News — Art shows, Art workshops, and Art classes
Artist Spring: The Fire and The Rose Are One
Beautiful Morning • 16" x 20" • Acrylics and ashes on gallery-wrapped canvas • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
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April and May, 2018
Sofie Contemporary Arts 1407 Lincoln Avenue, Calistoga, California April 5 - June 3, 2018 And from Thursday, April 5, to Sunday, April 8: Flower Bomb Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5, 4 to 7 PM Join us on Thursday, April 5th, for the opening reception of Flower Bomb. You'll see amazing floral arrangements and constructions inspired by the artwork in Artist Spring: The Fire and The Rose Are One — artwork that is each artist's response to the wildfires that touched our community, and many of the participating artists, last October. April 8th also marks the six-month anniversary of the beginning of the Tubbs Fire and Northern California's other wildfires.
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Beauty from Ashes II • 6" x 8" • Acrylics and collage on gallery-wrapped canvas • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
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The entire four days also mark Calistoga's celebration of the arts — it's Sarafornia!
While you're here, be sure to see ENGAGE Art Fair at the Napa County Fairgrounds, the Creativity Crawl (we have lots of galleries on Lincoln Avenue, our main street, that are planning special shows), Art in Bloom (family-friendly art activities at the Calistoga Art Center), and the Storytelling Speakeasy at Tank Garage. It's all part of Napa Valley's Arts in April. And you can learn more about it at: www.celebratenapavalley.org/p/events/engage-overview/sarafornia |
Barn Raising — My Studio Recovery from the Tubbs Wildfire
Karen Lynn Ingalls at barn studio, this December, after the Tubbs wildfire.
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January 2018
The barn studio that I'd been blessed to be able to use for nine and a half years was lost in the Tubbs wildfire this last October. In it were paintings and drawings going back to the 1970s, canvases, frames, easels, tables, shelving, a small press, grid walls and canopies for display, small sculptural pieces and armatures, art supplies and materials, mixed media paintings in progress, and much, much more. Although I cannot replace what the fire took, I need to build a new place where I can store my paintings and display materials — a new shed, next to my house, where I can keep my work nearby and safe. I'm putting together a barn-raising — an online fundraiser (perks will include cards, prints, and perhaps original paintings too). I'll be announcing it soon. If you're interested in finding out about it in the meantime, please let me know! |
Beauty from Ashes
Green Horizons • 16"x 20" • acrylics and ashes on canvas
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December, 2017
The Calistoga Roastery 1426 Lincoln Avenue, Calistoga, California How do you make beauty from ashes? It's a metaphor for what many Californians are doing now, as they rebuild their homes, their work, and their lives. For me, this was also literal. While my home, thankfully, remained safe, my art studio in a barn on the ranch of friends outside Calistoga was completely burned.
The abstract landscape paintings in this series were created with acrylic paints, collaged photographs of the remnants of the studio, and the ashes of my burned paintings, to take the ashes of what had been, and, with them, create new beauty. |
My thanks to The Weekly Calistogan and editor Anne Ward Ernst, for her article, Calistoga artist creates 'Beauty from Ashes' using ash from her own burned art to create new art.
Jessel Gallery — Holiday Extravaganza
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1019 Atlas Peak Road • Napa, California
Opening Reception: Friday, Nov. 17 • 5 to 8 PM Open 10 AM to 5 PM daily through December Come join us at Jessel Gallery on Friday, November 17, for the opening reception of the Holiday Extravaganza! |
I'm pleased to be part of this fun, colorful show — and also to be there with some of my friends and colleagues from Open Studios Napa Valley. I've made collage panels for the occasion, with images of both my landscape and mixed media paintings, and I've also brought four smaller and mid-sized landscape paintings, too.
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The Tubbs Fire and Fire Recovery
"IT FEELS WONDERFUL!" 'Some Calistoga residents are full of joy after learning they could return home.'
I and my home and home studio made it safely through this month's Wine Country firestorms (my barn studio was not so lucky) that ravaged Napa and Sonoma Counties — thanks to the hard work of many dedicated people. My thanks to all the firefighters, police, local officials, Red Cross, Salvation Army, and volunteers who took such good care of us!
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While I was at the American Canyon evacuation center, I wound up being interviewed three times — for the PBS News Hour; for Fox; and for KRON4, the San Francisco Bay Area station that worked hard to bring news of the fire and keep locals up on what was happening. My favorite, though, was after I returned home, when KRON4's reporter Haaziq Madden drove all the way up to Calistoga to follow up and see how I was doing.
"IT FEELS WONDERFUL"
Some Calistoga residents are full of joy after learning they could return home. Newly returned home, I began working on many varieties of heart-shaped artistic post-fire signs to distribute to local businesses, if they wanted to put one in their window. I've been delivering them in recent days.
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Open Studios Napa Valley
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September 16-17 and 23-24, 2017
Studio #2 • at the Calistoga Art Center 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California Open 10 AM to 5 PM This year we'll have ten artists at Calistoga Art Center, on the grounds of the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga. In addition to my work, you'll be able to visit with artists who work in a wide range of media and styles, including painters, printmakers, a sculptor and a ceramicist.
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Open Studios Napa Valley Preview Show
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September, 2017
Jessel Gallery 1019 Atlas Peak Road, Napa, California Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 8 • 5 PM to 8 PM Open 10 AM to 5 PM daily Come see work by each of Napa Valley's 71 Open Studio artists, as you preview what and whom you might want to visit in this year's 43 Open Studio locations. It's our 30th anniversary — and we'd love to see you at our celebration!
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Hearts Across the Valley
Tree Heart Art, on the trees in downtown Calistoga from April through October, 2017
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Downtown Calistoga, California — April through October, 2017
St. Helena Elementary School — March through fall, 2017 
Hearts Across the Valley is a public art project intended to bring visual inspiration of love, kindness, and compassion to the community and to our visitors. Currently, you can see Tree Heart Art on Lincoln Avenue in downtown Calistoga, on trees along Lincoln Avenue, and at St. Helena Elementary School, in the school's main entrance and auditorium, in St. Helena, California.
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Heart art at St. Helena Elementary School — three installations — Love in Many Languages posters; Blossom Heart Garlands with signatures of every students and teacher in the school; and A Garden of Hearts • Created together with SHES Music Teacher Laura Condylis, the St. Helena Boys and Girls Club and their Art Director Kari Sue Carson-Martin, and the students who attend both.
My heartfelt (no pun intended) thanks to The Calistoga Tribune and Kim Beltran, The Weekly Calistogan and Anne Ward Ernst, The Napa Valley Register and Evy Warshawski, and The St. Helena Star and Jesse Duarte for their newspaper articles about my Hearts Across the Valley project.
First page of article by editor Kim Beltran in The Calistoga Tribune.
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Jessel Gallery — January and February 2017
Bright, Bold and Beautiful 1019 Atlas Peak Road Napa, California Opening Reception: Friday, January 6 • 5 PM to 8 PM Open 10 AM to 5 PM daily 
I'm happy to announce Jessel's January-February show, Bright, Bold and Beautiful, featuring the work of painters who love color (including me).
It's going to be an inspirational show, if you love color as I do. I hope you can join us for the opening, Friday night, January 6th, from 5 to 8 PM. You can also see the show through February. |
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Jessel Gallery — October 2016
Photo courtesy of Jessel Gallery
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1019 Atlas Peak Road
Napa, California Opening Reception: Friday, October 7 • 5 PM to 8 PM Open 10 AM to 5 PM daily I'm pleased to have my work at Jessel Gallery in Napa, California! Jessel is introducing my paintings in a small show adjoining this month's big show for the Napa Photographic Society, Beauty, Humor, Heart, through October 30th. You'll also be able to see my artwork in the 2016 Holiday Extravaganza show following it in November and December. If you haven't been to Jessel Gallery yet, you're in for a treat. I hope to see you at the reception!
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Napa Valley Open Studios — September 17-18 and 24-25, 2016
Studio #1
Calistoga Art Center
1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California
Studio #1
Calistoga Art Center
1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California
I'm pleased to be a part of Napa Valley Open Studios again, after a two-year (two busy years!) hiatus. Calistoga Art Center, where I teach, has opened its space for nine of us for Open Studios, so you can visit not only me, but eight of my colleagues. The Art Center will also have refreshments and tables where you can enjoy them, as you sit and contemplate the artwork around you. Come join us!
Some of Karen's artwork and her painting demonstration at ENGAGE Art Fair in 2015.
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Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM
In Calistoga, at the Napa County Fairgrounds 1358 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California I'll be at ENGAGE Art Fair 2016 again this year, at 1435 North Oak Street, on the grounds of the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga (right next door to the art center).
ENGAGE is the celebratory closing event of Napa Valley's Arts in April month-long arts festival, and is your opportunity to not only see artwork, but to see artists at work, demonstrating how they do what they do. There are musicians and performers and talks, as well, both days, so there is a lot to see and do — and engage with the arts! I hope you'll come by and say hello! |
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The Artwork of Karen Lynn Ingalls
Summer 2015 — Summer 2016 Chateau Montelena Winery Tasting & Wine Library Rooms 1429 Tubbs Lane, Calistoga, California Open from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM 
Vineyard Tree • acrylics on canvas • 36" x 48" • © K L Ingalls
I was pleased to be invited to show my paintings at Chateau Montelena Winery in Calistoga, the marvelous and historic winery that was partly responsible for putting Napa Valley and its wines on the map. (It was featured in the movie Bottle Shock.) You can see them there daily, in the tasting rooms and wine library, when they are open.
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"Autumn Celebration II" in the front tasting room at Chateau Montelena Winery
"Vineyard Tree" in the back tasting room at Chateau Montelena Winery
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Upcoming Art Workshops
Calistoga Art Center at the Napa County Fairgrounds 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA |
See more workshops listed below....
Landscape Painting Art Workshop in May, 2016
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Landscape Painting Art Workshop
Date: Saturday and Sunday, May 21 & 22, 2016 Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM — bring your lunch! Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA |
Art Classes — Acrylic Painting & Mixed Media, Beginning Drawing & Sketching
Calistoga Art Center — at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California 94515
Calistoga Art Center — at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California 94515
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Acrylic Painting & Mixed Media
Friday afternoons, from 1:00 to 4:00 PM You can sign up for a session of classes (with our new Drop-in card, if you miss a class, just make it up the next time) — or drop in for a single class, if you like. |
The Calistoga Art Center is located on the grounds of the Napa County Fairgrounds in Calistoga — as you're facing the fairgrounds buildings, it's the one on the far left.
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Beginning Drawing & Sketching
Thursday evenings, April & May 2016 Drawing is really all about seeing — and it gives you a strong foundation for working in any other art medium. We'll start with the basics — and you'll be amazed at how differently you'll see the world around you. We'll work on drawings with line and with light and shadow, working from a variety of subjects. You'll also learn the basics of perspective, and how to use perspective in your drawings. You can see more of my pen-and-ink sketches on my blog: The Sketchbook Project - I The Sketchbook Project - II The Sketchbook Project - III The Sketchbook Project - IV The Sketchbook Project - V |
Calistoga City Hall • 5" x 7" • pencil drawing on paper • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
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Sign up online at the Calistoga Art Center's website, or in class when you come. You can learn more about them on my Art Classes information page. More information about Beginning Drawing & Sketching will come soon!
Create Compositions That Work Art Workshop in January, 2016
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Create Compositions That Work
Art Workshop Date: Saturday and Sunday, January 9 & 10, 2016 To be scheduled again Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM both days — bring your lunch! Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA |
Acrylic Painting 101 Art Workshop in February, 2016
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Acrylic Painting 101
Date: Saturday and Sunday, February 27 & 28, 2016 To be scheduled again Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM — bring your lunch! Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA |
Secrets of Color Harmony Art Workshop in May, 2016
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Secrets of Color Harmony
Date: Saturday and Sunday, March 19 & 20, 2016 To be scheduled again Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM both days – bring your lunch! Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA |
Tentatively scheduled — Abstract Landscape Painting Art Workshop
Date: To be scheduled...
Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM both days – bring your lunch!
Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA
Date: To be scheduled...
Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM both days – bring your lunch!
Location: Calistoga Art Center, at the Napa County Fairgrounds, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA
Land Trees Skies Vines
Solo show, Santa Rosa City Hall Council Chambers
100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, California
October to December 4, 2015
Reception November 6, 2015, 5 to 7 PM
Solo show, Santa Rosa City Hall Council Chambers
100 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa, California
October to December 4, 2015
Reception November 6, 2015, 5 to 7 PM
The Promise of Rain, acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas, 24" x 24", © Karen Lynn Ingalls
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I was honored to be invited to show my landscape paintings at Santa Rosa City Hall Council Chambers this fall. I created a new series of paintings for the show.
My thanks to Jessica Rasmussen, the curator for the City of Santa Rosa, who does a marvelous job arranging art shows throughout the city for Sonoma County (and in my case, just over the hill in Napa County) artists. |
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ENGAGE Art Fair – April 25-26, 2015
Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM In Calistoga, at the Napa County Fairgrounds 1358 North Oak Street, Calistoga, California 
Karen painting Sunset Meadow • photo © Karen Lynn Ingalls
ENGAGE Art Fair, the closing celebration of Arts Council Napa Valley's Arts in April, presented arts in action. Visitors saw Napa Valley artists at work, and were able to see and talk with them about their process and what's behind the work they do, and see their finished work.
Have you ever wondered how a painting is created? What happens to get from empty canvas to finished work of art? It doesn't happen automatically — and there are a lot of stages a painting goes through in the process.
It's true of all artwork.... Often, you would never guess from the beginning stages what the final result will be.
ENGAGE gave visitors a great opportunity to see many kinds of artists working in many and diverse media. |
The process of painting "Vineyard Tree," from early stages to the finished painting • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
Of course, since this is Napa Valley, visitors got some great food and wine tasting experiences, too. It's coming around next year, too, during Napa Valley Arts in April. Save the date for 2016!
"Autumn Celebration 2" in process, on the easel • 36" x 48" • photo & painting © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
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ECHO Art Gallery
The Fine Art of Karen Lynn Ingalls, Janet Berrien, and Joe Kowalczyk February 7 through April 5, 2015 
Vineyard Tree • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © 2015 Karen Lynn Ingalls
My thanks to everyone who came to see the show! And thank you for supporting contemporary Napa Valley artists like me.
These paintings are all of scenes near Calistoga, though my intentions are larger than simply recording what I see.
Here's a little excerpt from my statement about the work: "These paintings are as much about a state of mind and heart as a place and time. When you look at a beautiful scene, there is more than meets the eye. The world is alive. It breathes; it grows, in all seasons. Everywhere you turn, everything is alive. And in that life breathes joy. My mission as a painter is to see that life, that joy, and paint it. How do you paint joy? It is that simple, and that challenging." 
Autumn Celebration II • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
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You'll find ECHO Art Gallery inside the Station House at The Calistoga Depot, 1458 Lincoln Avenue, Calistoga, California.
Part of my show at ECHO Gallery in Calistoga, in the historic railroad station at the Calistoga Depot
Morning Celebration • 36" x 48" • acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas • © Karen Lynn Ingalls
Another view of my show at ECHO Art Gallery, in the historic railroad station at The Calistoga Depot.
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The Calistoga Art Market
Presented by the Calistoga Art Center at the Art Center, 1435 North Oak Street, Calistoga, CA Next Art Market to be announced 11 AM to 4 PM 
Karen, with her booth, and giving a painting demonstration, at the August 2014 outdoor Calistoga Art Market • photo by Yvonne Henry
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"What is an Art Market?", you might ask.
It's sort of the same concept as a farmer's market. But at the Art Market you have an opportunity to meet artists, see what they do, talk with them about their work, and buy their work directly from them. It's February, so of course we'll be indoors, at the Art Center. I bring special small paintings to this event — paintings small enough that I only show them at events such as this and open studios. (But I'm not doing Open Studios this year — so this is the place to find me and my small paintings.) In addition to paintings, I bring matted reproductions, greeting cards, and ceramic tiles (and more), with images of my artwork — with lots of choices of things that are small enough to tuck in a suitcase, if you're visiting from out of town. (My thanks to photographer Yvonne Henry for this photo from the August 2014 Art Market!)
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