Calendar of
Events
Dan Murley Lecture: Fort Ross' Natural History
Fri May 18, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00 Members / $10.00 Non-Members Register Now (35 Available)
Dan Murley, columnist, former park ranger and archeologist for the California Department of Parks and Recreation will present the natural history of Sonoma County and the Fort Ross region. Dan Murley will highlight naturalists such as David Douglas, of the Douglas Fir, Edelbert Chamisso and Johann Escholtz, of the Escholtzia Californica, California Poppy, William Brewer, Albert Kellog and many more.
Lecture will be held in the Song Wong Bourbeau Room at the Sonoma County Museum.
Family Day!
Sat May 19, 2012 11:00am - 2:00pm
Activities, hands-on crafts, demonstrations, performances and more! Join us as we welcome the coming of spring in the SCM's sculpture garden. Russian tea will be served, paper flower making, felt pin flower making, and Sumi-e Japanese brush painting demonstration by Michael Hofmann.
Free admission for children 12 and under, and free for members of the museum. Regular admission applies for all others.
Summer Exhibitions Opening Reception
Sat Jun 9, 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Chester Arnold: Trees, Hugh Livingston’s California Oaks: Points of View Changing the Word California, and Santa Rosa’s Chinatown, are the Sonoma County Museum’s Summer exhibitions. Please join us for an evening of music, wine, and appetizers to celebrate the opening of these distinctly inspiring and engaging exhibits.
Admission: Museum Members are Free. $15 for the general public.
Breakaway Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Brush Painting with Michael Hofmann
Jun 12, 2012 - Jul 24, 2012 10:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $80.00 Members / $95.00 Non-Members Register Now (11 Available)
Sumi-e is an exciting medium to work in, for it encourages spontaneity. The flexibility of the bamboo brush, the fluidity of the sumi ink, and the sensitivity of the thin handmade paper enables a wonderful range of expression. Although most sumi-e is taught using a fairly formal and structured approach, students in Breakaway Sumi-e will be encouraged to work loosely from their own sketches or directly from life. Along with some guided instruction, there will be a variety of themes, both figurative and abstract, for individual exploration. Michael Hofmann grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, but spent most of his life in Kyoto, Japan as a painter and disciple to the sumi-e painter and Zen priest Jikihara Gyokusei.
Class meets six Tuesdays in June and July (June 12th and 19th & July 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th) and is held in the museum's Song Wong Bourbeau room. Class is open to all levels of experience. A short materials list will be emailed to students to purchase.
Martha McGettigan Lecture: Vallejo's Vision
Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00 Members / $10.00 Non-Members Register Now (40 Available)
Lecture at the Sonoma County Museum. Californian historian, Martha Ann Francisco Vallejo- McGettigan, is the great great granddaughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and Dona Francisco Carrillo Vallejo. Martha has been producing and presenting programs on early California history for over twenty years. She will be speaking about the Spanish and Russian American Company influences in California, how it all ties into the Presidio and the Russian interchange as well as share stories of her family, the Vallejo’s. Please join us as we learn more about this fascinating relationship of Spanish and Russians.
Lecture will be held in the Song Wong Bourbeau Room at the Sonoma County Museum
Celebrate Sonoma: Wine and Cheese with Imagery Winery
Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Cost: $10.00 Members / $15.00 Non-Members Register Now (40 Available)
Enjoy a special tasting of Sonoma County's finest wines along with a delicious sampling of regional cheeses. We are featuring wines from Imagery Winery in Glen Ellen and a selection of regional cheeses. "If you're after middle-of-the-road, rather forgettable wine, look elsewhere. Imagery is doing some pretty unconventional stuff and they're not apologizing for it." Advance reservations required. Tickets available online starting May 14.
Family Day!
Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:00am - 2:00pm
Activities, hands-on crafts, demonstrations, performances and more! Join us for performances of Chinese music and dance by the Redwood Empire Chinese Association of Santa Rosa. In conjunction with the SCM's Santa Rosa's Chinatown exhibition, kids can take part in lantern decorating and Chinese painting activities.
Free admission for children 12 and under, and free for members of the museum. Regular admission applies for all others.
Meet the Historian: Gaye LeBaron Lecture on Song Wong Bourbeau
Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00 Members / $10.00 Non-Members Register Now (39 Available)
In conjunction with Santa Rosa's Chinatown exhibition local columnist and historian Gaye LeBaron interviewed and recorded the video oral history of Song Wong Bourbeau more than a decade ago. Borbeau, a prominent Chinese community member in Santa Rosa’s Chinatown, is the vehicle through which the Sonoma County Museum is able to tell the story of a once thriving community, which disappeared over half a century ago. Gaye LeBaron, who remarked that the preservation of Song’s memories remains one of her most important accomplishments, the lecture will include LeBaron’s historical research on Chinatown as well as her personal memories of Bourbeau.
Lecture will be held in the Song Wong Bourbeau Room at the Sonoma County Museum.
Hugh Livingston Concert in the Sonoma County Museum's Main Gallery
Sun Jul 1, 2012 12:00pm - 2:30pm
As part of his exhibition at the Sonoma County Museum, California Oaks: Points of View Changing the Word California, Hugh Livingston will do a solo cello performance in the museum’s main gallery. Multimedia artist and composer Hugh Livingston presents a series of audio and video installations immersed in the patterns and sounds of California's oak habitats. Continuing his deconstruction of the Sonoma landscape, which began last year with his color analysis of the Russian River, Livingston examines the sounds of raindrops and wind on oak leaves, documents the environment with timelapse and aerial photography, and presents a "periodic table" of Sonoma sounds. Livingston creates public sound environments and performs exploratory cello music. Hugh graduated cum laude in music from Yale. He has an MFA in contemporary music from the California Institute of the Arts and a doctorate from UC San Diego.
Concert is free with admission to the museum.
Curator's Tour of Chester Arnold: Trees
Fri Jul 6, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $9.00 Members / $11.00 Non-Members Register Now (15 Available)
Receive an in-depth look at the artwork of contemporary artist Chester Arnold from Sonoma County Museum's Curator of Art, Jennifer Bethke.
Tour meets in the lobby of the Sonoma County Museum. Cost includes admission plus $4 for the tour. Tour is limited to 15 people.
Artist's Talk: Chester Arnold
Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00 Members / $10.00 Non-Members Register Now (40 Available)
Internationally renowned artist Chester Arnold regularly delves into the complexities of the human psyche and American culture. His work is in the collections of many institutions, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art. Join us to hear him speak about his newest exhibition at the Sonoma County Museum. The exhibit, Chester Arnold: Trees, presents an ongoing focus of Arnold’s work: trees, forest landscapes, and the interactions between humanity and these wild spaces. Come hear Arnold speak about his painterly meditations on the natural landscape.
Lecture will be held in the Song Wong Bourbeau Room at the Sonoma County Museum.
Curator Tour of Santa Rosa's Chinatown
Fri Aug 3, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $9.00 Members / $11.00 Non-Members Register Now (15 Available)
Receive an in-depth look at the artifacts and living history that comprise the exhibition, Santa Rosa’s Chinatown, from the Curator of History, Eric Stanley.
Tour meets in the lobby of the Sonoma County Museum. Cost includes admission plus $4 for the tour. Tour is limited to 15 people.
Zoya Gradov Lecture on Russian Orthodox Churches
Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Cost: $8.00 Members / $10.00 Non-Members Register Now (39 Available)
As part of the 200-year anniversary of the founding of Fort Ross, lecturer Zoya Gradov will bring together several historians to discuss the Russian Orthodox Church in California. Zoya Gradov was born in Russia, received her Ph.D. in the History department of the University of Warsaw. In San Francisco she taught history and English at Newcomer High School. She has been a member of the editorial committee of the “Russian Life” and has published articles regularly in the newspaper since 2005. In addition to her journalistic work, she works at the archives of the Museum of Russian Culture and researches the history of Russian immigration.
Opening Reception for Artistry in Wood
Sat Aug 25, 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Join us in celebrating the opening of the annual Artistry in Wood juried exhibition in conjunction with the Sonoma County Woodworkers Association.
Admission: Museum Members are Free. $15 for the general public.
Curator's Tour of Chester Arnold: Trees
Fri Sep 7, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $9.00 Members / $11.00 Non-Members Register Now (15 Available)
Receive an in-depth look at the artwork of contemporary artist Chester Arnold from Sonoma County Museum's Curator of Art, Jennifer Bethke.
Tour meets in the lobby of the Sonoma County Museum. Cost includes admission plus $4 for the tour. Tour is limited to 15 people.
