Events & Workshops
The Center for Creativity is proud to host events, workshops, & classes!
Explore previous events, or learn how to book CfC for your own event!
Call for Entry with Sanchez Art Center
CfC Collaborates with the Sanchez Art Center for juried exhibition celebrating America’s 250th Birthday!
Drawing Breathe Project Affirmations
Artist Barbara Kibbe is looking for your contributions for an upcoming Safe Box Gallery installation!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Making Waves Through Sound
Stop by the Center for Creativity and indulge in a sound experience through Tibetan bowls, chimes, and chants.
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
March - April 2026 Exhibitions: Closing Reception
Join the artists and community as we celebrate the closing of our March–April exhibitions!
Event is free & open to the public.
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
March - April 2026 Exhibitions: Opening Reception
Join the artists and community as we celebrate the opening of our March–April exhibitions!
Event is free & open to the public.
Make & Take Thursdays
Looking for a creative break in your day? Join us every Thursday at the Center for Creativity in downtown Redwood City for free, drop-in art sessions!
Jan-Feb 2026 Exhibitions: Closing Reception
Join the artists and community of our January & February exhibitions to celebrate the closing of our first exhibitions of 2026!
Pal-entine's Day Sip & Stitch
Join NehaXStitch for a fun and interactive embroidery class where you'll create your own hand-embroidered notebook. Flexible pricing with a pay-what-you-can model starting at $10!
100% of proceeds will be donated to the Center for Creativity.
Mask-Making Workshop by Fuse Theater
An artistic exploration of music, mask-making and more presented by Fuse Theater.
Making Waves: Community Circle-Making Workshops
Join us for two community workshops to create Artworks in a circular format for the stairwell installation at Making Waves: Currents of Change, our upcoming March/April 2026 exhibition celebrating women artists and environmental consciousness. The invitation is open to artistic people who feel a calling toward the theme!
Jan-Feb 2026 Exhibitions: Opening Reception
Join the artists and community of our January & February exhibitions to celebrate the opening of our first exhibitions of 2026!
When They Were in Vogue – A Book Launch and Celebration of Storytelling
Join local debut author Lauren Campbell for the launch of When They Were in Vogue, a historical fiction novel set in the Harlem Renaissance. Enjoy a live reading, book signings, and exclusive merch in this celebration of storytelling, jazz, creativity, and community. And since the event coincides with the author’s birthday, enjoy wine and cake as part of the festivities.
Refuge II: Curator & Artists Tour
Curator Na Omi J. Shintani and artist Cindy Chan will talk about the work by 12 women of Asian Heritage featured in the exhibition Refuge II.
Sip & Stitch: A Live Embroidery Workshop
Join Neha of NehaXStitch to learn beginner hand embroidery techniques while personalizing your own canvas accessory pouch: all materials and drinks provided! 100% of proceeds will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
Searching for Democracy
Artist Beth Grossman invites the community to a free art event, where visitors can try their hand at quill writing while reflecting on what they cherish about the Constitution.
Hopes and Dreams for the Future Banner
Artist and curator Belinda Chlouber invites the community to a collaborative banner project, offering a space to stitch together our hopes and visions for the future — transforming individual voices into a unified statement of purpose.
CfC at Art on the Square
Enjoy holiday shopping among more than 25 artists. Experience art, music, and local history in an iconic venue. Find the Center for Creativity booth and drop by the CfC at Broadway and Main St. for more art and surprises!
Celebration of New Youth-Led Art Murals
Join us in celebrating the vibrant new murals at the Hotel Sequoia! Ten new murals now brighten the alley behind the hotel, and a large centerpiece mural fills the Eureka Gallery and Studio inside—all created by the talented youth of our community and sponsored by the Redwood City Arts Commission.
Día de los Muertos on Courthouse Square
Enjoy beautifully crafted ceremonial altars created by the community, a lively procession, elegant catrinas, face painting and free children’s activities at this event brought to you by Casa Círculo Cultural and the San Mateo County History Museum in collaboration with the Redwood City Parks & Arts Foundation.
Art of the Community RWC: Closing Reception
Join the artists, curators, and community of our Sept - Nov exhibitions to celebrate the closing of their exhibitions!
This event is free & open to the public, no RSVP required!
Disabilities Arts Showcase - Art Workshop
Join artist Leila Ghasempor for a free hands-on workshop designed for adults with disabilities.
What We Remember Opening Night Reception
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!).
2025 Disabilities Arts Showcase Artists Reception
Exhibition presented by San Mateo County Commission on Disabilities to recognize, celebrate, and honor the disabilities community during October, National Disabilities Employment Awareness Month.
Ignite Story Circles: Building Creative Communities
Discover the power of storytelling and connection at this engaging, free event led by Fuse Theatre’s 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.
Art + Sound on Broadway
Where Redwood City’s musicians, art makers, and curated exhibitions come together to celebrate creativity, inspire community, and ignite the magic of art and sound.
What is Art Bias? Closing Reception & Artists’ Talks
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.
Community Mural Project Workshops
Ages 14–24 in San Mateo County created a collaborative mural project that celebrates art and community. Sponsored by the Redwood City Arts Commission.
What is Art Bias? Opening Reception
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.
Call for Entries: Art of the Community
The Center for Creativity is pleased to host a juried exhibition of Redwood City artists — apply here July 1–20!
Engaging Community: Closing Reception
Join us to celebrate the work of 14 artists in five exhibitions throughout the Center for Creativity.