Main Gallery

Helina Metaferia: All Put Together

June 11 - August 6

Coastal Marin Artists Gallery

Ole Schell: The Magic of Creating a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary

June 11 - August 6

Photography Gallery

Elizabeth Weber: An Homage to Western Monarch Butterflies

June 11 - August 6

History Room

The History of the Bolinas Community Mural Project

June 11 - August 6

LEARN & ENGAGE

Upcoming Programs & Events

July 9 - 9
Sat-Sat 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion
The Science and Art of Creating a Butterfly Sanctuary in Bolinas with Ole Schell, Mia Monroe, Audrey Fusco, and Elizabeth Weber
An international filmmaker and farmer, Ole Schell has established a monarch butterfly sanctuary on his family land in Bolinas. Coinciding with the museum’s exhibition, Ole Schell: The Magic of Creating a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Schell and collaborators Mia Monroe, a national park ranger and Xerces Society Volunteer, and Audrey Fusco, a restoration ecologist, and Elizabeth Weber, a documentary photographer whose work in on view in the Photography Gallery, will share the biology, botany, and creativity of bringing this project to fruition. Come and learn what you can do in your own garden to support monarch butterflies.

Free and Open to All

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Join us tomorrow, Thursday, June 30 at 4 PM as the

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, June 30 at 4 PM as the founder and owner of Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Yng-Ru Chen, leads an exhibition tour of “Helina Metaferia: All Put Together.” Chen will share her insights into Metaferia’s process of creating the headdress collages, tapestry, and more, that celebrate the work of BIPOC activists using archival materials from Boston’s activism history, sourced from Harvard University and Northeastern University libraries. As the founder of Praise Shadows Art Gallery, a hybrid space for emerging and mid-career international artists, Chen strives to uplift underrepresented voices in the arts community. She will also discuss Metaferia's upcoming inclusion in an exhibition at ICA San Francisco.

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Image: Yng-Ru Chen inside Praise Shadows Gallery. Photo by Jonathan Wiggs, Boston Globe Staff.

Two exhibitions highlighting Western monarch butte

Two exhibitions highlighting Western monarch butterflies are on view through August 6.

“Ole Schell: The Magic of Creating a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary” (Coastal Marin Artists Gallery)

Award-winning filmmaker, director, and farmer Ole Schell grew up in Bolinas on his father’s Niman/Schell Ranch, where the annual arrival of thousands of Western Monarch butterflies was a dependable autumn phenomenon. The alarming decline in this butterfly population has moved Schell to establish a Western Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary on his family land in Bolinas. With extensive research, partnership with specialists, and a creative vision, Schell has planted hundreds of native plants and developed a program to support the butterflies and inform and inspire the public.

Watch Ole Schell’s video overview of this project at the link in the bio. ⬆️

Please mark your calendars for Saturday, July 9 at 4 PM, when we will host a Panel Discussion: The Science and Art of Creating A Butterfly Sanctuary in Bolinas with Ole Schell, Mia Monroe, a national park ranger and specialist on monarchs, and Audrey Fusco, a restoration ecologist, who will share the biology, botany, and creativity of bringing this project to fruition.
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“Elizabeth Weber: An Homage to Western Monarch Butterflies” (Photography Gallery)

An independent documentary photographer, Elizabeth Weber is an environmental advocate who focuses her photography on issues related to both nature’s degradation and healing. “An Homage to Western Monarch Butterflies”presents Weber’s photographs of Monarch butterflies created using an experimental process of printing in black and white on vellum paper and applying gold leaf. This process creates an aesthetic of fragility, referencing the fragility of the Monarch’s habitat and existence. In removing the Monarch’s signature magnificent color, Weber asks the viewer to consider what it would mean to lose the Western Monarch butterfly entirely.

Images captions in comments.

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From the Archives: Joy at the Beach “Green was

From the Archives: Joy at the Beach

“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda

Happy Solstice! We hope you are enjoying these longer days. Over one hundred years ago, Bolinas photographer Gertrude Southworth (1862-1946) captured this beautiful and ephemeral moment of unbridled joy at the beach. Some things never change.  This is just one of the many remarkable images in Bolinas Museum’s Gertrude Southworth Collection. Southworth photographed life in Bolinas from the late 1890s through the 1930s, and her work provides us with one of the richest documents of our town during that time period.

To see more Southworth images and purchase prints, please visit the link in our bio. ⬆️

Image: GERTRUDE SOUTHWORTH, “Joy on the Beach” (detail), c. 1903-1920, black & white chromogenic print from original glass plate negative. Bolinas Museum Archives, Gertrude Southworth Collection, 2001.28.12. Gift of Amy Edwards.

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The mission of the Bolinas Museum is to collect, preserve, and exhibit the art and history of coastal Marin and to present exhibitions and events that provide inspiration and cultural enrichment to residents and visitors alike.

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