2025-2026 Event Schedule
Join Rembrandt Club for an exciting program year of lectures and activities that expose us to the artists of our community, their works and their inspiration.
Rembrandt Programs are traditionally on the first Thursday of the month during the program year unless stated otherwise. Programs begin at 1:30 P.M. FAMOUS BUS TRIPS have a transportation ticket fee of $45.00 for members and $55.00 for non-members. Lunch or brunch is on the attendee's own.
Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue--Ellsworth Kelly, Contemporary (post 1945) Painting--Lithograph on Paper c. 1975
September 25, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College: "A Visit To the Vault"
“A Visit to the Vault,” will start our 120th Anniversary Year with a curated tour of the vaults of the Benton Museum of Art to learn about the many artworks the club has supported the museum in acquiring over the years. Works by Harrison McIntosh, Ansel Adams, Ellsworth Kelly, and Christina Fernandez are just a few of the many artists featured.
October 9, 2025: Famous Bus Trip #1
Hop on the bus with us to visit the University of Irvine's Langson Institute and Museum of California Art
In 2017, University of California, Irvine (UCI) established the Institute and Museum of California Art following the acquisition of two important collections of California Art: The Buck Collection and The Irvine Museum Collection. Four years later, this new university asset was renamed Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA). New exhibits on view include these:
Habitat: Making the California Environment" and "Meditative Mind: Reflections in Stillness" (September 20, 2025--January 10, 2026.
There is a 40 attendee limit on this trip with tickets at $45.00 for members and $55.00 for non-members. Deadline for reservations and payment will be October 2, 2025.
William Alexander Griffith In Laguna Canyon, 1928, oil on canvas.
Above: Seoul National Cemetary. Right: Downtown Saugatuck, Michigan, the city where Ox-Bow School of Art is locataed.
November 6, 2025
Perdita Sheirich Junior Art Prize Student Presentations Location: Pomona College Studio Art Bldg. Rm. 122.
Hearing from our Art Prize recipients is always inspirational! The 2025 recipients spent their summer in Seoul, Korea and Saugatuck, Michigan's Ox-Bow School of Art. Janice Kim's "Seoul National Cemetery Honoring and Regulating the Memory of Contentious Political Legacies" and Maya Moore's "Fabric Artistry: Two-Week Residency at the Ox-Bow School of Art," will be a momorable afternoon program for Rembrandt Club members and guests.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Member Appreciation Holiday Tea--a Members & Guests Only Event
In December 1905, the Rembrandt Club began its service to Pomona College and the Claremont community with its FIRST OFFICIAL meeting. As part of our 120th Anniversary celebration, Rembrandt Club will welcome new members (any member who joined AFTER October 17, 2024) and honor members who have served the club for 50, 40, 30, 20, and 10 years--yes, we have four members surpassing the 50 year mark! Seaver House is tentatively scheduled. Details coming in October.
January 8, 2026
Rody Lopez, "Craft Contemporary: The Future is Handmade."
Location: Pomona College Studio Arts Bldg. Rm. 122
Meet the Executive Director of Los Angeles's Craft Contemporary, Rody Lopez, a 2009 Pomona College graduate AND Rembrandt Scholarship recipent. "As a museum director, I see firsthand how craft serves as a powerful tool for cultural diplomacy. Craft Contemporary has long recognized that handmade art is more than an object, it is a way of life, a vessel of memory, resilience, hope for the future, and a dialogue across cultures. In a world increasingly shaped by rapid digital interaction, the act of making by hand offers a slow, deliberate form of engagement that nurtures empathy, curiosity, and cross-cultural understanding."
"Morning Dove" Evelyn Ackerman tapestry
Saturday, January 10, 2026
Famous Bus Trip #2: Brunch at the Fairfax Farmer's Market followed by a visit to Los Angeles Craft Contemporary
Following guest speaker Rody Lopez's lecture on Thursday, January 8, hop on the bus Saturday morning to visit this Los Angeles treasure: Craft Contemporary. "Material Curiosity by Design: Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman, Midcentury to Today" will be the featured exhibition. Additionally, local wood sculptor Vince Skelly will be the Artist in Residence!
Attendees will have an opportunity for brunch or a mid-morning snack on their own at the Fairfax Farmer's Market before the museum opens at 12:00 p.m. Tickets will go on sale at the December Membership Appreciation event 12/06/25 at $45.00 for members and $55.00 for non-members. Deadline for reservations and payment will be January 5, 2026. The bus seats 45 so be sure to save this date!
February 5, 2026
Gary Geraths & Joyce Hesselgrave, "Travel Sketching--Scribbling OurWay Around the World."
Location: Pomona College Studio Arts Bldg. Rm. 122
These are the travels of an artist couple who make it their focus to pursue their passion to explore and document their global journeys with pencil and paintbrush. It’s an artistic presentation of many special places and experiences in the world highlighting the people and places that inspire Gary and Joyce to fill sketchbooks.
March 5, 2026
Yvonne Cervantes Coleman, "Fabric Art & Creative Sewing" with Her Guest Artist Sandy Garcia
Location: Pomona College Studio Arts Bldg. Rm. 122
Costume Designer and owner of Common Thread in Claremont, Yvonne will take us into her creative world of fabric selection, design and wearable art. Local Artist Sandy Garcia, one of Yvonne's many students, will join her and reveal her exploration into adding fabric creations to her well-known artistry.
April 16,2026 (Note Date Change)
Steve Comba, Artist: "Travelogue."
Location: Pomona College
Studio Arts Bldg. Rm. 122
Exquisite Corpse, 2023, acrylic, pastel,and enamel on paper from Steve's Improvisation Series
Associate Director/Registrar of The Benton Museum of Art, Steve Comba, shares the over 40 years of influence and inspiration from his museum career on his own artistic practice. As an artist and museum director, which role has the greater influence? "The 'usual' chronological approach doesn’t interest me so what I’m thinking for this progam is linking my artistic practice to the influence that museum work has had on the development of several bodies of work. [This ranges ] From the first time that I saw the George Inness painting, Medfield Landscape (or Clearing) on my first day working as a graduate student, to the many other opportunities and random chance encounters in other museums (and in other vaults) including the simple influence of travel, not only the broader definition of visiting new places, but the influence of walking to work over the past 4 decades has had."
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May 21, 2026
Joint Spring Luncheon with Scripps FAF 11:30 a.m.
We welcome guest speaker, Marciano Martinez, a plein air artist specializing in watercolor, acrylic and oil paints. He enjoys painting scenes from nature and the environment, and has a keen ability to portray the exact feeling of the moment in time he paints. A retired art professor from Fullerton College, he studied with Milford Zornes and Millard Sheets. Pomona College campus location TBA.