Hats Off in the Garden Dinner, Thursday, August 13, from 4 to 7 pm

Champagne Preview, Friday, August 14, 4 to 7 pm

Festival Days, Saturday, August 15, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, August 16 from 10 am to 4 pm

2026 AIR Awards

Art in the Redwoods kicks off with the Hats Off in the Garden Dinner and a Fine Art sneak preview on Thursday, August 13 from 4 to 7 pm. The following day, Friday, August 14, artists and guests can enjoy a Champagne Preview from 4 to 7 pm, with champagne service and a preview of the Outdoor Artists Vendor Booths, culminating in the opening of the Fine Art Exhibit at 4:30 pm, followed by judges critique and award announcements. 

Art in the Redwoods continues on Saturday, August 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, with the Fine Art Exhibition and Outdoor Artists Vendor Booths open for public enjoyment, accompanied by food, drink, live music, and family entertainment. The same schedule follows on Sunday, August 16, with the addition of a raffle drawing and the announcement of the Most Popular artwork at 3 pm.

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Entertainment Schedule

Thursday, August 13

4:00–6:30 pm — Kevin Village‑Stone Redwood Picnic Area

Friday, August 14

4:00–6:00 pm — Redwood Roots Revival Redwood Picnic Area

Saturday, August 15

10:00 am–4:00 pm — Melody’s Face & Body Airbrush Art Festival Grounds

11: am — Coastalettes featuring an encore by Patricia Wilson & Mimi Dallas Coleman Hall

11:00 am–3:00 pm — Nature Crafts for All Ages DePrima Terrace

11:30 am–12:30 pm — Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers Sextet Amphitheater

11:00 – 11:30 am — Story Time with the Frog Redwood Meditation Grove

12:00–2:00 pm — Bards of a Feather Redwood Picnic Area

1:00–1:30 pm — Hana Hou (Local Ukulele Group) Coleman Hall Indoor Stage

1:30–2:00 pm — Sea of Dreams Puppet Ensemble Strolling Grounds

2:00–4:00 pm — Jenny Kerr Band Amphitheater

3:55–4:00 pm — Jann Artio Amphitheater

Sunday, August 16

10:00 am–4:00 pm — Melody’s Face & Body Airbrush Art Festival Grounds

10:30–11:00 am — Tai Chi Demonstration Amphitheater

11:00 am–3:00 pm — Nature Crafts for All Ages DePrima Terrace

11:30 am–12:30 pm — Ernest Bloch Bell Ringers Sextet Amphitheater

11:00 – 11:30 am — Story Time with the Frog Redwood Meditation Grove

11:30 am–2:30 pm — Kevin Village‑Stone Redwood Picnic Area

1:00–2:00 pm — Heartstrings Coleman Hall Indoor Stage

2:00–4:00 pm — Rhythm Drivers Amphitheater

3:55–4:00 pm — Jann Artio Amphitheater

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Ourdoor Artist Vendors

Jewelry Ling‑Yen Designs • Custom Jewelry by Kim • Left Coast Designs • Cannone Designs • Adornable • Abalone Queen • Opulent Ore • Slainte Bags (bags & accessories with jewelry elements)

Woodwork Luke Garrison Woodwork • MendoMadrone • Mendocino Redwood Coast Products

Glass & Ceramics Glasswork Gifts • Moira’s Glass Art (fused glass) • Gaylon Gregg Ceramics • Viking Pottery

Textiles & Wearables Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild (quilts) • Maarit Knits (knitwear) • TeresaMade (bags & pouches) • Adirondack Designs (leather)

Fine Art & Photography Scott Sewell (photography) • Granite City Artists (photography & mixed media) • Single Malt Cove (paintings) • Bird of Play (drawings)

Specialty Crafts Forest and Farm Soapworks (soaps) • Evolve with Mary (fire art) • Lotus Printworks (block printing) • Fogline Studios (beads) • Earth Conjuror (preserved botanical art) • Cat‑Hawk Gardens (kokedama gardens) • WLM Entertainment Group (art, music, driftwood sculpture)

Community Organizations Redwood Coast Land Conservancy • Redwood Coast Humane Society • Coast Life Support District • North Coast Artists Guild – Studio Discovery Tour

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Thank you to our sponsors

Grand Sponsors
In Loving Memory of Alan and Janet Coleman
The Elkes Foundation
Mark Quattrocchi & Tina Kelly
Andrea Lunsford
Surf Market
In Loving Memory of Nell Susalla

Platinum Sponsors
Gualala Supermarket

KGUA
Georgia & David Nelson
Mary Sue Ittner & Bob Rutemoeller
Woodenhead Vintners

Gold Sponsors
Anchor Bay Thai Kitchen
Bedrock Inc.

Cynthia and David Bogolub
Pacific Piecemakers Quilt Guild
TrinksTrione Vineyards & Winery

Silver Sponsor

Susan Bernardo & Kevin Polk
Susan Blair
Calstar CellarsFurther Reach
Robert & Sandy Goldberg
Inner Flower Child Books
Karel Metcalf & Jim Littlejohn
Sophia & Bob Mitchell
Open Door Insurance Services
OZ Farm
In Loving Memory of Barry Ress
Redwood Coast Land Conservancy
Linda & Patric Royal
Virgina Rubin & Dick Warmer
Skyfiber
Diana Souverbielle & Joyce Tarr
The Sea Ranch Lodge
Westamerica Bank

Bronze Sponsors

George & Kathryn Anderson
Scott & Laura Bridge
Cathy & Joe Cassetta
Intero Real Estate Services, Inc
Joni Kay Realtor & Rentals
Deidre Harrison & Thomas Crane
Ignacio Health Insurance Services
Jane Kelley Bookkeeping & Hall Kelley Org Inc.
Vivien Lin
Thanktuary Retreat
Chris Mengarelli & Dale Elliott
Collage Interest Group
Andrea Polk & Wayne Lorentz
Savings Bank of Mendocino County
Ron & Jan Sauffner
Ann & Mike Savageau
In Loving Memory of Ranger Sue Bechtel and Ralph Jackson
Barry & Kathryn Weiss
Joan Wood & Gail Jackson
Team Susalla
The Sea Ranch Foundation
The Rotary Club of America
North Coast Brewing Company
KTDE
Gualala Lions Club

Friend Sponsors

Beatrice Acosta
Violet & Debra Arana
Ellen Ashdown
Katy Balthazar
Mitchell Barnhart
Patty & Paul Batchelder
Meredith & Danny Beam or Beam Inc.
Allison Bogolub
Eden Bogolub
Steven Bogolub & Erika Stowe-Madison
Brennie Brackett Fine Art
Robyn & John Cann
John Carlson
Pat & Joel Chaban
Michelle Chaboudy
Ara & Rita Chakrabarti
Cindy Cione
Coasting Home
Colette Coad & Rozanne Rapozo
Christine Cremo & Kevin Facemyer
AYC Design, Inc
Deanna DeGaetano & Ted Berman
Ruth Downes & Jamie White
Mark & Jane Eisner
Siobhan Elder
Marge Entwisle
Carol and Mark Escajeda
Kevin & Sylvia Evans
Beverley & Rocky Fagundes
Judith Fisher & Peter McCann
Jim Fleming
Friends of the Gualala River
Jesus & Carole Garcia
Christine Gimmler
Harrison Goldberg
Hathaway Benefits Insurance
Cynthia Hauck
Randy & Bev Hawks
Paula Haymond
Charles & Kathye Hitt
Independent Coast Observer
Jeanne Jackson
Barbara & Phil Johannes
Bruce Jones
Jr’s Home and Auto Center
Bernadette Karp
Jane and Hall Kelley
Richard Kendrick
Kennedy & Associates Real Estate
Madeline Kingsley
Kim & James Klescewski
Mirka Knaster of MirkaArt
Michael & Christine Kreyling
Don & Carrie Krieger
Linda Lambert
Michelle Ladcani
Jacueline Lappe
In Loving Memory of Tony Sheets
Susan & Gary Levenson-Palmer
Susan & Alex Lewis
Leigh Ann Lindsey
Marty & Maria Linker
Gary Martin
Pamela Martin
Jan & Don McCormick
Peggy & Mike Mee
Debbie Miller
Cheryl & Fred Mitouer
Francoise Montserrat Bray
Marcia Moore
Linda Moreland
Sharon Nickodem
Paul Nordstrom
Miriam Owen
Helen Pataki
Janet Pierucci & Adrian Adams
Richleigh & Kathleem Powers
Amy &Tom Reidenbach
Mary & Bill Retzer
Erin Riley & John Crowley
David Ross & Nancy Smith
Michael Rowbotham
Karen Russell & John Carlson
Karen Russell
Tony Salamone
Yvonne Schell & Steve Miller
Rina Shur
Mary Kay & Peter Sidell
Howard Slyter & Marjorie Ginsburg
David Smith
Joanne & Bjorn Solberg
Dorthy Spalding
Patrick Canonge & Robert Strong
Michaela & Dieter Suess
Jesakka Tarr
Karen Tracy
Doug Volz
Molly White & Robert Wood
Mango Grits
Soana Halapua
David Yager & Tempra Board

Fine Arts Award Sponsors

Beading Excellence In Honor of Jane Reichhold – BedRock, Inc
Best Local Work – Westamerica Bank
Color Photography – Coasting Home
Clay & Mosaic – Mirka Knaster of MirkaArt
Collage & Mixed Media – Collage Interest Group
Best of Show – The Sea Ranch Foundation
Digital Art – In Loving Memory of Nell Susalla
Emerging Artist (under 18) – Colette Coad & Rozanne Rapozo
Environmental Award – Redwood Coast Land Conservancy
Environmental Award – Friends of Gualala River
President’s Award – Gualala Arts
Fiber, Textiles & Soft Sculpture – Intero Real Estate Services, Inc
Figure Drawing Excellence – Gualala Arts Life Drawing Group
Glass Art – Kennedy & Associates Real Estate
Mele Halapua Cocker Weaving – Soana Halapua
Jewelry & Ornamentation – Ignacio Health Insurance Services
Mendonoma Sightings – Jeanne Jackson
Monochromatic Photography – Independent Coast Observer
Most Popular Work – Gualala Arts
Oil & Acrylics – Surf Market
Pastels and Drawings – Brennie Brackett Fine Art
Prints & Graphics – Inner Flower Child Books
Quilts Pacific – Piecemakers Quilt Guild
Sculpture – Barry & Kathryn Weiss
Water Media – Jane Kelley Bookkeeping & Hall Kelley Org Inc.
Woodworking – Jr’s Home and Auto Center
Best Use of Artificial Intelligence – Mango Grits

 

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Meet the Judges

Gary Martin

For more than thirty years, Gary Martin built an international career as an art dealer, working with collectors, galleries, and artists while developing an extensive knowledge of the history of art and the art market. He later earned a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from San Jose State University, integrating Art History with the Humanities to strengthen his commitment to arts education. Today, he volunteers his time teaching art history to preschool through twelfth-grade students, introducing approximately 2,500 young people each month to the world’s artistic and cultural heritage. Through engaging presentations that span prehistoric cave paintings to contemporary art, his program inspires curiosity, critical thinking, and a lifelong appreciation for the visual arts, making art history accessible to students throughout rural Northern California.

Doug Volz

Doug Volz is a Northern California artist whose work spans visionary art, colored‑pencil mandalas, pastel landscapes, and mixed‑media explorations of light. Active for more than five decades, Volz has exhibited widely throughout Mendocino, Lake, and Sonoma counties, with additional early shows in the Bay Area. His career includes solo exhibitions, shared shows, curatorial work, and multiple museum presentations.

Volz’s first major exhibition, The Visionary Art of Douglas Volz, appeared at the Berkeley Psychic Institute in 1975, followed by Surface and Image at the Civic Arts Gallery in Walnut Creek in 1976. Through the 1980s and 1990s, he presented work across Willits, Ukiah, and Fort Bragg, including shared shows with Meridy Volz and Ada B. Fine, and thematic exhibitions such as Colored Pencil Mandalas (1987), Pastel Landscapes (1996), and The Light Series (1997).

In 1994, Volz served as both curator and exhibiting artist for Visionary Artists of Mendocino County at The Art Conspiracy in Ukiah. His work continued to gain regional visibility with solo exhibitions at The Hopland Brewery (1999) and a 30‑year retrospective at the Willits Center for the Arts in 2004.

Volz co‑curated Northern California Visionary Art: A Contemporary Legacy at the Grace Hudson Museum in 2008, further cementing his role in shaping the region’s artistic identity. His work appears in Artists of Inland Mendocino County, Book #2 (2010), and he returned to the Willits Center for the Arts in 2013 with The New Light Show.

From 2022 onward, Volz has been a frequent exhibitor at the Middletown Arts Center, contributing to themed shows including Belonging (2022), Outside In (2023), Changes (2023), The Space Between (2024), Right in Front of Me (2024), Entanglement (2025), and Configurations (2026). His 2023 solo retrospective Dark and Light at Gualala Arts Center featured 24 paintings, and he participated in the Grace Hudson Museum’s Back to the Land the same year.

Most recently, Volz presented Doug Volz – Colored Pencil Drawings at Fore Vineyards in 2024 and continues to exhibit new work throughout Lake and Mendocino counties.

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Art in the Redwoods

Sponsorship Opportunities

We need your support more now than ever! As a sponsor of Art in the Redwoods you will be helping to ensure that Gualala Arts remains long into the future!

Friends Sponsor $100 or more

Honorable mention on the website, sponsor posters, official program

& Art in the Redwoods online exhibit

Name on VIP Will Call List

Bronze Sponsor $500 or more

Name on the Art in Sponsors web page with link,

posted on Facebook & Instagram

Two Hats Off in the Garden dinners & Name on VIP Will Call List

Silver Sponsor $1,000 or more

All of the Above plus Logo on Sponsors listings

Four Hats Off in the Garden dinners & Name on VIP Will Call List

Gold Sponsor $2,000 or more

All of the above plus

Six Boxed Hats Off in the Garden dinners & Name on VIP Will Call List

Platinum Sponsor $3,000 or more

All of the above plus

Eight Hats Off in the Garden dinners & Name on VIP Will Call List

Grand Festival Sponsor $5,000 or more

All of the above plus

Ten Hats Off in the Garden dinners & Name on VIP Will Call List

Please make checks payable to Gualala Arts, PO Box 244, Gualala CA 95445

707-884-1138