Library exhibit focuses on the transformative power of art

Seven locals are among the 45 artists who will exhibit their works that touch on issues like social and economic justice, climate change and inequality in “Making Art in a Changing World,” a new show opening Sept. 19 at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library.

The exhibit includes an opening night reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and closes on Nov. 13.

The call for entries asked artists from across the Bay Area to submit works that “raise awareness and embrace a better future,” with chosen pieces ranging from a portrayal of an immigrant’s plight to a still life of sunflowers for Ukraine to the aftermath of a Texas hurricane to a portrait of an interned Japanese American.

The peninsula artists featured include Cecilie Starin, Ben Benet, Cynthia Jensen and Joan Stracquadanio of Tiburon and Jennifer Francis Fearon, Karen Gann and Pany Mahdavi of Belvedere. Exhibit co-organizer Diane Green notes that more than half of the artists in the show were previously chosen to exhibit in the 2020 or 2023 de Young Open.

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