BEDFORD gallery

Bedford Gallery, a program of the City of Walnut Creek, also receives substantial support from the Diablo Regional Arts Association.

upcoming exhibitions

To schedule a tour for any of the following exhibitions, please see our tour information.

Civic Arts Education 45th Anniversary Exhibition December 3 - December 21, 2008 Honoring forty-five years of distinguished teaching by visual artists at the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Education Program, this show includes an extraordinary breadth of mediums and styles. The mix includes painting from plein-air to abstract, sculpture in molded paper as well as wood and ceramic; assemblage, photography, monoprints, digital art, jewelry, stained glass, weaving, and furniture. This show celebrates the largest community-supported arts program in Northern California . Stimulating creative thought and encouraging personal self-expression, it brings high quality visual arts instruction and educational experiences to participants of all ages. John Finger, Morning Fog, watercolor
Theme of School Tour: Explore the breath of media and styles used by artists who are also teachers. School Tour Art Project: Open studio: pick from the various media and styles on view (or one from art history) and make an original artwork!
Illuminated Sculpture January 7- February 22, 2009 Lighting up the short, dark days of winter, is an innovative exhibition of luminous work guest curated by The Crucible’s Christian Schiess. Schiess is an award winning artist, author of “The Light Artist Anthology,” and Chair of the Light Art Department at the Bay Area’s only nonprofit sculpture studio and educational foundry. The artists in the exhibition use more standard materials such as neon, argon and electric light discharge as well as some of the emerging mediums such as LED’s, electroluminescent wire, and photovoltaics. Mary White, Houses, 1996
Theme of School Tour: Experience a wide range of three-dimensional art that you can see in the dark! School Tour Art Project: Create a mobile using materials that explore the properties of light, movement, and space.
Post Secret March 1 - April 26, 2009 In November 2004, Frank Warren began his community art project by handing out postcards to strangers and inviting them to anonymously submit a secret on a postcard and mail it to him. The response was overwhelming and to date, Warren has been mailed more than 100,000 postcards. The secrets are both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves are works of art—carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Homemade postcards made from cardboard, old photographs, wedding invitations, and other personal items artfully decorated have traveled to Warren from all over the world. PostSecret, unflinchingly, exposes our rich interior lives, showing the best and worst of what dwells there.
Attention: This exhibition contains adult themes for mature audiences. Tours recommended for 8th grade and up. Theme of Tour: Witness how people of all ages and backgrounds visually express their personal secrets. Tour Art Project: Receive a Post Secret postcard to create at home, and participate in this worldwide phenomenon.
Encaustic: Working in Wax May 10 – July 12, 2009 Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. This technique was notably used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 CE, in the Blachernitissa and other early icons, as well as in many works of 20th-century American artists, including Jasper Johns. This national juried exhibition will feature some of the most renowned artists working in this medium today and will provide an arena for educating other artists and students about the past and possibilities of working in wax.
Theme of Tour: Discover the far-reaching use of beeswax in artworks that are two and three-dimensional. Tour Art Project: Create your own encaustic artwork using wax, images, and found objects.

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