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MAY 8, 2025
Giving a hand to the Geyserville Sculpture Trail ● Celebrated work Agraria leaves the Santa Rosa Mall to join local arts corridor By Christian Kallen
Photo by Rick Tang
The ‘big hand’ finds a new home ‘The hand represents a symbol of the thousands of settlers, farmers, men, women and children who have worked the soil of the Sonoma County area.’ — Sculptor Larry Kirkland, 1996
A giant solid marble carving of a hand, cupped as if to receive the bounty of harvest, left its perch of almost 30 years at the Santa Rosa Mall last week, to great fanfare in the local press. It has already found a new home. It’s being installed at the corner of Geyserville Road and Highway 116, across the street from Catelli’s restaurant and just down the sidewalk from the Locals tasting room. In fact, it’s there now, behind fencing,
The new arts commission meets its neighbors ● 7-member body breaks the 4th wall between stage, city Staff Report The city’s newest citizen oversight group has decided the
though there will be a public dedication ceremony next Saturday, May 17, to formally introduce the hand to its new community, and vice versa. As it turns out, moving it wasn’t as easy as hitching a ride with that big thumb. It had been deeded to the public for its original Santa Rosa location, and untangling it from that obligation didn’t happen overnight. And finding someone to safely move the artifact was no easy task. — More on page 6
best way to do their job is to stay in touch with the people they speak for, so they’re having an informal open house with the public Thursday evening, May 8. It’s billed as a “meet-and-greet,” so don’t expect a stage show, even though it will be held at 222 Healdsburg Ave. This open house will follow by a week the latest meeting, where “Branding Identity” and “Website Development” were the first orders of business for the new commission, according to Taryn Nicoll, the city’s part-time arts and culture pro— More on page 3