Pelican Art Gallery

We are thrilled to host the V-Day Petaluma events again this year!

I was astonished from an article in the Wall Street Journal last week regarding the conviction rate of domestic violence offenders in San Francisco.  Over 20,000 reports of domestic violence and less than 2 dozen convictions.  It’s only through education that we will be able to stem the violence against women & girls.

V-Day “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer” at Pelican Art Gallery Friday & Saturday, February 17th & 18th.

Vagina Monologues will be held on March 1st, 2nd & 3rd.  All performances start at 7pm.

You can find out more about the events at http://v-daypetaluma.org/.

Hope you join us in support of ending violence against women & girls.

We are extremely excited about the current show featuring 2 Petaluma residents, Susan Adams & Charles “Chuck” Pyle.  Both artists traveled to Europe last summer & produced collections of incredible art.  Susan taught a group of students in France and Chuck taught in Italy.  The show has a very European feel and energy.  It will be up through the end of the year.  Be sure to stop by to see the exhibit!  Great gifts waiting for your art lovers.

Please join us for the year-end celebrations including:

• Wed, 10/27/10 Painting with Post: Join co-owner Linda Postenrieder in an evening of painting.  $10 to secure a table in a very welcoming environment to paint
• Fri, 11/5/10 Earring making class with Artisan Denise Ward.  $30 for 3 hours of fun and jewelry class.  All materials, tools & Instruction provided.  RSVP soon! 707773-3393
• Sat 11/13/10 Second Saturday Art Walk starting at 4pm merging into Cinnalounge for Cinnabar Theater.
• 12/3, 4/10: Reader’s Theater: Truman Capote’s Christmas Memory. Call for details 707-773-3393
• Sat 12/4/10 Petaluma Downtown Association Open House.  Stroll through historic downtown Petaluma for a day of marvelous shopping & dinning.

Cinnalounge is a special treat that the Cinnabar Theater puts on once during each of their shows for their $500+ members.  It is a VIP event that includes a distinguished speaker along with food and libations. Yesterday, April 11th, 2010, at Pelican Art Gallery, we hosted Shelley Fisher Fishkin, professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University and the author or editor of 34 books on Mark Twain, including Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices, The 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Book of Animals (article about Twain’s animal welfare concerns) and The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his Life and Work. She is the scholar who recovered Mark Twain’s forgotten play “Is He Dead?” in the archives, published it, and guided it to a critically acclaimed first-ever run on Broadway in 2007– 08. She is a past president of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America.always an interesting.

It was incredibly interesting and very timely as much of her presentation was about art.

Here is a photo of the event:

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, professor of English and Director of American Studies at Stanford University

Don’t miss the opportunity to meet the artists who are part of the “Masters of Today” series brought to you by Pelican Art Gallery!  Be at the Gallery from  4 – 7pm on Saturday, February 13th, 2010!

Saturday February 13th, 2010

Join Pelican Art for the kickoff to our Modern Masters program of resident artists.