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Find the best art events and make the most of your time in San Rafael. From education to trivia and more, we have the biggest event range and best discovery experience, there's something for everyone.
Free to the public, enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, & more on the 2nd Friday of each month in Downtown San Rafael.
Invites viewers into an exploration of transformation, 400+ works are reimagined through layering & collage to reveal process as the art itself. Fluid States, by Drew Frazier, offers an open space for reflection on transformation as something lived, shared, and continuously unfolding. The exhibition dates are from April 10 to May 29, 2026. There are receptions on April 10 and May 8, from 5-8 pm, and 2nd Friday Art Walk on May 8.
Entering Into the World of Light and Darkness: Charcoal Workshop with Pamela Whitman. Saturday, June 20, 2026 | 9am-3pm. Cost: $175. Working with the soft and malleable medium of charcoal provides us with a unique, artistic experience. It allows us to become sensitive and creative within the realm of light and darkness, bringing depth, form, and direction to their interplay. This is a special aspect of Anthroposophic artistic therapy and an essential tool that supports the process of the incarnation of our spirit into our earthly body. Through charcoal work, we learn to bridge between these polar opposites and to experience how they can work together in the process of transformation and integration. Through working on our pictures, we work on ourselves. We can find a breathing connection as we explore the appropriateness of different kinds of boundaries. This workshop is an opportunity to deepen our understanding and experience of light and darkness and explore the possibilities for the use of its healing effects. It is a valuable activity to bring into the turbulent years of the mid-teens through adulthood. Pamela Whitman, Her career and interests span the fields of science, art, spirituality, consciousness, psychology, healing and education, all of which she incorporates as a therapist, international adult educator, mentor, and painter.
Painting Workshop with Ayzin Uludag Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 9am-3pm Cost: $175 Working with watercolor paints on moist paper allows both the colors and the creative process to be fluid and mobile. This is a supportive activity for the artist, allowing time to dream and swim with the colors before they become settled and fixed into defined shapes. This wet-on-wet technique was developed by Rudolf Steiner and is used in Waldorf schools and in Anthroposophic artistic therapies to bring life into the experience of colors, freeing them from the material, objective world and allowing the soul of the painter to be nourished by their pure energies. This artistic approach brings a healthy, breathing movement into our inner world, which can become hardened and immobile through all of life's struggles and challenges. When we are moving the paint, we are also moving ourselves and bringing balance, harmony, interest, and integration. This workshop is an opportunity to dive into color and benefit from its healing effects. Open to everyone at all levels of experience.
Join Patrick Marooney this summer for the unique opportunity to carve one of the seven planetary bases from the Goetheanum building. These forms were part of the incredible artistic and cosmic temple that Rudolf Steiner designed and built in the early 1900s. At the same time that the first world war was waging in the trenches of northern France, people gathered together in Switzerland from many nations to create a building that embodied peace and human evolution. This is an opportunity to slow down and focus on one thing, understand the character and grain of wood, learn how to handle and sharpen the tools and, chip by chip, carve out something special. Woodcarving by hand takes time. This course is designed to allow you to enjoy multiple days to complete a piece. You have the option to attend for 5 days for a quicker project or for 10 days for a longer project. The course is ideally suited to people who can come to the Marin Waldorf School campus each day. The woodwork room will be open Monday-Friday from 10:30am to 2:30pm (with a lunch break) for 2 weeks.