2nd Friday Art Walk • Downtown San Rafael • July 10 2026

Free to the public, enjoy galleries, open studios, art exhibits, and more on the second Friday of each month.

Anchored by the Art Works Downtown galleries and studio tour, the 2nd Friday Art Walk connects art venues throughout downtown San Rafael for an evening of inspiration and community.

Check out our website for updates on all the venues who are participating https://www.artworksdowntown.org/2nd-friday-art-walk

Art Works Downtown where artists create, collectors connect, and art finds its home.Art Works Downtown is where art comes to life — and where collectors connect directly with the artists who create it. Located on Fourth Street in downtown San Rafael, our 40,000-square-foot building houses 3 galleries, 27 art studios, a vibrant artist membership program, restaurant, jewelers guild, frame shop, ceramic center, other arts organizations, 17 affordable apartments, and more.

Art Works Downtown provides an environment where visual arts thrive for the well-being of community.

• In Dialogue  reception
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  In Dialogue invites you into a conversation—where memory meets imagination, identities unfold across time and place, and art becomes a space for connection, reflection, and transformation.Featuring Bay Area artists of the Indian American Artists Association (IAAA), this exhibition brings together works shaped by layered exchange: between tradition and experimentation, personal history and collective memory, material and meaning. Rooted in diverse cultural lineages, these artists bring forward the richness of Eastern sensibilities and Western contexts, creating visual languages that are both grounded and evolving.
  
• Layers of Belonging by Nimisha Doonagarwal
  Founders’ GalleryLayers of Belonging explores identity as something shaped through memory, migration, culture, and lived experience. Through mixed media portraits layered with collage, textiles, painting, and archival imagery, these works reflect the complexity of belonging between places, histories, and generations.Many pieces incorporate fabrics and materials connected to personal and cultural memory, transforming each portrait into a layered narrative of inheritance, transformation, and human connection. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, the exhibition embraces the evolving nature of who we become through movement, experience, and the stories we carry with us.
• Light and Water: The Landscapes of G. R. Brown
  Donors’ GalleryI began my journey as a fine art painter later in life, after a 40-year career as a graphic artist, illustrator and art director in print and web media.  All of my current work is from the last 4 years, the majority of that as landscapes. I do not have a complicated philosophy (yet) about my art. I find and portray beautiful places in nature or the human world that speak to me. Virtually all of my landscapes are derived from photographs I have personally taken while hiking or traveling. Capturing light in nature is the simplest statement of what I attempt in general.  Einstein was quoted as saying that “the proof of God is that the universe is unnecessarily beautiful… that only a Higher Conscious Source would make it so”.   I would agree.
• Discover two levels of art studios and galleries