About the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
| Organization: Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is incorporated as a nonprofit, member-supported, privately-funded organization. It raises funds through membership dues, private and corporate donations, grant solicitation, facility rentals, and fund-raising events. Museum members annually elect a volunteer board of directors to provide stewardship of Museum business. |
Facility: The Museum provides a striking and unique setting for business and private cocktail receptions, dinners, meetings, and presentations. The wheelchair accessible building includes a 3,000-square-foot main gallery and several smaller galleries, with a combined maximum capacity of 225 people. The Museum is not available for fundraisers, religious or political events, auctions, art displays, or performances not belonging to or approved by Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. Other restrictions apply. For rental fees and more information, call 707-939-7862. Education: • sponsoring lectures and workshops related to exhibitions• providing a forum for people to develop, expand, and share their interest and enthusiasm for art • offering tours to museums, galleries, and private collections • developing an internship program to train museum assistants • creating new opportunities for students and teachers |
Exhibitions:
• originating from private collections, from artists, and borrowed from museums and other resources
• showing the work of local, national, and international artists
• including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, architecture, design, print-making, film, video, and crafts
For each exhibition, Readers’ Books in Sonoma selects and purchases related books for sale in the Museum foyer and donates a percentage of the proceeds to the Museum.
In addition to its ongoing exhibition series, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art stages a number of events, such as:
• originating from private collections, from artists, and borrowed from museums and other resources
• showing the work of local, national, and international artists
• including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, architecture, design, print-making, film, video, and crafts
 | Sonoma Valley Museum of Art exhibitions feature the work of local, national, and international artists. Content originates from private collections and artist studios and is borrowed from museums, galleries, and other sources. Media include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, printmaking, film, video, textiles, and crafts. Qualified guest curators plan and assemble the shows. The museum’s new LaHaye Sculpture Gallery presents a rotating series of large-scale sculptures that appear concurrently with main-gallery exhibitions. |
In addition to its ongoing exhibition series, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art stages a number of events, such as:
 | “Dia de los Muertos.” In partnership with Sonoma’s La Luz Center, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art invites local Latino families to erect commemorative altars in the museum gallery each October to celebrate departed generations and family members in the tradition of the Mexican Day of the Dead. | |
 | “SVMA Biennial.” This juried competition (formerly “Sonoma Creates”) is open to all artists residing in Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and Solano Counties. A panel of expert art judges evaluates two- and three-dimensional works in all media, and the Museum exhibits accepted entries as well as awards cash prizes. | |
