Local Artist’s Exhibit Opens at CV Library
The Castro Valley Library is hosting an exhibit of paintings of birds of the San Francisco Bay Area, by award-winning local artist Rita Sklar (www.ritasklar.com).
The show highlights the vanishing birds of the bay area and beyond. Birds are important indicators of the overall health of our environment.
Like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, they send an urgent warning about threats to our climate, water, air, and natural resources.
Severe bird declines are the result of changing climate, lost habitat, invasive species, and polluted water. Efforts to restore nesting and feeding grounds, ban pesticides and halt development in sensitive wetlands and other migratory stopovers have brought back the California brown pelican, the peregrine falcon, and the bald eagle.
Rita Sklar’s wildlife paintings have been featured at the California State Building in Oakland, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, the Oakland Zoo, and Tilden Park Education Center. Ms Sklar received a commission from the Alameda County Art Commission and two grants from the Oakland Cultural Arts Fund. Her paintings have been selected into national shows by acclaimed jurors. She has received over twenty-five awards for artistic excellence.
The exhibit is free and open to the public beginning today, January 5, 2022, and runs until April 4 at the Castro Valley Library located at 3600 Norbridge Ave. View the pieces during the Library’s regular business hours: Mon. & Tues. 12 – 8 pm; Wed. & Thurs. 10 am – 6 pm; Friday: Closed; Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm; and Sunday: 1 pm – 5pm.
