ARTS & CULTURE
Local artists, trends, exhibits, and events
ÆRENA Gallery & Gardens
ÆRENA Gallery & Gardens founder Michael Polenske discovered his love of art as a young boy. Growing up in Washington D.C., he was a regular at the Smithsonian, where he would purchase from the museum shop postcards...
Artist Ivan McLean
Sculptor Ivan McLean never thought he would become an accomplished artist. Surprising for a kid with a Swedish photographer mother and a Danish adventurer/contractor dad, but as a child, he did not think he had the skill....
E & M Presents
When Evy and Morrie Warshawski started E & M Presents in 2015, their goal was to fill an important gap in the cultural landscape of Napa Valley – presenting affordable, highly entertaining performing arts geared to...
French-Born Artist Isabelle Maynard
Isabelle Maynard’s art interest originated during her youth while living in the French countryside. Within her small village, she was constantly aware of nature, and as a young child with artistic talent, she started...
Napa Valley Artist Beverly Wilson
Shortly after graduating from UCLA with a fine arts degree in 1972, Beverly Wilson traveled to Europe and became enamored with the beauty of the land and the slow-moving pace of rural life. “My plan was to spend three...
Art & Clarity presents The Art of Seeing A Photographic Excursion
Imagine walking through the oak savannas, watching a majestic waterfowl feed and skim across a lake, or gazing out over vineyard landscapes with the rolling hills and mountains of Napa in the background. Adventures...
Art Association Napa Valley
Art Association Napa Valley (AANV) has supported Napa Valley arts and culture for over 70 years with a small group of adamant supporters and artists, ensuring that the private, non-profit arts organization provides funding,...
World-Renowned Artist Layla Fanucci
Layla Fanucci did not start painting until age 40. After a failed attempt to find suitable artwork for her home, the St. Helena resident took brush to canvas to create her own 6’ x 5’ addition to her bare walls. Friends and...
Napa Valley’s Vincent Thomas Connors
While most people spent the pandemic playing games to pass the time, Napa artist Vincent Thomas Connors invented one. Named TerraBall, the game is a unique cross between pool, shuffleboard, and golf and is a sort of silver...
NBC Pottery
It all started with an email from the Restaurant at Meadowood, requesting to look at some prototypes from NBC Pottery, run by the husband-and-wife team of Nikki and Will Callnan in Napa Valley’s Angwin. That email from the...
Meet Jermaine Dante Burse
“I was the typical kid, up every Saturday morning and sitting in front of the TV with a big bowl of cereal from 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM. But while other kids watched cartoons for the jokes, I was mesmerized by the animation,”...
Napa’s di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
Almost thirty years ago, Rene di Rosa envisioned Mark di Suvero's thirty-foot tall sculpture “For Veronica” taking center stage at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. He planned to place it on a Carneros hillside,...
Seeing Napa Valley Through the Artist’s Eye
Tim Howe is an artist, and his muse is Napa Valley: its landscapes, light, shadows, hues, trees, hills, and rolling vineyards. For those who drink in the outstanding beauty of Northern California’s premier wine region on a...
Di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art
It’s been a year of nimble pivots for every- one. Yet one thing is certain at Napa’s di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art — “Art and Outdoors” is one of the non-profit museum’s foundational pillars and has...
Napa Valley Art Scene
For all that it has to offer the wine enthusiast, the Napa Valley is no slouch in the art department either. Maybe it is because wine and art, both symbolic of la dolce vita, seemingly go hand in hand. Regardless, the...
Quinn Saine: Chasing Sunsets
Few professional photographers begin their career in photography; like many creative callings, it is often a passion project that turns into an occupation. That is what happened with Napa Valley-based photographer...
Penelope Moore Rossignoli
Penelope studies the wine in her glass as she swirls it, breathes in its aromas, and thoughtfully takes a sip. A visual storyteller, Penelope depicts her sensory impression of a wine’s essence with “Palette of the Palate,”...
Paper Napan Walkabouts
When Kim McGinness relocated to Napa due to her husband’s work, she immediately fell in love with the area’s Mediterranean climate, ideal as a year-round destination for outdoor activities as well as for producing its...
April Martin Designs
Making Women Feel Beautiful April Martin is inspired by…. everything. After a career in both tech and retail merchandising for Ralph Lauren, the proprietor of April Martin Designs and Earthyluxe jewelry found her true...
Jessel Miller
Jessel Miller is having the time of her life. She has spent decades at the heart and soul of Napa Valley’s art world, owning and operating the beloved Jessel Gallery on Atlas Peak Road since 1984. Jessel originally...
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