The Ceramic Art Center of Marin Gallery and Boutiqueis located in the heart of the San Rafael Arts District, in its new home, Studio #24, on the downstairs level of Art Works Downtown.
As active members of this creative community, we are delighted to bring this exhibition to life within its walls, inviting the broader Bay Area arts community through its doors and shining a light on one of San Rafael's vibrant creative spaces. This exhibition will meander through several gallery spaces, taking visitors on a revealing and inspiring artistic journey.
Seashores are among the most magnificent places on Earth, where ecosystems of breathtaking complexity thrive in the space between sky and sea, from dramatic volcanic coastlines that cradle teeming, vibrant tide pools, where coral reefs pulse with color and life, and where the mysteries of the deep water world remain largely beyond our reach and imagination.
This ceramic art exhibition is both a celebration and a call to awareness. It invites ceramic artists to explore the full spectrum of our shores and ocean world, its extraordinary beauty, the remarkable animal life that calls it home, and the fragility of these environments in the face of climate change. It is not a story of doom but one of deep appreciation and honest witness.
We encourage ceramic artists to draw inspiration from shorelines, high air streams, tide pools, volcanic coasts, coral reefs, deep water life, and the creatures, great and small, that inhabit these worlds. Let clay, itself born of the earth, be your means of connection to it.
Works may be true to life, faithful in form and likeness to the creatures and landscapes that inspired them, or entirely abstract, using texture, color, glaze, and shape to evoke feeling, movement, or meaning.
Come to the edge. Look out. Let yourself wonder and be transported.
Apply through CAFE at: On the Edge - Apply Here
Important Dates:
Application deadline: September 27, 2026 - 11:59pm
Artist Notifications: By 5pm PST September 30
Art Drop Off Day/ Time/Location:
Saturday October 2 - 10am - 5pm
CACM Gallery and Boutique
Studio #24 @ Art Works Downtown
1325-1337 Fourth Street
San Rafael, CA 94901
Juror: Jo Clarke
Our juror is a contemporary ceramic artist who brings a designer's eye to the ancient art of clay. A graduate of Harrow College of Art, London, her ceramic work is defined by boldly simplified forms, clean graphic color and modern evocative beauty. https://www.joclarkeceramics.com/about
Jurying: October 3 - 4
Awards: 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes will be presented October 9 at 6pm.
Show dates: October 9 - November 13
Opening Reception: October 9 - 5pm - 8pm