Are you ready for summer? It’s a great time for art in Sacramento. Check out a few exhibitions, installations, and activities that you’ll want to get on your calendar this season.
Coming up on Friday, August 7 is the 2026 Sac Open Studios Guide Release Happy Hour! Enjoy music, refreshments, meet artists, and check out the schedule for this year’s two-weekend event.
The party is at Verge Center for the Arts. Learn more > https://sacopenstudios.com/.
Now showing at the Crocker Art Museum, Rebels with La Causa.
Explore the impact of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) which began at Sacramento State in 1970. Learn about art exhibitions, literary events, performances, civic engagement and more through posters and artwork.
Ricardo Favela (American, 1944–2007), El Centro de Artistas Chicanos, 1975. Screenprint, 22 1⁄4 x 16 in. RCAFavela Collection. © Estate of Ricardo Favela.
The 60th National Mother Lode Art Exhibition is coming in November, but now is the time to prepare your artwork and get ready for the June 8 Call for Artists.
Get the prospectus, download the postcard, and learn about this year’s judge Debra Kreck-Harnish.
Even More To Do
- NCA Member Show at Sacramento Fine Arts Center, runs through May 16
- Midtown Second Saturday Art Market and Silent Disco with H.E.R.E. on Second Saturday, May 9 at Fremont Park, and while you’re there check out the Kaiser Permanente Fremont Park Bloom, an installation of thirty sculptures
- Check out the Creative Crosswalks in Natomas featuring artwork by Uli Smith, Emma Montalbano, Jolene Russell and Christina Stevenson
- Art and Sip as you learn to Paint and Sculpt with Clay at The Atrium on May 10 from 10:30am to 5pm
- PRIDE group art show in partnership with Gallery 1075 – a free art reception for Pride Month on June 11 from 6-8PM
If you have an art event coming up that you’d like me to know about, be sure to submit story ideas here >
Enjoy your art adventures!
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