Marin City artists’ collective to exhibit works at Town Hall

Artists from the Marin City Arts and Culture collective will exhibit their works at Tiburon Town Hall this spring, kicking off an initiative to prioritize artists from underrepresented communities.

The exhibit, approved by a unanimous vote of the Heritage and Arts Commission Jan. 28, will be on display in Town Hall’s downstairs gallery in March and April. Marin City Arts and Culture, whose founder and director is dancer and poet Oshalla Diana Marcus, is a member-based collective that promotes Black artists and encourages them “to create, exhibit, teach and connect with other communities,” according to its mission statement.

Marcus presented the commission with works by some of the collective’s artists as examples of what could be included in the exhibit, such as bleach pointillism on a black acrylic canvas, paintings of turtles and a mostly black-and-white painting of a person on a couch holding a bright red apple. She added that interpretation of the pieces is in the eye of the beholder.

“The beautiful thing about art in general, and having a collective, is that … each piece has a story,” Marcus said of the paintings. “There’s a story to be told.”

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