Bolinas Museum

Bolinas Museum

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48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA 94924
Marin County

Open Hours:

Monday | Closed
Tuesday | Closed
Wednesday | Closed
Thursday | Closed
Friday | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Saturday | 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sunday | 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Special Events:

Sunday, March 29 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Opening Celebration - Sonny Smith: Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1 & Waz Thomas: Making the Cut III

Free and Open to All

Live musical performances by Danny Dusk & The Twilights and The Old Guard

Food pop-up by La Loba
Wine pop-up by Rotoscope

Sonny Smith: Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1 | March 29 - May 17, 2026

Anthology of Unknown Music, Volume 1 is a collection of musical works and associated visual memorabilia imagined by Sonny Smith, an American musician, playwright, and artist based in West Marin. Centered around Smith’s anthology of twenty recorded songs by invented artists and bands, the exhibition presents accompanying LP covers and sculptures by various collaborators commissioned by Smith. The result is a group exhibition of over 30 artists offering their own visions of to Sonny’s fantastical musical narrative, as well as ceramic and multimedia pieces by Smith himself, including a functioning custom jukebox. The bands and their histories span genres and are often populated by characters identified as outcasts, weirdos, and freaks, whose songs are inspired by death, love, and atypical transformation.

Waz Thomas: Making the Cut III | March 29 - May 17, 2026

Making the Cut III presents works on paper created between 2022 and 2026 by Bolinas-based artist and beloved community figure Waz Thomas. The exhibition marks the third public presentation of his “ironic juxtapositions,” or “Wazzies”—playful composites assembled from found imagery drawn from a wide range of printed materials, including scientific texts, travel guides, art books, religious iconography, landscapes, and cultural ephemera. By cutting and recombining these fragments, Thomas creates unexpected visual encounters that reflect his sardonic humor and fascination with the strange and absurd. Working late into the night in his cottage studio, often accompanied by music on a portable radio, Thomas approaches his creative process intuitively and with a willingness to surrender to chance. A prolific maker who can produce several pieces in a single evening, he has built a vast and continually evolving body of work

Images:

(Left to right) Sonny Smith, The Newnham Green Girls, 2025, Ceramic with glaze decal, 9 x 9 inches, Courtesy of the artist Sonny Smith, Big Leg Ida, 2025, Ceramic with glaze decal, 10.75 x 10.75 inches, Courtesy of the artist Sonny Smith, Dreama Newborn, 2025, Ceramic with glaze decal, 7 x 7 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Waz Thomas: <i> Making the Cut III </i> -  Waz Thomas, Untitled, 2022-23, Mixed media on paper, 14 x 14 inches, Courtesy of the Michael Lerner Collection at Commonweal.
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