Artists Paz de la Calzada, Nicole Ponsler and Olivia Losee-Unger have been beautifying blank walls on California Avenue this week.
Palo Alto’s California Avenue has been getting a colorful makeover this week thanks to a mural festival sponsored by the city’s public art program. Three artists — Paz de la Calzada, Nicole Ponsler and Olivia Losee-Unger — were invited to create the large-scale paintings and have been working on them all week.
Ponsler and Losee-Unger brought a little “flower power” to their work. Losse-Unger painted “Moonflowers for Georgia” on the wall at Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels, with the white blooms bursting out of a green and lavender background. (They were a favorite flower of Georgia O’Keeffe — Losse-Unger’s personal artistic hero. Meanwhile, Ponsler’s “Bloom” has come to life of Palo Alto Central, a few blocks away adding the sunset colors of marigolds to a blank wall.
The third mural is a ground mural by Paz de la Calzada, who is working with groups of volunteers at the intersection of California Avenue and Ash Street. The three murals are temporary, but they’ll be on display through the rest of the summer., and the opportunity to meet the three artists, is happening June 9 at 5 p.m. It starts by fountain at 2351 Park Blvd., just steps away from the Caltrain station.
The event at the Children’s Discovery Museum, which has a morning and an afternoon session, also will include performances by Alphabet Rockers and AndyZ. Tickets, which include museum admission, are available in advance at the library foundation’s website,Empire 7 Studios in Japantown is hosting its second Art, Zine and Book Fair this weekend, with artists and book publishers showcasing their work — along with panel discussions, poetry, performances, DJs and lowriders at the outdoor event.
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