Art at the CZI Community Space | Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation

October 2022

Meet the 2nd Cohort of Artists

Below is the first current cohort of artists to exhibit their

artwork at the CZI Community Space.

Curator of the Exhibition was Heather Marx,

Principal of Heather Marx Art Advisory.

Read about the art exhibition HERE.

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

Photographer Tania Cardenas

Tania Cardenas (B. 1977) is an artist who lives and works in beautiful Red- wood City, California. She received a BFA from San Jose State University in 2002. Themes in her work are nature and exploring emotional landscapes. She enjoys doing narrative, figurative paintings in oil. She is inspired by travel and enjoys sharing the world with her three young children @taniamcardenas | Taniamcardenas@yahoo.com | www.taniacardenas.com

Artist Halle Donovan

Halle Donovan is an illustrator and painter currently working on her BA
in Geography at UC Berkeley. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Halle grew
up in the surrounding redwood forests, playing with newts, building faerie houses, and making up stories. She works in a variety of different mediums and enjoys exploring new ways to express herself artistically. She hopes to honor the natural world and the various ways in which humans connect with it through her art.
@theharemoon | hallerosedonovan@gmail.com

Fiber Artist Yunan Ma

Yunan Ma designs and handmakes each unique piece with natural fibers including merino wool, alpaca wool, silk, and cotton, that are carefully selected from top yarn mills around the world. The hand felted realistic flower collection captures the moment a flower blooms. Yunan transfers two dimensional images of flowers to three dimensional wool arts using her cre- ativity and craftsmanship to depict the light and shadow within the flower and the result exudes cheerfulness and beauty.
@yunanmadesign | www.yunanma.com

Artist Christine Ong-Dijcks

Christine Ong-Dijcks a Filipino-Chinese artist, offers comfort and fun through her warm, vibrant paintings of places and people and colorful, whim- sical images of our wonderfully complex world. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University and the Philippine Institute of Interior Design, she taught herself to paint in oil after settling in the Bay Area and focused on fulfilling her life-long dream of being an artist. Her work is inspired by her Filipino heritage, her family travels through Europe, and the Bay Area with its unique perspective on the impact of technology and globalization. @c_ongdijcks_art I twww.christineong.com

Artist Whitney Parker

Whitney Parker is a full time artist based here in Redwood City. Her artwork is abstract, but takes inspiration from nature and our surrounding landscape here in California. She aims to bring a unique interpretation of the environment while incorporating aspects of her fashion design back- ground into the art itself.
@artbywhitneyalyssa I artbywhitneyalyssa.com

Photographer Gato Rivera

Gato Rivera is a street photographer, community volunteer, and classic car enthusiast. His journey as a photographer began at a young age, capturing the culture and vitality of life across the Bay Area. His collection of photos focus on the joy of people in the community. Gato resides with his family in Redwood City, California.
zugato@gmail.com | plumchevy.smugmug.com/czi

Digital Artist Karen Valdez

Karen Valdez is a young artist raised in the North Fair Oaks community of San Mateo County, California. She works at the Siena Youth Center with underprivileged kids of color and strives to inspire and empower them. Karen is a semi-professional chalk artist with exceptional skills in graphic design, photography, painting, and digital art. She attends art courses at the San Francisco Academy of Arts.
@valdezzzarts | valdezzzarts@gmail.com

Collaborative - Sheena Wilton of Laurel Street Arts and Generations United

Laurel Street Arts is a locally-owned, full-service, crafts studio specializing in pottery painting, mosaics, and glass fusing. Owner Sheena Wilton partnered with the youth at Generations United to create an art piece for the exhibition. Generations United partners with local schools, congregations, businesses, and city government, mobilizing hundreds of incredible volunteers to help bring positive transformation to even more students, parents and extended family. Growing in literacy, math, science, and whole life skills, these joined lives – across generations and culture – bring health and renewal to the most vulnerable among these Peninsula communities.