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📸 Featured Artist: Chad Amory (@chadamory)

Chad Amory is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work focuses on urban and abstract imagery. He captures fleeting city moments, layered forms, and shifting light to explore perception, ambiguity, and unpredictability.

Chad’s works, “Lukas,” “Polkadot,” “Lair,” and “Rules of Modesty,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood Cit
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Chad Amory (@chadamory)

Chad Amory is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work focuses on urban and abstract imagery. He captures fleeting city moments, layered forms, and shifting light to explore perception, ambiguity, and unpredictability.

Chad’s works, “Lukas,” “Polkadot,” “Lair,” and “Rules of Modesty,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood Cit
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Chad Amory (@chadamory)

Chad Amory is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work focuses on urban and abstract imagery. He captures fleeting city moments, layered forms, and shifting light to explore perception, ambiguity, and unpredictability.

Chad’s works, “Lukas,” “Polkadot,” “Lair,” and “Rules of Modesty,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood Cit
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Chad Amory (@chadamory)

Chad Amory is a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose work focuses on urban and abstract imagery. He captures fleeting city moments, layered forms, and shifting light to explore perception, ambiguity, and unpredictability.

Chad’s works, “Lukas,” “Polkadot,” “Lair,” and “Rules of Modesty,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood Cit
🎟 Free & open to the public

Over one inspiring weekend in May, the @centerforcreativitysmc welcomed 16 middle and high school students from 12 schools across San Mateo County came together at the CfC for a weekend of poetry and collage workshops led by @barrioscribe, San Mateo County Poet Laureate, @chloexinc, 2025 California Youth Poet Laureate, and local collage artists.

Join us for "It’s in the Details": a public poetry reading and art showcase featuring original poems and collage artwork created by San Mateo County youth.

📍 Redwood City Downtown Library, Community Room
📅 Wednesday, May 27
⏰ 6–7:30 PM

This project was made possible through a grant from the @cityofredwoodcity Arts Commission, in partnership with @redwoodcitylibrary and @smc_artsandculture

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

We had a full house at this week's Make and Take, Mandala art. Thank you Anu for leading such a beautiful project! Join us next week for another fun project, every Thursday from 12-2, no need to register and always free!

📸 Featured Artist: Angelika Schilli

Angelika Schilli photographs close to home, finding inspiration in the quiet transformation of everyday objects. She experiments with various cameras, with a fondness for plastic and instant formats, and recently focuses on collage, reassembling her photographs into new visual stories.

Angelika’s works, “Silence” & “Roots,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Angelika Schilli

Angelika Schilli photographs close to home, finding inspiration in the quiet transformation of everyday objects. She experiments with various cameras, with a fondness for plastic and instant formats, and recently focuses on collage, reassembling her photographs into new visual stories.

Angelika’s works, “Silence” & “Roots,” are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

Thank you to @universityart for their generous donation of chairs to the @centerforcreativitysmc 🧡

📸 Featured Artist: Allyson Ely (@allyson.ely.photo)

SoHo Photo Gallery’s 2025 International Portfolio Competition winner, a Critical Mass 2024 finalist, and Los Angeles Center of Photography’s Reservoir participant. Allyson has exhibited at the Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, SoHo Photo Gallery, New York, The Griffin Museum, MA, LACP, and Gray Loft Gallery.

Allyson’s work is currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Alison Taggart-Barone

Alison is a Bay Area photographic Artist, deeply interested in the human experience.

Her works, “Sleep, from the 'Beds'" series 1 & 2, and “Death, from the Cheung Ek" series 1 & 2 are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Alison Taggart-Barone

Alison is a Bay Area photographic Artist, deeply interested in the human experience.

Her works, “Sleep, from the 'Beds'" series 1 & 2, and “Death, from the Cheung Ek" series 1 & 2 are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Alison Taggart-Barone

Alison is a Bay Area photographic Artist, deeply interested in the human experience.

Her works, “Sleep, from the 'Beds'" series 1 & 2, and “Death, from the Cheung Ek" series 1 & 2 are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

📸 Featured Artist: Alison Taggart-Barone

Alison is a Bay Area photographic Artist, deeply interested in the human experience.

Her works, “Sleep, from the 'Beds'" series 1 & 2, and “Death, from the Cheung Ek" series 1 & 2 are currently on view in "A Measure of Uncertainty" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

Join us for this Thursday's Make and Take, Mandala art!

Embark on a mindful mandala art journey by choosing a design that resonates with you, setting an intention, immersing yourself in its beauty, and gently letting go of thoughts to experience peace and relaxation.

Mandala art is a colorful and creative spiritual journey inward. Focusing on the mandala and its creation beautifully blends art and mindfulness. As you gently train your mind to concentrate on the patterns and release distracting thoughts or emotions, you move closer to inner calm, balance, and deep relaxation. 🌸

No need to register, always free!

📅 Thursday, May 21
🕚 12 noon. - 2 pm
📍 Center for Creativity, 800 Main St at Broadway

✍️ Upcoming Workshop at the CfC! ✍️

Rooted in fairy tale archetypes, the Heroine’s Journey offers a powerful framework for understanding creativity, identity, and the evolving role of the feminine in our world today. Using "Baba Yaga & Vasilisa," Kate Farrell and her facilitators will illuminate the key stages of the journey through dynamic storytelling and discussion, and lead participants in guided writing experiences that engage the themes of the Heroine’s Journey in a personal and creative way.

🎟 $99 for both in-person sessions | $60 for first session only | $60 for second session add-on
🔗 Link in bio to register
📍 800 Main St, Redwood City

🎨 Featured Artist: Robin Mullery

Robin Mullery infuses tenderness into the images, objects, and installations she creates. Drawing on her background as a therapist, she probes vulnerability and harm, giving shape to what it means to be in relation with one another. Self-taught in visual art with an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Psychology, she intuits her way to form.

Robin's installation, "Through the Tangles", is currently on view in the Art Window at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

Susie Peyton’s vision of hosting a Yourh Poetry Collage Workshop at Center for Creativity came to fruition yesterday. San Mateo County Poet Laureate, Antonio Lopez, lead the students students through a series of exercises to get them warmed up to write their own poem using the prompt, “ I am from..” Ca Youth Poet Laureate, Chloe Chou and Emma Peyton also helped guide the 16 high school and middle school students from 13 SMC schools to write their poems. Tomorrow the students will return to create a collage to accompany the poems. The poems/collages will be featured in June in an exhibition at Center for Creativity and read at the Redwood City Library on May 27.@barrioscribe @centerforcreativitysmc @susiepeyton @betsyhalaby @mikjords

🦖 Featured Artist: Zachary Costa @radstarsaur

Zachary is a Redwood City artist who specializes in digital art. He has a deep love of monsters, prehistoric life, and retro video games, a trio of passions which he regularly channels through his work.

Zachary's works, "Food Chain" and "Second Genesis" are currently on view in "Transformations" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public

🦖 Featured Artist: Zachary Costa @radstarsaur

Zachary is a Redwood City artist who specializes in digital art. He has a deep love of monsters, prehistoric life, and retro video games, a trio of passions which he regularly channels through his work.

Zachary's works, "Food Chain" and "Second Genesis" are currently on view in "Transformations" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026

📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public