What We Remember! October 18th @ 7pm in Redwood City – INCLUDES opening night reception at the Center for Creativity!

An original tri-lingual show that was created by Fuse artists and is a lovely “coming of age” show about two immigrants (based on both actors’ lives) and includes shadow puppetry. Appropriate for ages 10 and up.

Tickets are general admission and folks self-select the level that is comfortable for them to pay. (Our version of pay-what-you-will!).

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Join 25 Art Bias artists at the Center for Creativity to celebrate the final day of the What is Art Bias? exhibition with refreshments and artists’ talks! This event is free and open to the public.

An curated exhibition of 25 artists from the Center for Creativity’s Community Art Partner, Art Bias, which is an art studio complex located in San Carlos. Curated by Nanette Wylde.

Artists: Erika Adkins, Federica Armstrong, Fred Aron, John Barrows, Liz Broekhuyse, Ellen Brook, Shari Bryant, Cali (Jorge Calderon), Brian Clark, Michael Endicott, Molly Finn, Alan Hart, Lindsay Hogue, Yunan Ma, Colleen Mirassou, Neil Murphy, Dorothy North, Teresa Ruzzo, Terry Sand, Yucali Seki, Deb Shea, Andrew Sherman, Pettina Velez, Greta Waterman, and Dani Weber.

Anthropologist Ellen Dissanayake reminds us that art is not a luxury or an accessory to life—it is a fundamental human need, as vital to our species as food, warmth, or shelter. She defines art as making special, an impulse rooted in our biology and shared across cultures and histories. The term bias—a tendency, inclination, or prejudice toward or against something—can either affirm or reject this essential element of humanity. Thus, an Art Bias is not just a name. It’s a declaration: that the creative impulse deserves to be seen, nurtured, and shared.

The community of Art Bias, an art studio complex in San Carlos, embodies this principle by affirming and celebrating the innate creativity within us all. The artists represented here work across a diverse range of media and contemporary themes including—family and heritage, self and cultural empowerment, current events and environmental issues, the natural world, play and whimsy, formal and media explorations. Each work in this exhibition is a gesture of making special—an act of attention, care, and presence that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

But creativity, like humanity, does not thrive in isolation. This exhibition also honors our deeply social nature—the drive to connect, converse, and collaborate. The artists in this show are not only makers; they are builders of community. Many of them teach, make art in the public sphere, or facilitate creativity in the wider regional community. Their works speak not only to their own individual expression but also to a collective purpose: to foster exchange, inclusivity, and encouragement.

In a world that too often silences, critiques, or commodifies creativity, this exhibition offers a counterpoint. It invites everyone—artist, viewer, and passerby—to remember that creativity is not something we earn. It is something we are. And it is something we must share. 

Join us to celebrate the work of 14 artists in five exhibitions throughout the Center for Creativity.

Come participate inWeaving the Community–an on-site public project on the window sills at the Center for Creativity. Learn to weave. Fun for all ages!

Inside the Center for Creativity we will paint handprints on a large piece of Tyvek paper which will be woven into the community tapestry. Outside, there will be the opportunity to weaving a colorful tapestry with various yarns and paint parts of the structural weaving apparatus (a homemade creative loom you might say). Jodi Paley is the project lead. Assisting the project is fellow Black Sheep Hand Weavers Guild weaver and a founding member of Madrone Arts in Pescadero, Kathleen Dickey.

Jodi Paley first observed weavers on her honeymoon in New Mexico in 1989, but didn’t think there was any way that she could learn the craft back home in the Bay Area. In 2003 her daughter began attending The Peninsula School in Menlo Park where there was a weaving program during extracurricular time. She volunteered to assist in the weaving room, teaching kids as young as kindergarten and managing to learn enough to stay one step ahead of the students. After acquiring her own loom (she now has 4 large looms), she was asked to start selling her weavings and a business (Stich-te Naku Weaving & Fiber Arts) was born. As time went on, she added other fiber crafts to her repertoire – dyeing yarn, felting, basketry, and most recently sashiko & boro. In addition Jodi is the founder and leader of Chase the Chill in Redwood City, where hand made (knit, crochet, weave, felt, cut fleece) scarves, hats, socks, and gloves are collected and then hung up at various locales around town for anybody to take. Over the course of 9 years more than 1200 items have been made and shared by the community. Jodi is also on the board of the Black Sheep Hand Weavers Guild, active in the Conference of Northern California Handweavers (CNCH), the Director of Artist Outreach & Communications for ART on the Squared and is now a partner in the Mirada Art on Main Gallery in downtown Half Moon Bay.

This is a free event. Reservations are required. Register Here.

Join us in celebrating regional creatives who are featured in Entanglements: a curated collection of contemporary culture. Entanglements is an anthology of West Coast artists and writers curated by Nanette Wylde.

Performances at 2:30 pm.

Join Fuse Theatre for a free community workshop! Discover the power of storytelling and connection at this engaging event led by Fuse founder and artistic director Stacey Ardelean.

Whether you’re new to Fuse or already familiar with our work, this is a great opportunity to learn how we collaborate with communities through the arts.

Community project with Nanette Wylde: collaborative sewing circle—honor a local champion for the arts Jan Rindfleisch.

Jan Rindfleisch was an artist, educator, writer, curator and cultural worker. She was the executive director of the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino for 32 years. During that time Rindfleisch laid the groundwork for an engaged and inclusive museum environment by continuously tapping the diverse local voices of Silicon Valley. Rindfleisch had a BA in Physics from Purdue University and an MFA from San José State University. She was the recipent of numerous regional awards which recognize her significant contributions to the arts in the greater Bay Area. For her 2024 exhibition at Artik in San Jose, Rindfleisch invited the arts community to collaborate on many of her own early artworks. This scroll is one of these. You are now invited to contribute by sewing in collaboration with Jan’s drawing. Please sign your name in the log book when you completed your contribution.

The Community Sewing Circle has moved to Works/San Jose for the exhibition Re-deconstruction: Jan Rindfleisch and the Building Together collaborations, June 7 to June 28, 2025

Community project with Nanette Wylde: collaborative sewing circle—honor a local champion for the arts Jan Rindfleisch.

Jan Rindfleisch was an artist, educator, writer, curator and cultural worker. She was the executive director of the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino for 32 years. During that time Rindfleisch laid the groundwork for an engaged and inclusive museum environment by continuously tapping the diverse local voices of Silicon Valley. Rindfleisch had a BA in Physics from Purdue University and an MFA from San José State University. She was the recipent of numerous regional awards which recognize her significant contributions to the arts in the greater Bay Area. For her 2024 exhibition at Artik in San Jose, Rindfleisch invited the arts community to collaborate on many of her own early artworks. This scroll is one of these. You are now invited to contribute by sewing in collaboration with Jan’s drawing. Please sign your name in the log book when you completed your contribution.

The Community Sewing Circle has moved to Works/San Jose for the exhibition Re-deconstruction: Jan Rindfleisch and the Building Together collaborations, June 7 to June 28, 2025

Come join us at the Center for Creativity (Hotel Sequoia) for a morning talk where San Mateo County-based Asian American artists Don Miralles, Na Omi Shintani, and VC Tang share live song, artwork, stories, and mother-inspired light breakfast.

"Have you eaten yet?" is the true "hello" in many Asian cultures. This newly-formed collective of creatives give us their take on how art and stories feed our hunger, and not just for food.

This event is free and open to the public though registration is required as seating and food are limited. Your commitment to attending is much appreciated to account for space and a good experience for all.

This event is funded by the Redwood City Arts Commission and the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture, and hosted by the Center for Creativity.

Don Miralles is a Daly City-based multidisciplinary artist, utilizing music as an instrument to alchemize pain. Don speaks on love, the human condition, anguish, heartbreak, self-empowerment, gratitude, hope, and healing, inviting others to dive deeper into their own stories. Extremely proud of his Filipino roots, Don incorporates his culture into his music whether it be through lyrics, live performance elements, videos depicting themes of the Philippines. Through his artistry, he encourages transformation, rebirth, and a fiery passion to pursue your creative ideas, and hearts calling.

Na Omi Shintani resides in Half Moon Bay and is an artivist, community artist, and culture bearer. She organizes coastside intergenerational community engagement opportunities for Asian American Pacific Islander art exhibitions, performances, spoken word, and workshops. Her art includes familial, historical, and cultural storytelling, inspiring dialogue and connection.

VC Tang, based in San Carlos, is a traditional, interdisciplinary artist and culture bearer. Her work invites local audiences to pause and invoke - in spirit and/or in contemplation - in a culture of busy-ness. She facilitates participatory experiences rooted in Asian arts: ceremonial blessings, tea and food tastings, and Tai Chi movement healing. Her work stretches mainstream definitions of art and culture by making ancestral wisdom accessible for modern day arts enthusiasts on the Peninsula.

Community project with Nanette Wylde: collaborative sewing circle—honor a local champion for the arts Jan Rindfleisch.

Jan Rindfleisch was an artist, educator, writer, curator and cultural worker. She was the executive director of the Euphrat Museum at De Anza College in Cupertino for 32 years. During that time Rindfleisch laid the groundwork for an engaged and inclusive museum environment by continuously tapping the diverse local voices of Silicon Valley. Rindfleisch had a BA in Physics from Purdue University and an MFA from San José State University. She was the recipent of numerous regional awards which recognize her significant contributions to the arts in the greater Bay Area. For her 2024 exhibition at Artik in San Jose, Rindfleisch invited the arts community to collaborate on many of her own early artworks. This scroll is one of these. You are now invited to contribute by sewing in collaboration with Jan’s drawing. Please sign your name in the log book when you completed your contribution.

The Community Sewing Circle has moved to Works/San Jose for the exhibition Re-deconstruction: Jan Rindfleisch and the Building Together collaborations, June 7 to June 28, 2025