History of Santa Rosa Arts Center 2017-2025
Making Santa Rosa An Arts & Culture Destination
2025
2024
January
SRAC Members Exhibit
February – March Figures and Faces
March Small Works: Hearts Delight
March – April Small Works: The Human Condition
ODE TO THE EARTH: MUSIC AND POETRY
A concert for Earth Day Month in the SRAC backyard Saturday April 6
SRAC Earth Day Booth at Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square April 20
April 4 – May 26 Transformations (our annual recycled art/environment show)
May 2- June 30 Small Works: Collages
June 7 – July 28 Colors of the Rainbow
July 5 – August 28 Small Works: Artists’ Choices
August 22-27 Art For Life: An Auction Benefit for Face to Face
September 5 – October 26 Signs of the Times
October 5 – November 5 Small Works: Art and Vote
November – December 28 Seasons
November 29 – February 5, 2025 Small Works: Gifts
December – Winterblast
2023
January 3 – February 28 New Year, New Works
March 3 – April 2 Members Show 2023
April 7 – May 28 Transformations: Recycled Art
SRAC Earth Day Booth at Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square
June 2 – July 30 Tempo: Art Inspired by Music
August 4 – September 30 Multiples and Singular: Photography and Printmaking
October – November The Mask
November – December Humor
December – SRAC Members Exhibit
2022
January 7 – February 27 Imaginary Voyages
January 27 – April 27 SRAC Members Show
at the Person Senior Wing of the Finley Center, Santa Rosa
March 4 – April 30 Figures and Faces
May 6 – 26 Rising Artists:
Art by Santa Rosa High Schools Senior Students
June 3 – July 30 UpCycle: Reimagine and Recycle
August 5 – October 1 Turning Page: The Book as an Art Form
October 6 – 30 Art From the Other Side
November 4 -December 30 Pets and Wild Things
December 2 – 30 The Gift Show
Special Events
Benefit for the People of Ukraine March 19 (we raised $1500)
Celebrate Earth Day April 22 with students from the Luther Burbank School
Collage class by Catherine Cruz May 22
Summer Art Camp for Children June 27-30
Assemblage Demonstration by Simmon Factor July 28
Pi Jacobs in Concert Sept. 2
Halloween Benefit Concert with Joyride Oct. 2
Winterblast
Monthly and Special Events 2023-24
SOFA Arts District 1st Friday Open Studios and Gallery
Art Exchange 3rd Wednesday
Speakeasy: Music and Poetry 2nd Thursdays
Films Series: Do the Right Thing, Hilda af Klint, and Anselm
Book Launch for War Babies by William Haigwood
Winterblast
2021
January 2 – February 28 Revisioned: New Beginnings
Art created during the Covid pandemic. In the gallery and online
March 5-April 30 4th Annual Members Show
May 5 – June 26 Just Flowers
July 2 – August 28 Our Precious Planet
July 2 – 31 Faces: Portraits of Dignity (Respectful photos of homeless people in our community)
September 4 – October 30 We the People
October 1-31 Art by SRAC Advisory Committee
November 5 – December 31 The Gift
Special Events
June 28-July 1 and July 5-8 Summer Art Camp for Children
Art Explorers presents two sessionsAugust 21 Onye and the Messengers in Concert
July A special exhibit co-sponsored by the Sonoma State University 101 In the Neighborhood
October 2 Joyride in Concert
October 29 Day of the Dead: Art and Altars
November 6 Winterblast
2020
January 7 – February 27 The 19th Amendment
April 2 – 24 3rd Annual Members Show
During the Covid shutdown, we took the opportunity to build a new stage in the backyard of the gallery.
October 1 – November 3 Vote 2020!
2019
December 7, 2018-January 19, 2019 Small Works: A Big Show of Little Art
February 1-March 22 – Healing the Environment
March 18, 2019 Luz, An Evening of Flamenco
April 5-28 – 2nd Annual Members Show
May 3-24 – Santa Rosa High School Students Art Exhibit
May – High School Art Competition sponsored by Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-05)
June 7-July 26 – A Day in the Life: An Exhibition of Photography
June 14 – Oceans: Flamenco en Vivo performed by the Savannah Fuentes Ensemble
June 24-27 – Art Explorers Summer Art Camp for 5-13 year olds
August 1-September 27 – Crossing Borders: Immigration and Boundaries
Also: Painting, Drawing and Figure Drawing classes
Thursdays September 12, October 3, November 14, December 12 – Speakeasy: Poetry and Singer/Songwriters
October 6 – The Artists Shack Afternoon salon space
November 18 – Flamenco with the Savannah Fuentes ensemble
November 22 – The Farallons and Duo Giuliani concert
October 3-November 22 – The Other Me: Masks That Reveal
December 5 -January 31, 2020 Small Works
2018
January 5-February 4 – 4th Annual Art of the Figure
February 9-March 25 – Healing By Art: After the Fires (The first SRAC show)
April 6-May 20 – 1st Annual Members Show
May 11 – Music Benefit for SRAC featuring Joyride & New Skye Band
June 2 and 16 – Healing by Writing: After the Fires Free Workshops and Reading
June 1-July 27 – Healing by Art 2: Landscape and Memories
July 21 – Music Benefit for SRAC featuring Batacha
July – Highway 101 in the Neighborhood (in association with the Anthropology Dept of Sonoma State and the Museum of Sonoma County)
August 3-September 22 – The Controlled Accident: Intuitive Abstract Works
August 25 – Music Benefit for SRAC featuring Bear Bones Band
September 14 – The Farallons & Duo Giuliani in Concert
October 5- November 17 – Wonder and Whimsy: An Exhibit of Collage and Assemblage
2017
September – Chroma Gallery becomes Santa Rosa Arts Center, a non-profit organization under the fiscal stewardship of Inquiring Systems, Inc.
September 27-November 4 – Secret Identities: Masks and the Art of Concealment
September 29 – Visual Music and Early Abstract Films in association with the Center for Visual Music
December 1-31 – Small Works Show
