A nice wall for thinking in Del Paso Heights which is quickly becoming covered with murals on every free stretch of wall. #WIDEOPENWALLS916
Wide Open Walls 916 – MLK
Sacramento Art
Wide Open Walls 916 – Midtown Sacramento faces and emotions
Sometimes I wonder how long this street art will last. How long until it’s disturbed or defaced? How long until a building is sold and it’s painted over? I suppose what matters is the here and now and enjoying it while it lasts. Watch it age. Watch it change separate from a museum where art of preserved forever. Here is a collection of people and faces and art that evokes some emotion. Happy Monday everyone. 
Wide Open Walls 916 – Circles and Squares
Wide Open Walls 916 festival brings art to the city large and small. These two really spoke to me. Attached to a school I had to try and capture their angles. I remember making shapes like this with string and pens when I was a child. These were probably my favorite for this visit downtown! Enjoy. 
Open Studio with Dacy
We attended the open studio of artist Dacy Kolsky in downtown Sacramento recently and really enjoyed her art and the vibe of being in her studio. Check out her mixed media collage work! Her art has an neon Andy Warhol meets 80’s throwback vibe from the time before digital when everything was actually done by hand.
What’s your favorite piece? Support your local artists!
Email dacy@modernpoppy.com
Crocker Art Museum – Sacramento
The Crocker Art Museum is a downtown Sacramento staple. Every school age child comes here at least once.
The Crocker family earned their money from the railroad. They parlayed that money in to many other things ultimately affording the family to build a legacy Sacramentans will be forever grateful for. The Crocker’s showed interest in art and began collecting personally specifically Asian art and ceramics. Eventually the beautiful house and the art collection were gifted to the City of Sacramento for the purposes of creating culture in an early Sacramento.
The original house has been enlarged during the Crocker’s time there and recently underwent the building of a world-class architecturally modern wing added in 2010. I hadn’t visited since this beautiful wing was added and took the summer heat wave as an opportunity to enjoy their art & air conditioning.
Highlights of the exhibits are the house itself, outside large public art installations on the grounds, early California paintings, ceramics, Oceana exhibits, and a broad grouping of Asian art from the Middle East, India, Japan, China, and beyond.
Some would call art like this garbage but I have always been drawn to masses of color put together like this
The precision here is lovely
I remember thinking as a child how beautiful this house was and how wealthy its owners must have been
The Crocker family gifted their house and their art collection so Sacramentans could have a place of culture and we are so grateful they did
Garden Art
One of the lovely sun rooms with collections of ceramics
Flowers are in bloom
Iconic marketing image
Our door art looking over the River
How I feel in the morning sometimes
Alien?
Yikes
Napa must represent in the art of California exhibit
I new immediately this was an impression of our beautiful California Bay Area
Harder than it looks to make art like this friends
Images of the California Country would not be complete without Poppies and Lupines
The Crocker has a pretty extensive Asian Art collection originally started by the Crockers themselves
Images of the California Country would not be complete without Poppies and Lupines
The Crocker has a pretty extensive Asian Art collection originally started by the Crockers themselves
The iconic front staircase
As one who dabbled in ceramics this is not easy to do
Perfection
OK making one, maybe but two exactly alike it impressive
Animal print anyone?
Anyone else see The Beatles here?
Bulldog Travels / Photos By Jenny 