Date: Saturday & Sunday, Sept 26 & Sept 27

Time: Noon to 5 p.m.

Cost: free

Description: Bennett Ridge Artists Open Studios, Suggest A Taste of the Valley Bennett Valley — Tour the ridge-top, taste the valley as harvest begins. That’s the mantra for the 10th Annual Art on the Ridge Open Studio tour featuring 17 Bennett Ridge artists, who will open their studios and feature current works the weekend of Sept. 26/27 from Noon to 5 p.m. each day. Local wineries, such as Bennett Valley’s Matanzas Creek, located just down the road from the Bennett Ridge artists, will have special welcomes for those who drop by to “taste the valley” before or after visiting the art studios. Also nearby and ready to welcome art lovers are Sonoma Valley’s biodynamic Benziger and Mayo Family Winery in Glen Ellen, and a host of wineries in the Kenwood corridor along Highway 12, including Chateau St. Jean, Kunde and Kenwood, Audelssa and Adler Fells. The Bennett Ridge tour begins just five miles outside Santa Rosa, in the beautiful Bennett Valley, where vineyards co-exist peacefully with horse ranches, cattle graze on sloping hillsides and in the Fall, from high on the ridge, well, it all looks like a well-crafted painting. From Glen Ellen or Kenwood, the tour is just about the same distance, some six miles. The artists will be in nine studios along Old Bennett Ridge Road, Rollo, Bardy and Bennett Ridge roads. All the studios are located near each other in this community of artists. A wide array of art will be included and available: • Figurative Ceramic Sculpture from Helen Key Morgan, www.helenkeymorgan.com • Landscape & still-life paintings by Donna DeLaBriandais, www.donnad.50megs.com • Oil paintings from Lino Vicente • Fused abstract art glass by Kate E. Black, www.blackfusionglass.com • Beaded jewelry & kiln formed glass by Heartfire, www.heartfire.biz • Fine art glass crafted by Monica Boettcher • Acrylic paintings & Giclée prints from Tom Berto, www.sonic.net/~monicab/tom/index.html • Hand cut paper art created by Patti Valentine Zimmer, www.pattivalentine.com • Aroma therapy & flower essence fusion from Anna Wingfield • Monotypes, drawings & paintings from Stan & Karen Sommer, www.sommerartstudio.com • Wrought iron tables & garden art crafted by Len Mygatt • Paintings & wearable art from Connie Mygatt • Native wood turned vessels by Chuck Quibell • Mixed Media collages from Sherry Parker • Acrylic equine & whimsical paintings from Char Banach, www.charbanachart.com • Kiln formed glass & fine handcrafts from Colleen Cotton There is no charge for visiting with the artists in their studios, and artwork in a variety of price ranges will be available for sale. For more information or a studio tour map, contact artist Char Banach at charbanach@comcast.net

Notables: Bennett Ridge Artists, Bennett Valley, Sonoma Valley, Char Banach Artist

Address: 2880 Bardy Road

City: Santa Rosa

State: CA

Zip: 95404

Phone number: 7075702098

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