Dublin Arts Collective

Dublin Arts Collective The Dublin Arts Collective is a collaborative non-profit organization supporting and promoting artistic and creative activity and awareness raising

09/03/2026

Call For Art 🖼️ for Banned Books Week/Anti-Censorship (Oct 4-10) and United Against Hate Week (Oct 18-24).

DAC is partnering with Dublin Library 📚 again this year for UAH and Banned Books 📕 Week. This exhibition, is a community event dedicated to promoting unity, inclusion, and understanding through art.

Steps to participate:
1. Collect Your Canvas 🖼️
2. Create your Artwork for the theme 🖼️
3. Deliver to Dublin Library 📚 on Oct 1st by 10am
4. Collect art 🖼️ on Oct 31st at 10am

Artwork 🖼️ will remain on display at the library for the Month of October 2026.

🖼️ Eligibility:
✅Open to artists of all ages and backgrounds
✅All mediums accepted on provided canvases
✅Artwork must be original and suitable for public display
🫟Submission Guidelines:
No entry fee
❇️All retrieved canvases must be a returned, completed work
❇️ Each artwork should include:
Artist’s name
Title of the work
Brief statement (2-3 sentences) about how the piece relates to the theme

Art 🖼️ Matters. Let’s Go Create.

Artwork 🖼️ featured by .makepeace




09/02/2026

High Life Art 🖼️ Show Submission Review has been completed. Successful artists will be notified by the Acceptance Deadline Sept 5 🤩 Stay tuned ❣️

08/27/2026

🔴 DOT. CREATE. CONNECT. 🟡
This September 15 — International Dot Day — we’re challenging artists to start with one simple thing: a dot.

🌎 International Dot Day celebrates creativity, courage and collaboration, encouraging people everywhere to make their mark and see where it takes them. 📖 Educator’s Handbook available 📕 when signing up on their website

Inspired by the extraordinary creative legacy of Yayoi Kusama, explore repetition, pattern, color, infinity and imagination—and see where your dots take you. 🔵🟢🟣


🎨 THE DOT CHALLENGE�Create an original artwork inspired by DOTS — any medium, any style, any size.
Make one dot. Make a thousand.�Connect them. Repeat them. Reinvent them.
📅 September 15�📸 Create it. Share it. Tag us.
🔴

One dot can be the beginning of something extraordinary. Let’s Go Create!

International Dot Day

08/27/2026

Throwback Thursday Shoutout to the Livermore Art Association Artists who participated in Art 🖼️ in the Park ❣️Great chatting to Karen Scott - who creates unique jewelry and wearable art by upcycling and repurposing beads, chains, and charms rescued from old jewelry boxes.

Bumped into mom and daughter duo May and Katherine Giang ❤️❤️ and also had good conversations with artists Anuja and Justine (met her photographer friend Betty too) and found out that Livermore has a Camera 📸 Club 🤩

Saw Nutan but she was very busy with customers 🤩 Her show is up in the Alcosta Senior Community Center in San Ramon so go check it out!

Follow them:
Karen Scott
May Yin Giangagarwal06 Anuja Agarwalpigments Nutan Singh
Justine Wilson
LAA

08/27/2026

A warm welcome May Yin Giang to the DAC Board! May is an artist and owner of Katoli Designs, a digital and fine art business.

For over 30 years, she has freelanced and created for many companies on the West Coast, working on a variety of creative projects.

May graduated from the University of Southern California in Cinema-Television Production with an emphasis in film and sound editing.

Her work has spanned post production studios to digital media newsrooms and municipal communications departments to an art director and digital media artist for a local cartoonist.

May’s fine art career includes using watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, oil, acrylic, charcoal, pen and pencil. She loves details and is always learning new mediums.

We are delighted to have you on board May!

08/22/2026

Night Market painting was superfly 🤩❤️ 🎨 So busy and so creative 🌈🤩❣️ Thanks to Sara for the lovely watercolor Art 🖼️ Demo and to Gina for being the emergency 🆘 response coordinator for paint 🎨 spills 🧑🏼‍🎨 🫟 ❣️ Stimulating conversations and great connections - see you again on Sept 25 from 5-9pm 🤩🧑🏼‍🎨❣️ ☘️

Shoutout to the Alameda County Arts Commission for the fabulous watercolor 💦 worksheets 🎨 ❣️ Alameda County Arts Commission

Great having our High Life Exhibition Sponsors as neighbors 🤩💙

Lovely having the .lazuliartclub volunteers , Aaron, Rosie and Linda join us to talk about the High Life Exhibition too 💕🤩

08/21/2026

We were vibing yesterday in San Ramon at 3rd Thursday Arts & Eats 🤩 😍🥳 Thanks to everyone who came out to support this first Brush it Forward collaboration between VASS and DAC 🤩🤩and to the artists who participated 🙌🏼💞 Buying, swapping and donating art supplies led to some wonderful creative conversations and inspired many new projects❣️❣️ 🖼️ 🎨
sanramon


Thank you 😊 💞 Participating Artists:
louise_art mengsart jariart

thomas13

08/20/2026

Visit the Artists 🤩 this 3rd Thursday in San Ramon 💕 Join us for Arts 🖼️ and Eats 🥘 ❣️and Brush It Forward 🎨

Participating are:
📌 Rhonda ,
📌 Michelle .louise_art
📌 Michelle .mengsart
📌 Sawsan .jariart
📌 Ranjini
📌 Vanessa
📌 Sara

Come on over and say hello 👋

08/17/2026

Celebrating National Nonprofit Day with a shoutout to our partner visual arts nonprofits 🤩🖼️🫟🎉🎊🎉

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sanramon



Thank you too all the volunteers and supporters who keep us going!

Address

7038 Village Parkway
Dublin, CA
94568

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+19258294777

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