Journey Center Blog

The Journey Center Art Gallery is currently featuring paintings by Naomi Murakami in a show titled “Smell of Color”. Naomi Murakami is a Tokyo native artist who says “As a Pseudo-realist, the major themes of my art are intimacy, my personal experiences, and the memories that have built-up who I am.” Stop by and see the art anytime the Journey Center is open (M-F, 9-5).

 Apprentice Program and Art Demonstration: Gary Holland, a wonderful artist from Boise, Idaho, will be doing an Apprentice program here in Santa Rosa on a monthly basis and has contacted us about holding his classes at the Center. This coming week, he and his students will be with us for four days, all day, painting and learning his techniques. We are excited to be further implementing our vision for supporting the arts in this way! Also, on June 23, Gary will be doing an art demonstration (open to all). Read more about it on our website http://www.journeycenter.org/hapArt.php. Gary travels around the world painting portraits of children in places like Haiti, China, etc. To visit his website and learn more about his ministry, go to www.hollandgallery.com.

This past Sunday we had another one of our art openings (featuring John Teague and his wonderful photographic documentary exhibit called “One Day with the Datooga”). For the first time, the Bohemian newspaper chose to feature our gallery along with an image and the editor of the paper also talked about the show on a local radio program. We had a wonderful turnout and a great time! The shows runs through February, so there is still time to come see it.

Happy New Year! As we look back on last year, we are grateful for all the relationships that we have been able to begin and nurture as the number of people who are hearing about the Journey Center continues to grow and almost daily now we are getting phone calls, emails and visits here at the Center!