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Palo Alto Art Center's On the Road Presents Family Day

The first in Palo Alto Art Center's On the Road programs, Family Day features a fun afternoon full of hands-on art activities like designing a vehicle, charting a treasure map, and taking an artwalk. Open to families with children ages 5 and up, admission is free. Food from Oaxacan Foods will be available for purchase.

Bay Area residents can discover, learn, create and inspire as part of the Palo Alto Art Center's innovative On the Road programs, which bring the Art Center's popular and acclaimed "see and make" approach to the arts directly into the community. Now through summer 2012, the Art Center offers events and activities for all ages throughout the area during its $7.9 million transformation in anticipation of reopening next summer. On the Road events are designed to give the public opportunities to see art in exhibitions and site-specific art installations, and to make art in a variety of participatory classes, demonstrations and programs for all ages.

The Palo Alto Art Center's transformation is inspired by the Center's mission to engage the community in the creative process as both observers and creators through exhibitions and studio and education programs. The transformation will enable PAAC to expand its programs and services to a broader base while maintaining its high level of quality and enhance its reputation as a leading regional art center. The transformation has garnered community-wide support through the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation.

The Palo Alto Art Center has been one of the country's most popular and unusual facilities since it opened its doors to the public in 1971. Serving 70,000 residents annually, it combines both an internationally acclaimed exhibitions program with studio art, art instruction in painting, drawing, ceramics, glass, media arts, extensive art activities for school children.

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