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Come crash at the Craft Pad

Continuing through September, the Nest will hold a series of craft projects on Thursday nights from 6-8pm. For a $5/person fee, you can build simple craft skills and leave with your own creation.

"Easy Peasy Projects" at the Craft Pad

• August 6-Burning Daylight (modern sunprints worth framing)
• August 13-Garden Flags (Tibetan blessings for flowers)
• August 20-Nature Necklaces (rocks and shells become bling)

During regular Nest hours (Wed-Sat, 10-6) The Craft Pad is an Open Studio, where folks can hang out, use the donated supplies and sewing machines, explore new techniques, etc. Our pad is your pad!

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Human Draw-In: A Live Art Event Benefitting Brown Street Gallery and the Napa Nest Egg Fund

Saturday, June 27, 6:00pm-10:00pm
Brown Street Gallery

In the spirit of the be-in, sit-in, bed-in, love-in (you get the idea), the Brown Street Gallery and Napa Nest host the first ever human draw-in. To gather the tribes in support of alternative art in the Napa Valley, over 60 artists have volunteered to draw live and simultaneously for three one-hour shifts.

The evening will also include live music by Five Cent Coffee and friends. Tasty snacks and beverages provided. As the drawings are completed they will be hung on the walls and available for purchase for $50 each.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Brown Street Gallery, an art-focused day program of Napa Valley Support Services (NVSS) which provides services for adults with developmental disabilities; and The Nest Egg grant awarded annually to local artists to support their work and living expenses (created by Napa Nest and managed by the Arts Council of Napa Valley).

The Human Draw-In promises to be an action-packed spectacle you won't want to miss! Tickets are available at Brown Street Gallery, Mon-Fri, 9:00am to 1:00pm; at Napa Nest, Thu-Sun, 10:00am to 5:00pm; or at the door the night of the event.

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Field Trip to the Annual Maker Faire

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Come with the Nesters to the World's Largest DIY Festival. A family-friendly event to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, crafts, engineering, food, music, science and technology. Tickets normally $25/person are half off for groups!

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Tiara/Crown Workshop

April 4, Noon to 2:00 pm

In plenty of time to gift your Queen Mum for Mother's Day. Join us and some Decorum artists to create one-of-a-kind headgear out of papers, wire, and found objects. Use it for decor or when pulled over for a speeding ticket (kidding). Materials are included but space is limited. Workshop fee: $30.

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Field Trip to Oakland Art Murmur

Friday, February 6, 6:30-9pm

Oakland Art Murmur is a group of galleries in Oakland that have openings every first Friday of the month. This is the place to find a grittier, more community-based art scene riddled with art students drinking malt liquor in paper bags, dropping loose change in the accordion cases of street corner troubadours. Nest curator Ann Trinca will lead an informal tour of the centrally located galleries at Grand & Telegraph avenues. Please RSVP via .

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Opening Party
Bright Lights: Big Top

Thursday, November 13, 6pm-8pm

Enjoy accordion music, popcorn, and carnival games! Photographs by Linda Kramer and Norma Quintana.

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Holiday Show & Sale

Open House: Friday, Dec 12, 5pm-7pm
Sale: Sat, Dec 13 &
Sun, Dec 14, 10am-to 6pm

Handmade gifts & crafts, fine art, prints, vogue to vintage clothing and jewelry at the Nest and Jessel Gallery. Holiday treats and hot cider while you shop!

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Dance Party Factory Style

Friday, October 17, 8:00-11:00 pm

Help us celebrate our 1-year anniversary! Come shake it to the sounds of the Velvet Underground, Nico, David Bowie and your fave new wave. J-million, party rocker, will be spinning. Campbell-Soup-Can bowling for prizes and of course more Polaroids! Dress warm and weird-- silver wigs and faux fur is the attire we are looking for.

Works from INSTANT ERA will be on view through October 31. By now before Polaroids fade away forever! Make like Warren Buffet and buy buy buy. This is a one-in-a-lifetime chance to collect affordable art and support your friends at the Nest.

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Opening Reception for INSTANT ERA

Thursday, September 11, 6:00-8:00 pm

Become an instant celeb in the Warhol photo booth, spot your friends on the "Locals Only" wall, and enjoy eats by YES Chef.

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Westward Film Fest

Friday, August 15, 8:00 pm

A selection of films by award winning filmmaker John Lightfoot that scrutinizes the unique slant of life West of the Mississippi. Bring your own sleeping bag and can of beans!

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Midsummer Flea Market

June 21 & 22, 10:00am to 4:00pm

Help us clean out or overflowing warehouse of found and donated treasures. Amazing bargains on clothing, furniture, fabrics and home style. Donations also accepted. Bring your castoffs to the Nest before the sale and receive a coupon for inside the store! Proceeds benefit the "Nest Egg" grant for local artists.

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Shadow Portraits Workshop

Saturday, June 14, 11:00 am-1:00 pm

Create a portrait of yourself for Dad or bring your kids to have their's done. We'll combine digital and traditional techniques to make a unique keepsake. Bring your own frame or find one at the Nest. Call 255-7484 to reserve space. $20 materials fee.

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Ladies Night

Friday, May 30, 6:00-9:00 pm

Bring a dish or dessert and shop till you drop at Jessel Gallery and the Nest. The Nest is offering 10% off all its fabulous finds and will be introducing Myranda Severi's new bath & body products that are natural and organic to the body and soul. Welcome to Napa Myranda!

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Announcement: Magazine Exchange

Circulate Those Periodicals

Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Nest is starting a new practice of recycling magazines through a "drop off and pick up" system at our Atlas Peak store. Outside the Nest you'll find a wooden rack of magazines ripe for the picking. Bring in your own or take a few home. Use them for collage, gift wrap, inspiration. This can be habit forming.

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Announcement: Community Garden now open

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Bring your lunch or cuppa joe and enjoy the Nest's new "Giving Garden" designed by Emmanuel Donval of Green Cherry as a "repurposed garden" featuring recycled tires, doors, bottles, barrel rims, and other found materials. Home Depot and local volunteers donated plants and gardening skills. The space features a cool cactus garden, picnic area, and community veggie patch--take your pick home! We hope this space will become a regular venue for both special events and spontaneous gatherings.

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Community Planting Day

Tuesday, May 6 (Prep Day) & Saturday, May 10, 9am-4pm

Hopefully you have already heard about our plans to turn the Nest's front yard into a Community Garden. This will be a place you can come hang out, pick a few veggie, or buy a tabletop succulent garden. This is a place to share with our friends and neighbors.

We have plans to begin landscaping next week, and we have the help of Home Depot and green cherry to get the work done. But we are realizing WE NEED YOU TOO. Not only on the Community Planting Day (May 10) but also on our prep day, Tuesday May 6, from 9am to 4pm. There is a picket fence that needs painting, new gravel to be laid, pots to be replanted, and so on, and so on.

So if you would like to become part of this fun project, and like to garden and/or paint, please come to the nest on Tuesday May 6, AND Saturday May 10. Enjoy a free snack and beverages and get a little dirty!

You will be recognized on our garden plaque for your contributions. Hope to see you there, Ann & Norma.

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Field Trip to the Annual Maker Faire

Saturday, May 3, 2008

The Nest is organizing a field trip to the annual phenomena that is the Makers' Faire (http://makerfaire.com/) in San Mateo. Pile in the double-decker Art Bus and cruise down to see brilliant projects by artists, crafters, engineers and all kinds of tech geeks. If you have never been to this event, you are missing a mind-expanding treat. Tickets for bus fare and the event are $30 Adults, $15 kids under 12. Reservations are due bu April 20.

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Spring Cleaning Flea Market

Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27, 2008 9am-4pm

Come see what's been hiding in our storage--deals you won't believe on furnishings, clothes, home decor. Donations of items also accepted. This is a fundraiser for the "Nest Egg" grants for artists.

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Ladies Night Potluck

Saturday, April 19, 2008 6-9pm

A tribute to the accessory! Join us for Ladies Night Potluck at the Nest and Jessel Gallery. Bring a dish or dessert and shop to you drop. We'll provide champagne! Special discounts on purses, shoes, and unique clothing.

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LIVING ART Terrarium Workshop with artists Joy Broom and Vallerie Raven

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 11am-1pm

Bagels, coffee and all materials provided. Fee is $45. Reservation confirmed with payment. Stop by the Nest Saturday-Tuesday, 10 am to 6pm to RSVP.

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Announcement: New Blog

February 15, 2008

Hi everyone, I am trying my hand at this blog idea. You can visit or subscribe to find out what's going on in my bird brain, and what's happening at the Nest. It's called "Flourish" because I hope that is what we'll see happen to the Napa arts scene! Thanks for reading, Ann. Click here for Blog, "Flourish".

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Ignite Some Romance at the Nest's Firecracker Valentines Sale and Card Workshop

Saturday-Sunday, February 9-10, 2008, 10am-6pm

Ring in the year with someone special at the Nest Firecracker Valentine Event. Enjoy wine from Humanitas Winery and homemade chocolates while shopping to support the arts. A percentage of all sales help build the "Nest Egg" fund, distributed to local artists through the Arts Council of Napa.

The Nest will be filled with unique gifts like designer jewelry by Liz Lopez, Christina Williamson, Nancy Shapiro, Molly McGrath, and Odessa Chen plus handmade cards by Rueben Godinez, Timothy Helgeson, Milkfed Press, and Motor Mouth Press. In the gallery you'll find paintings by Napa artist Miki Hsu Leavey and China photographs by Ron Zak, Richard Reisman, and Returning Swallows as we celebrate the orient with our "Shanghai Chic" theme.

For that personal touch you can make your own Chinese Love Scrolls or Collaged Takeout Containers at our DIY table with scrapbook artist Janine Beard of Celebrating Memories. Choose from a plethora of beautiful papers and vintage images. Also as a special treat, Victoria from Milkfed Press will help you "pull a print" from her table-top letterpress for a super professional look! All ages welcome, $5 materials fee suggested.