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DUETS
DUETS
Willits Center for the Arts presents ‘DUETS’ , a musical collaboration with Spencer Brewer and friends on Mother’s Day
May 11, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Willits Center for the Arts,
Willits, CA 95490, USA
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The Willits High School Art Department is proud to present the 26th annual Art Under Twenty student and ALUMNI art exhibition at the Willits Center for the Arts.

We plan to welcome the following artists who have agreed to show their work:
Velvet Bandit
Danza Davis
Issac Frankel
Alyssa Fraser
Maya Joy Griffin
Diza Hope
Crystal Kamaroff (tentative)
Ann McGratten
Ellie Miller
Holly Madrigal
Malakai Shindel
Martin Wattenburger
Meghan White

The show will be dedicated to the magnificent Kathleen Kirkpatrick, WHS Emerita. We thought it would be lovely to honor Kathleen who has recently passed by inviting her former students to show their work. Kathleen was a remarkable force of nature who passionaTely taught visual arts at WHS for 25 years! She started the Art Under Twenty exhibit in 2000. She searched for a place where her students could show their work but nothing was quite right until the Willits Center for the Arts opened and serendipitously AU20 was born. Kathleen's dream came true and now we're about to celebrate our 26th year.
Please join us for the opening reception Friday, April 4, from 3-7pm. You will have a chance to meet the artists, see their work and have refreshments. For any questions, please contact carolynbakewell@willitsunified.com.

Willits Center for the Arts presents Visual Jazz, an exhibition of creative assemblage from Esther Siegel, Spencer Brewer, and Leslie Rich, along with work from their Assemblage workshop students. The exhibit will open to great fanfare on Saturday May 3, with art, finger foods, and beverages of your choice from 6 to 8pm, and will remain up through Sunday June 1, Come celebrate art and life on May 3 with some of Mendocino County's leading lights, along with friends, neighbors, and supporters of Willits Center for the Arts, This is a free event!

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Y'art Sale Donations Needed
The WCA Y'art Sale is coming! Please consider donating your gently used art supplies to this fun event, to be held this year on May 24 and 25. You can drop off your donations at Willits Center for the Arts during our open hours, Fridays, Saturdays. and Sundays between 11am to 5pm. If you need help transporting your donations please send an email to margi@mcn.org. Be a part of your Art Center and this community-centered fundraiser!

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PO Box 503

Willits, CA 95490

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Friday - Sunday

11am - 5pm

inquiries: manager@willitscenterforthearts.org

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Thank you to our Members and Named Supporters:

$15,000 +

Chris Forest

Upstate California Creative Corps

 

$10,000 +

Mary Guibert

 

$5,000 +

The Community Foundation

Draw ‘Til You Drop /Elizabeth Raybee

Jane Camp

Willits Chamber of Commerce

 

$2,500 +

Emma Good Scholarship Fund

Howard Foundation

Bruce and Cassandra Anditch

The Bill Graham Foundation

Steven and Lana Eberhard

Michelle Havenhill and Mark Henriques

Harley Hegefer

Jim Hinkle

Maggie Graham

 

 $1,000 +

The Martin Family of Ohio

The Rotary Club of Willits

Spencer Brewer and Friends 

VA58 Neighborhood Partnership Foundation

 

$500 +

James and Jeanne King

Norma Hanson

Johnson Quality Tree Care

Northern Aggregates

Al and Beth Rosen

The Savings Bank of Mendocino County

Carolyn Stewart

Michael and Dayle Deer

Seven Zero Seven Leef Labs

C. Stewart

$200 +

Barra Vineyards

Electric Floral Tattoos

Kim Bancroft

Esbeth Bjornstrom

Larry and Marisela Desmond

Frey Vineyards

John and Doreen Glyer

Mendo Mill

Pennyroyal and Navarro Vineyards Susana Wilson

Doreen Glyer

Glenn Makihara

Marjorie Barbour

Beth Rosen

Ware/Page Family

Sharon Collins

Deviyana Livneh

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