Capital Campaign

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation is raising $3.6 million to renovate the Palo Alto Art Center facility. The City of Palo Alto is partnering with us to make this project happen. Be a part of our next great art creation - the Art Center itself.

Project Look!

Congratulations Project LOOK! In a time of dramatically reduced school resources for art education, Project LOOK! fills the gap and has done so for 30 years. Elementary-age schoolchildren come to the Art Center and are led through one of our professionally-curated exhibitions by a docent who explains what the artworks are and how they were made. The students then go straight into the studio to create a project inspired by the art they have just encountered. They leave with a new understanding of how professional artists work and their own art creation.

Annual Appeal

Our Annual Appeal supports a variety of fabulous programs for which the Foundation and Art Center are well-known: Family Days, our Children's Fine Arts program, the Adult Studios and their classes, our Volunteer program, and more.

Cultural Kaleidoscope

Professional artists, teachers and schoolchildren from Palo Alto and East Palo Alto come together to create new bonds of understanding. The catalyst is an intensive art project. The outcome is a new appreciation of differences and a pride in completing and exhibiting their finished work.

Exhibitions

Our exhibitions are nationally recognized, professionally-curated, and consistently critically acclaimed. Our reputation is based on the alchemic abilities of our visionary curator - Signe Mayfield.