community art gallery
Downtown Walnut Creek Library1644 North Broadway, Walnut Creek
The City of Walnut Creek, in conjunction with the Walnut Creek Downtown Library, is introducing a new program: Exhibitions in the Library Community Art Gallery. The Library Community Art Gallery was created to present artwork for the encouragement and development of artistic expression, and to foster greater appreciation for art in our community.
This program is part of the Arts, Recreation and Community Services Department, administered by Bedford Gallery under the direction of the Walnut Creek Arts Commission.
2011-2012 Exhibition Schedule
Tom
DonahoeGhost Town - Bodie, California
September 28, 2011-January 28, 2012
These twenty-four photographs by Walnut Creek photographer Tom Donahoe were
taken in 2009. With the assistance of the Walnut Creek photography
store, Camera West, and the rangers
of California State Parks, Donahoe had access to the site during first
and last light and careful access to the interiors of several buildings.
In the late 1870s Bodie was the second largest city in California with
10,000 people and more than 2,000 buildings. At an elevation of 8,375
feet east of Yosemite on the eastern side of the Sierras, Bodie was fueled by
the mining of silver and gold. It faded into a ghost town in the 1940s.
The town’s more than 100 original, surviving buildings are preserved in a
state of “arrested decay” by California State Parks.
Ruth
Kaiser
Spontaneous Smiley
February 1 - May 26, 2012
The Spontaneous Smiley Project lives on the internet and involves
thousands of people from all over the world collecting and sharing their
photographs of the smiley faces they find in everyday objects.
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John
L. Hobson
American Icon Needlepoint
May 30 - September 22, 2012
Sixteen needlepoint portraits of American presidents and historical figures.
All works are handstitched with 32 shades of hand-dyed wool on 18 point
canvas.
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