Calendar of Events

Influenced by early California art, Elaine Mathews paints large, semi-impressionist landscapes and small plein-air paintings using a palette knife and brush. In her exhibition at the Rancho Mirage Library, she presents scenes from the high and low deserts, with ocotillo, yucca palms, cholla, and Joshua trees animating her views.

This exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum spotlights graphic design from Mexico's past and present, examining the field's development over the last century and it's role in Mexico's pop culture. Curated by Robert J. Kett, Eso Es la Vida features typography, posters, sign painting, video, and digital media.

Desert Art Woman Gallery and programming partner Wyld Womxn present Resurgence, an all female/nonbinary art show. The art show is curated by Adriana Lopez-Ospina, Lauren Bright of Wyld Womxn, and Juliette Vos of Desert Art Woman Gallery. The art show explores artists and how they are transitioning or not into the world. Both organizations focus on women's empowerment an education.

German artist Kim A. Tolman, who lives in Palm Springs, is being featured at the desert's largest art venue, MAD.KAT Gallery in Rancho Mirage. This art show highlights Tolman's paintings from the early 1990s to today. Tolman's expressive work emphasizes texture and color. She has also worked for Disney and Universal Studios as a production designer, and she has had

Rubine Red Gallery's latest show is "Just Bloom" by Michael Griffin. Griffin's new show expands his chrysanthemum flower inspired series by taking oil forms to higher levels of dimensional color, depth, and light. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16 from 5 to 8 p.m.

The Palm Springs Library hosts "Slay: The Art of Drag" art exhibit by artist Craig Mann. Browse through 20 portraits of local drag queens. Mann celebrates local drag artists who bring joy and entertainment to their audiences. The exhibit can be viewed at the main library durning regular hours.

Head to the Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts at College of the Desert for Raiz II, an art exhibition curated by Thinkspace Projects, Tlaloc Studios, and the Perez Brothers. The opening reception will be held Sept. 28 from 4 to 6 p.m with installations by Bloody Gums Collective and live screen-printing with Blue Hills Studios.