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In addition to being a space for the healing arts, Five Pins Project is an art gallery and community space.

With a goal of healing bodies, minds, and spirits - AND building community, Five Pins Project holds art openings and community events. After all, it’s easier to be balanced and healthy when we live in a vibrant and connected community!

Artists who have shown at Five Pins include:

Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, ThuHa Vu, Suzanne Pugh, Zoe Ani, Sookie Koban, Dallas Kavanagh, Megan Gnekow, Matt Grippo, Omar Gonzales, Jason Roque, Craig Calderwood, DavEnd, Bobby Cortez, Sam Lopes, Nicki Green,  Matt Pawlowski, Sahar Khoury, Emil Heiple,  Adrian Sanchez, Brian Keenan, Alicia McCarthy, Grace Rosario-Perkins, Rebekah Erev, Julz Hale Mary, and E. “Oscar” Maynard. 
In addition to being a space for the healing arts, Five Pins Project is an art gallery and community space.

With a goal of healing bodies, minds, and spirits - AND building community, Five Pins Project holds art openings and community events. After all, it’s easier to be balanced and healthy when we live in a vibrant and connected community!

Artists who have shown at Five Pins include:

Ariel Dunitz-Johnson, ThuHa Vu, Suzanne Pugh, Zoe Ani, Sookie Koban, Dallas Kavanagh, Megan Gnekow, Matt Grippo, Omar Gonzales, Jason Roque, Craig Calderwood, DavEnd, Bobby Cortez, Sam Lopes, Nicki Green,  Matt Pawlowski, Sahar Khoury, Emil Heiple,  Adrian Sanchez, Brian Keenan, Alicia McCarthy, Grace Rosario-Perkins, Rebekah Erev, Julz Hale Mary, and E. “Oscar” Maynard. 

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Opening: Venus Rose

Saturday, October 15, 2022
2pm - 6pm
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Blue Sundays: new work by Cynthia Rohrer

Friday, September 15, 2017
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Opening for Blue Sundays: paintings and form in gouache and paper

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"California" an opening for Suzanne Pugh

Friday, March 10, 2017
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Please come see this collection of new watercolors and engravings by Suzanne Pugh.

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(Central) Valley Girls

Friday, October 7, 2016
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Please come see work by Julz Hale Mary and Craig Calderwood.

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Group Queer Art Show

Friday, June 3, 2016
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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An annual tradition at Five Pins Project. Let's kick off Gay Pride Month with a group show of local queer artists.

Participating artists: Matthew Pawlowski, Zoe Ani, Suzanne Pugh, Cynthia Rohrer, Bobby Cortez, Julz Hale Mary, Craig Calderwood, and Adee Roberson.

Image: thumbnail of Hibernaculum by Craig Calderwood. Paper, pen, beeswax, thread.

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Opening for Grace Rosario Perkins and Rebekah Erev.

Friday, April 1, 2016
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Please come see new work by Grace Rosario Perkins and Rebekah Erev.

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Opening for Alicia McCarthy + Brian Keenan

Friday, February 26, 2016
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Come see new work by Alicia McCarthy and Brian Keenan.

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Champagne Social!

Sunday, February 14, 2016
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Come enjoy a glass of bubbly!

Let's toast our friends, lovers, and neighbors!

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Holiday Ceramic Sale!

Wednesday, December 16, 2015
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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We will be featuring local ceramic artists Terrie Raphael, Reiko Takahashi, and Lis Goldschmidt.

Come do some holiday shopping!

Support local artists!

Enjoy some holiday refreshments!

Bring your friends and make some new ones!

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Opening for Sahar Khoury + Emil Heiple

Friday, December 11, 2015
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Come see new work by Sahar Khoury and Emil Heiple.

Emil Heiple's new comic novella, Powder Puff: The Making of a Man, critiques and reveries childhooddaydreams about football, feminism, junior high school, and assimilation.

"While emblazoning myself an Outcast, I hid away my inner quarterback that once thrived on the Powder Puff team. And in a time when the demand to explore connections between how we raise boys to how we glorify sports stars to the systematic abuse men project onto themselves and those around them is finally emerging, this pile of bones in my queer closet that is my past obsession with football and the urge to crush all weakness around me must be excavated."

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"California" an opening for Suzanne Pugh

Friday, October 16, 2015
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Come see this new body of work by Suzanne Pugh. She will be showing a collection of watercolors inspired by California.

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Opening: Sacred Rose Group Art Show

Friday, August 7, 2015
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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All of the artists participating in this show worked, at some point, at Sacred Rose Tattoo. Sacred Rose is a tattoo shop with two locations, one in Berkeley and one in Albany.

It was originally located at 491A Guerrero, where five pins project is now.

Artists:

Adrian Sanchez

Greg Rojas

Jill Bonny

Bryan Randolph

Karen Roze

Clifton Carter and more!

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Opening: Omar Gonzales + Jason Roque

Friday, July 31, 2015
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Opening: Queer Group Art Show

Saturday, July 25, 2015
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM
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Artists:

Bobby Cortez

Nicki Green

Sookie Koban

Dallas Kavanagh

Suzanne Pugh

Sam Lopes

Matthew Pawlowski

Craig Calderwood

DavEnd

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