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• Thinking About Artists’ Legacies: Information for Artists at Every Stage of their Career

  • When
    12 Nov 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Online
  • Registered
    19 registrants

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  Thinking About Artists’ Legacies: Information for Artists at Every Stage of their Career

  An introduction to a very large and complex topic

  with Julia Schwartz

  Join Pacific Rim Sculptors for a professional practices session with consultant Julia Schwartz on building an artist’s legacy. Learn practical steps for documenting your work, organizing files, creating a studio guide, and planning for the future so your art and vision can continue beyond the studio.

  Here are the topics to be covered in the program:

  • What is a an artist’s legacy?
  • Why take time away from the studio to do this work? 
  • Establishing legacy goals 
  • Thinking about who can help in the future - family, friends, colleagues, next generation scholars
  • Cost considerations
  • Documenting your work
  • Keeping files up to date so others can use them in the future
  • Building a studio guide so others can access your artwork, digital files, website, etc.
  • Educational resources

  Julia Schwartz is a consultant to artists, estates, and art nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with artists to organize archive materials, document artworks, facilitate complex projects, and build long-term strategies. From 2018 to 2024, she was a co-director at the Artists’ Legacy Foundation, where she managed the Artist Award, produced educational programs, and spoke with artists about their long-term goals. She also works with estates and artist-endowed foundations on special projects and outreach. 

  

  Portrait of Julie Schwartz

  She has spoken about estate planning topics at organizations such as: Catalogue Raisonne Scholars Association 2025; College Art Association Annual Conference 2025; ArtsBenicia 2025; Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s Legacy Discussion Group 2019-2024; Artist Book Foundation 2023; and Western States Artist Endowed Foundations Summit 2019. She holds a BS in Design from UC Davis. 

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• Bruce Johnson: Sculptor Exhibition Curatorial Walk-Through

  • When
    22 Nov 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Museum of Sonoma County, 425 Seventh Street Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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  Bruce Johnson: Sculptor Exhibition

  Curatorial Walk-Through

  at Museum of Sonoma County

  
  

  Please join guest curator Catherine Daley, along with museum curator Jennifer Bethke, on a Curatorial Walk-Through of “Bruce Johnson: Sculptor” at the Museum of Sonoma County on Saturday, November 22, at 3 pm. The two will add details and anecdotes about the art and artist. This landmark exhibition celebrates the late Bruce Johnson’s life, vision, and legacy as one of Sonoma County's most revered artists. The exhibition marks the first museum survey of Johnson's work since his sudden passing in 2023. Come early and linger after to enjoy the show before it leaves on November 30th. 

  We will informally gather for happy hour at a nearby locale. 

  Please RSVP on this event page so the museum can staff accordingly. 

  You do not want to miss viewing the powerful and monumental artworks of a former early Pacific Rim Sculptor who saw his salvaged redwood sculptures as “small acts of preservation.”

  Tickets:

  Free for museum members; Adults: $10.00. Seniors (62+), Students, People with Disabilities: $7.00. **tickets to be purchased in person**

  Free parking is available in the Macy’s parking lot  directly across the street from the museum.

  
  

  Museum of Sonoma County

  425 Seventh Street

  Santa Rosa, CA 95401

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