Community Calendar

This year we celebrate the 32nd anniversary of our summer festival, Art in the Gardens. We are calling all designers to help us create a fun t-shirt for all our visitors to rock this year! Design should celebrate elements from our annual summer festival, Art in the Gardens such as art, music, wine, beer, food, and entertainment. Winning designs will also incorporate the things that make the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens so unique – plants, animals, structures, and flowers... especially our show-stopping dahlias.

Give us your best creative depiction combining the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and Art in the Gardens. The winner of this contest will have their design featured on the 2025 Art in the Gardens shirts, and other printed items. Recognition will be given in the event program, on our website, and on social media pages. The winner will also receive the apparel featuring their design, two tickets to Art in the Gardens, and a Household Membership to the Gardens! Please see our website for entry guidelines.

Hey there: Are you a wanna- be gardener, but have no yard, or place to cultivate a garden/vegi garden ,or exercise that passion? Well look no further, then to our very own Community Garden here in" Happy Willits," located next to the Recreation Grove; (adjacent to the Social Service Dept.) A Non Profit Project. With once a year fee (like renting a plot) grow whatever you want, but must commit for a year, no abandoning it. Serious gardeners welcomed. There's limited spaces-sign ups begin in March. Contact Mike Adair, Garden Manager, at 707-456-4395. Hope to see you there!!

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens invites artists to submit an application to exhibit their original work at the 32nd annual Art in the Gardens, a juried art show and summer festival. The two-day event will take place on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3 from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

This event is a major fundraiser for the Gardens and attracts as many as 2,500 guests each year. Artist booths will be located on our Event Lawn just a short walk from the Ocean Bluffs. Don’t miss this ideal opportunity to meet new clientele! To be considered in the jury process, please complete the 2025 Artist Application by Monday, March 24, 2025.

THE DETAILS
There is a non-refundable application fee of $30 (no booth fee).
A jury will select 60 participating artists and notify all applicants in April 2025.
All artists must commit to setting up and participating in both days of the event.
Participating artist will be required to turn in a 25% commission to the Gardens at the end of the event (5:00PM; 8/3/25).
The Event Lawn has WiFi and limited cellular service. Artists must be prepared to handle sales offline as a backup. The Gardens cannot handle transactions for artists.

KRENOV SCHOOL OF FINE WOODWORKING MIDWINTER SHOW TO OPEN IN FORT BRAGG, CALIFORNIA:

The Krenov School, home to the Fine Woodworking program at Mendocino College, is pleased to announce its 2025 Midwinter show. Exemplary works of fine furniture and craft will be on display at TC Space Gallery in Downtown Fort Bragg from February 01 - 9, 2025.

The exhibition spans a range of furniture typologies, reflecting a diversity of styles and ideas, each piece a testament to the individuality and craftsmanship of the maker as well as the techniques and traditions taught at the school.

The Krenov School has trained students in the techniques and traditions of fine cabinetry and furniture-making since its founding in 1981 by James Krenov. Students come to the school from a diversity of backgrounds, united by a love for woodworking and a dedication to learning. Under the guidance of instructors Laura Mays, Greg Smith, Jim Budlong, Ejler Hjorth-Westh, and Todd Sorenson, students have been honing their craft and skill, their sensitivity and attention to detail, and their design sensibilities. The exceptional body of work that has emerged is the culmination of a semester of hard work, quiet epiphanies, mended errors, and benchroom laughter.

The Midwinter Show will be open to the public from 02/01/2025 through 02/09/2025, 10am - 6pm daily at TC Space Gallery, located at 324 N Franklin St, Fort Bragg, CA 95437. Please join the Krenov School’s Class of 2025 at the public reception on Friday, February 7th, 5-8PM, part of Downtown Fort Bragg’s First Friday Art Walk.

Learn more at thekrenovschool.org or follow @thekrenovschool on Instagram.

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The Artists’ Collective of Elk is presenting a showing of the watercolors, created in the past two years, of one their newest members, Suzi Long, for the month of February.

Many of these pieces were completed en Plein air and subsequently mounted on prepared birch panels using archival materials. Each panel piece is protected from moisture by a cold wax surface. The images depicted are stunning scenes from various locations, including Fort Bragg, Navarro, Alameda, Giverny, and Baja.

A native Californian from Santa Cruz, Suzi has progressively relocated up the coast since 1965. Following positions as an executive secretary, Xerox technician, and sign painter in Honolulu, she established her mural company, WhimsyWalls.

In 2006, she settled in the Wind & Weather Watertower in Mendocino, opening her own pastel gallery and instructing visitors in watercolor travel sketching.

Suzi continues to conduct watercolor retreats and has traveled to various locations, including Baja, Walnut Creek, Carmel, Sea Ranch, and Idaho, to provide instruction to numerous individuals. She has received multiple awards for her work and is a signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, an associate member of the Pastel Society of America, a founding member of the Mendocino EcoArtists, and now a member of the Artists' Collective of Elk.

Suzi focuses on continuous improvement, striving to excel beyond her previous accomplishments.

A resilient individual, she creates art to sustain herself and resides in her RV.

Her work is currently on display in our main room, and will remain up en masse through the month of February, after which it will be found throughout the gallery. Suzi will have an opening on 2nd Saturday, February 8th, from 1 to 3 in the afternoon. Food and beverages will be provided.

The Artists’ Collective in Elk is located at 6031 N. Hwy 1, Elk, CA, 95432. The phone number is (707) 877-1128. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. It is a collective with 30 artists.

Sue Ellen Parkinson will be exhibiting her iconic paintings at the Willits Center for the Arts in the north gallery in February, while the south gallery will feature Sue Ellen's collage students with a presentation of their meditative and personal Soul Collages. Join the artists on opening night from 6 to 8pm, Saturday February 1 with small bites and beverages, at Willits Center for the Arts, 71 East Commercial Street, Willits, CA, 95490.

This year we celebrate the 32nd anniversary of our summer festival, Art in the Gardens. We are calling all designers to help us create a fun t-shirt for all our visitors to rock this year! Design should celebrate elements from our annual summer festival, Art in the Gardens such as art, music, wine, beer, food, and entertainment. Winning designs will also incorporate the things that make the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens so unique – plants, animals, structures, and flowers... especially our show-stopping dahlias.

Give us your best creative depiction combining the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and Art in the Gardens. The winner of this contest will have their design featured on the 2025 Art in the Gardens shirts, and other printed items. Recognition will be given in the event program, on our website, and on social media pages. The winner will also receive the apparel featuring their design, two tickets to Art in the Gardens, and a Household Membership to the Gardens! Please see our website for entry guidelines.

Hey there: Are you a wanna- be gardener, but have no yard, or place to cultivate a garden/vegi garden ,or exercise that passion? Well look no further, then to our very own Community Garden here in" Happy Willits," located next to the Recreation Grove; (adjacent to the Social Service Dept.) A Non Profit Project. With once a year fee (like renting a plot) grow whatever you want, but must commit for a year, no abandoning it. Serious gardeners welcomed. There's limited spaces-sign ups begin in March. Contact Mike Adair, Garden Manager, at 707-456-4395. Hope to see you there!!

Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens invites artists to submit an application to exhibit their original work at the 32nd annual Art in the Gardens, a juried art show and summer festival. The two-day event will take place on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3 from 11:00am to 5:00pm.

This event is a major fundraiser for the Gardens and attracts as many as 2,500 guests each year. Artist booths will be located on our Event Lawn just a short walk from the Ocean Bluffs. Don’t miss this ideal opportunity to meet new clientele! To be considered in the jury process, please complete the 2025 Artist Application by Monday, March 24, 2025.

THE DETAILS
There is a non-refundable application fee of $30 (no booth fee).
A jury will select 60 participating artists and notify all applicants in April 2025.
All artists must commit to setting up and participating in both days of the event.
Participating artist will be required to turn in a 25% commission to the Gardens at the end of the event (5:00PM; 8/3/25).
The Event Lawn has WiFi and limited cellular service. Artists must be prepared to handle sales offline as a backup. The Gardens cannot handle transactions for artists.