Holiday Faire and ongoing exhibits featured by Arts of Point Richmond

   POINT RICHMOND - Arts of Point Richmond will be holding its annual Holiday Faire Saturday, Dec. 14 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Point Richmond Community Center on Washington Ave.
     The event will feature the works of local artists and authors and is always a great one-stop shopping spot for Christmas gifts.
     Paintings, drawings, photographs, jewelry, books and all manner of artwork will be on display.
     The artists and authors will be on site to chat with attendees, also.
     The Arts of Point Richmond also has ongoing exhibits including "Portraits of Life", paintings by Cherie Carter showing at the Post Office through January 6.
     Also showing is  "Critters," oil paintings by Jeanne M. Hendrickson and photographs by Sharon Taylor Ward showing at El Sol Restaurant, 101 Park Place.
     The El Sol exhibit runs through Jan. 27.

Book Passage author event in SF Monday

David Downie

   SAN FRANCISCO - Left Coast Writers will be hosting a special book event Monday at 6 p.m. at Book Passage - a conversation with David Downie, author of the newly released book, The Gardener of Eden and Linda Watanabe McFerrin of the Left Coast group.
     The book event will be held at the Book Passage storefront in the Ferry Building. The public is invited.
     Copies of The Gardener of Eden will be available for purchase and signing by the author as part of the event.

Linda Watanabe McFerrin

    Downie is also the author of A Taste of Paris and has called Paris home since 1986. He has written for more than 50 publications worldwide, including the LA Times, Salon.com, and Town & Country Travel. He is also the author of several cookbooks and crime novels.
    Watanabe-McFerrin is a poet, travel writer and novelist. She has won awards in multiple genres for her poetry and fiction. A collection of selected works by the author will be forthcoming this year from Alan Squires Publishing.

Artist's reception March 9 at Kaleidoscope

   POINT RICHMOND - A public reception to celebrate a new exhibit at Kaleidoscope Coffee (109 Park Place) will be held Saturday March 9 from 4-6 p.m.
     The work on display - from today until the end of April - is that of Sharon Goods, part of an exhibit titled Mostly Talking Heads.
     The works are considered to be a departure from the artist's typically abstract, figurative art.
     Goods described the work in this exhibit as "more graphic novelesque."
     "Favorite quotes, collected over the past few years, have landed with images of slightly offbeat characters to depict the humor, angst, absurdity and vulnerability of the human drama," she says.

El Sol, AOPR inaugurate special art gallery

   POINT RICHMOND - A special exhibit of illustrations and paintings by the late Linda Lee Calvan Drake begins Wednesday and runs until March 28 at El Sol Restaurant at 101 Park Place.
     Drake was President of the Arts of Point Richmond from 2010 until 2013 when she passed away.
     "Her enthusiasm and joyous approach to art was contagious and inspiring," Rita Gardner, communications director for AOPR said in a press release.
   The exhibition will include works in a series called "Vintage Views of Old Point Richmond Town."
     The special exhibit also marks the inauguration of the Linda Lee Calvan Drake Memorial Gallery at El Sol and will feature artwork by AOPR members. It also marks a collaboration between AOPR and Linda Lee Calvan Drake's sister, Josephine Orozco of El Sol.
     As part of the collaboration, a professional art display system has been installed with funding coming from the Gateway Foundation and AOPR.
   For more information about AOPR, click on this link: www.artsofpointrichmond.com