Claudia Wagar was one of ten Valley artists to be found along ARTrails on Sunday, as the 25th annual event concluded after two weekends of open studios throughout the county.
Wagar, known for her wine country paintings and distinctive Salute to the Arts posters, welcomed visitors to her studio in the historic Cooperage building on First St. W.
“It’s always fun to meet people,” she said, adding that impressed guests have come back even years later to purchase or commission a piece. “You never quite know what’s going to come of it.”
ARTrails Sonoma County’s largest and most visible arts event, with some 120 artists opening their work spaces to visitors.
Elaine Gutsch of the county arts council said the experience “fosters moments of discovery and connection when visitors enter an artist’s creative space.”
The Cooperage building, meanwhile, has been put on the market by Wagar and her husband Ken. They have lived in the 1911 stone building for 25 years. “I feel sad,” Claudia Wagar said, “but it’s the right thing to do.” She said she’d like to stay in Sonoma, but it’s too early to have made definitive plans. “I’ll have a studio, I just don’t know where.”
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