✍️ 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
🦖 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: Alyssa Levitan (@alyssa.levitan )
Painting is a treasure hunt creation. When painting, Alyssa generally has a theme in mind for a series of paintings. She begins by building numerous layers of paint, opening apertures, screening distractions and searching for symbiotic relationships pertaining to my theme. What is revealed are gems of discovery.
Alyssa’s work, “Primordial Soup,” is currently on view in "Transformations" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026
📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public
We had a great time mixing colors at Thursday's Make & Take at the Center for Creativity. Thank you to all who attended and we'll see you next week for an exciting Mandala art project!
🎨 Featured Artist: Michelle Anna Boire
Michelle is a San Jose Artist, photographer, and educator surviving the end times on Tamien/Muwekma/Ohlone land. They currently work in photography and mixed media, experimenting recently in fiber arts and soft sculpture. Her work explores the intersection and impact of trauma and memory with a focus on the conscious and sub-conscious. Her work also reflects on the formation of memories through oral history and storytelling. Michelle teaches high school photography and design, and currently runs the San Jose Zine Library. (formerly, Redwood City Zine Library)
Michelles's installation, "Soft Punk", is currently on view in the Phone Booth Gallery at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026.
📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public
⛺ Featured Artist: John Eames (@johneames_artist )
John pursues what allows him to do exactly the thing and no thing at the same time. To say that no thing is good or bad except that thinking makes it so. Leaving the thoughts within the work to others, making no formal statement to one direction or another.
John’s works “The Three Fates" and "The Worth and The Expense" 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: Debra Zupancic (@girl_from_pitt )
Deb Zupancic is a Redwood City based photographer. She studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and after a career in tech she is now focusing on photography and digital arts. If you’d like to get in touch about her photography, feel free to reach out at [email protected].
Debra’s work, “Pittsburg Bridges, Color,” is currently on view in "Transformations" at the Center for Creativity through June 28, 2026
📍 800 Main St, Redwood City
🎟 Free & open to the public
At this Thursday's Make & Take, learn what happens when you use complimentary colors to make earth-tones. Explore color mixing and composition in this mixed media project inspired by Mud clothes from Mali
Malian mud cloth, or bogolanfini, is a traditional handmade Malian cotton fabric dating back to the 12th century, created by the Bambara people using fermented mud and natural plant dyes. Historically, this textile served as ritual protection for hunters and a rite of passage for women, with intricate geometric symbols conveying stories, proverbs, and cultural identity.
📅 Thursday, May 14
🕚 12 noon - 2 pm
📍 Center for Creativity, 800 Main St at Broadway
🎭 Growing in the Silence 🎭
Presented by Fuse Theatre at the Center for Creativity
📅 June 5 & 6, 2026
Join @@fuse_theatre at the @centerforcreativitysmc for a collaborative performance inspired by @alexvaldiviamusic & mayavaldiviamusic’s "Measure the Silence". The production explores the inner growth that occurs when we silence the outside world, and features unique masks integrated with original music to create a visual story about the "masks we learn to wear" and the unspoken truths that hold us together.
Don't miss this opportunity to experience and celebrate the fragile ties that connect us all!
🎟️ Tickets: $5 / $10 / $15
Registration required — limited tickets available at the door.
Purchase at the link in bio!
