Art Works Downtown

Art Works Downtown Art Works Downtown is Marin's leading non-profit art center. **Check our EVENTS page Our 40,000 s.f.

building houses 32 art studios, 2 artist residencies, 4 art galleries, a jewelers guild, frame shop, a ceramic center, and 17 affordable housing apartments. We offer rotating exhibits, an artist membership program, monthly events, classes for all ages and other opportunities for people to engage with the arts.

🎨 SAVE THE DATE | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5Make an afternoon of it in Downtown San Rafael with two art events, just a few do...
09/01/2026

🎨 SAVE THE DATE | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
Make an afternoon of it in Downtown San Rafael with two art events, just a few doors apart!

✨ 2:30PM | ARTIST TALK — Dreaming Through the Chaos
📍 Art Works Downtown | Founders Gallery

Join artist Lucie Dupuis for an engaging Artist Talk exploring the inspiration, materials, and creative process behind Dreaming Through the Chaos: Storytelling for Uncertain Times, her Max Thelen Artist Residency exhibition.

Discover how dreams, storytelling, and experimentation inform Dupuis’ surreal, bird-like sculptures created from porcelain, stained glass, metal, and found objects.

Dreaming Through the Chaos: Storytelling for Uncertain Times
Lucie Dupuis | Max Thelen Artist Residency Exhibition
On view through September 25

✨ 3–5PM | SEPTEMBER SALON — ARTISTS RECEPTION
📍 Jack Fischer Gallery at Kim Eagles Smith Gallery
1327 Fourth Street | San Rafael

After the Artist Talk, continue your afternoon just a few doors away at the reception for September Salon.

Explore works by Marc D’Estout, Kirstine Reiner Hansen, Chris Whitefield, Nina Katz, Natalya Burd, Jonathan Parker, David Fought, Yana Goldfine, John Patrick McKenzie, Robert Szot, Jenny Bloomfield, Larissa Nowicki, Elana Cooper, and others.

September Salon
September 5–30, 2026

✨ Two art events. One afternoon. Come meet the artists, discover new work, and experience more art in Downtown San Rafael!




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ARTWORK HIGHLIGHT | (3 words): an art game of telephoneSelf by Lana Capron2026 | paper mâché, tissue paper & colored pen...
09/01/2026

ARTWORK HIGHLIGHT | (3 words): an art game of telephone
Self by Lana Capron
2026 | paper mâché, tissue paper & colored pencil | 14” × 13” × 3”

(3 words): Reflection, Augmentation, Serenity

Lana Capron is an emerging multidisciplinary artist from Fairfax working across painting, drawing, and mixed-media installation. With a background in visual arts and psychology from Sarah Lawrence College and drawing studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Capron uses material experimentation to explore memory and personal identity.

See Self as part of (3 words): an art game of telephone, an evolving exhibition where three words connect one artist to the next, inspiring a creative chain of interpretation throughout Gallery 1337.

📍 Gallery 1337 at Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael
🗓 On view through September 26, 2026

Follow the creative thread and see where three words can lead.



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🎨 Step Inside the Studios at Art Works Downtown!There’s something special about seeing where art comes to life. ✨ Visit ...
08/29/2026

🎨 Step Inside the Studios at Art Works Downtown!

There’s something special about seeing where art comes to life. ✨ Visit the Studio Artists at Art Works Downtown and explore two floors of working artist studios filled with paintings, sculpture, mixed media, jewelry, photography, and more.

Meet local artists, discover what they’re working on, hear the stories behind their art, and maybe find a piece that speaks to you. 💛

Come wander, connect, and be inspired by the creativity happening right here in downtown San Rafael.

📍 Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael

🎨 Explore. Meet the artists. Support local art.



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(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork HighlightYou are Here by Eleanor Scholz O’ LearyJune 10 2026, linocut on m...
08/27/2026

(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork Highlight

You are Here by Eleanor Scholz O’ Leary
June 10 2026, linocut on mulberry paper, 37” x 25”

(3 words): Portal, Alchemy, Protector

Gallery 1337 at Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael
On view through September 26, 2026

Follow the creative thread and see where three words can lead.



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(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork HighlightCoagula by Whitney Vangrin2026, bioplastic, latex tubing, unglaze...
08/26/2026

(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork Highlight

Coagula by Whitney Vangrin
2026, bioplastic, latex tubing, unglazed ceramic, blown glass, banded chert, 11” × 30” x 8”

(3 words): Transient, Coagulation, Visceral

Whitney Vangrin is an interdisciplinary artist whose sculptures, videos, and performances explore the intersections of anatomy, fermentation, and ritual. Her work investigates rupture, vulnerability, and the cycles of decay, preservation, and renewal.

Gallery 1337 at Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael
On view through September 26, 2026

Follow the creative thread and see where three words can lead.



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🎨 AWD Artist Studio Spotlight: Susan McCormick | Studio 7Step inside the creative world of Susan McCormick, an oil paint...
08/25/2026

🎨 AWD Artist Studio Spotlight: Susan McCormick | Studio 7

Step inside the creative world of Susan McCormick, an oil painter whose atmospheric abstract landscapes explore color, mood, memory, and place.

Susan’s recent work grew from a series of tiny 4" × 5" oil paintings on birch panel. Working intuitively with a palette knife, she discovered a meditative rhythm—allowing familiar landscapes, memories, and emotions to emerge through layers of color and movement.

Those small studies now serve as inspiration for her larger paintings, where sweeping gestures of the palette knife invite viewers into landscapes that feel both familiar and imagined.

✨ Visit Studio 7 at Art Works Downtown and discover Susan’s work in person.

📍 Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael



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Marin Resident Moves Renowned Gallery to San Rafael – Marin Independent JournalMarin resident Kim Eagles-Smith recently ...
08/24/2026

Marin Resident Moves Renowned Gallery to San Rafael – Marin Independent Journal

Marin resident Kim Eagles-Smith recently moved his gallery to San Rafael.

As unlike as they can be, two huge paintings lure visitors into Kim Eagles-Smith Gallery in San Rafael. One is a spectacular, whimsical, bright blue abstract by Gustavo Ramos Rivera. The other is a realistic oil-on-canvas titled "Point Reyes Barns #5" by Marin artist and IJ outdoor columnist Jeffrey Long. Storefront window attractions include rotund sculptures of cats by legendary sculptor Beniamino Bufano.

It all makes for a fascinating introduction to Kim Eagles-Smith's new gallery adjacent to Art Works Downtown in San Rafael. Earlier this year, the ebullient owner decamped from Mill Valley and relocated to San Rafael, following former Mill Valley gallerist Donna Seager. The move has contributed to the central Marin city's growth as an art destination, home to the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Falkirk Cultural Center, the Museum of International Propaganda and other galleries. San Rafael's more affordable commercial real estate, numerous eateries and coffee shops and ease of parking have all contributed to the exodus from Mill Valley.

Continue reading the Marin IJ article
https://www.marinij.com/2026/08/01/marin-resident-moves-renowned-gallery-to-san-rafael/



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(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork HighlightGeometry of Daydreams, by Rebecca Szeto2026, salvaged cardboard, ...
08/23/2026

(3 words): an art game of telephone — Artwork Highlight

Geometry of Daydreams, by Rebecca Szeto
2026, salvaged cardboard, paint, wood scrap, 9” x 9” x 6”

(3 words): Ephemeral, Natural, Transformative

Rebecca Szeto is a multidisciplinary artist and native San Franciscan. Geometry of Daydreams is a curated intervention on found paper collected during walks after the rain and is part of the series Rainy Day Fund. The work draws attention to the strange shapes and textures of experience, marked by the elements and memory. It reflects on littering, loitering, and the suspended animation between material death and the restorative spirit of creativity. In three words: This is hope.

Gallery 1337 at Art Works Downtown
1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael
On view through September 26, 2026

Follow the creative thread and see where three words can lead.



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Today come follow the creative thread!✨ ART TALK — (3 words): an art game of telephone Saturday, August 22, 1pm at Art W...
08/22/2026

Today come follow the creative thread!✨ ART TALK — (3 words): an art game of telephone Saturday, August 22, 1pm at Art Works Downtown, Gallery 1337 in San Rafael.

Join curator Naomi Alessandra Schultz and presenting artists Lauren Bartone, Holly Bobisuthi, Phil McGaughy, Ella Rose Ledyard, Julia Ledyard, and Carroll Swenson-Roberts for an engaging Art Talk exploring (3 words): an art game of telephone and discover how three simple words connect artists and inspire an evolving chain of artwork.

One artist. One artwork. Three words. See where the creative thread leads.



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