Patt passed away a year ago after completing her last set of home portrait watercolors for the Sacred Hart Holiday Home tour. For more than decade she had been commissioned by the tour to create the paintings that were gifted to tour participants. The self-guided Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour will be held Nov. 30–Dec. 2 featuring five historic homes in East Sacramento’s Fabulous 40s. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 the day of the event. Visit sacredhearthometour.com
Taylor is a Sacramento artist and jewelry maker and previous owner of Taylor’s Art Center in Midtown (now University Art) where he was a renowned framing expert. This cover painting is acrylic on paper with marker.
There are early bloomers—and then there is Don Taylor. The former owner of Taylor’s Art Center on J Street, Don married his teenage sweetheart, Mec, while he was still attending McClatchy High. He purchased the Midtown framing store in his early 20s, expanding Taylor’s to include locations in Arden-Arcade and Stockton, and later adding an office supplies store and gallery. Don even retired young at the age of 58, selling to University Art when the framing industry nosedived in the 1990s.
Noelle Anderson loves to garden. She also loves the Shepard Garden and Arts Center, the venerable mid-century building in McKinley Park that’s played host to a wide variety of gardening, flower and creative arts clubs for more than 60 years. Put the two together and it’s a perfect match.
When Sutter Memorial Hospital shut down in 2015, it was the longest-running maternity hospital west of the Mississippi. Opened on F Street in 1937, Sutter Memorial welcomed more than 348,000 babies into the world during its time of operation. “My daughter was born in Sutter Hospital, as was almost everybody’s kid that I know,” says District 3 Councilman Jeff Harris. “It was a bit of a loss to see the hospital come down, but it had really served its service life.”
