Gallery Route One presents The Box Show. An annual showcase of the inventive and ingenious ways works of art can emerge from the starting point of a simple wooden box.
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Latino Photography Project Artist Talk Bolinas Museum
Gallery Route One and the Bolinas Museum present an Artist Talk about the Latino Photography Project’s photography exhibition: Nuestra Identidad (Our Identity) on view at the Bolinas Museum, June 8 – August 4, 2024
LATINO PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT at the Bolinas Museum — Saturday, June 8, 3-5 PM
Saturday, June 8th, 2024 — Latino Photography Project Exhibition. Nuestra Identidad / Our Identity. Opens at the Bolinas Museum
Spring Fundraiser 2024
GRO has two exciting projects afoot for which we need funding, and we are writing to ask for your support: we are relaunching the beloved Latino Photography Project and we are sprucing up the gallery’s façade.
GRO welcomes two new Co-Directors for the Latino Photography Project
Gallery Route One is pleased to announce that we have hired two Co-Directors for our Latino Photography Project: Maricela Mora and Mia Johnson-Matinez
GRO Exhibition Press Release: December, 2023-January, 2024
PRESS RELEASE. December, 2023 – January, 2024 Exhibition: Gallery Route One celebrates its 40th anniversary with an exhibition of over seventy past and present Artist Members.
GRO Exhibition Press Release: October-December, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. October-December, 2023 Exhibitions: 1) Steven Hurwitz: Following Orders, 2) Dale Eastman: Intimate Entanglements , 3) Austin Buckingham: It is Born, Ocean in Winter
GRO welcomes 3 artist members: Kelly Berg, Mirka Knaster, & Renée Owen
Gallery Route One artist membership is open to all professional artists living in the greater San Francisco Bay area. Artists from historically underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply because GRO embraces diversity, equity access and inclusion.
GRO Exhibition Press Release: September-October 2023
PRESS RELEASE. September-October 2023 Exhibitions: 1) Charles Anselmo: Palabras Perdidas, 2) Xander Weaver Scull: College to Fatherhood , 3) Laurie Sawyer: The Nature of Place, and 4) Zea Morvitz: The Book and the Hourglass
GRO Exhibition Press Release: THE BOX SHOW™ August & September, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. For THE BOX SHOW™, Gallery Route One distributes 150 identically sized wooden boxes to 150 artists and aspiring community members, all eager to interpret their art within this unique three-dimensional form.
GRO Exhibition Press Release: June-July, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS: On this 40th Anniversary, Gallery Route One celebrates its strength and endurance with Fortissimo!, the 2023 installment of the annual members’ show.
AIS Event June 15, 2023: The Art of Mandala Painting
Join us for drinks, dinner, and a wonderful evening of Mandala Painting with Mela Delgado at Toby’s Feed Barn, 11250 California 1, Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 from 5-8 PM.
A Creative Sales Workshop for Artists with Rebecca Williams
GRO Professional Development Series: Rebecca Williams – Storytelling has been used as a sales strategy for millennia. So how can you harness the power of story to sell your art?
GRO Exhibition Press Release: May-June, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS: Pat Augsburger: Time of Wonder, Jean LaMarr: Still Here, Jenny-Lynn Hall: Changing Horizons — May 6 – June 11, 2023
GRO Exhibition Press Release: March-April, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS: Bruce Mitchell: One Times Three, Nimisha Doongarwal: Identity, and Charles Anselmo: Ephemera; A Photographic Installation — March 25 – April 30, 2023
GRO Exhibition Press Release: February-March, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS: SEEN AND IMAGINED — 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, Saturday, February 18 – Sunday, March 18, 2023
GRO Exhibition Press Release: January-February, 2023
PRESS RELEASE. GALLERY ROUTE ONE EXHIBITIONS – November & December 2022: Truth: Artist Books and Broadsides, Vickisa Unleashed, Bernie Schimbke: Progressions
Artists In the Schools Updates for 2022-23
From Micro to Macro: The Interconnectedness of Nature Including Us! From Micro to Macro: The Interconnectedness of Nature Including Us! is the theme of GRO’s Artists in the Schools program for 2022-23. The theme encourages students to observe and learn about their...
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry Alive Presentation by Deborah Kennedy
Sunday, October 2, 2022 @ 4:30 PM – 5:15 PM — Artist and writer, Deborah Kennedy presents a lively exploration of the artwork and poetry from her award-winning book.
Myanmar Junta Arrests Artist Htein Lin
Last week, the Myanmar military arrested Htein Lin, a renowned Burmese artist and dissident whose art was shown in an exhibition entitled “Speaking Out” at Gallery Route One in March and April of 2018.
Gallery Route One’s Annual Box Show™ Returns – Marin Magazine article
September 2022 – Marin Magazine’s article features The Box Show 2022.
Nicole Irene Anderson is the 2022-23 GRO Fellowship Program Recipient
Congratulations to Nicole Irene Anderson who is the 2022-23 GRO Fellowship Program recipient. Read more in Nicole's artist statement: My work reflects a sensitivity to human vulnerability. I aim to trigger a sensory response that evokes memory and a heightened...
In Memory of Andrew Romanoff
Andrew Romanoff: January 21, 1923, –– November 28, 2021 at age 98. Andrew Romanoff was a founding member of Gallery Route and one of West Marin's most remarkable community members. Andrew, also known as His Highness Prince Andrew Andreievich Romanov, was grand-nephew...
Something Colorful For Your Home
Visit GRO and shop during business hours:Open 11 AM – 5 PMThursday – Monday Love art but don’t have the budget for a big masterpiece? Take a look in GRO’s Alcove, that’s where our Artist Members show their smaller, more affordable artworks. Great little paintings,...
Blessed Unrest, Annual Juried Exhibition 2022
Juror: Jack Fischer, Jack Fischer Gallery, 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco No artist is pleased ... there is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive. – Martha Graham Prospectus Exhibition Dates: January...
How we can help
In light of recent events in communities across our nation, Gallery Route One stands in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Please consider supporting a local nonprofit that advances social and racial justice. Here are some organizations that need our...
Member Artworks for Sale Online
Be the first on your block to take a peek at our new online shop! With the Shelter-In-Place orders, we had to temporarily close the gallery.
A New Artist Member
Austin N Buckingham A former career geologist and environmental scientist, Austin has practiced black and white film photography and is now exploring printmaking. Her work often references nature, flow (of water or wind), rocks...
Marj Burgstahler Stone
Gallery Route One lost a fine sculptor and one of its original 25 artist members when Marj Burgstahler Stone passed away this summer. She felt the human-caused threat to wildlife keenly, -- especially the threat to birds, whose forms populate so much of her recent...
Many Thanks to our wonderful Box Artists
ONCE again our Box Show was a great success -- thanks to our super creative Box Artists and the generous bidding of our Box buyers, supporters and fans. Your box donation; your box purchase support GRO and its outreach and community service programs: Artists in the...
WE HAD FUN CREATING!
For two weeks Gallery Route One became an art studio with free-form art projects and workshops. We had a lot of fun together making buttons, collages, drawing, painting, putting books together, creating costumes, making Cyanotypes and more …
CREATE!
You are invited to CREATE! From Friday, April 19 through Sunday, May 5 Gallery Route One will open its doors to offer FREE Art Workshops, and Demos, and free time to make your own artwork. All tools and materials provided. Some...
Fellowships for Artists 21 – 40
Applications are now being accepted for two fellowships with stipends for Bay Area artists age 21 to 40. Deadline: April 20. Fellowship period: July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020. Two Fellowships are awarded each year. Applicants are automatically entered...
Events at GRO this month
The Anthropocene — What's art got to do with it? / Artist Panel Talk with curator Patti Trimble. Sunday, January 20, at 3 PM. Conversations with artists exhibiting in 2 current GRO exhibits: Earth/Unearth, Art Practice as Ecological Inquiry and From a Language of...
GREAT things happened at GRO in 2018
WE wish everyone in our community a happy new year! Here are some of the great things that happened at Gallery Route One in 2018: GRO celebrated 25 years of our Artists in the Schools Program and Madeline Hope’s 11 years as its director. Both Madeline and Gallery...
The PRINT CLUB
Support. Collect. Celebrate. Gallery Route One’s Print Club celebrates the joy of collecting art while nourishing GRO and its many creative projects that have inspired artists and art lovers from the Bay Area and beyond for over 35 years. Help GRO move...
Thank You!
All of us at Gallery Route One send a big shout out the Box Artists and the Box buyers and all the Box Show™ enthusiasts who make our yearly BOX MANIA so much fun and such a great success!!! THANK YOU!!!
Play the Game!
You don't have to bid high to enjoy the Box Show AND support Gallery Route One. For max fun at the Box Show find all 25 treasures! For a $20 donation you get the Treasure Hunt game and souvenir booklet and a raffle ticket for a box for next year's Box Show. The Box...
GRO Fellows for 2018–2019
As our Fellows for 2017-18 say goodbye, GRO welcomes the two new Artist Fellows selected for 2018-2019. Hannah Mode, Senior Fellow and Kathleen Siroco,Emerging Fellow. Their artwork is included in Tell Tale, GRO Artist Members' Annual Exhibition in the gallery from...
HUMAN/NATURE
For 25 years our Artist in the Schools Program has inspired K-8 students to engage meaningfully with the world around them. We do this through hands-on science, art-making and creative writing led by professional artists and exceptional teachers. This spring students...
Can You See Music? Vickisa can.
Coming on May 25, Vickisa turns music into drawings and watercolors. Yari Ostovanni paints Through the Mystical, Tim Graveson finds books washing up on the beach. Exhibitions open May 25; Reception on Saturday, May 26.
Free Film Screening
Free Film Screening: “Sitwee” at the Dance Palace: March 31 A short documentary film looks at two teenagers affected by conflict in Burma's Rakhine state in 2012. Phyu Phyu Than, a Rohingya Muslim girl, and Aung San Myint, a Buddhist boy, were both displaced by...
Fellowships for 2018-19
Applications are now open for Gallery Route One Fellowships for artists 21 to 35 years of age. Two fellowships with stipends are being offered for Fellowship Period July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019. Application deadline is April 12. More information and online...
New Artist Members!
Gallery Route One welcomes three new artist members: Isis Hockenos, Xander Weaver-Scull and Joe Fox. Isis is GRO's Emerging Fellow during 2016-2017, and exhibited in the Annex last December in a show titled "She Said She Said." Isis also organized Rhizosphere,...
Thank you!
Thank you to our wonderful Box Artists for contributing their artwork! Thank you to our box buyers for making our auction a great success! Proceeds from the Box Show support all Gallery Route One programs including Artists in the Schools, The Latino Photography...
A Dollar for Dollar Matching Grant through Sept. 30
Gallery Route One has received a generous matching grant making every dollar you give worth two up to $15,000, through September 30. Please donate now and help us reach our goal — $15,000 from your donations will be matched and Gallery Route One will receive $30,000....
Wearable ART pARTy!
COME AS YOU ARE! COME AS YOUR FAVORITE ARTIST! COME AS YOUR FAVORITE WORK OF ART! Put on your best hat & come to the PARTY Saturday, July 15 gallery opens at 7:30 Music by DJ Barbarella Cocktail Bar Costume Contest & more $20 / glass of wine or beer &...
In the Mix! Interdependence!
In the Mix is Gallery Route One's Annual Artist Members Exhibition June 30 through August 6 Reception on Sunday, July 1 which is also being celebrated in Point Reyes Station as Interdependence Day! Interdependence Day activities start at noon. Gallery Route One will...
Gallery Route One has a new Executive Director
Holen Sabrina Kahn is Gallery Route One's new Executive Director. A filmmaker and visual artist, Holen’s award winning documentaries creatively explore ethical acts and ideas of individual agency. She also exhibits more whimsical photographic and installation work in...
GRO seeks Executive Director
GRO is now seeking a part-time Executive Director to replace long-time Executive Director, Betty Woolfolk, who died last June. Applicant must have an appreciation for contemporary art, the ability to oversee the organization’s diverse art-related programs, excellent...
A Bit of Malice …
We've experienced a bit of malice on our website but we are in the process of cleaning it up. Please let us know if you encounter any inappropriate content. Image: Dorothy Nissen, The Trickster has entered the room
GRO Welcomes Fellows for 2016 – 2017
Afton Love and Isis Hockenos are GRO’s new Artist Fellows
Opening May 13
Mary Mountcastle Eubank: Place Markers In these abstract paintings, the artist uses textured and organic materials to describe and memorialize events of change and loss. Totem with Shards, acrylic with mixed media
Dorothy Nissen: Joy of Man’s Desiring
In the gallery in April: Dorothy Nissen: Joy of Man’s Desiring Lucid Art Residency Annual Exhibition Mimi Abers: Exploring Pâte de Verre April 1 – May 8, 2016 Reception: April 3, Sunday, 3-5 pm - Artist Talks 2:30 pm Salon: Sunday, May 8, 4-5 pm. The dangers of...
Next: Plastic Ocean
Omisade Amy Gerhauser: The Pacific Gyre Series Lee Lee: Plastic Debris Project Space February 19 – March 27
3 new exhibits open Oct. 30
Betty Woolfolk, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Johanna Baruch; Reception: Sunday, Nov. 1, from 3 to 5 PM,
with a brief performance by Minoosh Zomordinia at 4 PM.