New Artist Exhibition: Danielle Hutchens Fieldwork: Soil & Soul

New Artist Exhibition: Danielle Hutchens Fieldwork: Soil & Soul

We are thrilled to welcome Topanga Canyon-based artist Danielle Hutchens to Poet and/the Bench! Danielle is influenced by nature and form and her approach to painting is simultaneously organic and considered.
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Best Jewelry in Marin County, Poet and the Bench, Mill Valley, Readers Choice Marin Magazine

Best Jewelry in Marin County!

Thank you for choosing us as Best Jewelry in Marin County. We are immensely grateful to keep fulfilling your quest for unusual jewelry, art, home goods and more. And helping our artists and designers grow. And being a hub for community connections. 💛🥂🏆
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Danielle Hutchens artwork at Poet and the Bench in Mill Valley. Abstract paintings using natural pigments, acrylic, oil pastels and charcoal.

Conversations with an Artist: Danielle Hutchens

Danielle Hutchens artwork is modern and down to earth with its neutral palette, pops of colors, and shapes, lines, and textures inspired from the world around her. Style and beauty are inherent in her compositions
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Atmosphere are nontoxic, better for you, beautiful, optimistic and efficacious candles, scent and tea that you can feel good about.

Create Your Atmosphere

We’re investigators of ingredients and only carry the good stuff – because we know that what we put on our bodies is as important as what we put in it. Atmosphere are nontoxic, better for you, beautiful, optimistic and efficacious products that you can feel good about. Candles, scent, tea and more.
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Siri Hansdotter Fine Jewelry at Poet and the Bench in Mill Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

Conversations with an Artist: Siri Hansdotter

A creative from a young age, Siri Hansdotter discovered a love of hand forming, first with clay and later with lost wax casting. Siri crafts fine jewelry with an aesthetic that is organic, sculptural and takes cues from nature. Her collection of fine jewelry in 14k gold and with diamonds and gems, are the ultimate modern heirlooms.
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Conversations with an Artist: Dana Chieco

Conversations with an Artist: Dana Chieco

We love how the colors of the sea, from the various locals across the world that Dana has lived and traveled, inspire Dana Chieco's ceramic forms and glazes. While sublime individually, these ceramic vases and sculptural vessels play so well together, in groups they are dramatic!
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Michael McConnell Stories Grounded in Color Exhibition of Acrylic Paintings on Wood Panels Featuring visual narratives examining the space between memory and nostalgia

Art Opening: Stories Grounded in Color

Join us Thursday April 11, 5:30-7:00
In Person with artist Michael McConnell

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San Francisco Artist Michael McConnell Hare Stare acrylic on wood

Conversations with an Artist: Michael McConnell

We've followed San Francisco artist Michael McConnell for many years and are thrilled to welcome him to Poet and/the Bench. We love how the animals in his paintings take on human characteristics; we've been struck by the emotionality that sits both on the surface and deep beneath. Without always knowing the symbology present in a piece, you can feel the resonance Michael has with living things.
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Female Founder Stories Panel & Networking: Vol 2 / Scale Your Story

Female Founder Stories Panel & Networking: Vol 2 / Scale Your Story

Calling all female entrepreneurs! Join this community event produced by three local Marin founders (including Bonnie from Poet and/the Bench):
Founder Stories Volume 2 
Thursday March 7
5:30-8:30pm
Mill Valley Recreation
180 Camino Alto, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Free to Attend with RSVP
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Calling all female entrepreneurs! Join this community event in Mill Valley to get inspired by stories of resilience, innovation, hard truths and deep connections.

Female Founder Stories Panel & Networking Vol 1 / Journey from Zero to Launch

Calling all female entrepreneurs! Join this community event produced by three local Marin founders:
 
Founder Stories Volume 1 
Wednesday November 15
5:30-7:30pm
Free to Attend with RSVP
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Visit Downtown Mill Valley Travel Guide

Visit Downtown Mill Valley Travel Guide

Spend a day, a weekend or an extended trip in Downtown Mill Valley where natural wonder meets inspiration: art, design, home goods, fashion, music, food, wellness and a culture of community. Hot tips from our Mill Valley travel guide are a click away!
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Poet and/the Bench is delighted to announce multimedia artist Amanda Rowan’s return to her hometown of Mill Valley as Artist in Residence

West Coast Premiere: Amanda Rowan Place Setting

Join us! Multimedia artist Amanda Rowan’s return to her hometown of Mill Valley as Artist in Residence during the West Coast premiere of her short film Place Setting at the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival in conjunction with a photographic exhibition at Poet and/the Bench. Schedule inside:
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