Programs & Events
June

Benefit
Annual Spring Benefit Party
Sat. June 3, 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
EARLY BIRD TICKETS, MAY 1 - 15:
$100 Members* / $125 General Admission
AFTER MAY 15:
$125 Members* / $150 General Admission
CHILDREN 12 & UNDER:
Free. (Please indicate how many children under 12 will attend when purchasing tickets.)
$50 per ticket is tax-deductible.
*MEMBERS: Your Promo Code will be emailed to you on May 1. Need your member promotional code? Please email heather@bolinasmuseum.org.
Not yet a member? Join us today at www.bolinasmuseum.org.
Enjoy stunning coastal views, live music, seasonal fare, lovely wine varietals, and specialty cocktails as we kick off summer during this festive gathering of friends, old and new!
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We are grateful for the many generous volunteers and donors who make this important fundraiser possible!
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Please join us as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibitions:
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting
Herbert Pföstl: Between Field and Firmament
Laura Plageman: Response
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3 PM Artist Talks
4–5 PM Reception
Free and Open to All

Artist Talk
The Hard Part is Silence: Herbert Pföstl in Conversation with Elia Haworth
Sat. June 24, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Austrian artist, writer, and translator Herbert Pföstl will discuss his art practice and working with words. The conversation will reveal Pföstl’s influences and inspirations, including the explorations and testimonies of early, often anonymous, masters; the hallucinatory hieroglyphic drawings of Antonin Artaud; Pföstl’s obsession with farewells in American “revenant sounds” from the 1920s and 1930s; Melville’s Pierre and Albert Pinkham Ryder’s ... Learn More
July

Courtyard Event
The Astonishing World in a Drop of Water with with Jenny Jacox and Janai Southworth
Sun. July 9, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join us to view the array of microscopic life found in a drop of water collected directly from Bolinas Lagoon. Jenny Jacox, PhD in Ocean Sciences, and artist/naturalist/educator Janai Southworth share their passion and deep knowledge as they provide a window into a surprisingly magnificent world with microscopes and monitor screens. Plant-like phytoplankton are the base of the oceanic food ... Learn More

Please join us in the museum’s courtyard outside Hansen’s Wildlife Gallery to celebrate his brand-new book, Birds of Point Reyes (Heyday, 2023). Here at the edge of land and sea, on the Point Reyes Peninsula, we witness the great bird migration of the Pacific Flyway. In this book, focused on 27 iconic species ranging from the fearsome Peregrine Falcons to ... Learn More
Highlights: Past Programs & Events
Bolinas Museum's 40th Birthday Celebration
ARTIST TALK · Lewis Watts: Portraits of the African Diaspora
NATURE WALK · Low Tide Duxbury Reef Walk with Kent Khtikian
2023 Bolinas-Stinson School Exhibition Reception
PANEL DISCUSSION · Dr. Peter Gleckler, Ellen Litwiller, Joe Mueller, & Terry Sawyer
GALLERY TALK · Views Through a Microscope with Jenny Jacox, Janai Southworth, and Friends
PANEL DISCUSSION · The Science and Art of Creating a Butterfly Sanctuary in Bolinas with Ole Schell, Mia Monroe, Audrey Fusco, and Elizabeth Weber
EXHIBITION WALKTHROUGH · "Helina Metaferia: All Put Together" with Yng-Ru Chen
COURTYARD CONCERT · Mia Pixley
ARTIST TALK · Fariba Bogzaran on the Enigma of Hypnagogia and Ecology of the Lucid Mind
CURATOR TALK · Alfred Harrison on the Life and Art of Jack Wisby
VIDEO · Marie Dern: The Art of Handmade Books
COURTYARD CONVERSATION · Sally Robertson and Barbara Janeff
VIRTUAL TALK · Sally K. Fairfax and Friends
VIRTUAL TALK · And All the Ships at Sea: Point Reyes and the Culture of Radio with Irwin Keller and Carola Davis
March 19, 2021
VIRTUAL TALK · Printer at Play: Marie Dern and the Magic of Letterpress
December 9, 2020
VIRTUAL TALK · The Wonderful World of Handmade Books with John DeMerritt
November 14, 2020
VIRTUAL TALK · Learning in the Grove of Akademus with Jeff Gunderson
July 24, 2020