Spend a part of your July First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum. We are delighted to welcome back Paul Steward, an award-winning singer and musician hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. His music fuses Blues, R&B, Pop, and Native American sounds — a tribute to his Elem Pomo tribal roots. Visually, you’ll be able to check out latest exhibition, Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women. This traveling show from Exhibit Envoy features woodblock and collage prints by Julie Lapping Rivera that focus on significant women, many of whom were underappreciated in their time. For the Grace Hudson Museum presentation, Look Again also includes 15 Mendocino County artists who have created artwork depicting women who were family members, friends, mentors, public figures, or otherwise inspirational.

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Also enjoy an evening walk in our Wild Gardens as the days are getting longer. Light refreshments will be available.

Please note, for this First Friday, we will be closing at or around 7:00 PM.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

The featured reader for June will be Anika Snyder.  Born and raised in Ukiah, Anika is the author of Syllable Soccer, a book she hopes will bring awareness to the intricacies of life as a Bipolar poet.  It has taken root in small town communities and connected those disenfranchised, misunderstood, mistreated, and at times, misdiagnosed.  Through humor and self-reflection, her writing seeks to let her readers know that they are not alone through struggle.  A second book of her poetry is soon to released.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00. 

There is no fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.

Please note, Writers Read will be on hiatus in July, returning to the Museum on Thursday, August 27.

What makes a life unforgettable — and what happens when it’s nearly forgotten? In this virtual program, join artist Julie Lapping Rivera and the creator of Overlooked, Amy Padnani, for an engaging conversation about the creative process and the lives that inspired their work.

To join this Zoom webinar click CELEBRATING LIVES.

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This year’s bus trip to the de Young Museum will provide a rare opportunity to tour the recently reimagined Arts of Indigenous America galleries with Sherrie Smith-Ferri, who was one its guest curators and a former long-time Director of the Grace Hudson Museum. Each of the four galleries celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of Indigenous American art and explore a different aspect of the theme “Relationship to Place.”

You’ll also have a chance to experience Venice through the eyes of impressionist giant Claude Monet in the exhibition Monet and Venice. Featuring more than 100 artworks, the exhibition places Monet’s Venice paintings alongside select works from across his career, including his Water Lilies, as well as Venetian views by artists such as Renoir, Sargent, and Canaletto.

Plus, you’ll have access to all the de Young’s core galleries. Your $100 ticket includes transportation via a comfortable coach and de Young admission fees. Bring a lunch, or dine in the de Young's excellent café. Comfortable walking shoes are highly recommended

CELEBRATING LOOK AGAIN: PORTRAITS OF DARING WOMEN

Spend a part of your June First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum, where we’ll have a celebratory reception for our latest exhibition, Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women. This traveling exhibition features woodblock and collage prints by Julie Lapping Rivera that focus on significant women, many of whom were underappreciated in their time. For the Grace Hudson Museum presentation, the show also includes 15 Mendocino County artists who have created artwork depicting women who were family members, friends, mentors, public figures, or otherwise inspirational. Our musical guest will long-time Mendo County favorites Redbud, bringing their high energy music to the party — some of you will definitely be dancing!

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Also enjoy an evening walk in our Wild Gardens as many spring flowers will still be in bloom.  Refreshments, including wine, will be available.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

The May version of Writers Read will feature students from Ukiah High's creative writing class reading from their new book, Nirvana: The Disillusioned Anthology.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

There is no fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.

Soft Opening

East Coast artist Julie Lapping Rivera has been creating a series of portraits highlighting women who were significant but often unsung in their time. This ongoing portfolio of woodcut and collage portraits represents brave and inspiring women from around the globe and across centuries, many of whose accomplishments have not been adequately acknowledged. This exhibtion was originally inspired by The New York Times “Overlooked” series, which, since March of 2018, has been sharing the stories of remarkable people who were overlooked by the Times’ obituaries in the past.

Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women is a touring exhibition developed in partnership with Julie Lapping Rivera and draws upon a previous exhibition mounted at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts. It is being traveled by Exhibit Envoy.

In our presentation at the Grace Hudson Museum, we have supplemented the show with artworks around the theme of important women, done in various media by contemporary Mendocino County artists.

An opening reception for Look Again will take place on Friday, June 5, as part of the Ukiah First Friday Art Walk.

Spend a part of your May First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum. It will the last opportunity on a First Friday to see our current exhibition, Momím Wené: Medicine Water, featuring the artwork of 30 California Native artists reflecting on the significance of water in their various tribal cultures. The show includes a few Valley Pomo artists. As a nod to upcoming Cinco de Mayo, we’ve invited Grupo Folclorico de Mendocino and Grupo Folclorico de Niños to perform from 6:00 to 6:45 just in front of the Museum. For the rest of the evening, Suni Robin Smith will be in the Momím Wené gallery gracing us with her harp.

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Also enjoy an evening walk in our Wild Gardens, on your own or with our gardens’ docent, Ziggy, from 5;45 to dark. Light refreshments will be available.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

The featured reader for April will be Blake More, the Point Arena Poet Laureate and an artist of multiple paths. Her work includes performance, video, media arts, painting cars and teaching. She is a longtime Mendocino Area Coordinator and poetry teacher with California Poets in the Schools, and hosts the monthly Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz event in Point Arena. She also hosts Be More Now on KZYX&Z FM Mendocino County Public Broadcasting and Cartwheels on the Sky on KGUA FM Gualala. Her most recent book is Dystopia Unplugged: Please Talk Back. Learn more about Blake at bmoreyou.net.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

There is no fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.

The Ukiah Haiku Festival once again returns to the Museum’s Wild Gardens for a celebration of haiku poetry. Bring a couple of your own haikus to share during a round-robin reading. Enjoy live music performed by shakuhachi (flute) player Karl Young & The Uke Tones. Former Ukiah poet-laureate Armand Brint will provide this year’s keynote presentation, and there will also be readings by a few local luminary poets.

This event is free and open to the public.

Take a final look at Momím Wené: Medicine Water before it winds its way to its next location. At 6:00 PM, gain insight into the importance of water as you hear from artists Malissa Tayaba, Sage LaPena, Robin Meely, and Meyokeeskow Marrufo in a panel presentation. They will talk about their artwork and water advocacy.

Free admission for all.

Learn about the Pepperwood Tree — also known as California Bay Laurel — and how it was and is used by Pomo peoples. Then, make peppernut balls, a traditional Pomo treat that prepared properly tastes and functions like coffee and chocolate. Sherrie Smith-Ferri (Dry Creek Pomo) will lead this workshop where participants will have a chance to make both traditional-style and gourmet varieties. This program is included with Museum admission.

At this time the workshop is full. If you would like to have your name put on a waiting list, call (707) 467-2836 or email ghminsta@gmail.com.

Spend a part of your April First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum. We are delighted to welcome back as our musical guest HillShaker — which is guitarist, singer-songwriter Clay Hawkins and Andrew Robertson on bass and harmonies. HillShaker and Clay’s solo sets have been featured many times at the GHM. Visitors will also be able to see our latest exhibition, Momím Wené: Medicine Water, featuring the artwork of 30 California Native artists reflecting on the significance of water in their various tribal cultures. This includes a few Valley Pomo artists.

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Also enjoy an evening walk in our Wild Gardens, on your own or possibly with our gardens docent, Ziggy. Light refreshments will be available.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

POSTPONED

Put on gloves and explore a combination of brush and finger painting along with Shanti Parks, whose work is included in the Momím Wené exhibition. Create your own masterpiece to take home! This program is open to ages 8 and up (children must be accompanied by adults) and is free with Museum admission. Call to reserve your spot at (707) 467-2836.

The Museum is always free to Museum Members, Native Americans, and Active-Duty Military.

The featured reader for March will be Martin Hickel. Following a degree in Journalism at San Francisco State University, Martin founded the Lassen County Times, a weekly newspaper in Susanville, and then also did stints on community newspapers in Mendocino County. His interest in poetry began in high school. To date, he has published over a dozen chapbooks of his own poetry. His work also appears in a number of anthologies and poetry websites such as the annual Overthrowing Capitalism – Poetry of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, as well as Canary. He was a member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade founded by San Francisco Poet Laureate-Emeritus Jack Hirschman.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

Join cultural educator Tektekh Gabaldon to learn about dogbane, its cultural uses, and how to make dogbane cordage. Participants can make pine nut beads to string on their cordage, to make a bracelet to take home. This workshop is appropriate for ages 10 and up. It is free with Museum admission, but you must call ahead to reserve your spot! (707) 467-2836. The Museum is always free to Museum Members, Native Americans, and Active-Duty Military.

Spend a part of your March First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum. We are delighted to welcome Paul Steward, an award-winning singer and musician hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. His music fuses Blues, R&B, Pop, and Native American sounds — a tribute to his Elem Pomo tribal roots. Also, this will be our initial First Friday since the opening of Momím Wené: Medicine Water, our latest exhibition. The show features the artwork of 30 California Native artists reflecting on the significance of water in their various tribal cultures. This includes a few Valley Pomo artists.

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Also enjoy an evening walk in our Wild Gardens as the days are getting longer — and our gardens docent, Ziggy, will be available for tours. Light refreshments will be available.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

Celebrate our latest exhibition. Enjoy meeting some of the artists featured in the show and hear from the curatorial team of the Shingle Spring Band of Miwok Indians Exhibits and Collections Center .

The featured reader at February’s event will be Daniel Essman. Dan is the movie columnist for the Willits Weekly Newspaper and the author of At The NOYO, a collection of film reviews (Secret Goldfish Press, Talmage CA, ed. Dan Barth).  He is also the author of AN APOSTLE AT THE KIT KAT, a series of supernatural horror stories (Rainy Day Women Press, editor Robin Rule, 2018). For several years  Dan and his wife Robin Rule ran the Carlords Poetry Series on the Coast and in Willits. Dan’s grandmother once told him as a child that he could be a poet.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

The Museum will not be participating in this month’s Ukiah First Friday Art Walk as we’ll be busy installing our next exhibition.

The Museum will be open during the day from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM. As always, there is no admission fee to the Museum on the first Friday of the month, so please come visit. Check out our three core galleries devoted to Grace Hudson’s artwork, Carpenter-Hudson family history, and exquisite Pomo basketry. Also enjoy our Wild Gardens. If we have a docent on duty, you’ll also be able to tour the Sun House—please call ahead of time for docent availability.

We’ll return to the First Friday Art Walk on March 6, when our musical guest will be Peter Steward and our new exhibition, Momím Wené: Medicine Water, will be open.

Writers Read returns following its holiday season break. To kick off the New Year, Susanna Janssen will be the January featured reader. Susanna is the multiple award-winning Author of Once Upon a Continent: A Memoir of South American Adventures Unplugged. She writes with heart and humor on everything related to words, language, cultures, and travel. Her book Wordstruck! The Fun and Fascination of Language has received five national book awards in the categories of Humor and Education

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening typically begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

There is no fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.

Learn about the various printing methods used by the artists in the exhibition as Juan Fuentes demonstrates wood and linoleum relief carving and printing techniques. Juan is a long-time Chicano printmaker, cultural worker, teacher, social activist, and former director of Mission Gráfica who seeks to portray his people in positive, beautiful, and dignified ways. 

In this workshop, find out how screen printing is done and then print your own design on paper or textile to take home. Participants can use a provided design or they can email an original design ghminfo@cityofukiah.com by January 5.

Co-founder of Mission Gráfica, printmaker, and muralist, Jos Sances will lead this workshop. There is a fee of $20/person. Scholarship spots are available. Appropriate for ages 16 and up. Call to secure your place.

Spend a part of your December First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum, where we’ll be in full holiday mode. You’ll find caroling by the Ukiah choral group Cecilia, a family-friendly craft activity, cookies and seasonal refreshments, and Santa will be visiting kids of all ages in the Sun House. We’ll also be selling beautiful and fragrant wreaths and swag hand made by our good friends at McFadden Farms. And, of course, you’ll also be able to check out our latest exhibition, Mission Gráfica; Reflecting a Community in Print, as well as our core galleries featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.

The November Writers Read will occur a week early so as not to conflict with Thanksgiving. This month’s featured reader is David Eugene Partch, a singer-songwriter-poet from Willits. David has been featured at several venues in the Bay Area, as well as Mendocino County. He studied Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and then Philosophy at UC Santa Barbara before traveling to Germany in 1971, where he lived for 14 years and completed a dissertation on Kant’s ethics. Returning to California, David had career in computers. In retirement he learned about permaculture and rediscovered poetry. He has published three books of poetry which can be found on Amazon.

Writers Read has been happening in Ukiah since 1999, and occurs on the last Thursday of almost every month. The program focuses on poetry, spoken word, short stories, song, and expository prose. The evening typically begins with a featured reader and then is followed by an hour of open mic starting around 8:00.

There is no fee, but donations are warmly appreciated.

In this free virtual program, delve deeper into the history of Mission Gráfica, as we speak with Art Hazelwood, lead author of the book, Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print, the foundation for this exhibition.

To participate in the program, click A COMMUNITY IN PRINT.

Discover the many steps to process acorns, try them out yourself, and sample some acorn mush in this family-friendly program! Pomo cultural educator, Bernadette Smith, an enrolled member of the Manchester/Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians, will start the program at 1:30 with both a traditional and contemporary Pomo song and dance. Then she will give a talk and demonstration.

This program is included with Museum admission. Admission to the Museum is always free for Native Americans, Museum Members, and Active-Duty Military.

Celebrating Mission Gráfica: Reflecting a Community in Print

Spend a part of your November First Friday Art Walk at the Grace Hudson Museum, where we’ll have a celebratory reception for our latest exhibition. In addition to the engaging screenprints, you’ll be able to enjoy edible art from members of the tortilla art collective The Great Tortilla Conspiracy. Watch the conspirators screen print satirical images with chocolate on tortillas, toasting the artworks on a comal to make quesadillas. Eat on site or take home. Tell your friends...but, shhh, do it quietly. After all, it’s a conspiracy! Jazz/Flamenco/North African guitarist Yoba Bouabid will be our musical guest.

You’ll also be able to spend time discovering or getting reacquainted with our core galleries, featuring Grace Hudson’s artwork, exquisite Pomo basketry, and Carpenter-Hudson family history. Refreshments, including wine, will be available.

First Fridays at the Grace Hudson Museum are always free all day and evening.