FIGURE AS STORY: Main Gallery – Figure As Story is a juried exhibition featuring 51 artists from 9 Bay Area counties. Selected from 316 submissions, this exhibition reflects the vitality of contemporary figurative art, representing a multitude of art forms and approaches to the figure. As a special feature of the show, artists were requested to provide a story about their work. Some chose to create a fiction; others shared their process or inspiration.

QUEER TIME CAPSULE: PRESERVING LGBTQIA+ STORIES IN A TIME OF ERASURE: North Gallery – In a time when queer and trans rights are under direct attack, photographer and visual storyteller Sarah Deragon is launching Queer Time Capsule, a powerful new exhibition in the North Gallery of the Petaluma Arts Center. This show is more than an art exhibition—it is an act of resistance, a living archive, and a refusal to be erased.