Field Notes by Nicole Dikon

Kala is thrilled to present Nicole Dikon's installation, Field Notes, in the Milvia Windows exhibition space at 211 Milvia St. in Downtown Berkeley.

I am the unbeliever meandering in fantasy that I pray will become our future -Nicole Dikon

Field Notes is an installation that explores the garden labyrinth as both a psychological space and a symbolic foraging landscape for imagining new futures. Together, the works suggest that transformation is not linear—but found in the pause, the turn, the quiet act of gathering.

Nicole Dikon is a visual artist and printmaker based in San Francisco. Her work explores the interdependence between land, care, and memory through woodcut printmaking, painting, poetry and large-scale installation.

ART SPEAKS: Voices of Feeling Language – Closing Reception & Artist Panel Discussion

ART SPEAKS: Voices of Feeling Language

The closing event for Feeling Language, hosted by curators Julio Rodriguez & Kate Laster, will include a Q&A and in-depth discussion with Bay Area artists; Negash Asegde, Gigot, and New York based artist and archivist Mitsuko ??? Brooks. Please join us for this celebration of art, protest, grief, and Feeling Language. Masks will be required during the first hour of the closing event. We appreciate your cooperation - thank you.

Closing event: Saturday, August 9, 1-4 pm

Artist Panel Discussion: 1:30-2:30 pm

Kala Gallery 2990 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, CA 94702

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Adult Class Highlights

Intro to Cyanotype Printing

2 Classes: Saturday, August 9 & 16, 2 pm - 4 pm

Instructor: Christine Huhn 

Heinz Printmaking Studio

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Intro to Copper Etching: Hardground

Saturday, August 23, 10 am - 4 pm

Instructor: Megan Broughton 

Heinz Printmaking Studio

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Intro to Nerikomi: Patternmaking with Colored Clay

Saturday, August 23, 10 am - 1 pm

Instructor: Rie Dion

Sculpture Lab

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Photopolymer Plate Gravuer

3 Classes: Sunday August 31 - September 14,10 am - 4 pm

Instructor: Kazuko Watanabe

Heinz Printmaking Studio

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Alumni News

• Clint Wilson (2012 Fellow and 2022, 2023 AIR) will be attending the Manang Artist Residency in Ngawal, Nepal
• JoAnne McFarland's (2017 Fellow), A Domestic Lookbook, was a finalist for the 2024 Firecracker Award for Poetry from CLMP - and her American Graphic, won the 2024 Wishing Jewel Prize for Poetic Innovation from Green Linden Press
• Mary Marsh's (2018 Fellow and current AIR) artist book, Semaphore, is included in HBC53, the Hand Bookbinders of California members' exhibition at the American Bookbinders Museum, May 17-August 23, closing reception Saturday August 23, 4:30-6:00
• Renee Gertler's (2010 Fellow) Becoming Light at K. Imperial Fine Art was reviewed on KQED: listen here

More News... In Brief

• Upcoming Exhibition: Kala Gallery, August 28 - October 25, 2025, Unerasable featuring new works by 2024-2025 Kala Fellowship artists. Reception: Thursday August 28, 6-8 PM
• Registration is Open for Kala's Fall After School Program
• Twenty Five Treasures, Paul Thiebaud Gallery, July 12-September 6
• including Donna Brookman's (Kala AIR) Palace of Memory
• Upon the Fabric, solo exhibition by Nasim Moghadam (2022 Media Fellow), Minnesota Street Project Studios/Makaan Residency, Opening Reception: Saturday, August 2, 2–5 PM
• Art / Education / Community: 35 Years at Recology AIR, Minnesota Street Project, Opening Reception August 2, 6-8pm

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