San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture

Calling all artists - painters, printmakers,jewelry designers, ceramicists, sculptors, and fiber artists!

The San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture and the San Mateo Area Chamber of Commerce are pleased to present the September Arts & Culture Fest – the best street festival on the Peninsula. This day-long event features LOCAL musicians, entertainment and cultural performances, artists and craft-makers, cuisine from around the world, wine and beer, and family-friendly activities in the heart of downtown San Mateo. The event is free and open to the public.

Date & Time | September 28, 10 am – 6 pm
Location | B Street Pedestrian Mall and Baldwin Avenue in downtown San Mateo

This year we are excited to be able to include visual artists in addition to performing artists and offer them an opportunity to share and sell their work. We can accommodate up to 40 artists!

Artists will be required to pay a $130 fee to participate, deadline to apply 8/9/24. This fee includes:

10’ x 10’ pop-up tent with weights, no side walls
8’ banquet table
2 folding chairs.

Link in bio for more information and to apply!

Meet Ryan! “I want to be an intern because I want to use design to highlight important local issues/events. I hope that through building advertising campaigns, I can help artists all over San Mateo County learn about all the opportunities the OAC has to offer.
I hope that through this experience, I’ll learn more about creating creative and accessible designs and be able to experiment with more unconventional graphic design!
Outside of design, I’m a huge fan of programming. I love creating accessible and interactive media for the web and solving competitive programming problems. I’m especially interested to see how artistry and computer science can come together to create more engaging and self-expressive artwork.”
We are so fortunate to be working with you, Ryan!
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Mark your calendar for this fun community event. The Office of Arts and Culture is excited to partner with the San Mateo Area of Chamber of Comnetce to present September Arts and Culture Fest on 9/28/24. The day-long event will include local visual artists and performances by dancers, musicians, actors, and poets from throughout the County.
We have space for 40 visual artists to show and sell their artwork.
We are seeking artsist of all ages, disciplines, and cultures to perform on stage.
SIGN UP today, link in bio.
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The Office of Arts and Culture welcomes Nyla Byer as one of our summer interns. Nyla will assist us by supporting the many arts and culture projects we have in the works. Nyla has interned for the County the last two summers through the LIP Hoover Program. Nyla is an artist herself and will be helping us document some of our summer events using her photography skills. Also, one of her passions is to help artists in her community to find ways to ensure that they are seen and represented. We are super happy to have her with us this summer!

Happy Juneteenth! San Mateo County Arts Comissioner, Lois Fried, has been busy this month. She has traveled around the county visit libraries teaching residents about the importance of Juneteenth and delighting them with her own poetry.she shared her story about growing up black in Texas and the history of Junteenth. Participants were treated to a copy of her book of poetry, So Great the Journey, thanks to the SMC Libraries and by a mini lesson to write and share their own poetry. Thanks for you work, Lois! We are grateful for you and all our Arts Commissioners.

Calling all SMC high school student artists: dancers, musicians, poet/writer, photographers, graphic designers, painters, singers, actors and creatives. Are you looking for a way to combine your art practices with leadership opportunities and work with the community?

If so, apply to become a San Mateo County Youth Fellow with the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture. One fellow for each district in the County will be selected and will receive $750 for their term.

Eligibility:
Aged 14-19
Live in San Mateo County

Experienced in community events, projects, or outreach is a plus
Able to serve as a Youth Arts Fellow for one year beginning August 2024
Deadline to apply is June 26, 2024, 5:00 PM, PDT.

For more information and to apply, link in the bio.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY - RFP DEADLINE EXTENDED JUNE 28, 2024 5:00 PM

Youth Services Center Mural, San Mateo, CA.

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The County of San Mateo County (County) is seeking an experienced Bay Area-based (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties) teaching mural artist to guide youth residents aged 14-24 to paint a mural at the Youth Services Center in San Mateo.

PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Youth Services Center (YSC), which includes a juvenile detention facility, opened in September 2006. While at the YSC, youth can participate in many programming options, ranging from trauma-informed social and emotional learning programs to job readiness and life skills workshops to yoga and creative arts classes. Youth residents will design the mural before the artist enters into this contract. The teaching mural artist will support youth as they develop concepts and designs. The teaching mural artist will facilitate the transfer of the design(s) to the wall site and work with the residents to paint the mural.


Link in bio

San Mateo County’s arts and culture organizations do an amazing job uplifting our community and bringing meaning and joy to our residents. We are humbled to work with you as our partners. Congrats to those who have submitted and there’s still 6ish hours for those still working on it. Good luck!

Become a San Mateo County Youth Fellow! This fellowship will allow you to highlight your art practice, become a part of a small cohort of young artists in the County, and provide you with leadership opportunities to work directly with communities through the arts and the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture. One fellow for each district in the County will be selected. Each fellow will receive $750 for their term.

Eligibility:
Aged 14-19
Reside in San Mateo County
An artist specializing in one or more art disciplines that can include visual, performing, literary, and musical arts
Experienced in community events, projects, or outreach is a plus
Able to serve as a Youth Arts Fellow for one year beginning August 2024
Deadline to apply is June 26, 2024, 5:00 PM, PDT.

For more information and to apply, link in the bio.

ARTIST OPPORTUNITY
We are excited to announce the opening of the RFP for the
Youth Services Center Mural, San Mateo, CA.

Open May 23 - June 20, 2024, by 5:00pm PDT.

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The County of San Mateo County (County) is seeking an experienced Bay Area-based (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties) teaching mural artist to guide youth residents aged 14-24 to paint a mural at the Youth Services Center in San Mateo.

PROJECT BACKGROUND
The Youth Services Center (YSC), which includes a juvenile detention facility, opened in September 2006. While at the YSC, youth can participate in many programming options, ranging from trauma-informed social and emotional learning programs to job readiness and life skills workshops to yoga and creative arts classes. Youth residents will design the mural before the artist enters into this contract. The teaching mural artist will support youth as they develop concepts and designs. The teaching mural artist will facilitate the transfer of the design(s) to the wall site and work with the residents to paint the mural.

Deadline to apply is June 20, 2024, 5:00pm.

Link in bio

We are excited to announce the opening of the RFQ for the Navigation Center Mural in Redwood City. The Navigation Center provides safe temporary living spaces for individuals and couples experiencing homelessness along with intensive support services designed to help clients find and maintain stable housing. The Office of Arts and Culture is seeking to commission a local experienced teaching artist and/or team of artists to design a mural in an outdoor common space that reflects themes and images related to a sense of home, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and stability. The really cool part is that the painting and installation of the mural will be done with resident participation.

The deadline to apply is May 22, 2024, at 5:00 pm.

Congratulations to Chloe Chou, California’s 2024-25 Youth Poet Laureate. Chloe presented her original poem, ars poética with baba’s eighty-five inch tv, to the delight of San Mateo County Board of Supervisors at their meeting this morning. Following her reading, Supervisor Corzo presented her with a proclamation in honor of National Poetry Month. We are all so proud of your accomplishments, Chloe, congrats, again!

Hope you will join us on Wednesday, April 24th 6-8pm to learn more about the future of the Center for Creativity! San Mateo County Office of Education Art in Action Península 360 Press Music at Kohl Mansion Casa Circulo Cultural Peninsula Ballet Theatre

Envision Your Future Art Center - The vision for the Redwood City Center for Creativity is a permanent home to make art, learn about art, and experience the arts. We seek to advance Redwood City as a vibrant and sustainable arts community focusing on arts education, arts practice and arts programming including visual art, theater, m...

Artwork from our Women’s View 2024 exhibition on display until April 25. Stop by 400 County Center, Redwood City to see the diverse artwork. Artwork is available for purchase. view the gallery guide, link in bio.

1) Big Waves from Pacifica Pier by Rosanne Torre 2) The Old Stem by Andrea Kosmo 3) Silent Grandeur by Nancy Riffle

Congressional Art Competition!

Each spring, a nationwide high school arts competition is sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin is encouraging high school students in Congressional District 15 to apply by April 14, 2024. This is a great opportunity to encourage and recognize the artistic talent amongst local high school students!

The winning artwork of our district’s competition will be displayed for one year in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.! The second and third place winners may be featured in the District 15 Congressional Office. Learn more and apply online at: https://kevinmullin.house.gov/services/art-competition-0

Join us for this free, hands-on workshop on April 10. Hear from multidisciplinary artists to learn how they worked through personal grief with the help of the creative process. In small groups, artists will guide participants in this workshop using movement, visual art, sound theater/performance, and music to explore paths through grief. No artistic background necessary to participate. Please note, this workshop is meant to be a practical way to use the arts to cope with grief, not a therapy session. Sign up below!

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Deadline for RFQ 3/25/24 5pm. Link in bio to apply.

Congratulations to Chloe Chou who represented San Mateo County in the Statewide Poetry Out Loud Competition in Sacramento. Chloe also placed second (out of 21 competitors) in the Poetry Ourselves Competition, a program only open to County POL champions and they must submit their own originals work. We are so proud of her accomplishments!

We had a touring the new office building and scoping out all the possible spots to hang art. Lots of new opportunities to display artwork from San Mateo County artists. Stay tuned!

Excited to collaborate on this fun art contest for students! San Mateo County Office of Education De Colores Arts Art in Action

Want to see your public art in downtown Redwood City 🌆?! San Mateo County is currently taking RFQs for a design for the Veterans and First Responders Memorial to be installed at 400 County Center. Must reside in one of the 9 Bay Area Counties 🌁.

RFQs due March 25! Get your application in now: link in bio.

Calling all installation artists! Deadline quickly approaching to submit a RFQ for San Mateo County’s Veterans and First Menorial Project in Redwood City. Tje proeject aims to honor the County’s dedicated veterans and first responders. The RFQ is open to all SF Bay Area artists. DEADLINE Friday, Feb 23, 5:00pm. bit.ly/VFRmemorial.

The County of San Mateo announced today that Aimee Shapiro will serve as the executive director of the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture. Shapiro, raised amid New York City’s wealth of museums and cultural events, comes to the County from the Anderson Collection, Stanford University.

Read more about Aimee at https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-names-aimee-shapiro-director-arts-and-culture

Attention artistic STUDENTS!!

Attention Students: Participate in the annual Coastal Art & Poetry Contest

Artwork and/or poetry must have a coastal or ocean theme to be considered. Entries are organized into the following grade-level categories, K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12.

Learn more: https://www.coastal.ca.gov/art-poetry/index.html

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Atención Estudiantes: ¡Participen en el Concurso de Arte y Poesía Anual de la Costa de California!

Las obras de arte y/o poesía deben tener un tema sobre la costa o el océano para ser considerados. Las inscripciones se organizan en las siguientes categorías de nivel de grado, K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-9 y 10-12

Fecha límite para presentar los trabajos: 31 de enero de 2024

https://www.coastal.ca.gov/art-poetry/espanol.html

ART x CLIMATE
December 14th, Thursday, 6pm-10pm
Exploratorium After Dark
Pier 15, Embarcadero, San Francisco

Join the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the Exploratorium for conversation, performance, and artworks dedicated to exploring the power of art to communicate and inspire action on climate change.

Presenting visual artists, poets, & scientists:
Jenny Abramson, Coral Avery, Aileen Cassinetto, Xavier Cortada, Allison Crimmins, Linda Gass, Jane Hirshfield, Jeremy Hoffman, Allyza Lustig, Kris May, Kelsey Morales, Adrien Segal, Lorraine Woodruff-Long

For more information: https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/calendar/after-dark-art-x-climate-exploratorium

Art Takes a Bus Ride Submissions are due December 15

SamTrans , in partnership with the Mateo County Office of Education and San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture, is excited to be a part of the 16th Annual Art Takes a Bus Ride contest. Art Takes a Bus Ride gives 1st -12th graders a chance to have their artwork displayed on the side of a SamTrans bus for an entire year! The student art also will be displayed on ad cards inside SamTrans buses. Art Takes a Bus Ride engages students in their community and keeps art in the classroom.

Learn more: https://www.samtrans.com/rider-info/art-takes-bus-ride
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El Arte Toma el Autobús/Art Takes a Bus Ride

Las presentaciones vencen el 15 de diciembre.

SamTrans, en asociación con la Oficina de Educación del Condado de San Mateo y la Oficina de Arte y Cultura del Condado de San Mateo, se complace en ser parte del 16º concurso anual Art Takes a Bus Ride/El Arte Toma el Autobús. ¡Por primera vez, Art Takes a Bus Ride les brinda a los estudiantes del 1º al 12º grado la oportunidad de exhibir sus obras de arte en el costado de un autobús de SamTrans durante todo un año! El arte de los estudiantes también se exhibirá en tarjetas publicitarias dentro de los autobuses de SamTrans. Art Takes a Bus Ride involucra a los estudiantes en su comunidad y mantiene el arte en el salón de clases.

Vea el Formulario de Inscripción de El Arte Toma el Autobús 2023:
https://www.samtrans.com/rider-info/art-takes-bus-ride

11-5PM today!
40+ local artists and makers. Find your unique holiday gifts. We'll see you there!
1700 Industrial Rd, San Carlos.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for WOMEN'S VIEW group art exhibition coming in March 2024!!

Women’s View 2024 recognizes, celebrates, and honors the women of San Mateo County during March, National Women’s History Month. Women’s View 2024 is co-sponsored by San Mateo County’s Commission on the Status of Women.

Exhibition Dates: March 1-April 30, 2024

Theme and Eligibility:
Women’s View 2024, the 18th annual San Mateo County Women’s Art Show, is open to women, non-binary, and gender nonconforming artists who live in San Mateo County OR are employed by the County of San Mateo. Artists are encouraged to submit artwork that exemplifies their personal view of the world. Painting, photography, and mixed media are welcome.

To apply, please submit a .png, .jpg or other readable image file of ONE artwork to Shawna Vesco Ahern, County Galleries Curator, at [email protected] no later than January 31st 11:59pm (PST)

Awards Presentation:
Up to three (3) $100 awards and three (3) Honorable Mention awards will be determined by members of the Arts Commission and Juror, Chelsea Stewart, born and raised in San Mateo County, lives in Belmont and works as the Gallery Manager at the Pamela Walsh Gallery in downtown Palo Alto. Stewart is pursuing her MFA at San Jose State University, and completed her BFA at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo in 2020. Her interdisciplinary practice currently focuses within mediums of metalwork, textiles, and papermaking through concepts of mental health, erosion, and process-oriented practice. She also supports and engages in topics of arts professional practices, and in her free time, she volunteers with the Redwood City nonprofit Art in Action. Stewart has been featured in multiple publications such as Content Magazine, Thought Art Magazine, and others. She has exhibited locally and internationally, in places including NUMU Los Gatos, CA and the London Biennale 2021, UK.

Full details and a PDF of the Call For Artists: https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/womens-view-2024

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Art Takes a Bus Ride Submissions are due December 15

SamTrans , in partnership with the San Mateo County Office of Education and San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture, is excited to be a part of the 16th Annual Art Takes a Bus Ride contest. Art Takes a Bus Ride gives 1st -12th graders a chance to have their artwork displayed on the side of a SamTrans bus for an entire year! The student art also will be displayed on ad cards inside SamTrans buses. Art Takes a Bus Ride engages students in their community and keeps art in the classroom.

Learn more: https://www.samtrans.com/rider-info/art-takes-bus-ride
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El Arte Toma el Autobús/Art Takes a Bus Ride

Las presentaciones vencen el 15 de diciembre.

SamTrans, en asociación con la Oficina de Educación del Condado de San Mateo y la Oficina de Arte y Cultura del Condado de San Mateo, se complace en ser parte del 16º concurso anual Art Takes a Bus Ride/El Arte Toma el Autobús. ¡Por primera vez, Art Takes a Bus Ride les brinda a los estudiantes del 1º al 12º grado la oportunidad de exhibir sus obras de arte en el costado de un autobús de SamTrans durante todo un año! El arte de los estudiantes también se exhibirá en tarjetas publicitarias dentro de los autobuses de SamTrans. Art Takes a Bus Ride involucra a los estudiantes en su comunidad y mantiene el arte en el salón de clases.

Vea el Formulario de Inscripción de El Arte Toma el Autobús 2023:
https://www.samtrans.com/rider-info/art-takes-bus-ride