtWalk. Castro Art Walk www.castroartwalk.com Featured Art Exhibits: #2 Schlomer Haus Gallery (2128 Market St): Schlomer Haus Gallery is hosting an opening reception for Ryan Robichaux's solo debut Growing Pains. Exploring masculinity through “acceptable interactions” - a football tackle, rough housing or a bro hug - Robichaux weaves his personal experience as a trans man growing up in Texas to expose nuanced tenderness and platonic intimacy in the male experience. Growing Pains by Ryan Robichaux opens Friday, October 6th from 5-8PM. The artist will be in attendance. #3 The Academy (2166 Market St):  First Fridays: "Kaleidoscope" Premiere, Castro Art Walk & Member Celebration. A monthly party where we celebrate our club and the special place it has become over the last 6+ years. All Members are invited to bring friends and toast to our community! We are also on the Castro Art Walk, with the premiere of "Kaleidoscope" our latest art exhibition curated by Baylee Van. #4 Harvey Milk Photo Center (50 Scott St):  UNCANNY BEAUTY. An exhibition of contemporary fine art photography by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective.   “These photographs offer a fresh and captivating  vision of life’s strange, eerie and unique beauty.” Emmanuelle Namont, Curator #5 Harvey Milk Center for the Arts (50 Scott St):  Randall Whitehead: Kings, Queens & In-Betweens #6 Flore Dispensary (258 Noe St):  will feature the art of Oscar Zaora Graves and his fabulous Astrologiclal collage pieces #7 Art House SF (2324 Market St): "Unexplained and Invisible", a new art exhibit by the two Icelandic abstract artists: Kjartan Guðbrandsson and Iris Kristmunds Iceland is one of the youngest landmasses on the planet, a 25 million-year-old teenager. And maybe that’s why it’s full of exuberant energy of numerous waterfalls, lush green “50 shades of green” moss fields, incredible Moon-like landscapes with black sand beaches, red hot volcanoes ready to erupt at any moment, mysterious caves with icicle-shaped stalactites, deep blue crystalline glaciers, hot bubbly springs, and majestic Aurora Borealis in the arctic sky. Kjartan’s and Iris’ work is reflective of the amazing world around them. #8 2358 MRKT (2358 Market St): 'The Dreadful, Ghastly, Monstrous, & Abominable Art Show'.  Opens on Friday, October 6th. #10 Blush! Wine Bar (476 Castro St):  Black and white photography by Gabor Beszeda. #12 Fabulosa Books (489 Castro St):  Jason Mecier aka Your Pillow Guy #14 Welcome Castro (525 Castro St):   Artist: Johnny Botts Johnny Botts is an award-winning artist, specializing in colorful pop art, often featuring robots. He lives and works in San Francisco with his husband of many years.In Silicon Valley, Johnny designed equipment for outer space in the early days of CAD, and left that behind in 2013 to create art full time. Johnny was featured in San Francisco's de Young Museum exhibition, "The de Young Open," in 2020, has painted murals at the Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, and at Facebook’s CA headquarters, and had his artwork published in the Arts and Entertainment section of the New York Times. #16 Queer Arts Featured (575 Castro St):  Wet Paint: A Work in Progress is our current show, a living interactive art experiment that anyone can create in through the prompt of "Honor the past, celebrate the present, envision the future." We will have everything folks need to be an artist in the show, and addition and collaboration with existing art in the space is encouraged! #17 Ruby’s Clay Studio and Gallery (552A Noe St): One of the tastiest fundraisers in SF is back after a four-year-long hiatus! Our goal is to raise $10,000 from Bowlicious donation-sales to support our financial aid program for our studio artists.  We hope to have over 400 bowls and 100 mugs donated in the gallery for purchase.  Bowlicious will kick off with Float Friday – root beer and stout beer vanilla ice cream floats for everyone who purchases either a bowl or mug in the gallery (while supplies last). #18 MAG Galleries (3931 18th St):  a performance by MONIQUE JENKINSON a.k.a. FAUXNIQUE with performance photographs by Brandon Joseph Baker The performance, WHAT’S LEFT will look at what remains hidden once the presented, public persona is literally and metaphorically removed. Jenkinson’s stage will be the walls left scarred after an exhibition is dismantled revealing mistakes in calculations, changes of thought, and the necessary support structures to present the art.  One Performance: 6:30 - 8:00 only … and more! See all of you tonight! Proudly sponsored by the Castro Merchants Association. Copyright (C) *|CURRENT_YEAR|* *|LIST:COMPANY|*. All rights reserved. *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|**|LIST:DESCRIPTION|**|END:IF|* Our mailing address is: *|IFNOT:ARCHIVE_PAGE|**|HTML:LIST_ADDRESS_HTML|**|END:IF|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe