The Crocker Art Museum kicked off the 2019 ArtMix season with “Glow”. This high energy blacklight party featured Obsidian Butterfly Light dancers, Resolve Circles Group, The Lorelei Bayne Project, Green Valley Theatre puppeteers and house music by DJ Pocket. Glow was a huge success! It was a packed house and a full dance floor. On … Continue reading
ArtMix Zombie. Crocker Art Museum. Sacramento CA. October 11, 2018. Photos Mickey Morrow Continue reading
Locusts are swarming the Crocker. Made of muslin, bamboo, tulle, and steel, they fill the exhibit rooms, poised and ready to consume everything in sight. This is Cyrus Tilton’s vision of humanity: a crawling, swarming, insatiable cautionary tale of mass consumerism and environmental desecration. The artist was first inspired to create The Cycle by the huge … Continue reading
We had a blast at the Crocker Art Museum’s event ArtMix Pride! Catch the Crocker’s next ArtMix on July 12, find more information here. Photos by Daniel Tyree Continue reading
The first Art Mix of 2018 kicked off with a Masquerade Ball theme at the Crocker Art Museum. Entertainment was provided by violinist Sasha Tkachef and DJ Paul Gordon, the Burning Daylight People, a roaming band of entertainers from Green Valley Theater and ballroom dancing lessons that provided a lively backdrop for the fun evening. … Continue reading
Take a look into the wild night of the ArtMix Bohemia held at the Crocker Art Museum on December 14th with the captivating Snake Charmer Jessica Will, the Unmata Belly Tribal Dancers, and live music by Valo Boheme. Photos by Mickey Morrow Continue reading
ArtMix: Crocker-Con. Crocker Art Museum. September 14, 2017. Sacramento CA. Photos Dan Tyree Continue reading
Ladies and gentlemen, beautiful people of Sacramento and beyond! Come marvel at a variety of oddities as the strangest and most dazzling performers in the land come together for one night and one night only during ArtMix Vaudeville at Crocker Art Museum, hosted by your friends at TUBE. Magazine! Join us Thursday, March 10, to revel … Continue reading
Black Lives Matter! at Sol Collective As we enter Black History Month, it’s important to remember history is still being made today. Police brutality against black people has been going on too long, and on February 10 at Sol Collective (2574 21st St.), starting at 7 PM, there is an opportunity to learn more about … Continue reading
The Crocker Art Museum is finishing 2015 with the light of revolution in their eyes. The museum is pulling the stops out to celebrate their last mix of the year, here’s all the excitement that’s happening: See! The robots from the American River College Electronics program Laugh! With comedians Keith Lowell Jensen and Johnny Taylor. Experience! A … Continue reading
When an artist embraces an activist message, their work can cultivate courage within people and communities. The results of such art can be inspiring and, ultimately, empowering. On Nov. 19, four artists from Northern California and beyond presented their work and stories of activism at the Crocker Art Museum’s second Art Beyond Fear panel discussion. … Continue reading
As a Sacramentan or someone near Sacramento, it is almost one’s duty to go to the Crocker Museum at least once in one’s lifetime. So why not got to a great Parisian themed art exhibit? The focus of the show will be on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec whose paintings are filled with emotion and posters that progressed … Continue reading
We know that there are a ton of options when it comes to ringing in the New Year. Whether you want to dance the night away, hit the town with the family or have a romantic meal we have got you covered. Here are a few of our favorite things going on in Sacramento CA … Continue reading
This month’s Art Mix was everything bicycles. The Crocker knows how to take a theme and roll with it, no pun intended. May is bike month in Sacramento which made the theme a perfect choice. Visual artwork, specialty built bicycles, a runway show by Juniper James and of course cocktails made the night complete. Music … Continue reading
On Thursday, March 13th ArtMix: Funk Springs Eternal held one FUNKY party. The dance floor was packed with fly ladies and slick gents doing “the hustle” to their special guest DJ FFFREAK NIGHT. A huddle occurred on the dance floor to blow up into a B-Boy break dance battle in the middle of the Friedman … Continue reading
On Feb. 17, the Crocker Art Museum celebrated Black history with music, dancing, crafts and interactive activities for the whole family. Periodic performances by Tina B and the Soul Line Dancers had children and adults shakin’ along with them. Marlena Norman, whose son and nephew, three-year-olds Johnnie and Jaden danced along with the group. She … Continue reading
The room is full of flashing lights, pounding bass, and over a hundred people well over the age of eighteen in prom finery grinding on each other and unabashedly singing along to Sir Mix-A-Lot’s Baby Got Back. Not what one would expect to find at an art museum, but this is the Crocker’s Art Mix … Continue reading
The Crocker Art Museum is celebrating Black History Month in a big way with music, crafts, art and a local marketplace. The third annual Black History Month Celebration: A Free Family Festival will be held Monday, Feb. 17 from 11am to 3pm at the museum. Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick, director of education for the Crocker, said each … Continue reading
This Thursday’s Art Mix at the Crocker Museum was a bright swirl of neon colors against darkened rooms. In the lobby, there was a lightshow by John Sonderegger and Ted Ternes. It undulated overhead, complimenting the music that sang behind the murmur of the conversations of the crowd. Every hour a pair of aerialists in … Continue reading
Some folks celebrate Christmas. Others have Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa. But for the rest of us, there is Festivus. For those unfortunate souls who were not raised on Seinfeld, Festivus is a holiday invented by George Costanza’s father, Frank, that focuses on more secular elements of the holiday season. It is held in opposition to the … Continue reading