Stockton Art League Goodwin Gallery

10/27/2026

We are disheartened that on the early morning of October 14, the City of Stockton buffed and painted over a utility box mural by artist Raul Camacho. The city gave no warning to the artist or to the Stockton Art League.

The box was first painted in 2015, funded by the Stockton Art League. Raul Camacho refreshed and maintained the mural in 2021. A city employee photographed the box before painting over it, so this was not an accident or a case of mistaken identity.

It is unclear why this happened. The cover-up was done poorly and painted around posted flyers, which suggests it was neither careful nor urgent. Our taxes paid to sloppily cover a bright, colorful mural, and what’s left is a tan blob that is an eyesore to traffic and shoppers in front of a storefront. Of all the places in Stockton that need attention, this was a low priority.

This utility box is no different from the ones painted by artists downtown, a project the city itself sponsored to pay artists and beautify the area. If a maintained, artist-painted box can be erased without notice, are those next? Residents, artists, and visitors deserve to know whether the city values these works it commissioned or only values them when it’s convenient.

Some may suggest the box was reported through an Ask Stockton anonymous tip, or flagged as graffiti. In either case, a person still has to decide whether a complaint is a city issue, and whether the property is a maintained, commissioned work of art. A mural is not graffiti.

After the success of Mural and Main in downtown Stockton, it is clear the city supports promoting public art. The Stockton Art League is proud to have funded a community mural for Mural and Main, so we know the value of these projects firsthand. But the city has a long way to go on long-term support of public art, support that is not based on whim and convenience.

So we ask: how will the City of Stockton make sure the artists and organizations who create public art are valued, and told before their work is erased?

Photos: [original mural]; [buffed box]; Raul Camacho painting the utility box, Photo: The Record, 2015.

10/27/2026

We are disheartened that on the early morning of October 14, the City of Stockton buffed and painted over a utility box mural by artist Raul Camacho. The city gave no warning to the artist or to the Stockton Art League.

The box was first painted in 2015, funded by the Stockton Art League. Raul Camacho refreshed and maintained the mural in 2021. A city employee photographed the box before painting over it, so this was not an accident or a case of mistaken identity.

It is unclear why this happened. The cover-up was done poorly and painted around posted flyers, which suggests it was neither careful nor urgent. Our taxes paid to sloppily cover a bright, colorful mural, and what's left is a tan blob that is an eyesore to traffic and shoppers in front of a storefront. Of all the places in Stockton that need attention, this was a low priority.

This utility box is no different from the ones painted by artists downtown, a project the city itself sponsored to pay artists and beautify the area. If a maintained, artist-painted box can be erased without notice, are those next? Residents, artists, and visitors deserve to know whether the city values these works it commissioned or only values them when it's convenient.

Some may suggest the box was reported through an Ask Stockton anonymous tip, or flagged as graffiti. In either case, a person still has to decide whether a complaint is a city issue, and whether the property is a maintained, commissioned work of art. A mural is not graffiti.

After the success of Mural and Main in downtown Stockton, it is clear the city supports promoting public art. The Stockton Art League is proud to have funded a community mural for Mural and Main, so we know the value of these projects firsthand. But the city has a long way to go on long-term support of public art, support that is not based on whim and convenience.

So we ask: how will the City of Stockton make sure the artists and organizations who create public art are valued, and told before their work is erased?

We have also asked for assistance from the Stockton Miracle Mile Community Improvement District on this matter.

Photos: [original mural]; [buffed box]; Raul Camacho painting the utility box, Photo: The Record, 2015.

City of Stockton - Government Stockton Arts Commission

10/26/2026

🎨 Small Works: Big Impact 🎨
A call for artwork donations!

The Stockton Art League is launching a new fundraiser to support arts education in local classrooms, and we need your art!

We’re seeking small, original works in any medium: painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, printmaking, mixed media, and more.

✨ Open theme
✨ Under 8” in every direction, including framing
✨ Donate as many pieces as you like
✨ Suggested value under $150

💛 100% of proceeds will fund classroom art supply micro-grants for local transitional preschool through 12th grade teachers. Applications open in early 2027.

📍 Drop-off: Elsie May Goodwin Gallery, 1902 Pacific Ave, Stockton
🗓 Deadline: Saturday, Nov 7 by 3 PM
🖼 On display: Nov 14

Links in Bio #
🖌 Pre-register to donate artwork:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbQOlBvkb0BS7RB_pcPoEa-4eE9Conoac7L8PFCxEftxMA1Q/viewform

💜 Prefer to give a monetary donation?
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/M1HJJW2HNC3EK/checkout/BJHSHXM63RMOGU7BYCLSMCMR?mc_cid=161fb03045&mc_eid=c7b5218418

Mini canvases are available in limited quantities at the gallery.

Questions? [email protected]

Donate a small work. Make a big impact. 💜

10/21/2026

10/21/2026

We are helping sponsor the community wall. Come on out this Friday to lend a hand and meet other artists.

10/17/2026

California’s poets laureate carry the stories, voices and traditions of their communities. A new anthology will bring those voices together.

The California Arts Council invites California’s state, county and municipal poets laureate who have served since 2009 to submit work for an anthology to be published in early 2027.

Haven’t received the submission form?

Current and former poets laureates should email Arts Program Manager Josy Miller at [email protected] no later than October 20, 2026.

10/16/2026

Stockton, we’re painting a wall together, Oct 19-23!

The Stockton Community Mural Wall is happening Oct 19-23 in collaboration with Mural on Main, and we want YOU to be part of it. 🖌️

📍 Location: the parking lot south of the Elks Building
Your facilitators are two Stockton artists:

✨ Tiffany Pech, a Khmer-American artist, educator, and community organizer whose work draws from local ecology, urban refuse, and storytelling.

✨ Garrett Daniells, an artist and art technician whose practice is rooted in trade work (and often tongue in cheek).

👉 Want to join? Fill out the interest form (link in our bio, or scan the QR code on slide 2) and we’ll send updates and work times straight to you. Sign up soon so you don’t miss a work day!

Sponsored by the Stockton Art League, a nonprofit arts organization founded in 1936 and the new state-local partner for San Joaquin County with the California Arts Council. 💜

🙏 A big thank you to Velvacon, a longtime downtown Stockton small business at 706 E Main St, for generously sponsoring the paint for this project. We’re grateful to have you in our community!

Tag a friend who’d love to paint with us! 👇

10/16/2026

Part 11 of 11: our final nine works from the 63rd Stockton Art League National Juried Exhibition. That’s the whole show! See it in person at Haggin Museum through Sunday, October 25.

1. ALONE IN A CROWD BY RICHARD BARNETT
Oil on panel, 6” x 6” x 1”
A very small painting of a zoomed-in subway crowd, with figures tightly packed into a 6” x 6” panel.
Available for purchase

2. FORGET ME NOT BY PILAR BARNES
B**r, inky cap mushroom ink, ink pen, blue pea tea, 14” x 11”
Painted with homemade watercolor made from dehydrated b**r, w**e, and tea, and inky cap mushroom ink. Inspired by forget-me-nots illustrated in the Redwoods of Santa Cruz.
Available for purchase

3. PANGOLIN BY EVANY ZIRUL
Welded steel, 12” x 9” x 6”
Available for purchase

4. JUST KIDS BY PATRICIA KENNEDY
Oil, 8” x 10” x 1”

5. BASARA BY HANA LOCK
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, acrylic, 48” x 36” x 1.5”
🥉 Third Place

6. DANCE OF DUE PROCESS BY TONY SEGALE
Transparent watercolor, 22” x 30”
Available for purchase

7. WE WATCH OURSELVES GO DOWN IN SMOKE BY DAVID EMMITE
Silver Halide Print, Edition of 10, 13” x 20”
Available for purchase

8. DOWNSTAIRS, LATE AFTERNOON BY JULIE KUMAR
Fused glass, 24” x 32” x 1.5”
Light creates abstracted polygons on the floor of the downstairs living room in a home the artist lost.
Available for purchase

9. CREEKSIDE I BY MARICRIS HANSEN
Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 24” x 1.5”
Part of a series begun during the artist’s residency at Creekside Arts, painted in a treehouse studio in the California redwoods.
Available for purchase

📍 Haggin Museum, 1201 N. Pershing Ave., Stockton
🗓 On display through Sunday, Oct 25 | Hours + catalog: link in bio

https://www.flipsnack.com/stocktonartleague/63rd-stockton-art-league-national-juried-exhibition-catalog/full-view.html

10/16/2026

Part 10 of 11: swipe through 10 more works from the 63rd Stockton Art League National Juried Exhibition. Almost there! Haggin Museum, through Sunday, October 25.

1. SHALLOW WATER BY RICHARD P STEVENS
Digital photographic art print, 16” x 20”
A young woman with red-colored hair wading in shallow water, part of the Sunseekers series.
Available for purchase

2. BLACK WAVE BY MISHA
Acrylic, ink, collage on canvas, 48” x 36” x 1.75”
🏅 Honorable Mention, Mixed Media
Layers of movement and contrast aim to capture a dynamic interplay of energy and structure.
Available for purchase

3. PRUDENCE BY LORIN SANTALOCI
Oil on canvas, 17.5” x 24” x 2”
Available for purchase

4. DAVE BY JEFF KRAMM
Watercolor pencil, 20” x 16”
Available for purchase

5. THE NEW GOLDEN AGE: DEGRADE, OBLITERATE, GARBLE, ERADICATE 1 BY LARRY SHEFFIELD
Serigraphy, 18” x 14”
Available for purchase

6. LIVING WITH THE WHOLE EARTH BY PATRICE GELBAND
Mixed Media, 20” x 16” x 0.875”
Bands of primary color from a monotype print, tissue paper, paint, and a blue jeans seam are layered over pages of an old Whole Earth Catalog.

7. AFTER THE RAIN, TRUCKEE BY LYNETTE ZEITER
Oil, 12” x 16” x 1”
The historic Flying A sign connects Truckee’s past with the energy of today, beneath dramatic Sierra clouds.
SOLD

8. AT THE BEACH BY SUZANNE JACQUOT
Acrylic on canvas, 18” x 48” x 1.5”
Nature-inspired abstraction that reconciles the wildness of nature with its inherent order.
Available for purchase

9. NINE DRAGONS OVER THE FORBIDDEN CITY BY YI DING
Oil, 24” x 48” x 2”
Dragons represent the royal line in Chinese culture. Five and nine are considered extremely lucky, and the fifth dragon in the center is the king.

10. EXPLODING BY DAISY CRANE
Oil on canvas, 20” x 16” x 1.5”
Available for purchase

📍 Haggin Museum, 1201 N. Pershing Ave., Stockton
🗓 On display through Sunday, Oct 25 | Hours + catalog: link in bio

https://www.flipsnack.com/stocktonartleague/63rd-stockton-art-league-national-juried-exhibition-catalog/full-view.html

10/16/2026

Part 9 of 11: nine more works from the 63rd Stockton Art League National Juried Exhibition. See them in person at Haggin Museum through Sunday, October 25!

1. INHABITED MUD: SYNTHETIC CHOREOGRAPHY BY SHENGLU QIU
Archival pigment print, framed with UV-filtering acrylic, 18” x 22” x 1.5”
Frames robotic earth-printing as a nonhuman dance, as AI-driven machines shape unstable mud into layered walls.
Available for purchase

2. THE PICCOLO PLAYER BY MEL LACKI
Watercolor, 16” x 13”
A lady in a brown shirt and glasses plays a piccolo.
Available for purchase

3. EMPIRE, BAKERSFIELD, CA BY CLAIRE MAEN
Film photography, 8” x 12”
Taken on film with a Nikon FM2, part of the series California Unseen showing the beauty and complexity of the California Central Valley.
Available for purchase

4. IRON TREE BY PETER BACZEK
Lithograph, 14.75” x 11”
Available for purchase

5. NO SENSE OF PLACE BY JANET THOLEN
Ceramics, 7.75” x 5.5” x 2”

6. THE DANCE BY EDEN QUISPE
Stitched, printed, painted and collaged textiles, 43” x 46” x .5”

7. BACK STORY BY BEVERLY MAYERI
Ceramic, acrylics, 16” x 8” x 10”
🥈 Second Place
A ceramic sculpture of a man thinking over his life: family, hiking, trips by car and plane, the beach, and home, painted just below his eyes.

8. INSOMNIAC BY BRIAN PARIS
Oil on canvas, 16” x 20” x 1”
The artist writes: “I’m off to tops of hills where no monuments have been speculated.”
Available for purchase

9. SAGUARO SUNRISE TRIPTYCH BY WYNN DERR
Watercolor, 25” x 38” x 1”
A vibrant wet-on-wet watercolor sunrise over the Sonoran desert, with native flora including saguaro in the foreground.
Available for purchase

📍 Haggin Museum, 1201 N. Pershing Ave., Stockton
🗓 On display through Sunday, Oct 25 | Hours + catalog: link in bio

https://www.flipsnack.com/stocktonartleague/63rd-stockton-art-league-national-juried-exhibition-catalog/full-view.html