The Arts Council of Sonoma County presents its first Northern California Small Works exhibit which runs from Friday, February 3rd through Friday, April 14th.

This is a juried exhibit of diminutive works, nothing larger than a foot (12") by Northern California artists. 106 works representing all media and materials, from 2-inch paintings to 10-inch monumental sculpture, were selected from more than 300 entries from all over Northern California.

Among the Sonoma County artists featured include: sculptor Monty Monty of Santa Rosa (Time Will Tell), Multi-media artist Nuala Creed of Petaluma (Enigma Shoes), Painter Robert Rice (The Beginning) of Sebastopol, painter Sarah Myers (Untitled) of Sonoma, photographer Cappy Pottle of Cotati (Lottery, CRACK, POWer), and painter Greg Murray of Healdsburg (Dream State, Daytime Dreaming). The exhibit juror is Chester Arnold of Sonoma, who is a painter and art instructor at the College of Marin. Educated in Munich, Germany, the College of Marin and the San Francisco Art Institute. Arnold has exhibited widely in the Bay Area and nationally.His work is represented in the permanent collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the di Rosa preserve in Napa and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.

Arnold conceived the memorial Never to Forget: Faces of the Fallen a traveling and growing collection of 7 by 5 inch portraits of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq created by college and high school students from news photos. 2,000 of these portraits are currently on exhibit at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Arnold is represented by the Catherine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, Coordinators of the Northern California Small Works exhibit are Leslie Zumwalt (Camp Meeker), Elisa Carozza (Santa Rosa) and Jane Baron (Santa Rosa), from the Arts Council of Sonoma County Exhibits Committee.

The ACSC Gallery is located at 529 Fifth Street in Santa Rosa, and is open Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or by appointment. Admission is free. All works will be available for purchase.

There will be an opening reception on Friday, February 3rd from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Juror Chester Arnold will discuss "Northern California Small Works", as part of the Council's A La Carte series, on Saturday, March 25 from 12 to 1 p.m. For more information, call (707) 579-2787 or visit the ACSC website at www.sonomaarts.com.

The Arts Council of Sonoma County is a federally designated non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the visual, performing and literary arts within Sonoma County since 1983. For a full list of those artists who are exhibiting please click HERE




Editors, please note: An electronic image of Robert Rice's The Beginning is available on the ACSC website at www.sononomaarts.com/smallworks.html. Click on the top graphic for a higher definition graphic.