Previous Exhibitions
Sequoia Gallery & Eureka Studio Gallery
Artists have always been at the center of the nation’s soul. The artists of O Say Can You See … the Soul of Our Nation create images and perspectives that transcend politics, encourage hope, and advance the vision of a just society where all can experience opportunity, and enjoy liberty and happiness. Juried by Jeff Raz, curated by Barbara Kibbe & Nanette Wylde.
To mark the one-year anniversary of our opening at the historic Sequoia Hotel, the Center for Creativity proudly presents Transformations—an exhibition featuring ten San Mateo artists who celebrate the spirit of our dedicated volunteers, curated by Alyssa Levitan.
This exhibition by members of the Bay Area Photographers Collective explores life amid “A Measure of Uncertainty.” The fine art photography exhibition, featuring the original work of 13 BAPC artists, is curated by Heather Snider.
Vintage suitcases become intimate portals in this multi-artist installation, each vessel transformed into a personal landscape exploring ecology, displacement, and the stories we carry — a meditation on what we choose to hold, what we leave behind, and our place in a changing world.
Making Waves: Currents of Change, curated by Belinda Chlouber, celebrates women artists and environmental consciousness during Women's History Month and Earth Day. The exhibition brings together a group of women with diverse artistic perspectives that examine the climate crisis, ecological relationships, and humanity's impact on our planet.
Mural Madness features painted panels created during a live mural competition held during San Mateo’s annual September Arts & Culture Fest.
A curated exhibit of 12 artists reflecting on the theme of perseverance, resilience and hope.
Refuge, guest curated by Na Omi J. Shintani in the Sequoia Gallery featuring artists of Asian heritage
Elements of Modern Quilting, featuring work from the Silicon Valley Modern Quilt Guild featured in the Eureka Studio Gallery
Extraction: On the Margins, a portfolio of hand-pulled prints from the California Society of Printmakers featured on the Sequoia Gallery Staircase
Art of the Community: Redwood City 2025 features the creative works of 38 Redwood City artists who submitted their artwork to an open juried call specifically for this exhibition. The exhibition was jurored by Elizabeth Gómez, Justin Hunt, and Yunan Ma, all also of Redwood City.
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.
Engaging Community featured CfC Steering Committee visual artists. Curated by Nanette Wylde.
Featuring seven San Mateo County artists: CS Boris, Sandra Keely, Kent Manske, Gadget, Carol Sconzert, Cindy Stokes, Nanette Wylde
Phone Booth Gallery
This installation imagines conversations overheard in the mess hall of the USS Enterprise, using science fiction as a lens through which to examine our own world. The dialogue invites viewers to consider how we might build a more equitable, compassionate, and functional society—one where disagreement can coexist with empathy, and where community can be found across differences.
Soft Punk by artist Michelle Anna Boire, is a mixed media show exploring trauma and grief in the Phone Booth Gallery.
Dial-a-Poet invites visitors to pick up a vintage push-button phone and dial to hear environmental poems. Visitors can contribute their own voices by writing poems on ribbons that become part of this evolving installation, transforming a communication relic into a portal for ecological reflection.
Through intuitive doodling, Lynn Singer Asher captures moments of presence, joy, and resilience - revealing how simple marks can become powerful expressions of connection, memory, and everyday wonder.
Corinne’s Shoezeum, an installation by Corinne Friedman featured in the Phone Booth Gallery
Safe Box Gallery
Barbara Kibbe begins every day by drawing a breath and trying to envision what is possible without ignoring the current reality. This practice has led her to create a new body of work, Drawing Breath: Safe Keeping, a collection of art books and containers fashioned from Kibbe’s inventory of 50+ years of printmaking. The books and containers hold aspirations, affirmations, and predictions to help us envision the future we want for ourselves, our families, our communities, and our country.
The Barrows serve to examine what collects and to illuminate the mental and emotional weights that accumulate. In many ways taking what is private in detail but collective in nature and presenting that in a shared manner encouraging a greater conversation.
By keeping precious things in safes, we disengage from them. The Wildsafe invites viewers to look inside at clay figures that unite the natural and human world—passing knowledge across generations, building cross-species relationships, persisting through change—revealing the imaginary line we draw between our worlds.
The Center for Creativity invites the public to participate in Free Art, a community-driven exhibition where visitors are welcome to take art, donate art, or simply enjoy the exhibition.
Art Window
Through the Tangles, by artist Robin Mullery, is an interactive installation of wire, words, and space embodying the way we are bound, held, entangled, connected, and released in relationships with others and ourselves. Viewers can participate by submitting words from the exhibit to a website, which will generate a new poem.
Invoking ocean goddesses, artist Christina Conklin crafts algae vessels, wombs and wings in an act of reclaiming sacred feminine power in this time of turmoil.
We have just one planet, yet it is faced with many perils of human activity -- industrial and home waste, discarded electronics, packaging, plastics, destruction from war, and the consequences of our disposable culture. These perils, embodied in the globes in this installation, drive artist Shirley Abraham toward activism and a passion for environmental stewardship.
Installation by Cindy Stokes at the Art Window, our new gallery at 2009–2011 Broadway, just two doors from the Center for Creativity.
Community Wall
Wellbeing of the Future is an interactive art installation showcasing the top thematic visions of San Mateo County 50 years from now — co-created by youth throughout the City through the Futures Commission's intergenerational design challenge series.
Objects of Belonging invites visitors to discover the art, stories, and meaning hidden within everyday objects. Presented by SMC Youth Arts Fellow Taryn Hwang with the support of the SMC Office of Arts & Culture and the CfC.
“Rebirth in Color” celebrates creative freedom, inviting young artists to explore the spirit of spring through painting without constraints. In this first off-campus exhibition from Design Tech High School, students were given a simple yet expansive prompt: "Create what you feel called to create."
Mural Madness features painted panels created during a live mural competition held during San Mateo’s annual September Arts & Culture Fest.
Children’s books and original art by artist/illustrators Elizabeth Gomez and Pettina Velez featured on the Community Wall
Disabilities Arts Showcase on the Community Wall in partnership with the County of San Mateo Commission on Disabilities
An inspiring month where creativity meets courage. The Voices of Recovery Art Show is a vibrant celebration of resilience, transformation, and hope: featuring powerful works by artists who are walking the path of recovery with Voices of Recovery of San Mateo County.
Restroom Gallery (May 3 - Current)
Art inspired space that invites other artists to contribute. Concept by Gadget and Stephanie.