Artist's Book at Janet Turner Print Museum through March 14

Donna’s book Garden is on view at the Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University Chico in the show Pressing Poetry: From Broadsides to Book Arts. Included is work by over 20 poets, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Billy Collins, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Naomi Shihab Nye and Anne Sexton, in the form of letterpress printing, illustrated books and contemporary broadsides.

The Janet Turner Print Museum
400 W. First St.
Chico, CA 95929–0820

January 20 through March 14, 2026
Opening reception: January 29 at 5:30 p.m.

Garden, Reduction woodcuts, letterpress, 2013
Boxed (by Andy Rottner), with accordion fold, removeable spine binding

Making Your Mark at Arts Benicia

The woodcut Water Under the Bridge has been accepted into the exhibit Making Your Mark at Arts Benicia. The show was juried by Mark Eanes, Professor Emeritus from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Be sure to join us in the historic Commanding Officer’s Quarters at the Arsenal in Benicia, California, for an artist’s reception on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Arts Benicia
1 Commandant’s Lane
Benicia, CA 94510
April 11 through May 10, 2026
Opening reception: Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 6 p.m.

From the CODEX Book Fair

Donna is at the Tenth CODEX Book Art Fair through February 10, showing her new hand-printed artist’s book Framework, as well as previous books and small engravings.

CODEX X
Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607

Donna with old friends Amandine Nabarra and Tom Dowling at CODEX X in Oakland

Donna Westerman at CODEX Book Fair

Donna will be presenting her latest hand-printed and hand-bound artist’s book, Framework, at the Tenth Biennal International CODEX Book Art Fair & Symposium February 7 through 10. She will also be showing previous books and small engravings.

CODEX X
Oakland Marriott City Center
1001 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
February 7 through 10, 2026

Where the Spirit Meets the Bone

Donna’s multi-block reduction woodcut Persephone was in a great show at Arts Benicia, juried by Diane Williams, entitled Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Grief and Healing. The exhibition sought to convey how expressive mark-making can provide a vehicle to communicate the universal human feelings of grief and loss, and create a safe space for healing. The various media and styles of art provided a vehicle for individuals to describe and communicate feelings that might otherwise be difficult to express.

Arts Benicia
1 Commandant’s Lane
Benicia, CA 94510
October 25 through December 21, 2025

A reduction woodcut entitled Persephone by Donna Westerman

Upcoming exhibits

Donna is showing the first two blocks of her new artist’s book Framework at the 111th Annual Membership Exhibition of the California Society of Printmakers at the Piedmont Center for the Arts through February 14. An artist’s reception was held January 24.

Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Ave.
Piedmont, CA 94611.




Donna has an engraving in the WEN (Wood Engraver’s Network) 5th Triennial traveling exhibition. The final venue will be the Art Center of St. Peter in St. Peter, Minnesota. The ending date is January 31, 2027.

She will also have a piece in the upcoming Kala Annual Exhibition in March.

Benicia Arsenal Artists open studios

The fall 2025 Benicia Arsenal Artists open studios will be held November 1 and 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 940 Tyler Street in Benicia.

San Francisco Bay Area artists will open their Benicia Arsenal studio doors on this special weekend. Come explore the beautiful, historic buildings, while visiting the artist’s studios. All studios are within walking distance to one another. There is ample free parking on Tyler, Lincoln and Grant Streets.

Benicia Arsenal
940 Tyler Street
Benicia, CA 94510
November 1 and 2, 2025
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Log Pile at Art Kala 2025

Log Pile will be at Art Kala 2025, an exhibition, auction and benefit supporting Kala Art Institute, March 20 through April 26, 2025. The preview party and artist reception will be Thursday, March 20, from 6 to 9 p.m.

Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 4 p.m.

Log Pile at Arts Benicia

The reduction woodcut Log Pile will be exhibited in an upcoming show at Arts Benicia entitled Forma Natura: Nature as Source, juried by Alicia Escott, interdisciplinary artist and founding member of 100 Days Action. The show will have a public opening reception on Saturday, January 25, 2025, from 4 to 6 p.m., and will run through March 2.

Arts Benicia
1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia, CA 94510
Open Thursdays through Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m., during the run of the exhibit

International ROOTS Project

Donna’s reduction woodcut Out of the Woods has been accepted into the International ROOTS Art Project by Bay Area artists and founders, Marguerite Elliot and Elizabeth Addison. The project’s focus is connecting women artists from nearly a dozen nations who focus on the natural world and the environment. A print catalog is expected in 2025.

Out of the Woods

BETWEEN US AND THE TREES: Conversations in The Secret Language of Nature

Since moving to the Bay area, trees have been a central theme in Donna’s work, with the patterns of bark being a particular inspiration. She is drawn to this more intimate inspection through daily walks with her dog. It occurred to her to try to drypoint maps of these walks to print on top of the bark reduction woodcuts. This stochastic imagery has become an intriguing new direction, an example of which can be seen in the show Between Us and the Trees, curated by John Greco, at the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock.

Exhibition Dates: April 1 through April 27, 2023
Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony: April 1 from 3 to 6 p.m.

Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041

Bark Revisited/Around the Block