CARe Doug Adams Gallery

Don't miss the chance to buy a gorgeous work of art by past CARe artist Nicholas Coley! This weekend and next, Saturday and Sunday, May 2/3 & 9/10, he will hold an Open Studio from 11am-4pm at 307 Robin Rd, Mill Valley, CA 94941.

Take a look at the art before you go: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1dltw7st491z6o3/AAAxJaBHmtYIbdxLQVZO6-C_a?dl=0

Check out this upcoming event, happening this Sunday in Cedar Rose Park!

Sacred Music Fellowship's Earth Day Concert & SingJam Celebrate Earth Day with a joyful community sing and jam at Cedar Rose Park. Enjoy live music, singalong, and eco activities. All voices and instruments welcome

The Datura wrightii on display in the Gallery is thriving in its current psychedelic home - just look at how much it’s grown since the opening of “Altered State” back in February!

“Altered State: Religion & Psychedelics in California” is on view through June 9! Don’t miss your chance to check out the intersection of psychedelics and religion in the Doug Adams Gallery!

Open to the public, free of charge, Tuesdays - Fridays, 10am - 4pm

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We need scholars in Art and Religion because creativity expresses what words alone cannot.

Scholars in art and religion help interpret symbols, images, and creative traditions that shape spiritual life across cultures.

Join Professors Kathryn Barush and Chris Renz, OP, for a screening of "The Secret of Kells" followed by a discussion with Valerie LaPointe, Pixar Story Artist and Director!

When: Thursday, May 7 at 6pm
Where: Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
What: A screening of the animated film "The Secret of Kells" (2009), the first installment in Tomm Moore's Irish Folklore Trilogy, followed by "Song of the Sea" (2014) and "Wolfwalkers" (2020). It premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

“Altered State: Religion & Psychedelics in California” is still on view for another two months!

Don’t miss the opportunity to check out the intersection of psychedelics and religion that opens up new perspectives on the cultural and material history of the California experience.

Open to the public, free of charge, Tuesdays - Fridays, 10am - 4pm through June 9!

Art shown: blotter paper art by Mark McCloud, Grateful Dead t-shirt, and Mondo 2000 publications

Check out this upcoming film screening happening this Saturday at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive - with an introduction by Ayize Jama-Everett, an Afrofuturist novelist, filmmaker, educator, and therapist whose film "A Table of Our Own" is featured in CARe's current exhibition, Altered State!

Sun Ra: Do the Impossible Ayize Jama-Everett is an Afrofuturist novelist, filmmaker, educator, and therapist weaving speculative storytelling, community healing, and sacred inquiry across literature, film, pedagogy, and psychedelic-informed practice rooted in justice, ritual, and imagination.

We’re kicking off a new program here in the Gallery! Join us every third Wednesday of the month for an informal lunchtime talk with a faculty member about their favorite art experience.

Next up is Ted Peters, Distinguished Research Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics and
CTNS Affiliated Faculty, who will be talking about the 1951 film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still”.

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We had a blast at the opening of “Altered State: Religion & Psychedelics in California” last week! Huge thanks to everyone who came out and made the night such a success!

“Altered State” presents a multi-faceted view of the intersection of psychedelics and religion to go beyond the 1967 Summer of Love narrative, offering new perspectives on the cultural and material history of the California experience.

Open to the public, free of charge, Tuesdays - Fridays, 10am - 4pm through June 9!

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Don't miss this upcoming show in San Francisco, featuring the work of local artist Eva Bovenzi - whose piece "From Blue #3" is on display in the Graduate Theological Union's Hewlett Building!

A heads up on our first show of the New Year, celebrating the Solstice and the slow return of light. Featuring work by Eva Bovenzi, Sheila Ghidini, Archana Horsting, and Jessica Snow.

The solstice marks a quiet turning point—not spectacle, but fact. Light returns almost imperceptibly. Winter remains, but the direction has shifted. These works attend to that threshold: not arrival or abundance, but incipience—the earliest signs of movement, growth, and possibility. Light here is not brightness, but orientation.

In this way, the solstice becomes a quiet structural logic for the show: a reminder that transformation rarely announces itself. It begins softly, in the dark, and only later reveals how much has changed.

Stop by the gallery to see this exceptional show-- make an appointment at [email protected]







I hope you can join us in this celebration of a return to light!

featured work:
Archana Horsting
'Central Valley Vista, after David S. Wilson's Flooded rice paddy, near Robbins,2014, 'Oil stick
30 x 42 inches unframed
35.5 x 43 inches framed