OpenintgReception for Peralta Society of Artists & Makers Student Show
2026-07-09 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Werkshack, 481 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us for the opening reception!
The Student Show is a celebration of East Bay community college art classes. Some artists are showing work for the very first time and others are decades into their careers. All work is made by students currently enrolled at College of Alameda, Berkeley City College, Merritt College, and/or Laney College. Mediums include painting, printmaking, mixed media sculpture, ceramics, and more will be on view from July 3 – August 29.
Artists: Abby Hilling, Angela Kaewsuriya Roberts, Ava Gulassa, Cassia Artanegara, Christi Showers-Evans, Debbie Lin Grow, Diana Castillo, Donald Diggs, Emmet Bush, Gabriela Zambrano, Hilda Wang, kiki reitano, Liam Cunningham, Malena, Moss, Penny Flood, Ping Gong, Rania Siddique, Rena Tom, Ruth Charlotte Kneass, Sam Cadigan, Sarai Cobos, V. Hendrix Oppenhimer

"SECOND FRIDAY" OPENING -- July-August Multi-Artist Show
2026-07-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Art@Archer, 431 13th Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
We hope you can join us for the delayed opening (due to the holiday) of our current multi-artist show. Come by to see their work and talk to the artists. Each has his/her own style and medium to show you.
The artists are:
Vida Karamooz
MacArthur Nelson
Melva Spigner
Refreshments will be available.

Wham! Bam! Zine Fair
2026-07-11 11:00 - 15:00 | East Bay Creative Lab, 558 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Wham! Bam! Zine Fair is a market celebrating artists, creators, and comic illustrators. There will be 14 artists/creators vending at the event.
Come check out amazing zines, comics, and more at the Zine Fair. The Fair is a part of the “Wham! Bam! Queer!” art exhibition on view in the gallery. Please stop by the gallery located inside East Bay Creative Lab to view the queer comic/zine show.

Artist's Talk - Cate White: World Raw
2026-07-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Saturday, July 11th, starting at 4 pm
All are welcome! Please join us for Cate White’s Talk for World Raw, her solo show now on view now at Transmission Gallery.
Cate White brings fiercely powerful work to World Raw, consisting of paintings and sculptures selected from the last twelve years. Come hear more about the work from Cate in person!
“Over the years, the work has delivered images of confinement and escape: caves, cells, thresholds, thrashing, illuminated openings. But the way to liberation is never clear, and running beneath the work is an undercurrent of grief—for failed transformations, lost certainties, and the perpetual distance between desire and fulfillment. The sacred and ridiculous are merged. Enlightenment appears as a spray-painted glow.” ~ Cate White

Cate White: World Raw
2026-07-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Transmission Gallery, 770 West Grand Ave., Suite A, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
At Transmission Gallery through August 1st, 2026
(closed July 4th)
All are welcome, please join us for Cate White Artist’s Talk:
Saturday, July 11th, starting at 4 pm
Gallery hours: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 12 – 5 pm
Cate White brings fiercely powerful work to World Raw, consisting of paintings and sculptures selected from the last twelve years.
Cate White’s Statement:
These works inhabit a world where personal memory, dreams, political reality, religion, banal culture, and archetypal myth have not yet been separately categorized. Images translate from one story into another, remixing contexts until they lose their fixed meanings. Armageddon arrives as a vaguely sinister faceless shmoo. The devil wears flip-flops with socks instead of cloven hooves. Horror and hilarity trade masks. The miraculous and the absurd share the same language. The sacred, psychological, traumatic, mythic, domestic, and comic all stand on equal groundless ground.
Over the years, the work has delivered images of confinement and escape: caves, cells, thresholds, thrashing, illuminated openings. But the way to liberation is never clear, and running beneath the work is an undercurrent of grief—for failed transformations, lost certainties, and the perpetual distance between desire and fulfillment. The sacred and ridiculous are merged. Enlightenment appears as a spray-painted glow.
The process of painting is a tightrope act between intention and accident, structure and impulse. Both order and chaos can become prisons. I am searching for a third place: moments of bewilderment, play, revelation, or recognition. Rather than offering a coherent narrative, these works invoke a raw world, unfinished and alive, where meaning is in the making.

Fragments of Belonging: Artists’ Reception at GearBox Gallery
2026-07-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Gearbox Gallery, 770 West Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Join us Saturday, July 11th from 1 – 4pm for the celebration of Gearbox Gallery artist Dalit Fresco and guest artist Jan Blythe’s exhibition, Fragments of Belonging at GearBox Gallery.
GearBox Gallery is located in the Art Building at 770 West Grand Avenue in Oakland. There’s always plenty of free parking on Grand.

Exhibition Opening & Artists' Reception - Everything Must Go
2026-07-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Manna Gallery, 473 25th St., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Celebrate the official opening of Everything Must Go at Manna Gallery. Meet participating artists, connect with fellow art enthusiasts, and explore an exhibition that transforms the familiar language of clearance sales into a thoughtful meditation on change, memory, and new beginnings. Juried by Lisa Solomon, this dynamic group show brings together nearly forty Bay Area artists whose works invite reflection on the objects, experiences, and emotions that shape our lives. Refreshments will be served as we welcome the community to this exciting exhibition.
Everything Must Go Juried Group Show
Artists: Norman Aragones, Malachi Arthur, Jordan Benton, Laurie Caird, Madelyn Covey, Dana DeKalb, Eden Evans, Elizabeth Evans, Shelley Gardner, Elena Godina, Monica Guillory, Corrine Hatt, Rachel Katz, Kathryn Kenworth, Sarah Klein, Suzy Kopf, Faridah Laffan, Jenifer Lake, Patricia Liverman, Heath Massey, Colin McAllister, Erin McCluskey Wheeler, Manuel Rodriguez, John Rogers, Tammi Salas, John Sheridan, Maureen Shields, Renetta Sitoy, Jamie Smith, Hannah Claire Somerville, Jennifer Sturgill, Michelle Sweeney-Fillmore, Sarah Travis Buck, Yana Verba, Amy Vidra, Bill Ward, Martin Webb, Jia Wilson, and Alexander Yoshikawa
July 11 – August 8, 2026
Exhibition Opening & Artists’ Reception: Saturday, July 11, 2-4 pm
First Friday Oakland Art Walk: August 7, 5-8 pm
Closing Event / Exhibition Awards: Saturday, August 8, 3-5 pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 12-5 pm, First Fridays, 5-8 pm & by appt

The Sight of Sound ~ Opening Reception
2026-07-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Studios 11, 560 2nd St Oakland, California, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
Group show curated by Eric Murphy with Work by Pete Escovedo. Eric Murphy, George Bernard III, Cairo McCockran, and Monica Faith Walker. July 1-31, 2026 at Studios 11, 560 Second Street, Oakland, CA

Collaborative Art with Sonja Hinrichsen
2026-07-12 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-07-12 14:00 - 19:21 | Dictée Art & Exhibitions, 2117 11th Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States
Join us for a unique, large-scale community art experience led by acclaimed artist Sonja Hinrichsen. In this workshop, participants will work together to create a massive, intricate drawing that spans the gallery floor.
Workshop Schedule
Choose a session that fits your schedule:
Sunday, July 12
Morning Session: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Afternoon Session: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Urban Sketch Workshop with Cathy Raingarden
2026-07-18 11:00 - 13:00 | The Grand Gallery, 560 2nd Street, Oakland, CA, 94607, United States
We will meet at The Grand Gallery at 11am – Class is geared for all levels and is presented in easy bite sized lessons.
Arrive a few minutes earlier if you’d like to purchase a watercolor kit and pens. Wear comfortable clothing and walking shoes. Bring water and snacks. We will be sketching around Jack London. Sign up for class by clicking on the link below.
Class Fee: $55
Optional Materials Fee: $25
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Cyanotype Printing Workshop
2026-07-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Dictée Art & Exhibitions, 2117 11th Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94606, United States
Master the art of sun printing! Create two 8×10 Prussian us foliage and lace in this hands-on 2-hour workshop with Aidan Jung
Instructor: Aidan Jung
Description: Discover the magic of the historic cyanotype process—one of the earliest forms of photography—while creating your own striking Prussian blue prints. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to coat paper with light-sensitive chemicals, arrange organic and textured materials like foliage and lace, and expose their compositions using sunlight or UV light.
Through guided experimentation, you’ll explore the expressive possibilities of photograms and leave with two finished 8×10 prints. No prior experience is necessary—this workshop is designed for beginners and creatives of all backgrounds.
Materials: All materials are provided. Participants are also encouraged to bring small objects with interesting silhouettes—such as leaves, lace, or personal items—if they’d like to incorporate their own materials into the process.

Emily Shepard: In Flux | Closing Reception and Talk
2026-07-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Emily Shepard, “Conversant,” 2026, 32” x 71”, photo courtesy of the artist
Emily Shepard’s large-scale abstract paintings pull viewers into an immersive, otherworldly space — one of shifting depths, interacting layers, and arched forms that float like portals above restless water. Working on unstretched canvas, she builds richly textured surfaces through gestural mark-making, watery drips, and stitched canvas shapes. Indecipherable loops of script speak to rhythm, breath, and cycles.
Shepard’s work is mirrored by her practice as a year round swimmer in the San Francisco Bay: moving her body through cold water, attuned to tides and currents, releasing into the hypnotic push and pull. Her painting practice and bay swimming share the need for focused attention, awareness of sensation, and internal states. Each artwork, like each swim, is a search for wholeness, presence, and embodied learning.
Bio:
Emily Shepard is a Bay Area painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her MFA with distinction from the California College of the Arts where she received the Barclay Simpson Award. She has shown her work locally and nationally, including the Crocker–Kingsley Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Currently she has three pieces on exhibit in “Voices without Boundaries” at the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, CA. Shepard is a Kipaipai Fellow and member of the artist-run gallery, Mercury 20 in Oakland, CA. Her work is included in private and corporate collections. Shepard swims year round without a wetsuit in the San Francisco Bay. The practice of cold-water swimming focuses her senses, challenges her will, and informs her art.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 3 – 5 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, July 3, 5 – 9 pm

Pat O’Connor: Reclaimed | Closing Reception and Talk
2026-07-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Mercury 20 Gallery, 475 25th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Pat O’Connor, “Winter Sun and Shadow,” 2026, 48” x 36” x 2”, salvaged cardboard, acrylic paint, birch board
Pat O’Connor’s work has long explored the intersection of object, time, and narrative. Beginning with paper pulp castings over structures at a former World War II naval base, O’Connor developed a sustained interest in materials marked by history. In her exhibit, Reclaimed, she is drawn to surfaces shaped by wear, weather, and works with cardboard salvaged from the streets, recycling bins, and packaging. Through folding, layering, stitching, printing, and painting, she transforms these fragments and other seemingly incongruent materials into richly layered assemblages. Guided by shifts in patina and form, O’Connor builds surfaces dense with histories, lush harmonies, and active surfaces. Cardboard, humble and impermanent, originates from trees. O’Connor links the material back to the natural world. In some works, she introduces imagery of branches and tree forms, creating both calm and unsettling dialogues between the material’s fragile present and its living origin. In a culture shaped by disposability, O’Connor elevates overlooked materials, inviting viewers to sense the stories embedded in ordinary things as well as imagine ways the industrial and natural worlds might endure together.
Bio:
Pat O’Connor is an artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, assemblage, and site-responsive sculpture. Her work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Transmission Gallery in Oakland, the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, California, and O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley. Her pieces are held in public and private collections, including a public commission at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Pat received her BA in Painting and Drawing from UC Davis and pursued graduate study in textile arts at San Francisco State University. Honors include a San Francisco Foundation Grant, the Robert Rauschenberg-hosted Power of Art Award from the Lab School of Washington, D.C., and the Arts Educator of the Year Award from the San Francisco Unified School District. O’Connor has taught widely at notable institutions, including San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley Extension, and the de Young Museum.
Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday, 12 – 5 pm (and by appointment)
Artists’ Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 3 – 5 pm
﻿Oakland Art Murmur / First Friday: Friday, July 3, 5 – 9 pm
