Sara Gallagher is offering a 3-hour crash course on her foundational technique of achieving realism in graphite. She will review everything you need to know about various pencils, paper, applications, blending, and which tools to use when and where. This course is being offered on three occasions — twice in person and once over Zoom.

In-person Course - $90
at Studio 5 Contemporary, 1327 4th Street, San Rafael, CA:
Tuesday, July 15, 12 - 3 pm or Saturday, July 26, 10am - 1pm
1 hour 45 minutes lecture/demo
1 hour practice and individualized feedback
15 minutes Q&A

Online Course - $90 (participation) $50 (recording only)
Saturday, July 19, 9am - 12pm
1 hour 45 minutes lecture/demo
45 minutes practice
30 minutes group critique and Q&A

Registration required, no walk-ins available.

Sara Gallagher is offering a 3-hour crash course on her foundational technique of achieving realism in graphite. She will review everything you need to know about various pencils, paper, applications, blending, and which tools to use when and where. This course is being offered on three occasions — twice in person and once over Zoom.

In-person Course - $90
at Studio 5 Contemporary, 1327 4th Street, San Rafael, CA:
Tuesday, July 15, 12 - 3 pm or Saturday, July 26, 10am - 1pm
1 hour 45 minutes lecture/demo
1 hour practice and individualized feedback
15 minutes Q&A

Online Course - $90 (participation) $50 (recording only)
Sunday, July 20, 12 - 3pm
1 hour 45 minutes lecture/demo
45 minutes practice
30 minutes group critique and Q&A

Registration required, no walk-ins available.

At the start of this year, Sara set out to explore the theme of transition in her artworks, honoring the courage, complexity, and emotional depth that comes with navigating change. Whether it's changing careers, grieving a loss, immigrating, embracing one’s true identity, or one of the many forms that transition takes, it touches all of us.

You’re invited to join us for a community dialogue on transition in a space for active listening, honest sharing, and building solidarity. This larger gathering expands on the smaller discussions Sara has hosted in the past, creating room for deeper communal reflection and connection. She looks at it as an experiment in communal emotional intimacy.

It’s vulnerable and bold to show up in such ways, and wow, do we need more safe spaces for that these days! If you feel the pull to join — we encourage you to follow it!

For those interested, there will also be a photography station set up for after the discussion. Anyone open to being photographed may be included in future drawings inspired by the emotional experiences shared during this gathering. Participation is completely optional.

Wednesday, July 30, 6–8pm.

Come to listen, share, and connect through a deeper understanding of our neighbors and peers.

This inclusive public event is open to all, so please feel free to share.

Join us for our 2nd Friday Music Series with Katsy Pline.

Katsy Pline is a guitarist and singer living in Berkeley, CA. Her latest album ‘Devotion’ is a record of ambient country music assembled from B-bender guitar, electronics, synthesizers and saxophone. Largely eschewing harmonic development in favor of oceanic feeling, the record stretches the swirling unconscious yearning of heartbreak country into glacial shapes, starlit and blue.

Her radio show on BFF.fm, ‘Heartbreak Ahead: Country-Western and Esoterica’ highlights contemporary and archival country and experimental music from the Bay Area and beyond.

Music runs from 6-7 pm, during the citywide art walk, which runs 5-8 pm.

Come for the art, stay for the music!

Join us for an engaging evening with a panel discussion featuring artists from our group exhibition, Abstracted Figures.

Abstracted Figures explores the intersection of abstraction and figurative work as two powerful means of expressing the complexities and nuances of the human experience. Honoring the distinct styles of the gallery’s founders, the show brings together seven contemporary artists whose work spans emotional, social, and environmental terrain. From Kate Tova’s richly layered mixed-media pieces to Calvin Lai’s disrupted realism and Kacy Jung’s sculptural photographs, each artist offers a unique entry point into themes of identity, perception, and experience.

Curated by Studio 5 co-founder Sara Gallagher, this exhibition features works from artists Jaime Lovejoy, Luke Kraman, Wolfgang Bloch, Kate Tova, Calvin Lai, Kacy Jung, and Tubi Ho—voices from across California and beyond, united in their pursuit of truth through form.

Artist Panel Talk: Sept 6, 4 - 6pm