If you’re like most people and have never thought about textiles and maps at the same time, together, then you just might be the target audience for artist Linda Gass. Add climate change, land use, and Bay Area waterways into the mix, and it’s safe to say her work is unlike anything else out there.
Art and Design
Winter Issue 2023
Naturalist’s Notebook: Thrush Henge
You can use thrushes as a sort of seasonal calendar, as they fly in and out of the Bay Area.
Wildlife Watching
Cheeky Bobcat Kitten, Owl on the Hunt: How a Young Wildlife Photographer Gets the Goods
You don’t have to go far. But it helps to spend all your spare time in the woods. That’s what Vishal Subramanyan, 20, does.
Fall Issue 2022
An Invitation to Imagine Utopia, and See What Sticks
Two murals at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novata are the work of San Francisco painter Elisheva Biernoff. By choosing from a library of magnets, visitors to The Tools Are In Your Hands can decide where to place depictions of native species, agriculture, and the elements of the built environment.
Summer Issue 2022
Landscape Paintings From Within
Shara Mays’ solo exhibition, Paint. All. The. Things., is on view at Chandran Gallery in San Francisco from August 4 through September 1, 2022.
Spring Issue 2022
The David Brower Center Tries to Move Beyond a White Aesthetic in Nature Art
Past exhibits at the Brower Center have primarily featured white artists, and in turn, this has offered viewers an idea of nature that tends to favor the nonhuman or completely excludes humans.
Art and Design
How Laura Cunningham Became a Signature Artist for California’s Former Landscapes
What did natural California look like before the arrival of Europeans? Laura Cunningham paints it.
Winter Issue 2022
Apocalypse Not: Confronting Extinction with Art
The brown pelican, which nearly went extinct but then recovered, is a main character in a new art installation in San José.
Art and Design
Sixty-Four Artists Took Pieces of a Fallen Valley Oak and Turned it Into This Exhibition
“If a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak” opens Saturday, October 30 at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.
Fall Issue 2021
Look For These Bay Area Species in Fall 2021
This fall is one to look for change. During what will hopefully be the last dry months of the driest two-year stretch in recorded California history, how are species responding? What do you see and not see? How does it compare to the past?
