To The Max – BYO Fashion Show

Register To Walk https://www.dirosaart.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BYO-FS-F-4.27.mp4 Attention all maximalists! We invite you to dig through your closet, visit your favorite thrift store, and dress yourself in outrageous colors, patterns and textures for di Rosa’s first “self-styled” fashion show. All ages and styles are welcome to walk the runway, or simply watch! Registration fee: $10 (through April 13) Late registration fee: $15 […]

Bringing the Collection Home

Bringing the Collection Home During the fires in 2017 we had to rush to save the di Rosa collection by moving it off-site to a storage facility in Oakland.  This is extremely costly and makes it difficult for the curators to engage with the artwork and develop meaningful exhibitions. Our friends Kaethy and Tim Kennedy […]

Stags’ Leap Winery Artist in Residence

Initiated in 2014, this collaboration marks the launch of a newly revitalized Artist in Residence program at Stags’ Leap Winery through a multi-year partnership with di Rosa. Stags’ Leap Winery has been a gathering place and creative retreat for artists from all over the country since its inception in 1893. With the revival of their […]

Beatnik Meteors Screening and Live Performance

Join us at 500 First Street in Napa (formerly the Copia building) for a public screening of selections from di Rosa’s film collection curated by Beatnik Meteors artist and filmmaker Paul Clipson. Featuring works by William T. Wiley, Bruce Conner, and others, followed by a special screening of outtakes from Clipson’s current body of work […]

Lost and Found Artist Talk

Join us for a conversation with artists Elisheva Biernoff and Floris Schönfeld as they explore the ideas and works behind the current exhibition, Lost and Found. $10 General / $5 Members. RSVP via email or call 707-226-5991 x27.

Opening Reception:Desirée Holman: Sophont in Action

This solo exhibition presents new work by noted contemporary artist Desirée Holman. Through a range of media, Holman explores the overlap of science fiction and New Age mysticism and the iconography associated with these realms—including aliens, auras, and time travelers—to examine the space where fantasy can reveal truth. Sophont in Action emerges from Holman’s long-standing interest […]

Creativity Jampresented with Nimbus Arts

Join us for a day of art, music, and family fun at the fourth annual Creativity Jam! This delightfully unconventional arts event features artist-led projects by Nimbus Arts, live music by local band Trio Soleá, and remarkable hand-blown bubble demonstrations by “bubblesmith” Sterling Johnson. Delicious Mexican food from SMOKE: Open Fire Cooking and an assortment of […]

Performance:Desirée Holman: Sophont in Action

In conjunction with the exhibition Desirée Holman: Sophont in Action, Holman presents an exclusive, site-specific performance featuring residents of the local community. This special event offers firsthand participation in an outdoor fantasyscape created by the artist that will unfold throughout di Rosa’s lush and stunning grounds. The elaborate, large-scale performance builds on Holman’s current body of […]

In Conversation: Desirée Holman

Join us as Desirée Holman discusses the development of her new body of work, Sophont in Action, in conversation with cultural critic Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information.   $10 General / $5 Members. RSVP by email or call (707) 226-5991 x27

Opening Reception: Bay Area Now 7

di Rosa is honored to be one of 15 Bay Area visual arts organizations selected to participate in YBCA’s signature triennial Bay Area Now 7 (July 18–October 5, 2014). Using an art fair style format in which the selected participants present curated projects in a shared exhibition space, BAN7 celebrates visual arts organizations as vital […]