32nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibiiton

The 32nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition celebrates the work of Emeryville artists and includes paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, textiles, ceramics, glass works and poetry. The sheer number and array of artists living or working in Emeryville illustrates the city's cultural vibrancy and provides an impressive creative pool that continues to create new and exciting works. The 2018 exhibition features 165 works from 115 artists, representing the largest group show in its 32-year history. The individual pieces demonstrate the diversity of Emeryville artists and show their engagement with a host of aesthetic, political, and social concerns. A panel of Bay Area arts professionals selected the collection of artwork for the exhibition.

Contributing artists include conceptual artist Packard Jennings, painters Sienna Ko, Jerry Smith, M. Louise Stanley and Jesse Walton, sculptors Cheryl Coon, Mark Galt, Ken Kalman and Melody Kozma-Kennedy, ceramic artists Jered Nelson and Sara Paloma, printmakers Linda Lee Boyd, Erin Fong, Nora Pauwels and Kazuko Watanabe, jewelers Ruth Rhoten and Renée Willis, and textile artist Susan Taber Avila. Works on exhibit are for sale.

Along with the dynamic collection of visual art, the 32nd Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition will also host a poetry writing workshop and a special poetry reading led by Emeryville’s former Poet Laureate, Sarah Kobrinsky. Acclaimed Bay Area poets Terry Lucas, Rohan DaCosta, and Maw Shein Win will join Kobrinsky to read their poems inspired by works in the exhibition. For details about the poetry reading and workshop visit https://www.emeryarts.org.