Museum Schedule

GALLERY HOURS
Friday, 1 – 5 PM, Saturday – Sunday, 12 – 5 PM, and by appointment.
Admission is always free.

LEARN & ENGAGE

Upcoming Programs & Events

  • October 12
    Sat 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
    Offsite Event

    Helina Metaferia: The Willing

    Interdisciplinary artist Helina Metaferia will perform a new iteration of The Willing, a live performance that activates several of her sculptures in her solo exhibition at the museum, What We Carry To Set Ourselves Free. Metaferia will engage in song, movement, and text during the performance while leading a procession throughout the museum and nearby landmarks, including Yerba Buena Gardens and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. This is a culmination of Metaferia's one-year research in Bay Area protest archives, with community engagement across several institutions. She will be joined by Bay Area collaborators, including musical guests and former participants of her By Way of Revolution workshop, a performance-as-protest gathering for BIPOC femmes, which occurred earlier this year. The performance will be followed by a conversation about the performance and correlating exhibition between Metaferia and Louisa Gloger, executive director of Bolinas Museum.

    Please note: this is a one hour participatory performance that involves the audience moving through the museum and walking a one block radius. Comfortable clothing and shoes are advised. Light refreshments will be provided during intermission between the performance and talk.

  • October 19
    Sat 3:00 pm
    Exhibition Walkthrough

    Wayne Campbell: Residuum Walkthrough

    Join us for an enriching experience as Bolinas artist Wayne Campbell leads us through the current exhibition of his metaphorical steel sculpture installations in the Main Gallery. Campbell is thoughtful, with broad interests and easy humor, and will share stories about his inspirations, methods, and his many collaborations with remarkable people. Much of his life’s work has been informed by his art education and interest in many mediums. His passion for mountain climbing led to his mountain rescue leadership, and that expertise, along with art and architectural drafting, led him to pioneer extraordinary indoor climbing walls and gyms. Since 1998, he has been head set designer and a master rigger for Zaccho Dance Theater, with dancers high in the air dancing off towers, in cathedrals, and in other spaces that excite Campbell’s love of creative challenges. His stories are lively and insightful.

  • November 16
    Sat 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Courtyard Event

    Opening Reception for New Exhibitions

    Join us as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibitions.
    "Lloyd Kahn: There Are Walls That Want To Prowl"
    "Kathy Bustamante: Thinking With My Hands"
    "Jenny Sampson: Skaters"
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    3 PM Artist Talks 
    4–5 PM Reception
    Free and Open to All

  • December 7
    Sat 3:00 pm
    Gallery Talk

    Gallery Talk: Lloyd Kahn

    Please join us for a fascinating gallery talk by Lloyd Kahn in the main gallery, where his current exhibition is installed. There is a lot to consider in Kahn’s wide-ranging life as an innovator, author, editor, photographer, builder, activist, traveler, athlete, homesteader, neighbor, influencer, pioneer of green building, and, for 50 years, owner of Shelter Publications, Inc. in Bolinas. He grew up in San Francisco, earned a BA from Stanford University in 1957, ran a base newspaper in the military, dropped out of the business world, and joined the unbridled creativity of the 1960s counterculture and back-to-the-land movement. His first writing was as an editor for the iconic Whole Earth Catalog. He then became a leading innovator in building and documenting handmade homes and lifestyles. His early book, Shelter, presented structural designs worldwide, followed by books of wildly imaginative hand-built contemporary structures.