Ranches & Rolling Hills

MALT presents its 15th annual Ranches & Rolling Hills Landscape Art Show and Sale to benefit farmland preservation this May 19 and 20. Since its inception, the weekend-long celebration of paintings depicting the West Marin countryside has raised more than $1 million to protect working farms and ranches.

For the 15th anniversary, 40 acclaimed artists from Marin County and Santa Barbara’s Oak Group are fanning out across MALT-protected lands to capture on canvas many of the farms, ranches, livestock, hills, and waterways that compose West Marin’s pastoral landscape. The area remains much the same as it did when farmers and ranchers settled it 150 years ago, due in large part to MALT’s work.

Ranches & Rolling Hills is held at Druids Hall, located in the quaint, historic West Marin town of Nicasio. It opens on Saturday, May 19 at 11 a.m. with a preview event and artist reception that includes first viewing of the artwork followed by a local, organic, farm-to-table lunch. Tickets for this event are $150. The preview is followed by a free, afternoon opening for the general public from 2 p.m.–5 p.m. The Sunday show is open from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. and is also admission free and open to the public.

Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin—A Land in Trust is a hard-cover book containing more than 135 full-color works of art selected from the first 10 years of Ranches & Rolling Hills, MALT's annual landscape art show and sale. The elegant 160-page large format book published by Windgate Press of Sausalito, contains essays by Elisabeth Ptak, by Jean Stern, Executive Director of the Irvine Museum, and by Michael Whitt, the show's co-founder. You can purchase a copy at the MALT Shop

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