Historic Mendocino gallery closing this month: see the final Mendocino Heritage artists’ show

MENDOCINO CO., 5/21/18 — After nearly 50 years, the historic Zacha’s Bay Window Gallery in Mendocino will close its doors at the end of May now that the building it occupies has been sold. The gallery’s final show, showcasing works by “Mendocino Heritage” movement artists in a variety of mediums, will be on display seven days a week until May 31.

The final show at the Zacha’s Bay Window Gallery features six different artists, including Bill Zacha and his friends, who participated in the founding of the Mendocino Art Center and helped create a burgeoning community of artists along the Mendocino coast. The final show includes: William Zacha, Dorr Bothwell, Hilda Pertha, Fran Moyer, Toshi Yoshida and Charles Marchant Stevenson, plus ceramics by Mendocino master potters Sasha and Sue Makovkin, and includes “oil paintings, acrylics, watercolors, india inks, serigraphs, woodblock prints, ceramics, polychrome wood sculpture, and Bill Zacha’s bronzetti: small but powerful cast bronze nude figures.” A limited number of reproductions will be available for sale.