Palo Alto Art Center

Join artist and Art Center instructor Charlene Chow and learn to make your own loom out of cardboard with materials you have at home! In this fun interactive online class taught via Zoom, you will learn a few different types of weaving patterns you can use with your homemade loom to create mini-tapestries, wall hangings, place mats, and any other fiber arts you can think of! November 19, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Register here: https://bit.ly/2I8vcgG

Today is National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day! The day inspires kids to explore and pursue their interests in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. Check out our Project Look virtual school tours to inspire your own children in the learning process: https://bit.ly/2Obx4q7

How are you holding it together during COVID-19? Share an image that represents how you are holding it together, or not, by using the hashtags below or emailing [email protected]. #holdingittogether. #paloaltoartcenter #parentingduringcovid Pictured: Robin Mullery, "Mama?," installation of 19 cement balls in varying sizes, 2020.

Check out this great article in the Palo Alto Weekly about our new exhibition, "Holding it Together." The exhibition heralds the opening of our main gallery: https://bit.ly/356SBI2

Looking for something fun and creative to do this weekend? Pick up an art kit at the Art Center to make your very own scarecrow! For $10, you get all the materials to make a fun, autumnal artwork! While supplies last! #ArtCenterAtHome #upliftlocal

The Institute of Museums and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded a CARES grant totaling more than $129,000 to the City of Palo Alto, furthering a collaboration between the Palo Alto City Library, Palo Alto Art Center and the Junior Museum & Zoo (JMZ) to support "Onsite to Virtual: Expanding Access to Community Learning Resources," a project enhancing community virtual programming during the continued public health emergency. More info: https://bit.ly/2JwWw8y

Our Object of the Week is Robert Hudson’s "Running Through the Woods." The artwork provided a dramatic centerpoint in our 2016 "The Butterfly Effect: Art in 1970s California."

Today is National Stress Awareness Day! Destress by visiting the Art Center and checking out our "Holding it Together" exhibition #StressAwarenessDay #holdingittogether. #paloaltoartcenter @ashleyseye @chimaerakaren #reflection @jill_s_miller @jennyhynes_artist #beniciagantner #traywickcontemporary @samfamcircus @robin_mullery #robinmullery #artistofcasp @instahibbs @vanessa_woods_studio @arbailliere @trevortubelle #trevortubelle

Teensjump on a rare opportunity to rent a potter’s wheel from the Palo Alto Art Center! Get approved now with a private one-hour assessment and take the wheel home early for use over the winter break. Virtual classes start in January and include online instruction, wheel rental, bag of clay, tool set and glazes to complete your projects. Ages 12 and up. Email [email protected] to schedule your assessment.

It’s 2020, there is no school, no outside-the-house, no office, no escape! Send us your favorite photo showing how you’re holding it together (or not) during COVID-19, we’ll put it up in the gallery. #holdingittogether. #paloaltoartcenter #parentingduringcovid

The Art Center opens "Holding it Together" tomorrow! This exhibition playfully examines the state of parenting during a pandemic, in which work and life bleed into each other, and projects remain incomplete, fractured by constant interruptions. This exhibition offers a glimpse into making art while sheltering in place with family, celebrating the chaotic, the unmade, the messy, and the half-finished. Pictured: Vanessa Woods, "Each One of Us Was Fastened to the Other," 49 Panel unique collage from original photographs, 44 x 44 Inches, 2020. #holdingittogether. #paloaltoartcenter @ashleyseye @chimaerakaren #reflection @jill_s_miller @jennyhynes_artist #beniciagantner #traywickcontemporary @samfamcircus @robin_mullery #robinmullery #artistofcasp @instahibbs @vanessa_woods_studio @arbailliere @trevortubelle #trevortubelle

The Art Center welcomes our new fall Social Media Marketing intern Ana Aquino. Ana is majoring in Business Administration at Foothill College, and her interests include ancient Greek art. Welcome, Ana!

Just in time for Halloween! Check out these adorable ceramic pumpkins recently created by one of our Children's Fine Art classes. #PaloAltoArtCenter