Pickleweed Library Closed – Winter Holidays

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Detect & Connect²

Posted by Aaron on 18 November 21

Register for January 8th!

Join us for a free workshop about mental health and dementia issues in older adults.

How to Detect:
● The differences between normal aging and abnormal aging behaviors.
● Symptoms and behaviors.

How to Connect:
● Appropriate responses with compassion to client behavior.
● Good ways to communicate with older adults.
● Older adults to support services.

Who Should Attend?
Marin County Community members supporting the needs of older adults

About Marin Aging Action Initiative
This workshop was created and produced by the members of the Marin Aging Action Initiative Mental Health and Dementia Workgroup. The initiative is a collective effort of over 65 different agencies, grassroots organizations, commissions and neighborhood groups, funded by the County of Marin.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Alice Neel: People Come First

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Alice Neel: People Come First is the first comprehensive West Coast museum survey of the work of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984). This ambitious retrospective, featuring paintings, drawings, watercolors, and film, positions Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art.

Neel spent most of her life living and working in New York City, and her work testifies to the diversity, resilience, and passion of the people she encountered there. The exhibition includes portraits of Neel’s neighbors in Spanish Harlem, political leaders, queer cultural figures, activists, mothers, and a diverse representation of nude figures, including visibly pregnant women, all of whom embody a candor and irreverence without precedent in the history of Western art. Together these works illuminate Neel’s uncompromising humanism, which still resonates with the social and cultural politics of our time.

FAMSF Docent Speaker: Rita Dunlay

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtf-GhrT8sE9O8xFV7rTsC_B42BV1AtY4p 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Let’s Talk Tabletop: The California Ceramic Tradition

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Independent docent speaker, Avril Angevine, will be presenting a talk on California Ceramics, including the work of Sausalito artist Edith Heath, coinciding with the Edith Heath exhibition at the Oakland Museum from January 29, 2022 through October 30, 2022.

Let’s Talk Tabletop: The California Ceramic Tradition

Pottery has been a part of human culture for some 50,000 years—archeological digs from around the world–and in your own backyard—routinely turn up intriguing shards. California’s ample deposits of clay and talc insured a strong pottery tradition here, and California potters have played a leading role in the development of this humble and beautiful craft. Learn about some of the state’s most interesting clay crafters, from studios in Berkeley, on Catalina Island, in Southern California—familiar names like Arequipa, California Faience, Bauer, Metlox, and fascinating individuals like Marguerite Wildenhain, Jade Snow Wong, and Edith Heath.

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtf-GhrT8sE9O8xFV7rTsC_B42BV1AtY4p

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Honoring the Dead: FUNERARY PRACTICES IN ANCIENT ASIA

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

HONORING THE DEAD: FUNERARY PRACTICES IN ANCIENT ASIA

Rituals that honor and respect the dead are part of all cultures and religions.

Belief in an after-life state is reflected in these rituals, whether it is that the honored person passes to another life, or to a paradise existence, or to union with the universe.  Come explore some of the fascinating practices that accompany death in various Asian belief systems and countries.

Asian Art Museum Docent: Mary Mead

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are funded by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy celebrates the extraordinary designs of Guo Pei—hailed as China’s first couturier—and the exhibition at the Legion of Honor includes more than 80 works from the past two decades highlighting her most important collections shown on Beijing and Paris runways. Through exquisite craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques, Guo Pei creates a fantasy that fuses the influences of China’s imperial past, decorative arts, European architecture, and the botanical world. Through her extraordinary fashions, the exhibition reveals the trajectory of Guo Pei’s career as remarkable yet emblematic of China’s emergence as a leader in the fashion world in the early twenty-first century.

FAMSF Docent Speaker: Gretchen Turner

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharoahs

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Ramses II, known as Ramses the Great, was the most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which was Egypt’s golden age. Believed to be a living god, Ramses ruled for 67 years, erecting enormous temples, obelisks, and statues while also expanding Egypt’s empire. Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharoahs features one of the greatest collection of Egyptian artifacts ever to travel to the United States. This talk will explore Ramses’ life and discuss the marvelous treasures in this exhibition, from the pharaoh’s colossal royal sculpture to mummies and exquisite Egyptian jewelry.
Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharoahs will be at the De Young 8/20/2022 – 2/12/2023.

FAMSF Docent Speaker: Maureen O’Brien
The museums do not allow their talks to be recorded.

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event:
https://cityofsanrafael-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdeioqzMjHdaIKbrZJc3mlfiaWcTKrIb0

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Faith Ringgold: American People

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Throughout her long career, artist Faith Ringgold has drawn from personal and collective histories to document both her life and the struggle for justice and equity. Faith Ringgold: American People brings together fifty years of groundbreaking work, and is the most comprehensive exhibition of her art to date. From painting to experimental story quilts, this talk will show how Ringgold’s artistic style evolved to bear witness to the complexity of the American experience. Long overdue, this retrospective provides a timely opportunity to engage with the art of an American icon.

FAMSF Docent Speaker:  Sharon Walton
The museums do not allow their talks to be recorded.

This exhibition is at the De Young 8/1/2022 – 11/27/2022.

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event:

https://cityofsanrafael-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrd-itqTotHt1UyXu1jZSvjHM5Y_-nP6UJ 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – California Pop Art

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

California artists may follow styles that originate in Europe or New York, but they put their own stamp on them—sometimes a bit more irreverent, sometimes more down to earth, but usually full of California color and verve. In the 1960s, local artists responded to the arrival of Pop Art—the flip and hip answer to the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s—with California panache.
Learn about a few of our Pop stars—Ed Ruscha, Wayne Thiebaud, Joan Brown, Roger Kuntz, and Robert Colescott—in this talk.

Independent Docent Speaker:  Avril Angevine
The library does not record any of the art talks but you can visit Avril’s website to access to many of her talks there.

This talk coincides with SFMOMA’s exhibition on Joan Brown coming late November.

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event:
https://cityofsanrafael-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscu-uqTMrHtY5bkxLF2rb8Y94THWBjLaD

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.

First Wednesday Art Talk – Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art

Posted by bonnie on 13 November 21

Bats, gourds, peaches, ribbons, and monkeys on horses.

These images, and many others, are frequently and artistically depicted in Chinese art. But what do they mean? Using selected objects from the fabulous collections at the Asian Art Museum discover some of the fascinating and fun meanings and messages hidden in Chinese art.

As the Chinese language is an exquisite conduit for rebuses (visual puns) and symbolism, motifs that appear in Chinese art often represent wishes for good fortune and auspicious messages. Join us as we decipher hidden meanings of prosperity, health, and happiness found in traditional Chinese art.

Presented by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Community Speakers Program.

Docent Speaker: Debbie Ottman
The museums do not allow their talks to be recorded.

Register in advance for this meeting or on the day of the event: https://cityofsanrafael-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcOuhpj4uGdPoAN1wtInzlK248XSY1ygq

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

First Wednesday Art Talks are provided by Friends of the San Rafael Libraries.