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Palo Alto Art Center
The Palo Alto Art Center is a multi-purpose center open to the public for art activities for all ages, located at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto, California. It is managed by the City of Palo Alto, California and supported by the non-profit Palo Alto Art Center Foundation (PAACF). The center is located adjacent to Rinconada Park and the Rinconada Public Library. History The Palo Alto Art Center was originally named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center when it was founded in 1971. The building which occupies Palo Alto Art Center was built in 1953 by architect Leslie Nichols and used to be the location for Palo Alto's City Hall. From 2010 until 2012, the building underwent major renovations which included adding additional classrooms and a new children's wing. In 2016, after the death of local art collector and printshop and press owner, Paula Kirkeby, her printshop and studio equipment was donated to the Palo Alto Art Center. Karen Kienzle has been the director of Palo Alto ...
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish language, Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a Sequoia sempervirens, coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city was established in 1894 by the American industrialist Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University in memory of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and borders East Palo Alto, California, East Palo Alto, Mountain View, California, Mountain View, Los Altos, California, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, California, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, California, Stanford, Portola Valley, California, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park, California, Menlo Park. At the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 68,572. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive cities in the United States in which to live, and its residents are among the most educated in the country. Howeve ...
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Joseph Cornell
Joseph Cornell (December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972) was an American visual artist and film-maker, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of Assemblage (art), assemblage. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. He was largely self-taught in his artistic efforts, and improvised his own original style incorporating cast-off and discarded artifacts. He lived most of his life in relative physical isolation, caring for his mother and his disabled brother at home, but remained aware of and in contact with other contemporary artists. Life Joseph Cornell was born in Nyack, New York, Nyack, New York, to Joseph Cornell, a textiles industry executive, and Helen Ten Broeck Storms Cornell, who had trained as a nursery teacher. Both parents came from socially prominent families of Dutch ancestry, long-established in New York State. Cornell's father died April 30, 1917, leaving the family in straitened circumstances. Following the elder C ...
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Elizabeth Sher
Elizabeth Sher (born 1943) is a San Francisco Bay Area artist, known for eclectic short films, documentaries about women, art, aging and health, and mixed-media artwork employing digital and analog modes.Peters, Catherine. "Totally Tubular Artists: SF is in the vanguard of a revolution in video art," ''San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle'', September 15, p. 14–5.Cohn, Abby. "Film Examines Boomer’s Obsession with Youth," ''San Francisco Chronicle'', March 16, 2001, p. 2.Corbin, Mary"Artist Elizabeth Sher Plays With Perception,"''Alameda Magazine'', June 5, 2018. Retrieved February 12, 2020. Her films combine humor, honesty and an interest in everyday experiences; while not strictly autobiographical, her work often explores issues that parallel her own life cycle.Ahlgren, Calvin. "A Wit and Her Piquant Works," ''San Francisco Chronicle'', December 4, 1983, p. 33.Armstrong, David. "Berkeley Video Artist’s TV ‘Magazine’ With a Few Twists," ''San Francisco Examiner'', ...
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Judith Selby Lang
Judith Selby Lang is an American artist and environmental activist working with found beach plastic. Selby Lang is known for sourcing beach plastic from a single site: 1000 yards of Kehoe Beach along the Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California, and then turning that plastic into artworks. Selby Lang works both independently and with her partner Richard Lang. Education Judith Selby Lang has a BA in art from Pitzer College. She also has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University, where she was a student of Christine Tamblyn. Career Early work Selby Lang's early work, which was sculptural in nature, was included in a 1988 New York City exhibition at Archetype Gallery and in 1989 at Nexus Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia Solo work In a 2009 review of the San Francisco and New York City exhibition ''Ineffable/Woman'', Debra Koppman describes Selby Lang's artwork as ". . . an homage to aging a marker of accomplishme ...
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Alan Rath
Alan Rath (1959–2020) was an American electronic, kinetic, and robotic sculptor. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, with a BS electrical engineering. He worked for a Boston engineering firm after graduation, and in 1982, moved to Oakland, California to pursue his artistic interests. ''Arecibo'', in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of how the artist combines electronics with an undeniable artistic talent to create witty statements about technology gone berserk. The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Gallery (Minneapolis), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City) are among the public collections holding work by Rath. Fellowships and Awards * 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY *1993 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, San Francisco, CA *1 ...
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