The Palo Alto Community Survey is a feedback tool that helps the City Council and City staff understand community perspectives on current services and programs, as well as unmet needs and priorities. The survey was initially sent via mail on August 13 to a random sample population of resident households. On September 15, the survey opens citywide.
This exhibition features 18 artists focusing an exceptional body of work on issues of environmental crisis and cultural sustainability. A diverse selection of clay materials, processes, and forms will engage viewers in meaningful inquiry into multiple ideas of “sustainability." Clay Sustains continues the Palo Alto Art Center’s Centering: Clay and Community series, here in the form of ceramic artwork, where creative vessels and forms (whose basic elements are earth, water, mineral) and their technologies of making (whose elements are fire and air) ask us to look more closely. How can earth itself be fashioned into art that serves as sustenance in our challenging contemporary world? If we consider ceramics as vessels of change, how can these works help us understand ideas of “sustainability” in the face of cultural and environmental change?
This exhibition is guest curated by independent curator Rina Faletti, Ph.D. and runs from January 17 - April 5, 2026.
Palo Alto Art Center
Free