Lodi Art Hop
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for participating artists, orgs, & partners
Thank you for being a part of the Lodi Art Hop!
Event Date: Saturday, April 11th
Artist Call-time: 9:15am
Event Time: 10am-2pm
Location: 305 W Pine St, Lodi CA 95240
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The Lodi Art Hop is a free community event presented by the Lodi Arts Foundation in partnership with the Lodi Arts Commission & City of Lodi. The Art Hop occurs every other month from April until October. Our mission with the Lodi Art Hop is to create & cultivate more opportunities for artists in our area to connect & thrive.
The April Art Hop is always a bright and fun start to our season, but remember grass can be wet! There will be 10 artists featured in Veterans Park, live music, free face painting sponsored by LAF, and a Cyanotype printing activity led by LAF President Kelli Perrault.
The Lodi Art Hop includes Veterans Park, Double Dip Gallery, Ruby's Bakery, and the Lodi Community Art Center. Participants who stop at all locations and mark off their Art Hop Passport are entered to win a $25 Art Hop Voucher to be used at a future Art Hop toward the purchase of local art. If you're presented with a voucher, the Lodi Arts Foundation will compensate you immediately in cash!
Information for Participating Artists:
Artist Guidelines:
- Each artist showing (& selling) work at the Art Hop will receive $75 as compensation for contributing (with the exception of performers/musicians who will receive $200. Artists are required to stay set up until the end of the event to receive compensation.
- Artists are responsible for bringing their own tent (recommended), tables, chairs, easels, and anything necessary for your station.
- The event will be held outdoors and on grass (April/June/October) or asphalt (August), plan accordingly for weather. Don’t forget your chair! A tent is highly recommended.
- Call time for Artists on the day of the event is 9:15am (April/June/October), & 4:15pm (August) unless otherwise noted in communications. Artists are required to participate in the entire event.
- An LAF volunteer can be made available if you need to leave your station to use the restroom.
- The Lodi Arts Foundation will supply Art Hop branded templates & graphics for social media marketing via Canva for your event date.
- The Lodi Arts Foundation will promote & tag artists in post leading up to their Art Hop date.
- Artists are responsible for promoting the Art Hop on their social media a minimum of 1x per week leading up to the event and should tag @lodiartsfoundation on Instagram so that we can share your posts as well.
- The Lodi Art Hop is an all-ages event, so please make sure the work you present is appropriate for an all-ages audience.
- Artists are responsible for any art sales and agree to leave large sold pieces on display until the end of the event. This does not include prints or other merch.
Thank you for your contribution to Arts & Culture in Lodi!
Meet the artists
Lodi art hop - April 11 2026
10am-2pm, veterans park + Downtown Lodi
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Jen Howell
Jen Howell is a Lodi-based artist drawing inspiration from her heritage, the landscape and emotional states in creating her works. She is a watercolorist, creates ceramic sculptures, is a photographer and enjoys other mediums.
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Dr. Dayanna Knight
Dayanna Knight is an author and illustrator from the Central Valley of California. Her most recent book, The Historic Stockton Coloring Book, was published in 2024 thanks to a grant from Stockton Arts Commission. This project not only created the book but also delivered two thousand copies to local students in 2024.
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Herminia McGraw
Herminia McGraw is a Fine Artist focusing on plein air and acrylic painting in Stockton, Ca.
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Geneva Mello
Geneva Mello's paintings and drawings begin with vintage, discarded photographs pulled from antique store bargain bins, abandoned family albums, and overlooked corners of local history archives. Through paint and charcoal, she transforms these cast-aside snapshots into layered compositions that drift between dream and memory, where brushstrokes and drips mask and reveal figures whose identities are left intentionally open. Most of the photographs she works from depict women, and she sees her practice as a feminist act of recovery, elevating the stories of forgotten grandmothers, aunts, and community matriarchs through a collective reimagining of the past.
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MJ Lazarski
MJ Lazarski is a plein air painter whose work explores the nuance of nature through the direct experience of painting outdoors. Primarily self-taught, she has followed a nontraditional path to her professional art career through deep study of the masters and contemporaries alike, developing skills in composition, color harmony, tone, light, perspective, and brushwork. Her influences include Bierstadt, Sargent, Hopper, and Velasquez, and her paintings aim to share the beauty of the world as she sees it, inviting viewers into a space that feels both engaging and quietly joyful.
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Leila Ortega
Leila Valencia is an artist whose work is shaped by everything around her, with past and present events alike finding their way into her themes. Working primarily in painting and drawing, her influences span Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Wilfredo Lam, George Condo, and Picasso, among others. Her work is a disfiguration of her own reality, an abstract visual representation of life itself that evokes emotion and prompts questions about existence. Through unexpected moments and deliberate use of color, stroke, and transparency, Leila creates a sense of impermanence that tells a story unique to each viewer.
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Mikayla Henry
Mikayla Henry is a Bay Area artist working across a wide range of mediums, from handmade jewelry to large-scale murals. Through her business For Aesthetic Value, she sells at local vendor events and online, creating commissions that give her customers a way to express themselves through one-of-a-kind pieces. Her specialty is animal painting, and she has a particular love for pet portraits, whether bold and colorful or strikingly realistic.
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Tess Turnbeaugh
Tess Turnbeaugh is a watercolor artist from the central valley of California. Tess received a Bachelor’s of Art from Sacramento State University in 2023. Since then her paintings has been featured in local galleries in Lodi and Stockton. Currently you can find her teaching art and selling her art at Art Markets and Renaissance Faires.
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Ja'net Williams
“Let’s get messy!”
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Dave Muster
Dave Muster has been making art since the early 1970s in Linden, CA, and has built a career spanning sculpture, jewelry, and gemstone work. He earned an AA in Art from San Joaquin Delta College and a BA in Art from the University of the Pacific, where he studied drawing and painting under Gill Dillinger and specialized in sculpture jewelry. During his time at UOP, he was commissioned by university president Dr. Donald DeRosa to cut stones and craft jewelry gifts for major donors to the endowment fund. Now based in Lodi, CA, Dave continues to cut gemstones, design jewelry, and sculpt hardwoods.
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The Jebby Trio
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Brenda Ortiz
Brenda Ortiz is the face painter behind About Face 209, bringing vibrant, detailed designs to events across the Central Valley. Brenda works exclusively with high-quality, FDA-compliant face paints, keeping every design as safe as it is stunning!
The Lodi Art Hop is proud to sponsor free facepainting at every Art Hop!
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Susan Bod
“My art from the start has always been about color. Color motivates and inspires me. I mix imagination and emotions to bring my art to life.”
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
bailey@lodiarts.com or (209) 663-9930