The arts are a place where we are able to discover ourselves, explore the world around us, imagine brilliant futures, and connect with our communities.
We believe that the arts are not a luxury, and instead, that art and creative expression are a key part of every child’s development and education. We strive to teach children that the arts and culture are not only something they can interact with, but something they can also help to create.
Interested in becoming an Artist-in-Residence?
Applications are now open through May 25, 2026.
Our Artists-in-Residence
Tani Belomytsina
Tani Belomytsina is a multi-disciplinary artist and art therapy graduate student based in California, originally from Birobidzhan, Russia.
Julie Cardenas
Julie focuses her craft on painting and comic illustration while exploring her own lived experiences of being a first-generation Mexican-Peruvian-American.
Jessica Gutierrez
Jessica believes that collective wellness includes the ability to create and express ourselves with intention and authenticity.
Thea Hurwitz
Thea uses a lot of different materials and loves to paint, sculpt with clay, weave with yarn, and sew with recycled fabric and found objects.
Emma Maile Buckman
Emma incorporates words into her visual art: a blending of the mediums of literature and paint that mirror the blending of real and imagined worlds of her girlhood.
Zachery Ramos
Zachery Ramos has dedicated himself to using Lego bricks as his primary medium to create intricate and inspiring scenes.
Araceli Holmes
Araceli Mireya Holmes is a multimedia artist and Altar maker, and enjoys using collage and painting to accompany her photography.
Roxana Romero-Vega
Roxana Romero-Vega is celebrated for her whimsical acrylic paintings and intricate fineliner drawings.
Cassian Grove
Cassian explores a variety of media, including digital art, acrylics, gouache, sculpture, fiber arts, linoleum printing, and beyond.
Julie Cardenas
Julie focuses her craft on painting and comic illustration while exploring her own lived experiences of being a first-generation Mexican-Peruvian-American.
Eri Honda
Eri Honda creates elaborate dreamscapes and whimsical characters as a meditation on joy and peace.
Nancy Chang
Nancy Chang’s artwork weaves together themes of ecology, identity, and belonging, inviting viewers to explore their relationship with the natural world.
Alexis Javellana Hill
Alexis Javellana Hill’s work brings us into her exploration of found objects such as tickets, receipts, bags, grocery lists, and cards from the South Bay.
Muneeba Zeeshan
Muneeba Zeeshan’s mixed media artwork uses alcohol ink and acrylic ink on Yupo paper and canvas to create abstract work that simultaneously rises, evaporates, exudes and overflows.
Rayos Magos
Rayos Magos creates fluidly between mediums such as collage, printmaking, painting, and sculpture.
Evelyn Anderson
Evelyn Anderson is an oil painter, muralist, and poet whose family portraits explore the idea of homeland and belonging.
