Art and Play by the Bay and at Marin Art and Garden Center

On Sunday, September 28, 2025, two remarkable Belvedere spirits, Charles Edward Auerbach and Carole Mignon Stitt-Bruner, were remembered in a grand way with the gift of MIRANDA from MARIN SERIES (the character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest). The 35mm film photograph is printed on Awagami Kozo natural paper (Japanese mulberry). Gifted by the Auerbach Artist Colony … read more

Sitka Coptic Bookbinding

We traveled up the West Coast to Oregon with a tent, our trunk of bookbinding art supplies, and our open and curious spirits ready for an adventure through nature and learning.  Darby will add here that she was also honoring Sy’s completion of their Masters of Library and Information Science. Books and learning were in … read more

Art Education Joy and Hope

Educating is ever learning Art Education adding Joy and Hope Writing from my beloved mother Marianne’s fingers through mine Marianne Gianella Auerbach a Blessed Memory a gifted pianist and teacher in San Francisco Putting feeling into her fingers as she taps the magical keys on her Hamlin and Mason Carrying her artistic energy bringing Joy … read more

ELIZABETH from MARIN SERIES at The Lucretia Little History Room at Mill Valley Public Library

ELIZABETH 2015/2016 Of MARIN SERIES (portraits of Shakespeare’s female characters and Queen Elizabeth I cast as the nature of Marin). 35mm film transparency photographed at the Ink Wells in Lagunitas in September 2015. Framed in redwood from an 1896 Mill Valley home. History is memory, remembered. What we love endures. In blessed memory of Jonathan … read more