Cut from the Same Cloth: Textiles and Technology On view from January 18-April 6, 2025, "Cut from the Same Cloth" showcases how textiles have not only fueled the creative inspiration of artists throughout history, they also have provided the catalyst for technological innovation.
GROW Friday Night at the Art Center Celebrate GROW with the artists and community with hands-on art activities and specialty garden-inspired cocktails in a cash bar provided by the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. Foundation members join early at 5 p.m. for a preview.
What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places: A Talk with Jennifer Jewell What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places: How a Garden Culture of Care Grows Places and Their People: A Talk with Jennifer Jewell—Saturday, October 19, 2 p.m., Art Center Auditorium, FREEIn her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, her national, award winning-public radio program and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens/gardeners are power
Gardens Around Us: A Progressive Walking Tour Meet at the Art Center for a special community walk to highlight unique community garden sites in Palo Alto.
Fall Grow Family Day Join us for a creative afternoon inspired by our fall exhibition, GROW, and the gardens around us! This family-oriented event features hands-on art making projects led by Art Center teaching artists and community partners!
Alisa Banks Alisa Banks' work centers on inquiries into identity politics through the lenses of home, terrain, and the body, by reflecting on personal and communal experiences and how they shape perceptions of self in relation to community, the environment, and society.
Renée Bott Renée Bott’s work is based on minute and detailed lines found in etchings and engravings from the 15th - 17th centuries.
Natalya Burd Trained as a painter, Natalya Burd created an innovative approach to her work by fabricating dimensional constructions of hand-painted foliage on colored Plexiglas and mirrors.
Genevieve Cohn Genevieve Cohn's paintings draw from a past, present and future that is both historical and imaginative to depict communities of women.
Glenn Hardy, Jr. Glenn Hardy, Jr. is known for alluring, powerful paintings of black life liberated from the burdens of racial stereotypes and conflict.
Jay Lynn Gomez Jay Lynn Gomez’s work is known for addressing issues of immigration and making visible the “invisible” labor forces that keep the pools, homes, and gardens of major metropolitan communities in pristine condition.
José Joaquin Figueroa José Figueroa is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, video, and sculpture.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy Nicholas Bono Kennedy's paintings intricately dissect the relationship between inhabited spaces and humanity's ability to manipulate and control them, taking inspiration from everyday life and observations in both private and public domains.
Pantea Karimi Since 2014, Pantea Karimi’s multidisciplinary work has been focused on the interconnectivity of art and science by exploring select historical objects and scientific manuscripts of medicinal botany and mathematics from Iran, Arab regions, and Europe.
Stefan Kürten The deep and universal desire to find the perfect place, a place that will ensure well-being and the contentment we imagine it will bring, is a recurrent theme in Stefan Kürten's painting practice and exemplified in the flourishing home garden patio of Too Beautiful to Last.
Kija Lucas "The Enchanted Garden explores home, heritage, and inheritance. I consider the ways our environment shapes us, as it has shaped the people who have come before us." -Kija Lucas
Patrick Martinez Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works.
Melissa Mohammadi Melissa Desmond Mohammadi earned a BFA with a concentration in painting and printmaking from Rhode Island College and an MFA from Southern Methodist University. Her work is held in many private and public collections and has been exhibited nationally.
Takeshi Moro Takeshi Moro's work primarily utilizes lens-based media, such as photography and video. For the past decade, he has focused on working with communities and the collaborative process of art making.
Dominique Pfahl Dominique Pfahl and her husband created Floréal in downtown San Francisco in 1981. As Floréal's owner and main designer, she always had a passion for the natural world.
Callan Porter Romero Callan Porter-Romero grew up in Oakland, CA in a multi-racial household. Porter-Romero’s Black, Japanese, and Mexican heritage allowed her to have a well-rounded perspective on historical events and experiences, particularly those relevant to Oakland.
Katherine Sherwood Katherine Sherwood’s work explores intersectionality, feminism, and art history through the lens of disability.
Terremoto Terremoto is a landscape architecture design studio with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
Tiffanie Turner Tiffanie Turner received her Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and worked as an architect for over fifteen years before beginning her career as a botanical sculptor.
Anna Valdez Anna Valdez is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines the relationship between objects, cultural formation, and collective consciousness.
Connie Zheng Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer and experimental filmmaker based out of Oakland, California. She works with maps, seeds, food, environmental histories, speculative fiction, field recordings and hand-drawn animation.