Sonoma State University Art Gallery

02/18/2024

Danke schoen team, things are looking good!

02/18/2024

Opening Reception Thursday, February 22nd, 4-6 pm.

Join us! This event is FREE* and open to all.

*Visitors driving to the SSU campus must purchase a $5-8 parking pass from any automated parking kiosk.

Featuring art by luminaries including Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Roy de Forest, Hung Liu, David Alfaro Siqueiros and many others, Print Press Play! explores the how and why of printmaking with over thirty artworks on display, videos of the printmaking process, and a hands-on interactive area.

01/20/2024

Check us out in the Press Democrat!

The annual fundraiser supports Sonoma State University Art Gallery programs.

12/23/2023

Save the Date!

12/15/2023

Here's a sneak peak at our upcoming gallery silent auction & party in Spring 2024!!

Stay tuned!

12/05/2023

Good friends visiting the University Art Gallery from Marin to check out Mimi's solo exhibition.

This Side of Blue: The Art of Mimi Chen Ting, is in its final week on view through Sunday, 12/10/23.

11/22/2023

We love having groups visit the Gallery!
Thanks to OLLI's Art Club for visiting us last week, to see This Side of Blue: The Art of Mimi Chen Ting - that was fun!
Photo credit: Deborah Taylor-French

10/27/2023

Highlights from the SSU Art Collection: Kara Walker

Behind the scenes: Professional Photographer, Mark Serr, carefully photographs this delicate and exquisite pop-up book by Kara Walker

Title: Freedom: A Fable- A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations
Date: 1997
Medium: offset lithographs and laser-cut paper, leather

Kara Walker is a contemporary American painter, silhouettist, and installation artist who explores race, gender, identity, and histories of slavery and resilience in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.

Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969, but was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Walker received her BFA in 1991 from the Atlanta College of Art. She would later receive her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. Walker's first large scale public project would take place during the spring of 2014, the installation being A Subtlety: Or… the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant.

The Sonoma State University Art Collection, established shortly after the University Art Gallery opened in 1978, has grown significantly and now numbers over 1,500 works in a range of media, all of which have come to SSU through the generosity of individual and corporate donors.

10/19/2023

Friendly reminder that this Thursday (10/19) is our first ever Gallery Gathering!!!

If you enjoy snack, live music, and art, come by the University Art Gallery !

The event will take place from 5-7pm. Take in some amazing art and participate in crafting your very own. We will have stamp making and button making workshops up front!