KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Saturday, June 9, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., the public is invited to Fore Family Vineyards Tasting Room in Kelseyville for an opening reception of the fifth Resilience exhibit.

The exhibit includes paintings from the Resilience project’s intuitive painting, encaustic and printmaking classes.

The Resilience chapbook of poetry and images will be available to peruse and order and several poems will be read. Wine by the glass will be available for purchase along with complimentary appetizers.

The exhibit will be on view until July 1.

The Fore Family Vineyards tasting room is located at 3924 Main St. Kelseyville and is open Friday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Inspired by nature’s resilience as a mirror for our county’s recovery after devastating wildfires, the MAC’s Resilience project has provided opportunities for adults and teens, to reframe the fire experience, which impacted us all directly or indirectly, into creative expression and aesthetics.

More than 220 individuals ranging in age from 12 to 85, of all levels of artistic experience, have attended affordable classes in photography, creative writing, painting and printmaking once or many times since June 2017.

“It has been very exciting to hear and see people’s interested and heartfelt responses to the work in the shows we have opened thus far in Lakeport and Middletown,“ said artist and Project Director Lisa Kaplan. “In addition to the healing and enriching aspects of art-making, a key goal of our project is to weave art into daily life throughout Lake County. That’s why we’re opening Resilience project exhibits in multiple locations, and each one is different. Our chapbook called Resilience, a community reframes disaster through art, which includes powerful writings and images, is also available to preorder at the opening, at the Main Street Gallery, at MAC and online. It’s a moving and beautiful collaborative effort by participants that honors our collective recovery.”

MAC continues to spread and share the healing power of art with this new exhibit at Fore Family Vineyards tasting room.

Additional exhibits of Resilience work are on view at Main Street Gallery, Lakeport City Hall, and Lake County Courthouse.

More Resilience exhibits will soon be opening at Clearlake City Hall and at the Adventist Health Hospital Mountain View Café in Clearlake in the weeks to come. Visit middletownartcenter.org for details.

Also currently on view is “Resilience: Art In Dialogue” with Nature exhibit at the art center, which is a hybrid of the EcoArts tradition and the resilience theme. This impressive and earthy exhibit also includes selections from the Resilience project. You can see it Thursday 11-4, Friday 11-6, Saturday 10-6, and Sunday 11-4.

MAC is grateful to the California Arts Council, Adventist Health, Lake County Arts Council and other local partners, agencies and businesses for their support of Resilience and their ongoing commitment to assisting MAC in providing local, affordable, quality access to the arts and art-making.

The Middletown Art Center is located at 21456 Highway 175, at the junctions of Highway 29 in Middletown.

Visit middletownartcenter.org to learn more about the many arts, culture and community happenings at MAC including this week’s Blues Farm benefit for Hardester’s employees.

Registration for MAC’s Adventures in Art and Storytelling summer camp – a unique extravaganza of visual and performing arts for children Kindergarten through grade 9 is now in process.

Visit www.MiddletownArtCenter.org to learn more about what’s happening at MAC or sign your child up for camp. Be a part of the burgeoning arts and culture scene in south Lake County.