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Ranches & Rolling Hills Landscape Art Show Since 1998, artists from Marin County and from Santa Barbara’s Oak Group have participated in Ranches & Rolling Hills, a landscape art show and sale to benefit Marin Agricultural Land Trust. United by their admiration of the working landscape and their desire to help preserve it as a source of both human sustenance and artistic inspiration, the painters, photographers, and printmakers have created an exceptional collection of work which is available for sale just one weekend a year. These paintings and prints depict farms protected by MALT easements, ranches located in Point Reyes National Seashore, and other private farmlands—all of them reflecting the human and natural history that make West Marin such a special and beloved place. Fifty percent of all sales go to support Marin Agricultural Land Trust’s work of preserving Marin County farmlands. Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) is a private, member-supported, nonprofit organization created in 1980 by a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists to permanently preserve Marin County farmland. MALT eliminates the non-agricultural development potential on farmland through the acquisition of conservation easements in voluntary transactions with landowners. MALT also encourages public policies that support and enhance agriculture. Some of the Bay Area's most highly acclaimed dairy products and organic crops, including Cowgirl Creamery cheeses, Straus Family Creamery dairy products, and Point Reyes Original Blue Cheese are produced from farmland protected by MALT conservation easements, which total more than 40,000 acres on 61 family farms and ranches. When The 11th Annual Ranches & Rolling Hills landscape
art show and sale takes place on Saturday, May 17, 2 P.M.–5 P.M., and
Sunday, May 18, 2008, Where The Druids’ Hall is located on the village square in Nicasio, California. From the Golden Gate Bridge or the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge: Take Highway 101 north to Lucas Valley Road which is just past the Marin Civic Center. Go west on Lucas Valley Road for 10 miles. It ends at the intersection with Nicasio Valley Road. Turn right on Nicasio Valley Road which winds into the village of Nicasio. The Druid’s Hall is located on the south side of the village square. Public parking is available all around the square. Limited handicapped parking is available at the Druid’s Hall. From Santa Rosa: Take Highway 101 south to Lucas Valley Road. Go west on Lucas Valley Road for 10 miles. It ends at the intersection with Nicasio Valley Road. Turn right on Nicasio Valley Road which winds into the village of Nicasio. The Druid’s Hall is located on the south side of the village square. Public parking is available all around the square. Limited handicapped parking is available at the Druid’s Hall.
How Artists are Selected Part of what makes Ranches & Rolling Hills an experience that artists like is the camaraderie that is created before, during, and after the show. Artists selected for the show assist in hanging the exhibit, staffing it during the weekend event, and/or taking the show down. Slides for the 2009 show are reviewed from September 1, 2008, until November 30, 2008. Artists selected for the 2009 Ranches & Rolling Hills show will be notified in January, 2009. Artists should send a letter of interest and a selection of six to eight slides of their paintings, prints or photography of West Marin’s ranches and rolling hills to: Elisabeth Ptak
Press Click here for information on the 2008 Ranches & Rolling Hills landscape art show and sale.
Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust Marin Agricultural Land Trust is pleased to announce the publication of Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust. This hard-cover edition contains more than 135 full-color works of art selected from Ranches &Rolling Hills, our annual landscape art show and sale. The elegant 160-page large format book published by Windgate Press of Sausalito, contains essays by MALT’s Associate Director Elisabeth Ptak, by Jean Stern, Executive Director of the Irvine Museum, and by Michael Whitt, the show’s co-founder and curator. During the era of America’s westward expansion in the mid-nineteenth century, countless artists were inspired by the luminous beauty of California. Prominent painters who visited the state at that time included Albert Bierstadt, William Keith, and others who illustrated both the native beauty and, later, the agrarian life that became an integral part of the landscape. This book is a collection of contemporary artworks in that tradition, but the images also stand on their own as representative of a new tradition, that of the artist as conservationist Click Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust to order a copy for yourself. The book also makes a wonderful gift.
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