CURRENT EVENTS
RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY
Friday, April 24
4:30-7:00p
5p Ribbon Cutting with Mayor, Vice Mayor and City Councilman
/ Details: Join us to celebrate (1) our new location at 6 Miller Avenue in the heart of Downtown Mill Valley, (2) our 10 year milestone for our design and art gallery and (3) being awarded Most Innovative Business in Mill Valley for our support of emerging and independent designers and artists and our connection to community. Enjoy small bites from Madrona Bakery and sips from St Hildies and Equator Coffee!
Photo Credit: Kristen Loken
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
ART EXHIBIT: THIS NEW PLACE
PAINTINGS ON VIEW
/ + Fine artist Jeffrey Palladini
ART EXHIBIT: STORIES GROUNDED IN COLOR
PAINTINGS ON VIEW
/ + Fine artist Michael McConnell
ART EXHIBIT: ECHOES OF NOW
PAINTINGS ON VIEW
/ + Fine artist Jon Vohr
ART EXHIBIT: FREE BIRD
SCULPTURES ON VIEW
/ Photographer and ceramicist David Duncan Livingston via Marin
PAINTINGS AND CERAMICS ON VIEW
/ Fine artist and earth pigment painter Danielle Hutchens via Topanga Canyon
/ Ceramicist Avigail Remak via San Francisco
PAST EVENTS
SOFT OPENING: NEW LOCATION
MARCH 28-29, 2026
We can’t wait to welcome you to Poet and the Bench in our new space at 6 Miller Ave, next to Equator Coffee.
The light!! The 14ft ceilings! How the art, jewelry and objects shine! 🤩 The energy being surrounded by community gathering spaces. The buzz is palpable. We are still a work in progress. Zhuzhing, placing, shifting, adapting. The things will tell us… Come by to see the new digs!
BOOK SIGNING
MARCH 11, 2026
4-7pm
Join us with Artist Rachel Hébert: “The Book of Thanks. A Catalogue of Gratitudes.”
Rachel Hébert is known for her ability to blend the visual and the written word into profound expressions of the human experience. She spent a year painting 108 exquisite pieces of artwork and writing 52 short poems, ultimately compiled into “The Book of Thanks.” This thoughtfully crafted coffee table book and daily tool is a reminder of life’s small moments of beauty and a call to gratitude.
Bring your own book to be signed or purchase one of the best gifts for yourself and all the people in your life at Poet and/the Bench, 11 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley and online.
NOW AWARDS
MARCH 10, 2026
Poet and the Bench is awarded "Most Innovative Business" in Mill Valley for our support of artists and designers. It’s amazing that we have managed to do this thing and create community around the arts, and that says a lot also about Mill Valley.
We are a platform for creative place making. It’s as important for us to welcome the artists, all of whom are emerging and independent artists and designers… as it is to create an environment for community and conversation. This aspect as proprietors is incredibly rewarding, that we get back so much in the conversation and intimacy that people share.
10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES
DOWNTOWN MILL VALLEY HOLIDAY HAPPENING!
Thursday, December 11, 2025
/ Details: Join us for holiday shopping in Downtown Mill Valley for a sip and shop and raffle. Get your bingo card at The Depot Plaza. Visit us and at least three other businesses on the bingo card, then head to Sweetwater Music Hall to keep the celebration going! All cards with at least four stickers will be entered into the raffle and also receive a complimentary entry into Sweetwater that evening. The raffle will take place at Sweetwater shortly after 7 pm.
10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONTINUES
JULEMS CERAMICS TRUNK SHOW
Friday, October 17, 2025 with the artist in person
3:00pm-6:00pm
/ Ceramicist Judith Lemmens visits from The Netherlands
ART EXHIBIT: HARMONY IN CLAY: JAPANESE MINIMALISM
/ Artist Lisa Flemming
WORKSHOP: UNBOUND FLORA
Sunday, July 27, 2025
5:00pm-7:00pm
/ Floral Designer and Stylist Tiffany Blaylock of Matador Studios with ceramic vases by Poet and/the Bench potter Ian Hazard-Bill
Sold out!
ART EXHIBIT: ANIMALIA
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Opening 5:30pm-7:30pm
/ Artists Austyn Taylor and Michael McConnell
/ Downtown Mill Valley First Tuesday Art Walk
ART EXHIBIT: MUSE FOR THE MODERN AGE
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Opening 5:30pm-7:30pm
/ First US Exhibit of Japanese Artist Hideki Iinuma
/ Downtown Mill Valley First Tuesday Art Walk
MULTI ARTIST EXHIBITION: WOVEN
Thursday, December 12, 2024
5pm-8pm
/ House Artists
/ Late Night Shopping Downtown Holiday Walk
/ Unlimited Fun
BOOK LAUNCH: THE BOOK OF THANKS
Saturday, November 23, 2024
1pm - 4pm
/ 1 Artist
/ Unlimited Gratitude
ART EXHIBIT: INTERCONNECTED OPPOSING FORCES
Thursday, October 24, 2024
3pm - 7pm
/ 2 Artists
/ Sculpture
/ Collage