March 1 - June 14, 2024 Instead of starting with blank canvas or paper, Cedars artists were encouraged to create art using found surfaces and objects. In addition to adding new life to old, unfinished artwork, they transformed cardboard boxes, old magazines, wood scraps, and all kinds of other odds and ends. This act of upcycling, or creating new value from discarded things, sometimes reveals gleaming, hidden facets of our artists' creativity.

2020 Marin Open Studio featured artist

A juried community art exhibition presented by Cedars and the San Anselmo Arts Commission. What feeds your body, mind, and soul? Cedars and the San Anselmo Arts Commission invites Bay Area artists to enter a juried exhibition of work that expresses feelings of abundance and pleasure. Representational work may depict food or anything else that adds to the sweetness or savoriness of life. Abstract work and 3D work are also welcome. Accepted pieces will be displayed alongside art by Cedars artists at Artist Within Gallery in San Anselmo.

November 6 - November 27, 2020 It’s time to celebrate the harvest, and our connection to friends and family. This season, when in-person sharing will be limited, we can still enjoy the holidays through memories and images of foods we love and foods we imagine.

Rotating display of works by Louis Kahn and Katie Buster.

October 29 - December 23, 2022 Follow the String is an exhibition developed in partnership with Cedars and NIAD Art Center, two Bay Area based progressive studio programs for adults with developmental disabilities. Curated by NIAD’s Emma Spertus and Julio Rodriguez with NIAD artists Felicia Griffin, Dorian Reid, and Kiesha White, the exhibition features artists from Cedars and NIAD, alongside artists from the broader Bay Area arts community. Follow the String showcases conventionally trained artists alongside artists with disabilities, blurring distinctions between "insider" and "outsider" art. A workshop will bring together participating artists to create a new fiber-based work for the exhibition. In one of many free-wheeling conversations between exhibition curators Emma Spertus and Kiesha White about fiber art and rug-making, Kiesha (also a NIAD studio artist) described her process: just ‟follow the string.” Emma goes on to say, ‟We're bridging communities—Cedars and NIAD and the greater arts community—and it’s exciting to see where interests and creative voices overlap. Fiber was the starting point, but it has really exploded. Like any medium that has deep roots, there's a wellspring of continual interest in fiber, and Follow the String is a snapshot of what that interest looks like today." The material of thread is a simple and powerful metaphor for connectivity. As individuals we are strands; as communities we are intertwined. These concepts draw from the rich history of Northern California utopian design and craftwork centered in Marin County and the Bay Area in the 1960’s and 70’s. Follow the String will trace a lineage from these countercultural dreamers to contemporary practitioners who continue to deploy craft and handwork as a means to achieve a more democratic and inclusive world. Public programs will be designed around the model of inclusive and collaborative craft and handwork forums to create opportunities for dialogue, discussion, and problem-solving through collective action. An artist-led workshop by master weavers from Cedars will demonstrate their working techniques and artistic process. 

Program dates to be announced. An accompanying satellite exhibition will run concurrently in NIAD’s Annex Gallery space in Richmond.

June 4 – August 27, 2021 The Harmony art show embodies what has given each artist a sense of harmony during a year-plus of isolation and discord. For some, it was listening to music and or observing nature. Others took up cooking or stayed connected with friends in socially distanced manners. The art in the show reflects each artist’s representation of what Harmony means to them, spanning from realism pieces to abstract works. In total, there are 70 paintings in the exhibit – half from Cedars artists and half from other Bay Area artists. Jurors Chris West and Ashley Harris.

March 4 - April 23, 2021 Branson students and Cedars artists collaborated to create artwork inspired by their favorite real-life and fictional heroes.

November 1 - December 31, 2022 An exhibition by Cedars artists at Town Books and Friends of the San Anselmo Library.

Roating display.

November 29 2024 - January 15 2025

September 10 - November 26, 2021 In a summer of severe drought, save water, pray for rain, and visit us at Cedar’s Artist Within Gallery where it’s raining cats and dogs! We have teamed up for a purr-fect partnership and collaboration with the wonderful Marin Humane for our current exhibition. ​Cedars artists had the op-paw-tunity to work from over eighty photos of pets lucky enough to have MH members as their guardians. The result: a show worth wagging your tail over!