Exhibit your art at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CZI Community Space in Redwood City. Check back Fall 2023.

Art can make people care and act. Art can inspire new ways of thinking about the world we live in, can be instrumental in breaking down barriers, and can build community bonds. In 2022, the Foundation will launch an art program at the CZI Community Space to create opportunities for San Mateo County artists of all ages and abilities to showcase their artwork.

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at the CZI Community Space through March 2024!

801 Jefferson Ave.

Redwood City, CA

*Registration required 24 hours in advance.*

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We are hosting FREE artist-led workshops on a regular basis.

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*Registration required 3 days in advance.*

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Meet the Current Cohort of Artists

The Foundation is excited to be working with the current cohort of artists who are exhibiting their artwork at the CZI Community Space.

Read about the March 31st art exhibition opening HERE.

Curator of Exhibitions is Dylan Roberts.

To learn more about an artist, watch a video by clicking on their image.

Artist Eva Arteaga

Eva Arteaga is a Mexican-American high school artist who from a young age has delved into many different art forms whether it be baking with family, a musical or traditional art classes. She works with clay, paint, and digitally, and isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. She is fascinated by the ability to express herself along with the joyous feeling of being covered in paint or clay. However, what resonates Eva most is being able to create a message in a painting. She strives to express the hardships of youth and the fragility of the mind through different mediums that are often experimental. For her, art is about rawness, expression, and creating memories.
evae.art@gmail.com

Artist Shari Bryant

Shari Bryant captures the beauty of expression and form in her portrait and narrative works. She loves getting her hands dirty with charcoal, pastel, and ink. Her current series Meladies: The Fantastic Black Woman is an exploration of Blackness and fantasy - - reimagining Black women fantastically in roles of beauty, power, and brilliance.

Shari Bryan began formal studies in art more than two decades ago at the University of Florida, where she completed an undergrad in Studio Art and a minor in Japanese language. She recently resumed her art studies, pursuing an MFA in Illustration at Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

@hypotheticalparticle | info@sharibryant.com I www.sharibryant.com

Artist Adriene Busch

Adriene Busch is a contemporary weaver based in San Mateo. She made the jump from embroidery to weaving in 2019, eager for the larger scale options that the loom provides. She quickly fell in love with the physicality of the entire process, from selecting the fibers to cutting the finished tapestry off the loom. She particularly enjoys the full body experience of creating larger works that require a greater scope of movement. The style she works in shifts between geometric and organic, but always incorporates her characteristic use of color and texture. Adriene draws great inspiration from the natural beauty of her surroundings. Having grown up in Arizona desert landscapes, she is constantly captivated by the lushness of the San Francisco Bay Area.

@westbayfiber | westbayfiber@gmail.com I www.westbayfiber.com

Artist Belinda Chlouber

Belinda Chlouber was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and raised on the Navaho and Hopi reservations in Arizona where she developed a deep appreciation for the strong connection to nature that exists in many Native American cultures. This love and reverence for the natural world profoundly influences her artwork. Recently, her work has been inspired by her family history and climate advocacy. Constantly seeking to understand and communicate our changing world, her art explores human interaction with nature, highlighting the human potential for positive transformation.

Belinda received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, and continued her studies at Parsons School of Design in New York. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally. She lives and works in San Mateo, California.

@bchlouber | belindachlouber@gmail.com I www.tenfingers.com

Artists Ellen & Steve

Ellen and Steve are life partners and collaborators in fine art photography. Their co-productions are often strong geometries in muted tones, evidencing Steve’s eye for geometry and light, elevated by Ellen’s interest in memory, meaning, and color. The translucency and mystery of their images are heightened by their embrace of the imperfection-laden beauty of Japanese Kozo papers and the infusion of encaustic wax. The resultant images quietly draw the viewer into the complex and tension-filled interactions between humans and the natural world.

Steve and Ellen’s images have appeared at national and international galleries and museums. They received PhDs in Psychology and were contributors to the emergence of the digital age during their work at tech giants Apple, IBM, Intel, and Google.
photo@goldband.com | www.goldband.com

Artist Jiyul Park

Jiyul Park is a high school artist who was born in South Korea and spent most of her childhood there. Although she is still finding her art style, and the story she wants to tell through her art, she likes to incorporate bright and vivid colors and show her cultural aspects in her art pieces. Jiyul is committed to her art classes and wants to take an artistic path in the future, now aiming to attend an art university or 4-year college with an art major.
lilly.jiyul@gmail.com

Artist Olivia Ramos

Olivia Ramos, AKA Sangronx, is a queer Chicanx visual artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have roots extending to Jalisco, Mexico where she often pulls inspiration from by referencing the iconic Virgen de Guadalupe. As someone who has always struggled with anxiety, depression and self destruction, their art is an extension of their inner world, and the beauty/pain of existing as a spiritual being living a human experience.

Olivia has taken drawing and painting classes with Juana Alicia at Berkeley City College, and worked alongside Judy Baca at UCLA. These artists helped shape Olivia’s perspective on what is possible within the art world as a Chicana.

@artedesangronx | sangronx@gmail.com

Artist Chris Rasmussen

Chris Rasmussen retired from Law Enforcement after serving over 30 years, 23 of those years in his community of Redwood City, California. HE worked closely with the homeless and mental health community During his time in Law Enforcement in his role as a Community Police Officer. His series Faces was inspired by the people he has worked with over the years in the mental health and homeless communities.

Chris began studying art in High School and Graphic Design in college. He developed a love for working with scratchboard and continued in the medium as a hobby. He is an active member of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists.

@chrisrasz | chrisrasz@gmail.com I www.raszdesigns.com

Artist Deb Shea

Deborah Shea paints personality and effervescence into her pastel renderings of flowers. She transforms the pure pigments of pastel powder into beautiful, vivid floral portraits. Their fluidity and ability to layer is ideal to render all the beauty in florals; exploring the abstract shapes, finding the path of light, creating transparency and building the luminous color of the flower centers and petals. She prefers to work in large scale paintings, drawing the viewer in to experience her art.

Deborah received a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Design at UC Davis, where she studied with Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Peterson, and had a career as a creative director, designer, and illustrator before becoming a full-time fine artist in 2017.
deb@deborahsheastudios.com www.deborahsheastudios.com

Artist Lauren Yurkovich

Lauren Yurkovich is a San Francisco Bay Area based illustrator who creates customized complex brightly colored graphite drawings. The beauty and intricacy of the natural world and the many metamorphoses and transformations that exist within it inspire her. She weaves powerful narrative illustrations; blending nature, the animal realm, and the human form to share her passion and sense of wonder at the world. Her illustrations are often featured on music industry rock’n’roll posters and album covers.

Lauren was raised in Saudi Arabia and came to the U.S. as a teen. She studied illustration and printmaking at California College of the Arts. She’s a founding member of the Haigh Street Art Center, an active artist in The Rock Poster Society, and a credentialed educator.

831-915-1937 I @ms.yurkovich | Lauren@LaurenYurkovich.com I www.LaurenYurkovich.comom

Check out the slideshow to see more:

Art Advisory Work Group Members

The Foundation created an Arts Programming Plan for the CZI Community Space and established a thoughtful process to help set a vision for ongoing creative community engagement. The Foundation works with an Art Advisory Work Group, composed of San Mateo County residents from different backgrounds who serve a one-year term, to implement the Arts Programming Plan which includes selecting the exhibition theme, choosing the artists who will participate in the exhibition, serving as liaisons with the artists, conducting community outreach and hosting semi-annual art exhibitions.

The main purpose of the art exhibitions is 1) to promote San Mateo County artists by exhibiting their artwork at the CZI Community Space and 2) to provide an opportunity to bring the community together to promote education, awareness, and understanding.

The 2022-2023 Art Advisory Work Group members are:

Terra Fuller

Terra Fuller is the Executive Director of Art Bias and has over 20 years of experience in directing artistic programs, generating creative community, and fundraising in support of artists. Over a five year period, Terra led international cultural fieldwork projects supporting a women-led carpet weaving association in Morocco, a basket weaving cooperative in Namibia, and tigua painters high in the Andes in Ecuador. Terra has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Yale University School of Art, and an MA in Arts Administration from Indiana University. Terra is a practicing artist, most recently showing at Root Division and Jenny Lemons in San Francisco, and Grizzly Grizzly in Philadelphia. Her website is www.terrafuller.com.

David Jacobson

David Jacobson is a writer, writing coach, and marketing communications consultant at his firm, Inkflow Communications (www.InkflowCommunications.com).

Antonio Lopez

Antonio López is a poetician working at the intersections of education, poetry, and politics. He holds degrees from Duke University, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Oxford as a 2018 Marshall Scholar. He is pursuing a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University. He also serves as a district representative for CA State Senator Josh Becker (D-13). His debut poetry collection, Gentefication, was selected
by Gregory Pardlo as the winner of the 2019 Levis Prize in Poetry. Antonio his currently fighting gentrification in his hometown as the newest and youngest councilmember for the City of East Palo Alto. www.barrioscribe.com

Laurie Satizabal

Laurie Satizabal (@lauriemarte) is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the Bay Area. She's inspired by bold layouts complemented by fun lettering and organic shapes. In her illustrations she's interested in everyday settings and routines in which reflections on art, culture and nature come at a crossroads. Her work can be found at lauriesatizabaldesign.myportfolio.com

Ash Asaro

Ash works in the ceramics dept. at a local community college and is a student at SF State.

Bella B.

Bella attends a local high school, plays sports, and works in recreation.

Check out our previous exhibitions:

April 2022

October 2022

More Important Information!

Meet the Current Cohort of Artists

Check out the slideshow to see more:

Art Advisory Work Group Members

Check out our previous exhibitions:

Hear first and stay up-to-date on the latest events, and volunteer opportunities

Contact Us!

info@rwcpaf.org

(650) 780-7250

Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation
1400 Roosevelt Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94061

More Important Information!

Meet the Current Cohort of Artists

Check out the slideshow to see more:

Art Advisory Work Group Members

Check out our previous exhibitions:

Hear first and stay up-to-date on the latest events, and volunteer opportunities

Contact Us!

info@rwcpaf.org

(650) 780-7250

Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation 1400 Roosevelt Ave. Redwood City, CA 94061

Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation
1400 Roosevelt Ave.
Redwood City, CA 94061