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The Back Story: A Landmark’s Ups and Downs
Sacramento’s iconic Tower Bridge spans a river — and generations
The Sacramento landmark wasn’t always a golden gate to the
city.
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Art Exposed: Binuta Sudhakaran
How this artist focuses on mindfulness over capitalism in her abstract minimalist paintings
Sudhakaran calls her work abstract minimalism, and she
applies paint to canvas in layers, creating an ethereal effect
that suggests movement and contemplation.
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How Sacramento Street Fashion Made It to New York Fashion Week
The rise of Keith ‘Rooftop’ Herron, founder of fashion and media brand Advisry
For the Sacramento-based brand Advisry, the past year has been one of adaptation.
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Sold! Art Auctions Provide Vital Support
Crocker Art Museum
The Crocker Art Museum’s 2021 annual Art Auction Season is online and in-person, with more than 300 works from the region’s most prominent established and emerging artists open for bidding.
![Akira Beard recently became a tattoo artist so he could “go anywhere, tattoo, make money while I’m there, trying to open up doors of opportunity with my actual art,” he says. (Photos courtesy of Akira Beard)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0421_blog_artexposed1.jpg?1619544336)
Art Exposed: Akira Beard
How painting saved this artist’s life, and how tattooing supports his work
Akira Beard recently became a tattoo artist so he could “go
anywhere, tattoo, make money while I’m there, trying to open up
doors of opportunity with my actual art,” he says.
![“The Crockers wanted their museum to be a gathering place for California’s many communities,” says Lial Jones, director and CEO of Crocker Art Museum. (Photo by Fred Greaves)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/0421_dept_thebackstory_fredgreaves_lead.jpg?1619457549)
The Back Story: A Family’s Legacy
The Crocker Art Museum dates to the purchase of the site by E.B. Crocker more than 150 years ago
From its official opening in 1885, the Crocker Art Museum (then
known as the E.B. Crocker Gallery) has had a split
personality.
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Getting to Know: Vicki Gonzalez
New host of CapRadio's ‘Insight’ on having the ‘best gig’ in Sacramento
Vicki Gonzalez brings 15 years of news reporting experience and a
multicultural point of view to her new role as host of “Insight,”
CapRadio’s one-hour morning radio program covering the Sacramento
region’s issues and events.
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For Art’s Sake
CLARA Executive Director Megan Wygant on how her nonprofit has continued to support arts organizations and provide arts education during the pandemic
“One of the things that has been so interesting about the pandemic is … seeing the way in which our tenants have risen to the challenge,” Wygant says.
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Sacramento’s most trusted fine jeweler for 95 years
“For 95 years, Grebitus Jewelers has served the greater Sacramento region as a trusted jewelry and gift house, offering not only fine jewelry, watches and specialty gift items, but also providing valuable related services,” says owner Ted Grebitus. “As a true jewelry and gift house, we offer so much under one roof.”
![Jupiter Lockett is a Sacramento-based self-described contemporary abstract artist. (Photos by Katy Karns, courtesy of Jupiter Lockett)](https://www.comstocksmag.com/sites/main/files/imagecache/tile/main-images/march.blog_.artexposed.jupiterlockett.1.jpg?1617040188)
Art Exposed: Jupiter Lockett
A Sacramento artist uses his paintings to address race and social issues
Jupiter Lockett paints in a free and childlike manner, but
his subject matter focuses on the Black experience and is
intended to make the viewer uncomfortable.