In August 2009, GALLERY CRAWL headed to Rowan Morrison Gallery in Oakland to meet Carl Auge and learn about the inspiration behind the enigmatic paintings featured in his RESOUND exhibition. Nearby at Swarm Gallery, installation artist Vaughn Bell introduces her adopt-a-biosphere project, which is part of the NATURAL SELECTION exhibition, featuring painter Josh Keyes. Reenie Charriere discusses her WASHED UP installation in the gallery's project room.

In November 2008, we explore Palo Alto's art scene and find out what the Aicon and Thomas Welton Stanford art galleries have to offer.

The Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery's GHOSTPILE exhibition features photographic work by Lukas Felzmann that explores the Sacramento Valley as both place and metaphor and documents a marsh adapted for agriculture.

Aicon Gallery's latest group exhibition, THE HUMAN DICHOTOMY, features four female Pakistani artists who have created work that explores and contemplates the major dichotomies of the human condition.

In September 2008, GALLERY CRAWL visits two San Francisco galleries in their new locations. At the Patricia Sweetow Gallery, we chat with Bay Area artists Jonathan Burstein and Bayeté Ross Smith about their exhibitions, VISAGE and POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE: FIRST TIME TO BE ADULTS, respectively. Then we hop over a few blocks to Catharine Clark Gallery's new street-level digs -- right next to SFMoMA -- to check out Broken Homes, fresh work by Julie Heffernan, and meditate with Adam Chapman's THE STARLING DRAWINGS.

In April 2008, GALLERY CRAWL takes in THE ART OF DIORAMA at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. The exhibition presents twenty-three artists and as many worlds, ranging from no bigger than a bread box to room-sized. Using every medium known to man, including sculpture, painting, video and photography, these artists do more than put their imaginations on display. They create full immersive environments, exploring outer space, the inner mind, childhood memory and the forgotten corners of the Natural History Museum.

This teen-produced interview with Joshua Mosley focuses on the artist's mixed-media installation, dread (2007), which consists of a short animated film and five bronze sculptures that philosophically explores the human necessity to confront and apprehend nature. Mosley's labor-intensive practice combines computer animation, stop-motion animation, digital sound, sculpture, as well as his own music and dialogue.

On September 18, 2008 the Indianapolis Museum of Art broke ground on 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. Located on 100 acres of untamed woodlands, wetlands, a lake, and meadows adjacent to the Museum, the Art & Nature Park will be one of the largest museum art parks in the country and the only one to feature the ongoing commission of site-specific artworks. It will open in spring of 2010 with a visitor center, numerous trails, and eight site-specific inaugural works commissioned from emerging and midcareer artists.

World-class chef, "eat local" advocate, and food educator Alice Waters visits the Indianapolis Museum of Art and The Toby to ignite a conversation about learning, creative living, health, and sustainability. As the founder of the Edible Schoolyard garden project in which students grow and prepare their own food, Waters shares her vision for “a revolution in public education…When sustainability becomes the lens through which they see the world.” Savor Alice’s message of the pleasure, beauty, and power of food.

Above and Below, is a major documentary produced by the Indianapolis Museum of Art featuring landscape sculptor Maya Lin’s new installation at the IMA and the recent development of her work. This video reveals behind-the-scenes footage from the Walla Walla Foundry in Washington State, Lin's Manhattan studio, and an underground cave system in Bedford, Indiana – her inspiration for the work Above and Below at the IMA. Interviews from leading curators and scholars of art, as well as architectural and geological history highlight Lin’s dynamic and expansive career.