Sonoma State Art Department

11/17/2025

Wrapping up this semester’s artist lecture series with a lecture by Cathy Lu ✨

11/10/2025

Come check out our annual Juried Student Exhibition ✨Opening reception this Thursday, November 13th, 4-6pm

11/10/2025

Join us this Wednesday for an artist lecture from Emily Davis Adams!

Emily Davis Adams is a visual artist interested in the technical histories and conceptual possibilities of representational painting, specifically in the relationship between representation and meaning. Her practice often weaves together investigations of cutting edge technologies such as generative artificial intelligence with references to art history.

10/15/2025

Today! will be giving an artist lecture, join us!

03/04/2025

Join the Department of Art for an artist lecture by Bay Area Artist Michael Arcega.

Art building 102 12:00pm-12:50pm
Free and open to the Public.
March 5th

02/07/2025

Join the Sonoma State Department of Art for an artist lecture by Bay Area artist Dana Hemenway✨
Hemenway’s work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts–– lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains.

Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NE), ACRE (Stueben, WI), SÍM (Reykjavik, Iceland), Joya: arte + ecología (Spain), The Wassaic Project (Upstate New York) and at Recology Waste Management (San Francisco). Dana is a 2024 Eureka Fellow, Fleishhacker Foundation and the recipient of The San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She has a public art commission at SFO’s Terminal 1. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015 – 2017, Dana served as a co-director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA from Mills College and her BA from University of California Santa Cruz. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery.

As always, lecture is free and open to the public!

Wednesday, February 12th, Art Building 102
Sonoma State University

📷credits: Ethan Kaplan Photo and Simon Beckman

Artwork image:
The Color of Horizons, 2020
Wood, steel, rope, extension cords, glazed ceramics, LED lights

11/18/2024

Don’t miss the Visiting Artist Lecture series guest speaker Jennifer Shanda this Wednesday!
Join us on Wednesday, November 20th from 12:00pm -12:50pm , via Zoom. Open to all.
Join Zoom meeting:
https://SonomaState.zoom.us/j8954461581

11/08/2024

09/25/2024

Don’t miss the Visiting Artist Lecture Series guest speaker Wally Dion this Wednesday!

Join us on Wednesday, September 25th from 12-12:50pm , via Zoom. Open to all!

https://SonomaState.zoom.us/j89544616581