{"id":3630,"date":"2015-08-18T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2018-12-16T13:51:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:51:47","slug":"don-edwards-national-wildlife-refuge-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/don-edwards-national-wildlife-refuge-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my quest of painting the creeks of Silicon Valley,   I painted in many places,  but almost all the creeks end up in the marshes of the San Francisco Bay in what is now called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/Don_Edwards_San_Francisco_Bay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge<\/a>.  The Refuge encompasses most of the southern portions of the bay,   and is a wonderful reclamation of land once used for industrial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a number of times about the area in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/fortysix-dons-sunrise-pix\/\" target=\"_blank\">FortySix: Don\u2019s Sunrise Pix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/fortyseven-hunters-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\">FortySeven: Hunter\u2019s Heaven<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/fifty-ghost-city\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fifty: Ghost City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We put up 18 paintings specifically from the Coyote Creek Watershed in their Education Center today.  The paintings will be on display now until the fall.  A special event is scheduled for September 5, which is free, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/creeks-and-rivers-of-silicon-valley-meet-artist-donald-neff-tickets-17814127535\" target=\"_blank\">you must sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/don_edwards_san_francisco_bay\/creeks.rivers.html\" target=\"_blank\">More info can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6803.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3640\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/don-edwards-national-wildlife-refuge-exhibit\/img_6803\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6803.jpg?fit=640%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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